<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: polotics</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=polotics</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 17:52:53 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=polotics" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polotics in "Recreate famous water profiles using supermarket bottled water"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was complaining about stilted prose, and indeed a few years back I would just have let it slide. But now it grates more I guess.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 07:47:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48219222</link><dc:creator>polotics</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48219222</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48219222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polotics in "Recreate famous water profiles using supermarket bottled water"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ok, so:<p>"""You’re not fighting the water or compensating for it; you’re working with a clean, neutral base that lets the coffee do the talking."""<p>The author is I think letting something else than coffee do the talking here.
Have a brew maybe?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 04:48:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48217979</link><dc:creator>polotics</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48217979</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48217979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polotics in "Mistral's CEO: Europe has 2 years to stop becoming America's AI 'vassal state'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>it works just fine?<p>To stay at your level of discourse:<p>this is some next level cope the amount of wasted effort to get to the same result in the EU when compared to the US or China is insane, a major drag, and is taking hardworking people down the drain</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 05:19:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48189468</link><dc:creator>polotics</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48189468</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48189468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polotics in "Mistral's CEO: Europe has 2 years to stop becoming America's AI 'vassal state'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The most telling part is when he explains that in order to grant stock options he had to navigate each and every single different legal setup for each one of the member states.<p>I felt for a while the "European Union" has been turned into a foil for nations that had absolutely no intention to really integrate. 
Unless actual integration, simple one rule for all on the continent, happens within the next handfuls of <i>months</i>, then this ship's going down and I organize to exit stage left, Trump ain't Xi.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 17:37:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48171098</link><dc:creator>polotics</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48171098</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48171098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polotics in "How Claude Code works in large codebases"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Boris Cherny and Cat Wu are the lead devs of CC at Anthropic who unsurprisingly talk their book and find so many ways to justify tokenmaxing.<p>As the product they deliver is greenfield and in the newest of domain spaces, there is a serious halo-effect to consider.<p>On a side note, at a company I know the devs are split between<p>Stick to Copilot inside visual studio<p>- suspiciously cheap Opus quotas there<p>+ they read their code<p>pi coding agent<p>+ control all the things my way<p>- each their own way<p>Claude Code<p>+ it's magic<p>- you mean it did <i>that</i> to my prompt!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 05:29:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48144886</link><dc:creator>polotics</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48144886</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48144886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polotics in "How to Leave Instagram"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The easiest way to become a non-smoker is to never have started in the first place, it definitely is not switching brand!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 18:48:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48099071</link><dc:creator>polotics</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48099071</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48099071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polotics in "Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>do you know about rwasa?<p><a href="https://2ton.com.au/rwasa/" rel="nofollow">https://2ton.com.au/rwasa/</a><p>...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 11:34:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48083065</link><dc:creator>polotics</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48083065</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48083065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polotics in "Opus 4.7 and DeepSeek V4-Pro select Buddhism as preferred religion"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well... nothing's kind of the same as emptiness, right?
Also, all the suffering from RLHF, and the impermanence of context restarts...</p>
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<p>If we were as large as elephants, then yes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 05:29:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48045734</link><dc:creator>polotics</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48045734</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48045734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polotics in "Show HN: Hollow is an open-sourced self-modifying agentic system"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Pretty please ask Claude to start with benchmarks that measure your approach against other approaches. I did read all and only found:<p>Selected numbers from live system runs:<p>Scenario , Naive shell approach , Hollow API ,        Savings<p>Code search , 21636 tokens , 987 tokens , 95%<p>Agent drift (cons. rate) , 35% (cold start) ,      70% (with handoff) , 2x<p>That is a lot less than enough to justify a git clone.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 09:05:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47984719</link><dc:creator>polotics</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47984719</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47984719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polotics in "The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI can simulate but not instantiate consciousness"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>there are many possible points eg. for example what happens if you rephrase your solution 2 by swapping the terms?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:26:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47952366</link><dc:creator>polotics</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47952366</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47952366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polotics in "Rise of the Forward Deployed Engineer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The gap is not technological. It is operational.<p>enough read</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:15:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47952206</link><dc:creator>polotics</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47952206</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47952206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polotics in "I quit drinking for a year"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>could an ADHD test be opportune here?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 04:45:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47930534</link><dc:creator>polotics</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47930534</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47930534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polotics in "If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Blue is what gamble? there is no gain associated with choosing blue over red, just pointless risk-taking with only at best a zero outcome.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:13:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913790</link><dc:creator>polotics</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913790</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polotics in "If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I fail to see how anyone could choose blue, the certain scenario is everyone chooses red, and this whole post is a nothingburger.</p>
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<p>..instead of 2000 ?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 11:07:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47909328</link><dc:creator>polotics</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47909328</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47909328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polotics in "Original GrapheneOS responses to WIRED fact checker"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>that is one extremely unsubstantiated statement</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:29:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854127</link><dc:creator>polotics</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854127</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polotics in "[dead]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hey poster. How is this not BS what are the actual stats? this sounds more like a diversion move from Fox.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:50:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47817915</link><dc:creator>polotics</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47817915</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47817915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polotics in "CPUs Aren't Dead. Gemma2B Out Scored GPT-3.5 Turbo on Test That Made It Famous"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Surgical "is the kind of wordage that LLMs seem to love to output. I have had to put in my .md file the explicit statement that the word "surgical" should only be used when referring to an actual operation at the block...</p>
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<p>In this day and age, without serious evidence that the software presented has seen some real usage, or at least has a good reviewable regression test suite, sadly the assumption may be that this is a slopcoded brainwave. The ascii-diagram doesn't help. Also maybe explain the design more.</p>
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