Hacker News: nphardon

New comment by nphardon in "I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation"

nphardon — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 21:29:24 +0000

always a good day when we get an a post on front actually related to hacking on hackernews.

New comment by nphardon in "AI makes programming differently difficult"

nphardon — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:14:55 +0000

How many times can we have the same discussion.

New comment by nphardon in "The Voice of Google"

nphardon — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:26:09 +0000

I think a lot are also opting for startups. I think the number of million dollar value start ups is up quite a bit right now.

That h1b prisoner comment is starrrrrk (and true to my experience as well).

New comment by nphardon in "Copper transport drug restores memory and clears toxic Alzheimer's proteins"

nphardon — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:01:40 +0000

How old is your mother? Iirc PSEN1 correlates to very early AD, like late 30s early 40s. My dad had full blown AD at 65, with serious cognitive decline starting at 63, and that felt very early to us all. My dad had no AD biomarkers on full genetic scan. My heart goes out to you and your family.

New comment by nphardon in "Where is the AI jobs crisis?"

nphardon — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:08:11 +0000

The tech co I work for just massively scaled token usage after the copilot price changes. If there was a chance for ai to replace anyone, it's gone now.

New comment by nphardon in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

nphardon — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:32:42 +0000

This is funny, i get it; but the idea that using LLM's precludes thinking is silly. We're doing some heavy lifting over here. There's a lot of noise around pie in the sky ai show n tell projects, but then there's quieter real work being done as well, with highly skilled engineers. 100x is a thing.

New comment by nphardon in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

nphardon — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:53:38 +0000

This also reflects the failings of the teachers to teach in a way that is conducive to learning given the current cultural landscape.

New comment by nphardon in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

nphardon — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:37:21 +0000

It's wild; at my shop in Silicon Valley they dropped us from unlimited use to 60% prem budget on copilot. People are walking around like zombies.

New comment by nphardon in "Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground"

nphardon — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:24:57 +0000

Yea, math is a crazy thing. just "a tool to solve problems" is a wild take. On one extreme, there's an edgy but logical / plausible hypothesis that we live in a universe of mathematical objects, and at the other, math also discovers a lot of questions, the exact opposite of solving problems.

New comment by nphardon in "I'm Done Using AI"

nphardon — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:23:10 +0000

Man, I just got into a killer flow with it, minimal guardrails, having it doing lots of independent work all the way to task completion, and my company dropped our prem token allowance to 60%. I was hitting 2k+%. So I just got hamstringed. Corporate pulled a complete 180 on us.

Would love to hear if other are in this situation.

New comment by nphardon in "Firefox AI Coding Policy"

nphardon — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 22:42:51 +0000

I've been telling less experienced engineers: The moment you hit submit on your change, it is your code not claudes, you wrote it, you are responsible for: understanding it, explaining it, supporting it.

New comment by nphardon in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

nphardon — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:30:58 +0000

There's tons of things I like about llm's, but I'm sick of Ai show'n tells. It feels like I'm in kindergarten.

New comment by nphardon in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

nphardon — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:39:15 +0000

"One of the things that LLMs do is plagiarism as a bigger scale."

New comment by nphardon in "Why we lose our friends as we age (2023)"

nphardon — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:08:40 +0000

Ah, I'm one of the outliers, I have more friends now and a richer, healthier social life than I've ever had before. I'm 45, I do have a 7yo kid and wife, two dogs, a full time job, just like everyone else on here for whom these are reasons for not having friends. I have too many friends, actually, but that's a good problem to have. I make a point not to make friends with coworkers and feel bad for some of the people I know who only have work friends. It reminds me of Colin Robinson "I'm gonna go hang out with my real friends, my work friends."

New comment by nphardon in "How to get better at guitar"

nphardon — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:38:28 +0000

There's some analogy around learning to play a song without using your ears and painting without using your eyes. Like the silliness on the drawing side is obvious. The benefits gained by using your ears to learn music (again this is such a silly statement when you think about it) are so huge and so overlooked by so many beginner guitar players. An hour of learning by ear is worth a week of reading. Also, as I see it, youtube is full of perpetual teachers looking for perpetual students; being a perpetual student sucks. All you need is records.

New comment by nphardon in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

nphardon — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:08:07 +0000

I also havent noticed the degradation and I'm not on Claude Code. I'm on week 4 of a continuous, large engineering project, C, massive industrial semiconductor codebase, with Opus, and while it's the biggest engagement I've had, its a single agent flow, and it's tiny on the scale of the use case in the post, so I wonder if they are just stressing the system to the point of failure.

New comment by nphardon in "[dead]"

nphardon — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:30:25 +0000

I agree. The LLM writing turned me off to the article, and the ELI5 style is off putting.

New comment by nphardon in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"

nphardon — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:29:25 +0000

Seems like my co is shedding US jobs and moving them to Taiwan, and paying up to 75% less in salary.

New comment by nphardon in "Iran War Cost Tracker"

nphardon — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 22:04:31 +0000

Where does this money go? I see that some is lost value, like in the downed aircraft, but what groups are profiting off this crazy flow?

New comment by nphardon in "Claude's Cycles [pdf]"

nphardon — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:02:15 +0000

Must be a fun time to work on open problems. I published my graduate research close to a decade ago, often find myself fantasizing about tackling open problems with Claude.