Hacker News: pohl

New comment by pohl in "An AI coding agent, used to write code, needs to reduce your maintenance costs"

pohl — Mon, 11 May 2026 11:40:06 +0000

Well, humans specify the tests. The AI can probably write them better, too.

Probably more boring still, though.

New comment by pohl in "An Introduction to Meshtastic"

pohl — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:53:38 +0000

...but also resistance in the context of authoritarian capture.

New comment by pohl in "“Kitten Space Agency”, a Spiritual Successor to “Kerbal Space Program” (2025)"

pohl — Wed, 06 May 2026 14:03:00 +0000

My son and I both lost interest in KSP 2 even before its demise for exactly this reason.

New comment by pohl in "OpenAI president forced to read his personal diary entries to jury"

pohl — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:57:46 +0000

Launder your personal journal through an LLM, folks. That way the sentiments can't be provably your own.

New comment by pohl in "Simple Meta-Harness on Islo.dev"

pohl — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:26:40 +0000

The paper shows that it can. Take note this seems to be someone’s experiment. If it’s not working for you that’s probably because it’s not a polished product.

New comment by pohl in "Simple Meta-Harness on Islo.dev"

pohl — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:03:26 +0000

You know how OpenCode can be prompted to modify itself when you want to improve it in some way? This just automates that kind of thing.

New comment by pohl in "“Kitten Space Agency”, a Spiritual Successor to “Kerbal Space Program” (2025)"

pohl — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:46:42 +0000

Using kittens is a master stroke. If done right, the internet will reward them.

New comment by pohl in "Grok 4.3"

pohl — Fri, 01 May 2026 13:37:45 +0000

Part of me wanted to object to those two examples, which I’ve used frequently since the reaching adulthood in the 80s. Another part of me has been triggered by an apparent uptick in the word “crisp”, which my gut takes as an coding-LLM tell.

New comment by pohl in "He asked AI to count carbs 27000 times. It couldn't give the same answer twice"

pohl — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:03:11 +0000

could be because, at the end of the day, it's just predicting the next likely token

New comment by pohl in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

pohl — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:33:44 +0000

One nice development recently was ollama's support for MLX optimization on Mac hardware. It's not obvious how to know you're using a model that works with it, yet, so it's rough around the edges.

https://ollama.com/blog/mlx

New comment by pohl in "Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem"

pohl — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 15:54:38 +0000

Similarly, none of our comments actually exist as language on Hacker News—just numerical values from the ASCII table. We're deluding each other into thinking we're using language.

New comment by pohl in "Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return"

pohl — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:57:08 +0000

Sounds like you're betting that the performance users experience today will be the same as the performance they'll expect tomorrow. I wouldn't take that bet.

New comment by pohl in "Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing"

pohl — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:07:27 +0000

I suspect that the touch bar served its likely real purpose: to ship an ARM CPU with a secure enclave in the machines so that we could have Touch ID without needing to wait for Apple Silicon. Everything other than that was gravy, an interesting experiment.

New comment by pohl in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

pohl — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:14:49 +0000

I’d rather hear from someone suggesting, counterfactually, that they would have done worse had they not capitulated. What’s that argument like?

New comment by pohl in "F-35 is built for the wrong war"

pohl — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:51:07 +0000

I think you're ignoring subcontractors and other suppliers. It's probably more like a thousand or so companies.

New comment by pohl in "Agent - Native Mac OS X coding ide/harness"

pohl — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:14:45 +0000

Ever? You would not want to accumulate any useful context at all?

New comment by pohl in "A truck driver spent 20 years making a scale model of every building in NYC"

pohl — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:47:54 +0000

Why to "put him down"? You seem to be making a tacit assumption that the work driving a truck is something one should look down upon.

New comment by pohl in "Show HN: Flight-Viz – 10K flights on a 3D globe in 3.5MB of Rust+WASM"

pohl — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:12:15 +0000

You should be able to do pinch zoom support for laptops with a trackpad, too. I think it would be

window.addEventListener('wheel', ... )

Fantastic work!

New comment by pohl in "America Is Now a Rogue Superpower"

pohl — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:11:05 +0000

At the very least, it’s uncanny how every “stupid” thing he does suddenly makes sense through that lens.

New comment by pohl in "CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font"

pohl — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:49:46 +0000

Same. I guess I'll have to try it.