Hacker News: peder

New comment by peder in "Mistral Large 4"

peder — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 17:24:24 +0000

Because it's a terrible benchmark

New comment by peder in "Make Tmux the OS"

peder — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 18:33:55 +0000

No, that was just Apple and others realizing that (1) the file system needed some type of wrapper for security purposes, and (2) the move to the cloud didn't work very well with local file systems (they still don't... most of my data in the cloud isn't a "file").

New comment by peder in "America.gov"

peder — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 17:16:40 +0000

There are some first-mover advantages when your country creates the system

New comment by peder in "Grok 4.7"

peder — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 11:43:27 +0000

How's any project you've ever done?

New comment by peder in "Grok 4.7"

peder — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 11:41:48 +0000

exactly, the benchmark just needs to be downvoted into oblivion each times it's posted. The outcome is not deterministic and the model needs to determine what level of detail is appropriate for an svg. There is no wrong answer to this unless it's obviously un-Pelican-like.

New comment by peder in "Grok 4.7"

peder — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 17:48:46 +0000

I think you're seeing a big shift around it.... since it's been markedly cheaper and also still easily available from OpenCode, it's getting large enterprise traction.

New comment by peder in "Amiga Unix, Again"

peder — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 13:24:07 +0000

Hacker News is so annoying about this. It really feels like sour grapes that people are shipping cool projects without one of the Y Combinator-type software engineers blessing the project with their handwritten code.

New comment by peder in "How Much Has Trump Made from Crypto? ($1.4B from 2025 Federal Disclosure)"

peder — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 11:56:33 +0000

Why are you assuming this is corruption?

New comment by peder in "Measuring the sloppiness of code"

peder — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:19:45 +0000

Sooooo much of what is considered "code quality" today is irrelevant when robots are writing the code. We've been largely optimizing for things like composability/unit testability in the past 15 or so years, and that's primarily a human concern that's unrelated to the final output.

Totally agreed that we're not looking at the correct metric right now. Increasingly, code quality will be determined by outcomes.

New comment by peder in "I'm becoming AI-blind"

peder — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:35:41 +0000

I'm not saying digest it, I'm saying be able to scan it/skim it/move on, but ignoring it won't help.

New comment by peder in "I'm becoming AI-blind"

peder — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:12:25 +0000

> There's some psychological mechanism by which my brain immediately recognizes AI generated text and just short-circuits to "there is no information here".

I think you need to self-correct here, because otherwise you'll be ineffective in an information setting, where I expect AI-generated resources will not only be the norm, they will absolutely swamp the environment.

New comment by peder in "Working with AI feels more like leadership than coding"

peder — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 14:43:39 +0000

Delegation can still mean deep technical connection to the code, just without needing to write the code itself.

New comment by peder in "Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index"

peder — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:26:24 +0000

Does it matter? Why turn it into a popularity contest?

New comment by peder in "Why do we assume everyone should be working?"

peder — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 07:54:56 +0000

That’s not a right-wing thought BTW. Publoc schools in Germany for instance are highly exclusionary.

New comment by peder in "What's the largest software project AI can complete on its own?"

peder — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:50:19 +0000

That doesn't happen with a proper test suite. Give guardrails and it's not an issue.

New comment by peder in "What's the largest software project AI can complete on its own?"

peder — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:46:00 +0000

> tons of duplication that lead to whack-a-mole

The future is duplication. Code is no longer meant to be read by humans but by machines.

New comment by peder in "Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days"

peder — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:14:54 +0000

This is an obvious next step tho? When I want news, I'll just ask Claude. Everything funnels to these providers?

New comment by peder in "Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days"

peder — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:12:44 +0000

And TBF, I don't think they've established why the issue is so prevalent in Michigan specifically, since Taylor Farms apparently doesn't have any unique connection to Michigan.

New comment by peder in "Norway became a global salmon behemoth. Now it's facing the consequences"

peder — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 19:41:19 +0000

Absolutely valid to attack the political beliefs here. Farmed fish is somehow considered ecologically harmful but it's significantly less harmful than overfishing and allows for bringing extremely efficient, healthy food to the continental interior, which has the potential to reduce heart disease without medication.

It's so narrow-minded to treat farmed fish as some moral failing.

New comment by peder in "London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service"

peder — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:58:39 +0000

Presumably this robotic valet will shift more towards long-term parking distant from the airport when it's known a customer is not returning. Today that's presumably cost ineffective.