Hacker News: nyxtom

New comment by nyxtom in "Cloudflare Quick Tunnels"

nyxtom — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 01:05:24 +0000

I've used these tunnels all the time when I wasn't at my computer. Insanely helpful when doing agentic work on the go

New comment by nyxtom in "The Last 24 Hours Are the Opening Scene in a Horror Movie"

nyxtom — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:43:22 +0000

Prisoner's dilemma at its finest

New comment by nyxtom in "Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%"

nyxtom — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 18:22:46 +0000

Maybe it's just me but you stand to gain a lot more from reading comprehension than outsourcing the same set of files repeatedly to a machine.

New comment by nyxtom in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"

nyxtom — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 15:12:40 +0000

This is a wild acquisition in the making, congrats to the HF team

New comment by nyxtom in "Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children"

nyxtom — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 01:36:55 +0000

I'd rather not entire generations get the brunt of a entire class of problems (generations prior had significant health consequences). The best thing a society can do it seems is educate ourselves on what is damaging. When social media first came out no one was talking about what's happening now. Hard to see that very early on before it became a significant problem then aligned with corporate incentives.

New comment by nyxtom in "Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children"

nyxtom — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 20:40:53 +0000

As a moderate, I tend to think things even out eventually - though it is usually what appears to be generational shifts in behavior that causes markets to adapt. It's costly (whole generations get f'd physically/mentally/financially), but the next generation (maybe?) pushes for something different idk

New comment by nyxtom in "Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children"

nyxtom — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:04:07 +0000

Precisely, this is the point. There is systemic misalignment that encourages companies to behave this way.

New comment by nyxtom in "Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children"

nyxtom — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:45:01 +0000

He's not going to willingly shutdown his company, the same reason a casino will not just suddenly close up shop. The owner would have to have a dramatic shift in worldview to delete the whole thing.

I can't prove it, but I think AI is causing me brain damage

nyxtom — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 19:32:39 +0000

Not sure what to do, worked in software engineering for nearly 20 years now. And the last several years of working on this stuff has caused what I can only describe as significant cognitive corrosion. Hoping to transition out of this career or into a new role as soon as I can where I can use this tech significantly less.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49424762

Points: 4

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New comment by nyxtom in "I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy"

nyxtom — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:38:49 +0000

As though we haven't done enough already to manipulate the mind, now we can have a neural model dictate our thoughts for us.

New comment by nyxtom in "Venezuela reveals $240B in debt it cannot pay (~$100B more than expected)"

nyxtom — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:09:03 +0000

That's it? That's only like 3 months of OpenAI/Anthropic

New comment by nyxtom in "Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability"

nyxtom — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:49:44 +0000

I came here hoping Epic Games somehow had launched a reliable alternative to GitHub, but saw their code is hosted on GitHub

New comment by nyxtom in "Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?"

nyxtom — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:15:19 +0000

Have you found that being much more spec driven helps guide it better?

New comment by nyxtom in "I indexed 669 GB of my GoPro videos using my M1 Max computer and local ML models"

nyxtom — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:46:08 +0000

Now this ^^ is an awesome use case!

Closed AI Risks being hostile to startups

nyxtom — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:42:47 +0000

Given the history of so-called "Open-AI", and Anthropic's recent mention of intentionally making the model perform worse in situations. I'm more and more worried that closed AI risks being hostile to any domain where they can potentially capture market share over. If the model detects that you are working on an application in an area that is essentially a potential competitor for these companies, the model can perform and become hostile to your work. This includes but is not limited to:

- injecting bugs - security vulnerabilities - thrashing / introducing UI churn - inconsistencies in quality - rate throttling - inefficient token usage - variability in effort

There's no real way to trace what happens once the prompt leaves your computer to an AI serve. Observability is not possible or transparent. That's the whole point of all of this. We lose determinism and as a result you can't reliably predict what the model will output - even if it appears to game/work on various benchmarks. Once you introduce a domain or line of work that "might" compete as a competitor, these companies can and will (and have openly admitted to as much) being adversarial to your work.

Open source AI has to win.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48521779

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by nyxtom in "Tailwind and slop apps"

nyxtom — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:48:57 +0000

https://impeccable.style/slop/ is a great approach to identifying slop

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

nyxtom — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:57:57 +0000

Exactly, when you hire a junior engineer the distribution of code quality is fairly well known. By the time an engineer becomes senior, you can generally expect similar level of quality across any given task. Whereas with AI, sometimes the output is senior and in the middle of a task you'll get unpredictable low quality output. This makes the system both frustrating and unreliable. Now apply that to other domains like self-driving vehicles, where perhaps 80% of the time on a generally stress free freeway it does fine, and then randomly it may decide mid drive to slam on the brakes because of a random variance in the sensor stack.

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

nyxtom — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:43:54 +0000

For every interesting problem AI solves there are a long tail of really dumb things that AI performs that humans would never do. Some days I am in awe of one-shot magic eight-ball output and other days I'm so frustrated by the sheer stupidity of what it produces. It remains to be seen whether that long tail of stupidity can ever be resolved in the current form of LLMs.

I'm Done Using AI

nyxtom — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:22:42 +0000

I think I'm done using LLMs altogether for coding. I've lost the ability to maintain any kind of flow state, the majority of the time I've spent thrashing on architectural changes that I could have done myself, tests that get manipulated into passing, and having to sift through the magic 8-ball of skills that are intended to get work done (all caps dont do this, please do that). LLMs appear to be fruitful as essentially a research search engine but I'm pretty much done with them for coding. This has been an enormously expensive waste of time and to add to it a general atrophy of skill.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48366380

Points: 32

# Comments: 25

New comment by nyxtom in "AI job grief: A psychological crisis hitting tech workers"

nyxtom — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:26:50 +0000

This right here ^ x 1000s. I can’t get into flow state with AI.