Hacker News: nhinck2

New comment by nhinck2 in "The death of web development education"

nhinck2 — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 03:41:45 +0000

> For example, in Machine Learning our projects are sometimes extremely long and repetitive. Because before AI, it was a valuable skill to be able to recall APIs quickly (what is the method to drop duplicates in a dataframe again?).

> But today that's no longer the truth, and for the better. I am happy students don't have to go over the same repetitive low-value processes that I had to go to. Students can now focus on more high level valuable tasks: understand the domain, compare evaluation methods, compare models, balance tradeoffs, present solutions/reports, etc.

You honestly believe that students that don't have the tenacity to stick with learning a simple set of verbs and grammar are going to have the tenacity to learn concepts steeped in jargon?

I do mean learn, which AI use has been repeatedly shown to be detrimental to.

New comment by nhinck2 in "GitHub has not removed malicious imitation software after 3 weeks"

nhinck2 — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 03:31:14 +0000

What? This is what the DMCA was designed for. How would it be fraud?

New comment by nhinck2 in "In September, AI generated code has made up 17.25% of all Linux Kernel patches"

nhinck2 — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 09:10:03 +0000

So I'm guessing your user satisfaction has gone up a bunch and revenue now reflects your increased productivity?

New comment by nhinck2 in "In September, AI generated code has made up 17.25% of all Linux Kernel patches"

nhinck2 — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 08:44:36 +0000

All you need to us actually look around, has software quality dramatically increased over the last year? Have useful features been coming out at an unprecedented rate?

Because after all this talk about being left behind and I see nothing to show for it.

New comment by nhinck2 in "OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability"

nhinck2 — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 07:35:21 +0000

That case had the owner performing an action they were led to believe would have prevented the car from rolling but potential defects prevented it from doing so.

Not a great fit.

New comment by nhinck2 in "Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously"

nhinck2 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 23:47:07 +0000

Your marketing that starts with:

> Today Andon is releasing Pion, an agent designed to run any company fully autonomously.

That marketing?

New comment by nhinck2 in "Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026"

nhinck2 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 22:43:52 +0000

> Illicit distillation

Really... what makes it illicit?

New comment by nhinck2 in "The Future of CSS: Target Multiple Classes with the Class Prefix Selector"

nhinck2 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:27:16 +0000

> Personally I prefer `class="btn primary"` over `class="btn-primary"` just because it aligns conceptually with what "class" literally means, but I have run into folks that would think it's confusing that there's no top-level .primary rule.

Especially now that there is native nesting, these prefix selectors really seem like the wrong way to go.

New comment by nhinck2 in "Banned Words List"

nhinck2 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:28:49 +0000

Surely you are not so stupid to misunderstand and ignore the chilling effects of this?

New comment by nhinck2 in "Gloomberb"

nhinck2 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:41:22 +0000

How much intent can you ascribe to any of this?

New comment by nhinck2 in "Why are all the amounts values negative?"

nhinck2 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:47:58 +0000

The trailing minus signs are true negatives.

New comment by nhinck2 in "AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog"

nhinck2 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:05:08 +0000

Hmm, I wonder why you're taking this so personally...

New comment by nhinck2 in "I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals"

nhinck2 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:08:22 +0000

It is trivially easy to validate the existence of a cited paper.

New comment by nhinck2 in "So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe"

nhinck2 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:12:00 +0000

Name one vulnerability

New comment by nhinck2 in "Microsoft deleted my account and OneDrive"

nhinck2 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 23:31:45 +0000

Some random Brazilian disagrees.

New comment by nhinck2 in "How we can reduce traffic congestion"

nhinck2 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 05:11:33 +0000

Pedestrian deaths are up all across the the US.

New comment by nhinck2 in "Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem"

nhinck2 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 01:16:52 +0000

> now nothing goes past me unreviewed and untested

So it's not hand-built?

New comment by nhinck2 in "Resetting Xbox"

nhinck2 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:15:28 +0000

a) Asha didnt push Phil out.

b) She's been in the role for 4ish months, not years.

New comment by nhinck2 in "Claude Science"

nhinck2 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 05:50:49 +0000

> https://www.anthropic.com/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww-...

Did it produce this absolute clanger of a visualisation that still proudly sits on top an anthropic blog post?

New comment by nhinck2 in "Half-Life 2 in a Browser"

nhinck2 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 08:33:28 +0000

> we can't know if it's illegal or not

I think we can.