<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: pennaMan</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pennaMan</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 03:11:35 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=pennaMan" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pennaMan in "Caveman: Why use many token when few token do trick"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>It’s literally text prediction, isn’t it?<p>you are discovering that the favorite luddite argument is bullshit</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 11:03:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47648172</link><dc:creator>pennaMan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47648172</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47648172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pennaMan in "Migrating to the EU"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> the EU currently has the most user-friendly laws when it comes to data protection<p>This is laughable. The EU has the most big-tech regulatory capture friendly data laws that make it really hard for small companies to compete, nicely packaged under consumer protection pretenses.<p>Those same laws give the institutions of the state complete and total right to silently wiretap the digital existence of anyone, at any time, for any reason.</p>
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<p>This is one of the best parts of agentic development. I almost never had to reach for any npm package besides the foundational staples like the  tailwinds and react queries. My pacakge.json dependency array vs project size ratio is just incredible nowadays</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 07:59:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47486553</link><dc:creator>pennaMan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47486553</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47486553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pennaMan in "Have a fucking website"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>pedophilic fascist speed freaks<p>the LLMs have a wider vocabulary, argument range and worldview nuance than whatever the dogma of the month or whatever the fuck this is</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 09:20:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47423414</link><dc:creator>pennaMan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47423414</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47423414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pennaMan in "Have a fucking website"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>the sudden left turn into political bullshit really left a sour taste<p>and it's mostly just the same walled garden rant we've all heard and even made a variant ourselves<p>is this the type of content we have devolved into on here? I'd take endless ai slop over endless random cringe political posturing any day</p>
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<p>> europe<p>> we don't engage in mass surveillance<p>you're incredibly naive</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 11:46:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47194038</link><dc:creator>pennaMan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47194038</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47194038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pennaMan in "15× vs. ~1.37×: Recalculating GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark on SWE-Bench Pro"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>efficiency per token has tanked but it's still faster. 
given this is the first generation for Cerberas hardware this is the worst it's ever going to be.<p>when it reaches the main 5.3 codex efficiency at this token rate this kind of articles will seem silly in retrospect</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 21:41:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47018666</link><dc:creator>pennaMan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47018666</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47018666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pennaMan in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> they are trying to quickly create alternatives to anything American<p>They're the same bright minds that ensured no alternatives could naturally come out of the European market trough relentless bureaucratic central planning. I have zero hopes of a good outcome</p>
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<p>this is amazingly cool, great work!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 09:29:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46573960</link><dc:creator>pennaMan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46573960</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46573960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pennaMan in "Show HN: EuConform – Offline-first EU AI Act compliance tool (open source)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The industrial revolution also created clean drinking-water systems, sewerage and wastewater treatment, basic sanitation and hygiene infrastructure, mass-produced vaccination, antibiotics, antisepsis and sterilization, anesthesia, obstetric and neonatal care technology, refrigeration and cold-chain logistics, food safety and industrial food processing, pasteurization, canning, mechanized agriculture, synthetic fertilizers, modern crop breeding and seed systems, electrification and power grids, hospital infrastructure engineering and medical imaging.<p>To name a few.</p>
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<p>To the human race. The only reason we're not living miserable animal lives is because of technological progress. Wanting to slow that down means you are anti human.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 22:52:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46560551</link><dc:creator>pennaMan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46560551</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46560551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pennaMan in "Show HN: EuConform – Offline-first EU AI Act compliance tool (open source)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>in this case the best compliance is non compliance<p>degrowth decels are a scourge</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 21:55:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46559923</link><dc:creator>pennaMan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46559923</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46559923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pennaMan in "Streaming platform Twitch added to Australia's teen social media ban"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>one more step towards let's age-restrict (KYC) everything that is not government approved propaganda<p>make no mistake, this is about deanonymization and has nothing to do with "think of the children"</p>
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<p>> It also returned 8 "sources"<p>well, there's your problem. it behaves like a search summary tool and <i>not</i> like a problem solver if you enable google search</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 22:22:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45973039</link><dc:creator>pennaMan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45973039</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45973039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pennaMan in "Asking AI to build scrapers should be easy right?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, it is easy. LLMs have reduced my maintenance work on scraping tasks I manage (lots of specialized high-traffic adfield sites) by 99%<p>What used to be a constant almost daily chore with them breaking all the time at random intervals is now a self-healing system that rarely ever fails.</p>
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<p>so your definition of "understand" is "able to develop the QC test (or explain tests already developed)"<p>I hate to break it to you, but the LLMs can already do all 3 tasks you outlined<p>It can be argued for all 3 actors in this example (the QC operator, the PhD chemist and the LLM) that they don't really "understand" anything and are iterating on pre-learned patterns in order to complete the tasks.<p>Even the ground-breaking chemist researcher developing a new test can be reduced to iterating on the memorized fundamentals of chemistry using a lot of compute (of the meat kind).<p>The mythical Understanding is just a form of "no true Scotsman"</p>
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<p>Why stop there? Go all in: they should not run their open source totalitarian digital control nightmare codebase on closed source hardware, because that's the real issue!</p>
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<p>hey, I got a bridge to sell you, was $20k but we can lower it to $15k if you pay in BTC</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2025 15:09:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45027679</link><dc:creator>pennaMan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45027679</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45027679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pennaMan in "Italy drags Meta, X, LinkedIn into €1B+ VAT showdown: free sign‑ups now taxable?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>when you shoot yourself in the foot before the race all competition is "unfair"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2025 11:00:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44657780</link><dc:creator>pennaMan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44657780</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44657780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pennaMan in "Italy drags Meta, X, LinkedIn into €1B+ VAT showdown: free sign‑ups now taxable?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> they do everything they can to avoid paying taxes<p>as any rational entity should</p>
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