Hacker News: nyxtom

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: 1

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.

New comment by nyxtom in "Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs"

nyxtom — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:47:05 +0000

I've seen the $1000/mo engineer salary thrown around a bit and I'm not even sure where it comes from.

New comment by nyxtom in "US bill proposes new national EV tax, while some push to slash gas tax to zero"

nyxtom — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:10:13 +0000

I'm getting really tired of every single attempt to be taxed into oblivion. Just leave me the hell alone

New comment by nyxtom in "Lessons for Agentic Coding: What should we do when code is cheap?"

nyxtom — Tue, 05 May 2026 12:27:53 +0000

I agree with most of this, I just have sort of turned a blind eye to what the code actually probably looks like. Reviews are rapid, and I’ll admit I do feel like I’m betraying my inner programmer by just optimizing directly against the claims of token bot. But the way I see it, as long as the numbers don’t lie I’m okay with the process.

New comment by nyxtom in "Nvidia's DLSS 5 uses generative AI to boost photorealism in video games"

nyxtom — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:56:42 +0000

She’s not even wearing the same clothes. This is dumb

New comment by nyxtom in "How people woke up before alarm clocks"

nyxtom — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:16:12 +0000

Single greatest thing I did to fix my circadian rhythm was get a sunset/sunrise lighting alarm. I have some hue lights and a "Hatch" alarm clock that both do sunrise lighting and some light morning noise that gradually increases lighting early in the morning. Even when its dark outside, my body has accustomed to it so much that I didn't even notice day light savings at all. Best investment for myself and my daughter I've ever done.

New comment by nyxtom in "Ask HN: How to be alone?"

nyxtom — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:23:27 +0000

I struggled with isolation for a long time but I found that there are some hobbies that have helped me.

- join jiu jitsu (people here are so supportive, it such a solid community and it gets you crazy active)

- join a church you like (believe it or not, there are great ones out there where you can find people that care about you the way God wants to have a personal relationship. In those communities people care about whats going on in your life and it gets your caring about other people. And as a bonus, people will put together pot lucks, bbqs, outings. Gets you in planning mode)

- I started reading books again, novels. Evenings without my family being together in a house alone was rough for a long while. I stopped watching shows in the evenings now and have a much more consistent bedtime routine that involves reading an actual fun book. This has gotten me out of my head, out of my laptop, out of the screen and enjoying stories again. Highly recommend!

If you're ever struggling, feel free to reach out. I am starting a discord server for this community because this seems to come up a lot and HN comments doesn't seem to be a great place to have consistent connection. https://discord.gg/Hzu3UrthHn

The discomfort you feel is real but manageable. It's good news because you just need to be consistent in doing 1 small thing each day or each week. For me it was, I'm going to go to church and find a small group I'm interested in. Then from there I added in - I'm going to learn guitar and see an actual professional teacher to teach me so I have an in person contact with someone who cares about my progress. Then it was, I'm actually going to regularly have real phone calls with my family (my mom, my brother, etc). I have a daughter so it's much easier for me, but I also live remotely so there's that.

Habits to make sure you don't go insane

nyxtom — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:11:33 +0000

*Attention Discipline*: Protect your ability to hold a single thought. Constant context-switching and dopamine-drip content degrades capacity to think clearly and erosion of this can surface as anxiety or depression before realizing what is actually root cause.

*Know and Be known*: Be in regular proximity with people who know you and care about you and you care about them. Reciprocal care and community.

*Prepare and eat real food*: Not just basic nutrition, but the act of cooking. This ritual is grounding and hands on and removing this entirely separates something so fundamental to life.

*Hydrate*: Cognitive function rapidly degrades with something that can be so simply addressed.

*Sleep rhythm* Constant circadian disruption can often induce symptoms that look like psychiatric disorders.

*Physical exertion*: Your body needs to be physically tired regularly or your nervous system will start misfiring. Anxiety, restlessness, racing thoughts is a lot of just an under-used body.

*Sunlight* Light exposure regulates so much downstream biology that being indoors for days starts warping your sense of time and mood in subtle ways.

*Use your hands* Build something, fix something, cook, play an instrument, do something tangible so you aren't fixated on knowledge work.

*Silence and stillness* Walk, sit, pray, meditate, - make this unstructured processing time without constant signal and input.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145452

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by nyxtom in "OpenAI resets spending expectations, from $1.4T to $600B"

nyxtom — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:36:43 +0000

Welcome to late stage capitalism. Where non of the incentives have anything to do with helping people and reducing costs for things people care about - energy, food, healthcare, basic needs.

New comment by nyxtom in "Ask HN: What breakthrough helped you build and maintain better relationships?"

nyxtom — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 00:23:57 +0000

* Go to concerts, fantastic way to break out of your shell

* Get out on the water or underwater (if you dive)

* Find events to go to in your area (pick anything, doesn't matter, if it's going on try and go do it and try and do it with people)

Ask HN: How is everyone doing in this market?

nyxtom — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 20:48:34 +0000

Is it just me or is the market been pretty rough for job listings and getting just about any application through? I have some time off currently and I'm hopeful I can turn things around with my work, but I need to make sure I have a decent backup plan and it's tough to find just about anything at the moment.

- 15+ years full stack engineer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41651711

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

New comment by nyxtom in "Why Scrum is stressing you out"

nyxtom — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 22:40:04 +0000

Every now and then I enjoy the opportunity to build things without planning around them. No ceremony, no tickets - just pure code and building things people are interested in or are looking to solve problems.