Hacker News: noisy_boy

New comment by noisy_boy in "Cooling in Space"

noisy_boy — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 11:02:14 +0000

What about the rough weather and difficulty of maintenance, especially in rough weather?

New comment by noisy_boy in "Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau"

noisy_boy — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 03:49:51 +0000

> but there were no privacy features before. so we’re actually still much better off than we were for hundreds of years before this.

If you are choosing hundreds of years ago, when we had no computers and internet, I wonder how we had worse privacy than the surveillance world today.

> so we took the census for centuries before this point, and it was “ok.”

Yes because we didn't have computers to unearth patterns in the data in a millisecond and politicians could have their career ended for doing the wrong thing, when revealed, instead of being rewarded for it.

New comment by noisy_boy in "AI coding at home without going broke"

noisy_boy — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 02:01:46 +0000

I am right now at DeepSeek + Claude $20 combo. The former for coding home projects (it's pay as you use is quite cost effective) and the latter mainly for general purpose because I deal with it's relatively more even keeled tone better. Gemini preview couple of years ago was very balanced in terms of tone but they amped up the positivity in the GA version. The over the top sycophantic responses really grind my gears.

New comment by noisy_boy in "New pancreatic cancer drug might open the door to much longer survival times"

noisy_boy — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:47:24 +0000

I kinda want to see a group of oncologists lose it and go wild and party like never before.

New comment by noisy_boy in "A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones"

noisy_boy — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 23:26:40 +0000

It is ridiculous that I can pick up pretty much any average computer, install Linux on it and be on my way in an hour or so but have to go through so many hoops to do the same on Android and even then the results are mixed. We have been really shafted by the phone makers by the brainwashing that they are somehow extra special things. They are just computers with a radio in it. It is shameful.

New comment by noisy_boy in "Using the Epson Perfection V39 II Scanner on Ubuntu"

noisy_boy — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:43:46 +0000

I use the same scanner. I think it worked out of the box on Fedora 43.

New comment by noisy_boy in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

noisy_boy — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 07:21:53 +0000

I will take a position I usually never take. After a certain point in capability, practically anything has defense and national security implications. Whether it is warranted or not, I'm glad that something with ability of causing massive social impact is being treated as a national security threat. As for the point of misuse is concerned, governments by their sovereign nature always have had the propensity to control and access to secret capabilities - this is no different.

New comment by noisy_boy in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

noisy_boy — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 05:48:06 +0000

Their use of "already" at the end of the sentence + renting servers in Singapore region points more towards Singaporean and/or Chinese education.

New comment by noisy_boy in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

noisy_boy — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 05:03:30 +0000

I had this exact situation with Citrix workspace refusing to install after my upgrading to the latest Fedora. I had to force install and things did work but I would have preferred to not having to do that. I don't know enough about Homebrew to know if it would have helped (Citrix distributes .deb and .rpm files).

New comment by noisy_boy in "CEOs who think AI replaces their employees are just bad CEOs"

noisy_boy — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:04:31 +0000

>> To be fair, building connections takes skill, that few people possess; and in many cases, it’s essential for a startup to even exist.

FTFY

New comment by noisy_boy in "'Sloppenheimer:' Amazon Employees Mock the Company's AI on Slack"

noisy_boy — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:51:44 +0000

I am more curious about how much token budget they have. Here I have to beg my boss for more as if he is paying from his pocket or I am using it for my hobby projects (I am not). I guess time to go back to copy/pasting to chat and doing things by hand like a caveman.

New comment by noisy_boy in "MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second"

noisy_boy — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 03:55:19 +0000

The first wave was just getting half decent answers. The second wave was being able to choose between actually getting reasonably ok coding results OR getting not so great results very fast. The third wave would be getting good results fast.

We need to really worry when we get amazing results very fast.

New comment by noisy_boy in "Show HN: Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes"

noisy_boy — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 03:05:26 +0000

My colleague vibe coded a website that looks exactly like this one. Everyone on the meeting loved it - they thought it was cool. These were IT people.

New comment by noisy_boy in "Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study"

noisy_boy — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 10:25:59 +0000

I would have thought so too. Also, I have heard oily scalp and stress to be factors detrimental to good hair but but not sure if they actually are.

New comment by noisy_boy in "Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study"

noisy_boy — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 10:22:33 +0000

That means maybe the people with great muscles and good hair have a genetic mutation that reduces the efficiency of DHT synthesis? I am assuming DHT doesn't affect muscle growth.

New comment by noisy_boy in "Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study"

noisy_boy — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:49:32 +0000

Sometimes when I see muscular guy with a head full of hair, I wonder what is counteracting that increased testosterone.

New comment by noisy_boy in "The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription"

noisy_boy — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:46:39 +0000

I am the same. Most my projects were infra leaning and I had a very general idea of what I wanted, not clear steps. I learned a ton in the process of cleaning up my home networking, understood network topology and restrictions, how to work around ISP imposed bullshit and setup a home network accessible remotely and securely. I also learned about stacks like Portainer/Adguard etc. Setting up Raspberry pi as a general purpose server including media serving via Jellyfin. Until you do it, even with the LLM doing the heavy lifting, you won't learn how to work around the issues.

I setup exactly one personal finance service/dashboard and one Android app for a specific purpose. Then I stopped because my needs were met. I'm sure I will get into it when I need to again.

You can either use it as a PoC testing enabler in which case it will be bunch of unfinished things. Or you can be deliberate and focused about your goals and the results will match that. Of course being a software developer helps.

New comment by noisy_boy in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

noisy_boy — Sun, 31 May 2026 10:19:18 +0000

There is a separate aspect of having domain expertise in that it open paths for a software engineer to make a lateral switch to a Business Analyst role. That in turn opens paths to management track on the business side as one gains deeper knowledge. If you have business expertise AND direct SDLC experience, that is a different kind of value you bring to the table.

Obviously it is a very different kind of track, take a long time to develop and means you are no longer programming but then with LLMs, hand rolled programming has been massively reduced anyway.

New comment by noisy_boy in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

noisy_boy — Sun, 31 May 2026 01:36:51 +0000

But what about navigating the code by the call stack? I didn't know that GitHub has a way to do that. Or maybe I'm probably coming across as being dumb enough to be talking about still trying to have a mental model of what calls what.

New comment by noisy_boy in "Claude Opus 4.8"

noisy_boy — Fri, 29 May 2026 01:59:08 +0000

It's great if they also introduce KILOGRAM