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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

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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)

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

pkilgore — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:29:00 +0000

ReasonML / Melange / Rescript are a wholistic approach to this: The issue with stapling an option or result type into Typescript is that your colleagues and LLMs won't used it (ask me how I know).

New comment by pkilgore in "Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses"

pkilgore — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:21:53 +0000

You "cannot fathom" the privilege your have or life experience you lack to believe this unconditionally.

New comment by pkilgore in "Gold overtakes U.S. Treasuries as the largest foreign reserve asset"

pkilgore — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:18:38 +0000

Months old article.

New comment by pkilgore in "Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection"

pkilgore — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:21:24 +0000

Andreessen is a virus ("Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphising Marc Andreessen") and has a virus' motivations: grow without thinking -- maybe the host dies, maybe it doesn't, but just grow.

New comment by pkilgore in "Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email"

pkilgore — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 23:44:14 +0000

are you suggesting the former is not a demonstration of a shocking lack of competency?

New comment by pkilgore in "Thoughts on slowing the fuck down"

pkilgore — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:23:26 +0000

Appeal to authority, the logical fallacy, is not attempting to claim that authority is irrelevant or has zero signal whatsoever.

New comment by pkilgore in "Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service"

pkilgore — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:11:13 +0000

Slopliance?

New comment by pkilgore in "“Your frustration is the product”"

pkilgore — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:06:33 +0000

In other words, we're still the product at HN: the customers are just not advertisers.