Hacker News: parasti

New comment by parasti in "What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade?"

parasti — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 10:05:20 +0000

"I don't know" isn't in the training data. Nobody writes engineering books, science papers and blog posts that end with "well, I don't really know, the end".

New comment by parasti in "AI Is Threatening Natural Resources for Billions"

parasti — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:54:30 +0000

There is a point where this kind of a pragmatic/contrarian take doesn't stick anymore. Is the net benefit of AI worth the cost of losing natural resources for billions? That's the question you're supposed to ponder, like, it's actually up in the air and not clear cut?

New comment by parasti in "Gemini 3.7 Flash"

parasti — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:50:28 +0000

Actual announcement: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/ge...

So it's better than 3.6 Flash, at half the price. I've been pretty excited about Gemini models recently, they just feel so fast after spending most of the day at work waiting for Opus 5.

New comment by parasti in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

parasti — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 21:09:29 +0000

I'm super curious how you make the development process interesting for him. I get that a 5yo would be good at generating ideas but how do you then go "okay, now I'll need a week in front of a screen to build all these ideas" and not have him lose interest. Do you accelerate using LLMs?

New comment by parasti in "Mea Culpa – Dark Hours"

parasti — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 17:35:53 +0000

> web app I had launched using Claude was strikingly similar to his open source project, even reproducing a bug he had later fixed,

How? How do I prompt to get a literal copy of another app? When Claude/Gemini builds anything for me I have a thousand ideas for functionality improvements and UI/UX changes. How do you just stop at v1 of what Claude gives you?

New comment by parasti in "Quake – 30th Anniversary Update"

parasti — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:35:51 +0000

Every emoji in this post seems bigger than the last.

New comment by parasti in "I don't recommend Tailwind CSS"

parasti — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 08:54:35 +0000

This is written from a point of view of somebody who never went through the progression of CSS to CSS preprocessors to component-based frontend libraries. Tailwind is an answer to all the problems that become apparent in CSS in that progression.

New comment by parasti in "Progressive Web Components"

parasti — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 06:58:21 +0000

I tried to embrace web components, but when I reached "declarative shadow DOM" I really just stopped seeing the point of all that complexity just to do what I can already do with a library. The target audience of that API seems to be library developers.

New comment by parasti in "How much can you delegate to agents?"

parasti — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 06:23:46 +0000

This post is full of things opposite of what I've found. An agent (claude code at least) will certainly refactor feature flags better than I ever could and is less likely to miss special cases. What the agent struggles with is business knowledge - context I hold in my head as a human communicating with other humans and working on a codebase over a long period of time.

New comment by parasti in "Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber"

parasti — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:10:29 +0000

Kind of excited about this. 3.5 Flash on Antigravity has surprised me recently on a hobby project. When given opportunity to plan, it can deliver on tasks that would take me a while on my own and generates responses at blazing speeds - compared to what I'm used to at work with Opus 4.8 (granted I don't use Opus 4.8 on my hobby projects so just anecdotal). While with Gemini CLI I would just watch it run in circles and run out of 5h allowance before anything useful is produced (or even approached).

New comment by parasti in "I burned all my tokens researching how to save tokens"

parasti — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:27:09 +0000

Yes, it's the Youtube phenomenon - often when looking for domain-specific videos on Youtube I tend to find videos by professional Youtubers not videos by professional domain specialists (overlap is very rare but occasionally you can find a domain specialist Youtuber who applies their domain knowledge to making Youtube videos).

New comment by parasti in "GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization"

parasti — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 14:05:40 +0000

Why write it down? LLM crawlers will ingest it in a second.

New comment by parasti in "First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star"

parasti — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:26:09 +0000

Good luck doing anything on any other planet if you can't even handle your own that's perfectly suited for your kind of life form.

New comment by parasti in "The lost joy of music piracy"

parasti — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:57:04 +0000

How? What's your secret? It's actively fighting me from discovering anything new. "Hey we'll show this artist you stopped listening to two years ago on your start screen forever. Wanna jump back in?" That's Spotify to me.

New comment by parasti in "The lost joy of music piracy"

parasti — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 10:43:27 +0000

Spotify is fundamentally broken in a certain, unfixable way, IMO.

I use it and have a subscription, but I dread opening their app and looking at the starting screen that shows the same artists I listened to twenty years ago in pointless blurbs like "presave this (you can't listen to it)", "jump back in (you literally already listened to it)", "your favorite artists (not according to you but according to us)". There is no joy of discovery of new music that you haven't heard. There is no connection to other humans through music. Audioscrobbler/Last.fm is miles ahead of this. Youtube is miles ahead of this.

Here's how I discover music these days: I swipe Youtube shorts until its algorithm decides to show me an artist, then I look that artist up on Spotify. Thats how bad Spotify is - it's an audio server with search and a hundred layers of irrelevant features bolted on top.

New comment by parasti in "Show HN: Abralo – Free, easy way to run several Claude Code agents in one window"

parasti — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 11:13:21 +0000

Claude Code CLI has an agents view that lets you manage multiple sessions in parallel. I literally only ever start claude with `claude agents` these days, and use left arrow to go back to that view from any single session.

The math behind "AI will take your job" is wrong [video]

parasti — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 08:44:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQGZXrzykpU

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48842830

Points: 3

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New comment by parasti in "Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software"

parasti — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:49:22 +0000

They worked on the reboot games which are considered widely successful relative to other games released around the same time.

New comment by parasti in "Bring back crappy forums"

parasti — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:55:35 +0000

What do you disagree with? Your third sentence disagrees with your second sentence, and I can't tell which part of my comment your first sentence disagrees with.

New comment by parasti in "Bring back crappy forums"

parasti — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 07:36:44 +0000

This made me realize that forums existed only because there was somebody willing to pay for domain, hosting and maintenance with money and time. As a result most had a bus factor of 1. All the forums I know died with their maintainer moving on - and even forums "resurrected" by a community member had that exact problem. There is space for a fully distributed forum that can't die with its maintainer.