Hacker News: mskogly

New comment by mskogly in "The Indie Internet Index – submit your favorite sites"

mskogly — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:59:07 +0000

I use Newsify for rss. Any neat trick to add these as feeds?

New comment by mskogly in "AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart"

mskogly — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:38:40 +0000

Cant see any on top 100 usa. Fact check please.

https://music.apple.com/no/playlist/top-100-usa/pl.606afcbb7...

New comment by mskogly in "AI helps add 10k more photos to OldNYC"

mskogly — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:29:49 +0000

Super cool project, nice work.

New comment by mskogly in "Iran threatens 'complete and utter annihilation' of OpenAI's $30B Stargate"

mskogly — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:10:19 +0000

Says «Tom’s hardware». Get verification from a trusted source before sharing

New comment by mskogly in "AI coding is gambling"

mskogly — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 08:12:59 +0000

I agree. I remember working as a front end web developer years ago and needing to parse and transform xml/xslt from an api, and spending days and days trying to get it to work. The problem was the version of the IIs web server, version of xslt parser, and version format of the xslt etc. spent days on stack overflow trying to get a working solution. With ai I would have solved that idiotic problem in 1 minute.

Ai is tool, that lets us do what we want to do.

I also remember trying to create my first iOS app in Xcode and thinking «this is simply beyond me». Wouldn’t say app coding is trivial with ai, but its at least feasible now.

The bad part that none of us have a competitive edge anymore, and are close to unemployable. We can’t all be self taught founders who starts our own businesses. It’s going to get weird.

New comment by mskogly in "Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations"

mskogly — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 08:10:50 +0000

The original piece was signed by BENJ EDWARDS AND KYLE ORLAND

I find it odd that Ars sees a need to protect such sloppy work.

https://web.archive.org/web/20260213194851/https://arstechni...

New comment by mskogly in "Show HN: Customizable OSINT dashboard to monitor the situation"

mskogly — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 08:23:32 +0000

You need to test that on mobile

New comment by mskogly in "Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?"

mskogly — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 07:24:07 +0000

I haven’t made iPhone apps but my guess it that the size comes from bundling libraries and dependencies needed, sort of like how venv includes as snapshot of python and all dependencies into your project folder. Apple core apps probably uses iOS libraries (25GB) already on the device

New comment by mskogly in "Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far"

mskogly — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 07:06:15 +0000

It’s all fun and games vibecoding until you A) have customers who depend on your product B) it breaks or the one person prompting and has access to the servers and api keys gets incapacited (or just bored).

Sure we can vibecode oneoff projects that does something useful (my fav is browser extensions) but as soon as we ask others to use our code on a regular basis the technical debt clock starts running. And we all know how fast dependencies in a project breaks.

New comment by mskogly in "The Thinking Game Film – Google DeepMind documentary"

mskogly — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 08:31:44 +0000

Two thoughts: 1 the field of ai research moves so fast that any attempt to make a full documentary would we obsolete long before it was released. 2 all I want ai do to right now is to remove generic «dramatic» music from YouTube clips.