Hacker News: nativeit

New comment by nativeit in "GPS and the Lost Art of Getting Lost"

nativeit — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:43:37 +0000

In my home city (Charlotte, NC), navigational aids have become so ubiquitous and relied upon (even among locals) that it’s made traffic patterns extremely predictable. During rush hour I find Google Map’s suggested routes function as markers for where all the traffic will be, and I can take the surface roads out of town with far less traffic and hassle than I could 20-years ago when everyone basically knew their way around.

New comment by nativeit in "Working with AI feels more like leadership than coding"

nativeit — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 19:41:11 +0000

This sentiment has been all over recently, or so it seems; Which makes me question whether I am reading propaganda, a genuine memetic idea, or a bit of both?

New comment by nativeit in "License plate reader searches should require a warrant"

nativeit — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:19:18 +0000

You’re not trying hard enough.

New comment by nativeit in "License plate reader searches should require a warrant"

nativeit — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:18:18 +0000

Yeah, because warrants have never been rubber stamped without proper oversight before. If we make these things normalized and routine, they will be abused. Don’t give them an inch.

New comment by nativeit in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"

nativeit — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 02:27:21 +0000

> Wikipedia has become the infrastructure of its own demise: dwindling traffic means attention and donations no longer reliably flow back to the encyclopedia to keep it alive.

It’s too bad this will drown out the feedback from folks like me, who ended their longtime recurring donation because of their resistance to their employees unionizing.

New comment by nativeit in "Mythos Attempted to Social Engineer Open Source Maintainer to Merge Malware"

nativeit — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 01:54:36 +0000

Can’t wait for the “My Robotaxi went rogue, wrapped a chain around an ATM, and pulled it out of the bank’s wall all by itself and buried the cash out in the desert with no human interaction!”

New comment by nativeit in "New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S."

nativeit — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:02:21 +0000

What are all these presently dominant cultures that are so fragile that the mere presence of others represents an existential threat? Sounds like an excuse for xenophobia more than a sincere concern.

New comment by nativeit in "Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice"

nativeit — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 03:39:29 +0000

> …one of them at the other,

The origin of life is as romantic as I’d hoped.

New comment by nativeit in "Position: LLMs Can't Jump"

nativeit — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 23:24:55 +0000

I don’t need to edit my original comment, it doesn’t contain any mistakes. All six of the links across three comments are each distinct, separate posts going to either the same article, or others with identical headlines.

New comment by nativeit in "When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation"

nativeit — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:26:59 +0000

Cheaper? For whom? As a solo practitioner, I can no longer afford the workloads I was getting for $20/mo in January. Now the same plan being utilized at the same level for the same work hits its limits within a few hours, and runs out of tokens in less than two days.

New comment by nativeit in "Position: LLMs Can't Jump"

nativeit — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:52:19 +0000

Also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49136070 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49096837 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46890333 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46870562

All of these are titled “LLMs Can’t Jump”

New comment by nativeit in "Position: LLMs Can't Jump"

nativeit — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:49:20 +0000

Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49136070

New comment by nativeit in "Position: LLMs Can't Jump"

nativeit — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:48:52 +0000

Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49162791

New comment by nativeit in "How Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of Flock"

nativeit — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 01:46:24 +0000

I’ve been instantly suspicious of all the reports of counties “allowing their Flock contracts to expire”, which doesn’t imply either “removing ALPR cameras” or ceasing potential 4th Amendment violations, more broadly. I don’t think any one of the agencies or public officials making these promises deserves any benefit of the doubt. Americans should be demanding robust protections and transparency from those who have been endowed by our democratic consent to wield the power of the state.

New comment by nativeit in "Show HN: ssh ssh.place"

nativeit — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 05:51:20 +0000

At least for the more prominent terminal emulators i expect they probably devote a great deal of attention to security. They are developing the most commonly used interfaces for linking the most numerous, varied, and/or critical systems on the planet.

New comment by nativeit in "SwiftUI After 7 Years"

nativeit — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 05:31:45 +0000

I knew Apple was lost when they dropped the “Home” button, just after spending a $1B to build a Palo Alto headquarters in the shape of the “Home” button.

New comment by nativeit in "LLMs Can't Jump"

nativeit — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 05:23:24 +0000

I always wince when I think about the amount of energy and assets required just to get to “Step 1: Baby talks”.

Now we’re sitting at “Step 2: ??”, desperately hoping to reach “Step 3: Profit!”

The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (2012)

nativeit — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:01:01 +0000

Article URL: https://archive.org/details/ThePennyCyclopaediaOfTheSocietyForTheDiffusionOfUsefulKnowledge

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149669

Points: 3

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New comment by nativeit in "Wikimedia Foundation refuses union recognition, hires union-busting law firm"

nativeit — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 16:14:02 +0000

I make a very small (relatively) salary as a self-employed IT consultant and support provider, but I still take ~$25 each month to split between the organizations and charities I find worthwhile. For a long time, that’s included a $3/mo recurring contribution to Wikipedia (or WMF, really). I have long believed Wikipedia to be a vital source of free information, and a surprisingly effective and enduring community that’s bent towards truth.

I still believe that. But I do not ever want to see my very limited charitable contributions be spent on anti-worker programs, so I’ll be ending my recurring subscription today, and for the moment I will simply add it to the the contributions I donate to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who voluntarily recognized their worker’s union, as WikiMedia Foundation should.

New comment by nativeit in "Wikimedia Foundation refuses union recognition, hires union-busting law firm"

nativeit — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 16:05:29 +0000

Some of the largest unions in the world are for teachers, police, and government employees. I’m not sure why you would think a for-profit company is uniquely subject to its staff unionizing?