Hacker News: phpnode

New comment by phpnode in "GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price"

phpnode — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:11:41 +0000

What's driving the increase in release cadence here? We seem to get new models every week or so now, is this RSI?

New comment by phpnode in "Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'"

phpnode — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 12:37:35 +0000

That's the point, those jobs went away, the need for a job didn't. No one seems to know what long term opportunities are going to be created by AI, we only know that it is going to erode existing opportunities.

New comment by phpnode in "New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health"

phpnode — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:54:19 +0000

I would be amazed if the LTV of an instagram account is over $7k. Where are you getting that number?

New comment by phpnode in "OpenAI says its AI went rogue and launched 'unprecedented' cyber-attack"

phpnode — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 12:35:50 +0000

This kind of narrative is going to bite them just like the "AI will take your job" narrative has. It feels like the frontier labs are taking a massive gamble with public perception here. I assume the goal is to paint the technology as so powerful and dangerous that only a handful of blessed US companies should be trusted to run it, in an attempt to suppress the rise of the Chinese models that are rapidly catching them.

New comment by phpnode in "AI 2040 and the cult of intelligence"

phpnode — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 15:36:24 +0000

I'm sure they will, but any user extension that interferes with the DOM (as an adblocker does) will break remote attestation, so the website will reject your request.

New comment by phpnode in "AI 2040 and the cult of intelligence"

phpnode — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 10:57:01 +0000

It is not difficult to imagine that freedom disappearing soon, under the veil of security. It will not be long before Google's remote attestation becomes commonplace, and then it won't be long until the websites you care about start using it and excluding unsigned browsers. The wheels are in motion already and AI is going to speed this all up: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/googles-new-remote-att...

New comment by phpnode in "Launch HN: Manufact (YC S25) – MCP Cloud"

phpnode — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:42:35 +0000

cached thought. running CLIs is impractical and expensive in many environments and a hell of a lot less secure than using MCP

New comment by phpnode in "This blog is written in en-GB"

phpnode — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:48:36 +0000

This is interesting because I assume it has suffered the same linguistic degradation as the word "fine" which in some cases means "of the highest quality" but mostly means "meh". I suspect it comes down to the dialect and social rank of the person saying the sentence. Compare how you would perceive:

    "You did a fine job"

    "It is quite impossible"

depending on who was saying it.

New comment by phpnode in "Type-checked non-empty strings"

phpnode — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 14:32:51 +0000

yup, it's not possible to do it safely with a simple unparameterised type: https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/?#code/C4TwDgpgBAcg9gOwK...

New comment by phpnode in "Show HN: Nub – A Bun-like all-in-one toolkit for Node.js"

phpnode — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 21:25:07 +0000

Also, ssalbdivad is your cofounder, just in case you’d forgotten!

New comment by phpnode in "(How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (In Python)) (2010)"

phpnode — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 16:37:21 +0000

so, instead of

    (foo (bar (1 2 3))

you'd prefer

is that right?

New comment by phpnode in "The Competitive Moat That AI Can't Replicate"

phpnode — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:51:43 +0000

It's very clearly written by AI, which means that the thoughts expressed are not novel and the story told cannot be trusted. How can you expect people to spend time digesting the content if the author did not spend time writing it? It would be more honest to show the prompt, or the unpolished draft.

New comment by phpnode in "Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute"

phpnode — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:27:31 +0000

They overbuilt capacity for grok but no one wants to use grok for several reasons

New comment by phpnode in "OpenClaw Creator Spent $1.3M on OpenAI Tokens in 30 Days"

phpnode — Sat, 16 May 2026 12:39:08 +0000

Goodness me that’s quite a comparison

New comment by phpnode in "Cuba says it has run out of fuel, blames U.S. embargo"

phpnode — Fri, 15 May 2026 00:38:27 +0000

You are quibbling over minor semantics. Is the US preventing most oil from reaching Cuba or not?

New comment by phpnode in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"

phpnode — Thu, 14 May 2026 23:35:41 +0000

The car reads the speed limit signs too, they don't just rely on GPS.

New comment by phpnode in "The AI Backlash Could Get Ugly"

phpnode — Wed, 13 May 2026 15:26:47 +0000

If your competitor is cutting jobs because of AI you can either race them to the bottom or you can use the humans you already have to leverage AI to expand your product offering, become more competitive, tackle more work, deliver better quality results etc. I don't see a world where AI does the work and humans sit around poor and idle.

New comment by phpnode in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"

phpnode — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:11:31 +0000

They won't. So what? This is not how specs are used, no one is saying that they are a replacement for source code.

New comment by phpnode in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"

phpnode — Mon, 11 May 2026 16:01:39 +0000

People always say this but it’s misguided imo. Yes LLMs are not deterministic, but that’s totally irrelevant. You aren’t executing the LLMs output directly, you’re using the LLM to produce an artefact once that is then executed deterministically. A spec gets turned into code once. Editing the spec can cause the code to be updated but it’s not recreating the whole program each time, so why does determinism matter?

New comment by phpnode in "GitHub is sinking"

phpnode — Sun, 10 May 2026 19:35:28 +0000

Because if you were building GitHub from scratch today you wouldn't build it the same way and would benefit from many of the technological advancements of the last 2 decades (nearly).