Hacker News: not_kurt_godel

New comment by not_kurt_godel in "John Deere to pay $99M in right-to-repair settlement"

not_kurt_godel — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 03:28:40 +0000

> What we're saying is consumer action is enough to solve this problem.

Citation needed

New comment by not_kurt_godel in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

not_kurt_godel — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:37:08 +0000

I was going to say, the OP's assertion that "they" are typing all these commands out by hand each time without an alias is just one of many tells that this post is AI slop. Nobody that proficient with shell commands should be typing any of those by hand more than once or twice without aliasing for reuse.

New comment by not_kurt_godel in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"

not_kurt_godel — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:40:53 +0000

How do you evaluate your own comment by the criteria you have set forth within it?

New comment by not_kurt_godel in "The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product"

not_kurt_godel — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 18:12:20 +0000

I personally know of an HFT firm that used Java approximately a decade ago. My guess would be they're still using it today given Java performance has only improved since then.

New comment by not_kurt_godel in "1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6"

not_kurt_godel — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 03:17:20 +0000

What are you using to orchestrate/apply changes? Claude CLI?

New comment by not_kurt_godel in "1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6"

not_kurt_godel — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 02:44:23 +0000

Just curious, what kind of work are you doing where agentic workflows are consistently able to make notable progress semi-autonomously in parallel? Hearing people are doing this, supposedly productively/successfully, kind of blows my mind given my near-daily in-depth LLM usage on complex codebases spanning the full stack from backend to frontend. It's rare for me to have a conversation where the LLM (usually Opus 4.6 these days) lasts 30 minutes without losing the plot. And when it does last that long, I usually become the bottleneck in terms of having to think about design/product/engineering decisions; having more agents wouldn't be helpful even if they all functioned perfectly.

New comment by not_kurt_godel in "Shall I implement it? No"

not_kurt_godel — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 22:33:00 +0000

This is a perfect example of why I'm not in any rush to do things agentically. Double-checking LLM-generated code is fraught enough one step at a time, but it's usually close enough that it can be course-corrected with light supervision. That calculus changes entirely when the automated version of the supervision fails catastrophically a non-trivial percent of the time.

New comment by not_kurt_godel in "Log messages are mostly for the people operating your software"

not_kurt_godel — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:59:56 +0000

Yeah, that stuff is not great by any means either. Still, it's not as bad as Windows's telemetry, and it's not OS-native advertising like Windows, and it can be substantially mitigated with firewall software (call it a bit of tinkering, if you will).

New comment by not_kurt_godel in "Log messages are mostly for the people operating your software"

not_kurt_godel — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:54:44 +0000

K. For future reference, you can transfer & play mp3s in a variety of ways on iPhone, such as VLC + Dropbox/Drive/iCloud/etc.

New comment by not_kurt_godel in "Log messages are mostly for the people operating your software"

not_kurt_godel — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:37:57 +0000

You're baffled because you appear to be uninformed and/or willfully ignorant. macOS is Unix-based and 90% functionally equivalent to Linux for software development and tinkering purposes. iOS, while less customizable than Android, is overall very good software for a phone. Apple hardware is superior across the board, especially for durability.

Meanwhile, I'm baffled why any techie would voluntarily use an OS that force-enables telemetry and advertising. The fight for privacy and ad-free experiences is hard enough without your OS fundamentally working against you.

New comment by not_kurt_godel in "CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements"

not_kurt_godel — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 05:42:35 +0000

Ah my apologies, I forgot to cite my source, which is the devil (just a coincidence it's the same as yours).

New comment by not_kurt_godel in "CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements"

not_kurt_godel — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 05:21:08 +0000

Ok, since you don't care about evidence-based reasoning, I say: You are wrong. Most evil is created by people trying to do evil.

New comment by not_kurt_godel in "CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements"

not_kurt_godel — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 02:32:07 +0000

> most evil is created by good people trying to do good

Citation needed.

New comment by not_kurt_godel in "I Don't Like Magic"

not_kurt_godel — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:23:09 +0000

> I think browser shouldn't be that complex.

how is browser formed. how curl get internent

New comment by not_kurt_godel in "Why is Claude an Electron app?"

not_kurt_godel — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 22:57:04 +0000

As long as we're on the subject, I'll take the opportunity here to vent about how embarrassingly buggy and unusable VS Code is in general. It throws me for a loop that pros voluntarily use it on the rare occasions I'm forced to use it instead of JetBrains.

New comment by not_kurt_godel in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

not_kurt_godel — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 23:44:33 +0000

I agree water should probably be priced more in general, and it's certainly more expensive in some places than others, but neither of your examples is particularly representative of the sourcing relevant for data centers (scale and potability being different, for starters).

New comment by not_kurt_godel in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

not_kurt_godel — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 22:52:15 +0000

To clarify - I am not stating that simple debouncing is the solution to all the issues you're identifying. I agree with you that handling some of them can be very complex. I just shared the article as a pointer to a broadly similar concept that can be used to help communicate the gist of what you're talking about.

New comment by not_kurt_godel in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

not_kurt_godel — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 22:09:56 +0000

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Debounce

New comment by not_kurt_godel in "GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics"

not_kurt_godel — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 22:02:32 +0000

And even if it were, calculators (computers) were world-changing technology when they were new.

New comment by not_kurt_godel in "Ireland’s Diarmuid Early wins world Microsoft Excel title"

not_kurt_godel — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 17:34:40 +0000

Did either of those systems have unit or integration tests?