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New comment by noupdates in "The Remote-Work Dream Isn't Dead, but It's Slipping Away"

noupdates — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 01:23:17 +0000

I don't believe headlines like this. I cannot un-taste remote work. I have come to the pure conclusion that I have been faking, role-playing, acting a whole character at work for years. The morning costume, the morning routine, the persona, the blank stare at the screen ... I'm just tired of pretending.

I'm waking up at 9:30am with bed hair and letting the team know "no updates here" and going back to sleep. You can never ever convince me otherwise that there is a better way to live. Everything will get done, don't call me, I'll call you, see you next week (online). You shall never see me in the real world ever again.

New comment by noupdates in "Cronboard: A terminal-based dashboard for managing cron jobs"

noupdates — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 01:07:12 +0000

Nice. Hyperland + multiple monitors + TUIs like this make my workflow quite futuristic.

New comment by noupdates in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

noupdates — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 01:04:27 +0000

Why would the US security apparatus outsource the model to a private company? DARPA or whatever should be able to finance a frontier model and do whatever they want.

New comment by noupdates in "The Lighthouse: How extreme isolation transforms the body and mind (2020)"

noupdates — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:26:21 +0000

There is a concept of going into the wilderness for some time (as we go through Lent). It's ancient. I wonder if we'll ever find out it's just as useful as intermittent fasting.

New comment by noupdates in "Palantir Gets Millions of Dollars from New York City's Public Hospitals"

noupdates — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 19:11:42 +0000

Take the following crude entities:

- Stones

- Sticks

- Some rope

Takes awhile, but humans eventually make a murder weapon out of that and build armies.

Now take the benign elements of a crud stack:

- Database

- Server

- User system

It takes awhile, but eventually humans will make something (something not good) out of that.

Sticks and stones may hurt my bones, but databases will never hurt me

Right?

New comment by noupdates in "Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation"

noupdates — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 20:13:20 +0000

They would. You can see how resilient GOOG has been during this recent draw-down, and how much growth it has had even as AI sells off.

New comment by noupdates in "Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation"

noupdates — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 20:02:44 +0000

There are many bitter lessons ...

New comment by noupdates in "Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation"

noupdates — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 19:57:36 +0000

Pay attention to the outflow of tech investment in the stock market. That money is going to move into OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs. The valuations will be as big you are thinking because the market believes these companies will represent an entire basket of startups.

New comment by noupdates in "Show HN: Pgclaw – A "Clawdbot" in every row with 400 lines of Postgres SQL"

noupdates — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 19:34:47 +0000

To decouple this the person would have to broadcast nearly every event and rebuild the observer layers elsewhere.

New comment by noupdates in "Improving 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed"

noupdates — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:44:31 +0000

I was just looking at the SWE-bench docs and it seems like they use almost an arbitrary form of context engineering (loading in some arbitrary amount of files to saturate context). So in a way, the bench suites test how good a model is with little to no context engineering (I know ... it doesn't need to be said). We may not actually know which models are sensitive to good context-engineering, we're simply assuming all models are. I absolutely agree with you on one thing, there is definitely a ton of low hanging fruit.

New comment by noupdates in "Claude Code is being dumbed down?"

noupdates — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 19:38:10 +0000

Challenge accepted.

New comment by noupdates in "Claude Code is being dumbed down?"

noupdates — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:50:07 +0000

Are you certain of this? I know they use a lot of grep to find variables in files (recall reading that on HN), load the lines into into context. There's a lot of common sense context management that's going on.

New comment by noupdates in "Claude Code is being dumbed down?"

noupdates — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:46:00 +0000

I'm part of the subset of developers that was not trained in Machine Learning, so I can't actually code up an LLM from scratch (yet). Some of us are already behind with AI. I think not getting involved in the foundational work of building coding agents will only leave more developers left in the dust. We have to know how these things work in and out. I'm only willing to deal with one black box at the moment, and that is the model itself.

New comment by noupdates in "Claude Code is being dumbed down?"

noupdates — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:33:35 +0000

Quite frankly, most seasoned developers should be able to write their own Claude Code. You know your own algorithm for how you deal with lines of code, so it's just a matter of converting your own logic. Becoming dependent on Claude Code is a mistake (edit: I might be too heavy handed with this statement). If your coding agent isn't doing what you want, you need to be able to redesign it.

New comment by noupdates in "Waymo exec reveals company uses remote workers in the Philippines"

noupdates — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:36:14 +0000

I'm guessing it is for situations like should the Waymo stay in a particular lane or switch lanes, try to overtake another car, etc. That's probably the type of "guidance", which seems a lot like optimization.

Ask HN: Anyone replaced any parts of their workflow with computer-use agents?

noupdates — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:18:37 +0000

I'm looking to try out using my computer in new ways (particularly Linux). For example:

- I want to install something just by saying it

- Tell the computer to do things like "empty the trash"

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46967760

Points: 1

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New comment by noupdates in "AirPods Pro 4 Could Feature Cameras to 'See Around You'"

noupdates — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:48:49 +0000

I suspect most devices will have cameras and mics on them and will mesh connect as a collective system. OpenAI is most likely working on a suite of devices that would fit this "regalia" of sorts.

New comment by noupdates in "Ask HN: Anyone Seeing YT ads related to chats on ChatGPT?"

noupdates — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 17:55:38 +0000

You may want to look into Carl Jung and synchronicity.