Hacker News: novok

New comment by novok in "Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM"

novok — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 08:01:03 +0000

you could of literally googled it, it's murder

New comment by novok in "OpenPrinter"

novok — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 04:46:13 +0000

what they really need is a built in print program that just prints a color exercise sheet every 2 weeks.

New comment by novok in "AI has torched the market for junior programmers"

novok — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 20:13:14 +0000

Did you write these 2 sentences with AI too?

New comment by novok in "AI has torched the market for junior programmers"

novok — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 20:12:36 +0000

In my experience, I learned software engineering myself. I didn't get much mentorship or a lot of one-on-one attention. There was some interactions with my coworkers, but it was not as amazing as people think it was back then and I came with a lot of personal experience before my first job. The main skill of software is learning and figuring out things by yourself and proactively asking for help.

New comment by novok in "Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040"

novok — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 03:24:42 +0000

Vancouver vs. the bay area is my current example, or california HSR general, or the billion dollar pedestrian tunnel in new york, and just the general level of shabby of everything compared to canada in public infra at least.

You have to realize that the dollar bill for equivalent infra in the USA is much, much higher even though it feels more expensive in canada relative to it's income

New comment by novok in "Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040"

novok — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 03:17:51 +0000

Could be a good way to kickstart a canadian nuclear industry that would expand into the US, exploiting the a big thing the US is bad at, coordinating infrastructure projects with multiple government groups, not making infrastructure builds incredibly overpriced and take an incredible amount of time and not being hyper litigious.

New comment by novok in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"

novok — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:43:07 +0000

I've heard the harder part is to have data centers to put the nvidia hardware than getting the hardware currently.

New comment by novok in "Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL"

novok — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 06:26:40 +0000

Micropayments would be another one, but then governments and banks have to give up ~~financial control & surveillance~~ AML essentially to make it financially viable. AML also has a horrible track record of how much money is spent compared to the amount recovered.

New comment by novok in "GitHub Compromised"

novok — Wed, 20 May 2026 06:07:10 +0000

Security is often an excuse to block other teams to do legitimate work and so often it's fairly braindead. Security IMO needs to get it's act together, passkeys is a great example of security gone wrong from a UX design perspective because you can't hold them to the same standards as product or infra teams, they have the special privilege of breaking things and it increasing their metrics.

Tell them to make a better UX and they lose their minds in a huffy puff of fake crisis mode or get avoidant with stonewalling 'secret security stuff' that you can't hold them to account for. Or eat 50% of developer machine performance for "endpoint security" and the carnival of sadness goes on and on.

Signal is an example of security as a product that was actually designed for user UX in mind to give one example.

New comment by novok in "The quiet renovation at Bitwarden"

novok — Tue, 19 May 2026 05:07:59 +0000

Yes we do, continue keeping it a faux pas to reduce the over verbose LLM speak put elsewhere and ask people to just share the original prompt and save us all time. Label your LLM usage to respect other people's time.

New comment by novok in "Native all the way, until you need text"

novok — Mon, 18 May 2026 03:52:20 +0000

If you've used UIKit to any large degree, how bad SwiftUI is, almost a decade later, continuously punches you in the face. About 20% more time to write initially, for 90% less bugs and potholes, and I've tested this with iOS devs who never used UIKit before too. Now with AI, there is even less of an excuse IMO.

Leave SwiftUI to the settings pages. The gulf between AppKit and SwiftUI in macos desktop I'm not as sure about.

New comment by novok in "Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter"

novok — Sun, 17 May 2026 18:22:01 +0000

Also many have power even cheaper or even free unused surplus power with solar.

I don't do local inference other than hobby & learning reasons because electricity is so expensive where I am at.

New comment by novok in "Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter"

novok — Sun, 17 May 2026 18:20:10 +0000

I have an M1 Pro, and a M4 & M5 max to play with at work and the speed difference is very significant between all 3 machines, the M1 Pro is far slower, and the M5 is significantly faster than the M4. And a windows 3090 beats all of them but eats twice the amount of power per token. This is all running the same 24GB memory friendly model with LM studio.

New comment by novok in "Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter"

novok — Sun, 17 May 2026 18:16:24 +0000

I played with classifying and summarizing my entire email history (per email) with small models, but that only took about 12h of GPU time at most. Using a coding agent cli wrapper in that case is far slower because of all the spin up cost and the system prompt they inject even if you want to turn it all off.

If I used an actual direct API it probably would've been much faster, but I'm doing it for hobby / fun reasons. You also get to fiddle with a lot more params.

New comment by novok in "DeepSeek-V4-Flash means LLM steering is interesting again"

novok — Sat, 16 May 2026 18:47:34 +0000

whats funny is if it looked up the source code on github it would've figured it out faster

New comment by novok in "The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization"

novok — Fri, 15 May 2026 23:30:58 +0000

I have a younger family member who is AuADHD and is under AI & other doomer delusions. It's effected her life to a large negative degree at this point. It doesn't matter if Yud is autism leaning, as a movement it's far beyond him. AI doomerism and other doomerisms is Q-anon for smart, moral, austism-leaning people at this point, which is incredibly sad. Because it is something that really affects smart people mostly, you can't use the qualifications and intelligence of it's proponents as measures of it's validity, you need to look at the thought distortions directly itself. It consumes lives and it definitely can hurt people.

New comment by novok in "London Police Deploy Facial Recognition at Protest for First Time"

novok — Fri, 15 May 2026 23:23:32 +0000

He is implying he doubts the accuracy of that 'match'.

New comment by novok in "The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization"

novok — Thu, 14 May 2026 06:12:13 +0000

Anthropic is the AI doomer / safetyism lab, and Hinton is one of the patron saints of 'rationalist' AI doomerism.

AI doomerism is psychologically attractive to "people with autistic cognitive traits, including dichotomous (black-and-white) thinking, intolerance of uncertainty, and a tendency toward catastrophizing". They are pascal's mugging themselves, to ironically use one of their terms. It's fundamentally a cognitive distortion.

New comment by novok in "Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent"

novok — Thu, 14 May 2026 05:54:29 +0000

Just like how you significantly increased the difficulty of exams in "open book" exams in the past where the only way to pass the open book exam was to know the material well, you similarly need to increase the difficulty of other work where it won't matter if you have an LLM, because you won't pass without knowing your shit either!

New comment by novok in "Canada’s Bill C-22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year’s Surveillance Nightmare"

novok — Wed, 13 May 2026 03:58:11 +0000

These things will keep on popping up until they destroy the careers of the politicians and civil servants who do. This is how you stop it. And you make this happen by getting organized and acting.