Hacker News: oglop

New comment by oglop in "The Lost Art of Research as Leisure"

oglop — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 23:17:27 +0000

It’s more that software books ruin your brain and make you incapable of enjoying good literature. Same for existentialism which you fled into out of despair from working in and reading about software. It is a hollow and empty profession that only breaks humans or turns them into monsters. Or not. Either way you should be worried if you can’t read fiction, it means you’ve lost the ability to put yourself in someone else’s mindset.

New comment by oglop in "The Lost Art of Research as Leisure"

oglop — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 23:12:20 +0000

“We are no better than machines, I guess.”

Well, our minds aren’t but we have legs and arms which is cool. But maybe that will change too.

New comment by oglop in "The Lost Art of Research as Leisure"

oglop — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 23:09:15 +0000

Stan Ulam has a great book discussing his worry about the change in research environments pre-wwII vs post-WWII. Before the war, they’d sit in cafes and draw in tables and just sit and think sometimes as a group. After they would meet in offices with blackboards and no life in the room or fun with direct funding telling them exactly what to study. I think his concern will be shown to be sound.

I wonder if LLMs can help bring that kind of exploratory culture back. Because this is not an exploratory culture.

New comment by oglop in "AI Blindspots – Blindspots in LLMs I've noticed while AI coding"

oglop — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 22:59:16 +0000

I just talk to an LLM like it’s a person who is smart, meaning I expect it to be confidently wrong now and then but I don’t have to worry about hurting its feelings. They are remarkably similar to people, though others seems to not think that so maybe it is a case of some people finding them easier to work with compared to others. I wonder what drives that. Maybe it’s the difference between a person who thinks life unfolds before then vs the person who views life as a bundle, with each day a fold making up your experience and through this stack you discern the structure which is your life, which sure seems how these things work.

New comment by oglop in "Global coffee trade grinding to a halt, hit hard by brutal price hikes"

oglop — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 07:46:35 +0000

lol this thread is amazing. Hacker news is truly a place filled with confidently wrong smart people. Showed this to my wife, a barista in Seattle, and she asked me why I go to this stupid fucking site. I wasn’t able to give a good answer other than boredom.

New comment by oglop in "Suspicious Tesla Sales Surge Triggers Canadian Government Investigation"

oglop — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 05:36:20 +0000

Oh I thought the worst would be the brand gets even worse promotion and goes even more in the tank in the public’s eye. Somehow.

New comment by oglop in "Ray-Ban Meta glasses have sold 2M units, production to be increased"

oglop — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 17:31:21 +0000

This might be the laziest shit I’ve ever heard come out of a slobbering consumers mouth.

New comment by oglop in "Ray-Ban Meta glasses have sold 2M units, production to be increased"

oglop — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 17:30:20 +0000

Imma blast someone right in the face if they get up in my mug with them shits.

New comment by oglop in "Open source maintainers are feeling the squeeze"

oglop — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 15:59:39 +0000

Tech companies are cheap as shit and most programmers are very subservient. Open source won’t go anywhere, I’d bet in there being more open source projects than less in a years time.

New comment by oglop in "What's happening inside the NIH and NSF"

oglop — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 08:16:15 +0000

The fuck are you taking about? They can’t even fill the seats with the demographic bomb hitting. Dude, populations change. Therefore they have demand and supply they meet. I don’t care for the system for other reasons but discriminatory? Get fucking real.

New comment by oglop in "IsMyXFeedFucked – Analyze How Your X Feed's Impacting You"

oglop — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 17:15:51 +0000

lol. Imagine realizing in 2025 twitter is broken trash.

If you think your feed worked before, you’re a fool and lying to yourself. Fools everywhere, as far the eye can see. Fools as CEOs. Fools as engineers. The amount of foolery in the world has reached meme levels and I love it. I love watching you turds scream and wretch. I love watching you be autistic. It puts money in my pocket and provides endless entertainment. When you know it’s not an honor society but just a lolz society it’s easy to make the big bucks on all these fools, and I love it.

lol. Twitter is trash in 2025, you fuys crack me bulp

New comment by oglop in "Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases"

oglop — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 16:17:50 +0000

Coders aren’t engineers, they are just bit bureaucrats. Everything in this post isn’t engineering, it’s autism.

New comment by oglop in "Used Meta AI, now Instagram is using my face on ads targeted at me"

oglop — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 22:05:51 +0000

What better way to increase the hyperreality needed to sell products then to have you in the ad! But also this is HN, so someone needs tk lecture you on “what you mean” and also remind you it’s their product you used and signed up for and signed your rights away too so it’s YOUR fault, or some such pompous condescending trash. I say, lucky you! I say, embrace the future! I say, plaster my face on adult diaper ads and sell them to me. I say, slap my face on that TRT ad from my podcast that I listen to in my lonely apartment to feel a connection to the world while I write code that “matters”. It’s a beautiful world.

New comment by oglop in "I am rich and have no idea what to do"

oglop — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 03:35:38 +0000

If you want to see how shallow and utterly stupid anyone in tech is that has money, read this post. It is golden. I was doubled over laughing at the DOGE part. What a chud. And they say the rich know how to use capital. No, they don’t. They’re just like you and me and it’s mostly just to get their rocks off. Typical HN trash.

New comment by oglop in "I attended Google's creator conversation event, and it turned into a funeral"

oglop — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 18:27:45 +0000

Feel bad for the author. This was clearly an information pump. They just wanted info from them. That’s it. Of course google lies. Of course they steal. It’s Google and it’s not 2007 anymore. Don’t trust them. Don’t engage with them. They just steal and harvest from others. They couldn’t even keep a simple chat app running. It’s a trash company filled with trash people who will talk down their nose at you while destroying the fabric of society. Pretty par for the course these days for anything tech though. I work in tech and can say we are awful, vampiric, and pretty much useless people who get off on having power over people through knowledge. If you approach most software engineers with that understanding they are much easier to deal with, but that doesn’t make them and the industry any less parasitic. I hate my career choices.

New comment by oglop in "GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic"

oglop — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 18:14:06 +0000

Cool. Im underwater and have zero help an open source progect and AI has been crucial in saving some of the little sanity I have left. These things rule if you just speak with them and don’t use it like a moron or regular computer. Maybe one of best coworkers I ‘ve ever had.

New comment by oglop in "Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new code is created by AI"

oglop — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 16:25:04 +0000

No surprise. I give my career about 2 years before I’m useless.

New comment by oglop in "Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US"

oglop — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 16:22:52 +0000

lol. Judging a vehicle because people talked to you. Sad. You look like a chode driving that thing.

New comment by oglop in "Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO"

oglop — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 16:20:13 +0000

Ballmer was a fucking moron.

New comment by oglop in "One Plus One Equals Two (2006)"

oglop — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 15:15:04 +0000

Gödel had great respect for their work and was considered one of only a few people at the time to have read and understood the work. He wrote an entire paper later in life explaining he wouldn’t have come to his result without Principia because it showed him a base case to work from. Him and Russell would continue to meet and discuss logic well into the 50’s.