Hacker News: pkilgore

New comment by pkilgore in "Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt"

pkilgore — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:05:24 +0000

Flawless, completely unnecessary abstraction is a better tell of LLM code than "comment clearly responding to a part of a prompt that I cannot see".

New comment by pkilgore in "Should DayQuil Be Legal?"

pkilgore — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 21:27:40 +0000

DayQuil: Because you're sick, and the rest of the office should be too.

New comment by pkilgore in "Mag 7 starting to underperform [pdf]"

pkilgore — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:55:21 +0000

well I laughed

New comment by pkilgore in "Britain’s output per person is now only just above that of Mississippi"

pkilgore — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:49:11 +0000

racist filth

New comment by pkilgore in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

pkilgore — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:50:10 +0000

Google+ says hello!

New comment by pkilgore in "The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription"

pkilgore — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:24:49 +0000

AI is great for programs but every product ever kinda sucks if you don't understand a lot of things computers are pretty bad at, generally.

New comment by pkilgore in "Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup"

pkilgore — Sat, 30 May 2026 15:05:03 +0000

Sure, none of this is rational.

Some of its timing: Claude Code was good before other harnesses and so behaviors (and contracts) were timed to lock in on that ecosystem.

Some of it was ethical/political: Anthropic fighting with the Trump admin about use of the model.

Some of it is social: Never overrate a CEO just being kind of perceived as a piece of shit by people who have power to influence decisions.

But switching costs are low! Because of the same models!

Let the race to the bottom commence. Hopefully before the monopoly/collusion starts.

The Wizard with the Defensible Pond

pkilgore — Sun, 24 May 2026 17:11:33 +0000

Article URL: https://worksonmymachine.ai/p/the-wizard-with-the-very-defensible

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48259089

Points: 3

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New comment by pkilgore in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

pkilgore — Sat, 09 May 2026 00:01:11 +0000

You gotta have "A" to do "B".

This is one way of having "A" that isn't "massive internal natural resources" like USA, China, Russia, Colonialism, or Oil States (I'm sure I missed other kickstarters here).

New comment by pkilgore in "I am worried about Bun"

pkilgore — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:45:21 +0000

Node has both built-in sqlite and testing functionality. Lots of reasons to like bun! But these two are interesting ones...

New comment by pkilgore in "Google and Pentagon reportedly agree on deal for 'any lawful' use of AI"

pkilgore — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:59:40 +0000

No remedies, no right.

What are the consequences of breach? Otherwise, Americans only use for this is to wipe their ass, and only if they can find a paper version.

New comment by pkilgore in "The Moat or the Commons"

pkilgore — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:18:27 +0000

I can't tell if this was written by AI or by an author that has absorbed all of its worse tendencies, but past the bullet list at the front this was terrible writing. It's like the author was trying to meet a page requirement.

New comment by pkilgore in "If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?"

pkilgore — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:38:42 +0000

Did I miss the breakdown by class/wealth? I saw a bunch of other cross tabs. Not that one.

New comment by pkilgore in "If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?"

pkilgore — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:25:34 +0000

It's getting to the point where I search "K-shaped" and "Cohort" in these kinds of articles before I even read them. I'm not even saying these are why, exactly, but failure to wrestle with the intellectual effort of rejecting that as a hypothesis is a frustrating omission.

Researchers Simulated a Delusional User to Test Chatbot Safety

pkilgore — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:06:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.404media.co/delusion-using-chatgpt-gemini-claude-grok-safety-ai-psychosis-study/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47876609

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by pkilgore in "Atlassian enables default data collection to train AI"

pkilgore — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:58:13 +0000

Does this apply to Loom?

New comment by pkilgore in "Claude Opus 4.7"

pkilgore — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:56:59 +0000

Seconded. After disabling adaptive thinking and using a default higher thinking, I finally got the quality I'm looking for out of Opus 4.6, and I'm pleased with what I see so far in Opus 4.7.

Whatever their internal evals say about adaptive thinking, they're measuring the wrong thing.

New comment by pkilgore in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

pkilgore — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:33:54 +0000

Did the USA just lose a war to fucking Iran?

New comment by pkilgore in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

pkilgore — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:51:22 +0000

Did you have specific complaints about the data in the OP?

New comment by pkilgore in "Lisette a little language inspired by Rust that compiles to Go"

pkilgore — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:34:48 +0000

To be fair, I feel like the language is widely criticized for this particular choice and it's not a pattern you tend to see with newer APIs.

It's a really valid FFI concern though! And I feel like superset languages like this live or die on their ability to be integrated smoothly side-by-side with the core language (F#, Scala, Kotlin, Typescript, Rescript)