Hacker News: noisy_boy

New comment by noisy_boy in "Someone behind the software"

noisy_boy — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 05:12:55 +0000

> It may not be your taste, but it certainly has taste, and its taste will only get better with more training. Yours, if you use it, will atrophy, as you reduce contact with the details of your problems.

I would argue that it has a collection of tastes and mixes and matches them with the same effect if you prepared a dish that is an amalgamation of recipes from ten different people. It is somewhat similar to what you want to make, it will fulfill your nutritional needs but boy does it not taste good. Our PR reviews and steering the agent is nothing but us adding different ingredients / herbs / spices until it is palatable.

New comment by noisy_boy in "GLM-Legal"

noisy_boy — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 01:05:03 +0000

Wonder if the law firms are saying the same thing about software. And everyone else is about things they use. Basically the entire job market. Will you still say it's great when it is the society as a whole?

New comment by noisy_boy in "Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days"

noisy_boy — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 02:35:44 +0000

The margin of error is razor thin. As tight as a global supply chain. I'm worried about your living on the edge like that.

New comment by noisy_boy in "Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf]"

noisy_boy — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 02:26:01 +0000

Is there a similar book but in Java or Python?

New comment by noisy_boy in "The first packet sent via RFC1149 avian carrier is up for auction at Christie's"

noisy_boy — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 08:26:39 +0000

Ahh, obviously. Seems the coffee isn't working for me anymore :(

New comment by noisy_boy in "The first packet sent via RFC1149 avian carrier is up for auction at Christie's"

noisy_boy — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 23:50:55 +0000

> One printed IP/ICMP "ping" packet sent by carrier pigeon per RFC 1149.

Is that the entire packet shown in the picture frame? So the price is 1k+ USD for the frame? Because anyone can type that and get it printed/framed for considerably less. What am I missing?

New comment by noisy_boy in "How Singapore's government-run dating service works"

noisy_boy — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:08:47 +0000

> Team sunrise, or team “it’s 2am and I’m still up”? (close-ended)

Why so weirdly binary? Sleeping at 11pm and getting up well after sunrise is not an option anymore?

> What kind of traveler are you, really? (close-ended, with options like adventure junkie, culture seeker, and I don’t travel much)

Isn't this the type of question that should be open ended? How about being a dynamic kind of traveller? Happy to go if someone else is organizing the trip and happy to stay if I have to do it.

Such a typical Singaporean approach - even fun has to be funnelled into MCQs.

New comment by noisy_boy in "A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal"

noisy_boy — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 06:56:11 +0000

> I don't even try to use the first answer anymore but ask it again to check its previous answer against verified and authoritative sources/documentation and will come up with many corrections. And then I do it again, and maybe a fourth time.

Maybe all they need to show massive improvement is a for loop of four iterations with the loop body being "are you sure, check the docs?" and return the result at the end.

New comment by noisy_boy in "Upgrade your desktop: Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now available"

noisy_boy — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:39:55 +0000

When I was trying to go upstream having used Pop!_OS for a while, I installed Kubuntu first and even though the install went through, the distro had problems getting to the desktop after post-install reboot. Even though my laptop is a Thinkpad which is supposed to be very well supported. I took this as a sign of things to come and shrugged off my hangover of rpm hell(!) and tried with Fedora+KDE instead. Best decision I made. I have been using it for a few months now and experience has been absolutely seamless and smooth sailing - highly recommended.

New comment by noisy_boy in "How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent"

noisy_boy — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:55:44 +0000

tldr; they passed the administration of power from the corrupt government officials to Tata power (part of the Tata conglomerate) and BSES (part of another conglomerate Reliance). They modernized the setup and closed loopholes and avenues of corruption and also made stealing of power by the corrupt sections of public difficult.

New comment by noisy_boy in "Sonnet 5.5"

noisy_boy — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 04:54:09 +0000

Most people I know working in banks etc are using Co-pilot. Not because it is any good, because it integrates with the entire MS ecosystem - management pushes it. I would suspect that is the main driver of MS's AI penetration numbers for desktop-level non-API usage.

New comment by noisy_boy in "Sonnet 5.5"

noisy_boy — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 04:29:00 +0000

That has been my experience with DeepSeek after the price increase. I was so used to it being so frugal, it took couple of top-ups for me to realize that it wasn't the budget-king anymore.

New comment by noisy_boy in "Sonnet 5.5"

noisy_boy — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 04:25:56 +0000

1. Implement feature and write tests for the code

2. Make sure tests pass

3. Review code for quality and fix - make sure tests pass.

4. Go to #1

Overly simplistic? Yes. But I would wager that this can go a long way, even for vibe coders.

New comment by noisy_boy in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

noisy_boy — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 04:19:28 +0000

Uneducated guess: wine is seen as more of an "older people's" drink making it uncool for gen-Z?

New comment by noisy_boy in "When did Google get so weird?"

noisy_boy — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 23:26:03 +0000

Reliability has always been an essential factor of a commercial product. "It works" was the baseline. If it didn't, people simply won't buy it.

Never before we had a product that the buyer themselves accepted, so readily, despite the inaccuracies and yet the output was considered worth it just because when it worked, it was great.

Well maybe, other than dice but then it's unpredictability is why we bought it.

But then the quality of LLM output is also closer to dice roll so maybe they are not that dissimilar after all.

New comment by noisy_boy in "Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things"

noisy_boy — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 11:48:32 +0000

Frankly for all it's issues, plantUML has been the most customizable and flexible for me. Mermaid is fine for diagrams where you don't need to customize the look and feel much; it starts to become a pain once you need to. I just wish Obsidian had as a good a support for plantUML as it does for Mermaid.

New comment by noisy_boy in "Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI"

noisy_boy — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 11:41:15 +0000

Or how delusional.

New comment by noisy_boy in "Jury finds Facebook liable for deceiving users in Cambridge Analytica case"

noisy_boy — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 10:16:02 +0000

How is this:

> people who want more "regulation"

Same as this:

> who believe states with high levels of paper regulation

I _do_ want real regulations with teeth against shitty companies like Meta. Just because California has done a performative take doesn't make expecting more controls on these scumbags a wrong thing to expect. Bad execution doesn't make the idea wrong, your scare-quotes be damned.

New comment by noisy_boy in "Plan mode is dead"

noisy_boy — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 10:07:09 +0000

For me, it was the agent that decided about plan mode, when that happened. Most of the time I didn't invoke it but kept discussing and tweaking and if the context was close to full, make it dump it out to disk and start a new session. I felt like that worked more flexibly for me because I could keep steering and adjusting until it was what I wanted. At that point I made it write a detailed spec. Like my homegrown plan mode.

The "standard" plan mode felt too stifling.

New comment by noisy_boy in "Plan mode is dead"

noisy_boy — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 10:02:35 +0000

I am reminded of the cartoons where the car kept going faster and faster, the driver kept pushing on the pedal, parts started to fly out, the gauges started to go in circles, smoke started to billow out of everywhere and then boom!

I guess we just wait for the boom.