Hacker News: nathias

New comment by nathias in "Why is every rationalist blog post way too long?"

nathias — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 06:41:36 +0000

Why do americans insist on using philosophical terminology to mean its opposite?

New comment by nathias in "Is 'Attention' the Essence of Intelligence?"

nathias — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 06:26:22 +0000

Why are they calling it 'attention' if it's just a weighted average? Human attention is something very different.

New comment by nathias in "SvelteKit 3"

nathias — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 06:51:14 +0000

I love svelte, but I think in the world of agents programmer ergonomics is no longer relevant.

New comment by nathias in "We Write Code by Hand"

nathias — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:53:05 +0000

njoy mhy hnnd crfhted proze

New comment by nathias in "Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'"

nathias — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 18:51:06 +0000

distillation is a human right

New comment by nathias in "The End of an Era"

nathias — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:24:05 +0000

a great point, and I think a very rare one

New comment by nathias in "Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day"

nathias — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 07:31:30 +0000

I'm just paying for the domain...

New comment by nathias in "Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?"

nathias — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 05:58:55 +0000

I'm not sure how much does the total production of bicycles consume, but I don't see how it's relevant for the use.

New comment by nathias in "How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing"

nathias — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 08:14:13 +0000

what do you mean, which tells are good writing practices?

as I see them they are all truly terrible even if authored by humans

New comment by nathias in "Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?"

nathias — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:11:02 +0000

LLMs are bicycles for the mind, they do not think instead of you

New comment by nathias in "OpenAI Forked Git on GitHub"

nathias — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 20:58:38 +0000

where were you, when the gitwars began?

New comment by nathias in "EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA"

nathias — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:49:41 +0000

it isn't about avoiding all harm as sociallity itself is harmful, it's about software not hijacking/exploiting our cognition especially in times when this would mess with our development

New comment by nathias in "AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region"

nathias — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:59:03 +0000

Customized propaganda made for the individual is the only thing I'm afraid of. Right now its easy to avoid the farm trolls that harves boomers minds on facebook, but given the costs go down and tech improves, we each of us have a trollfarm working specifically for us and that would make it extremely hard to not get brainwashed.

New comment by nathias in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

nathias — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:04:37 +0000

yes I can't understand how anyone buys these

New comment by nathias in "The revenge of the philosophy majors"

nathias — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 20:29:43 +0000

I have a phd in philosophy, but I think this is more like a return of the 'court philosopher' profession.

New comment by nathias in "Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?"

nathias — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:20:47 +0000

I tried this 5 years ago, haven't had a customer yet.

New comment by nathias in "We have a 99% email reputation, but Gmail disagrees"

nathias — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:06:08 +0000

something is wrong with gmail filtering, I had no problems for years but now my custom domain emails go to spam when sending to people I've been emailing all the time...

New comment by nathias in "I still prefer MCP over skills"

nathias — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:20:25 +0000

MCP is too thristy

New comment by nathias in "The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok"

nathias — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:01:23 +0000

the simple truth is all code is garbage

New comment by nathias in "LinkedIn is illegally searching your computer"

nathias — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:08:06 +0000

linkedin is full of dark patterns, it's really unfortunate it became the business default, all other social platforms get more criticism while being only a fraction as bad