Hacker News: polynomial

New comment by polynomial in "Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"?"

polynomial — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:08:30 +0000

Less MTTF and more MTTR

New comment by polynomial in "FreeBSD Foundation executive director tries daily driving FreeBSD on laptop"

polynomial — Sun, 24 May 2026 18:11:34 +0000

This is horrifying on so many levels even if you don't already know how the story ends.

New comment by polynomial in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

polynomial — Sat, 16 May 2026 16:00:16 +0000

Calling it "Act 2" certainly isn't helping with investors.

New comment by polynomial in "Medicare's new payment model is built for AI. Most of the tech world has no idea"

polynomial — Thu, 14 May 2026 02:54:36 +0000

A 67 year old woman living out of her car? JFC.

New comment by polynomial in "Medicare's new payment model is built for AI. Most of the tech world has no idea"

polynomial — Thu, 14 May 2026 02:51:21 +0000

Very obviously LLM written to anyone who's spent any time using them.

New comment by polynomial in "Three Inverse Laws of AI"

polynomial — Wed, 06 May 2026 02:24:03 +0000

Not everybody isn't worried: https://ctolunchnyc.substack.com/p/cto-lunch-nyc-spring-2026...

New comment by polynomial in "Anatomy of the .claude/ folder"

polynomial — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:40:17 +0000

"The gap is larger than most people realize" is a a dead giveaway.

New comment by polynomial in "Apideck CLI – An AI-agent interface with much lower context consumption than MCP"

polynomial — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:41:39 +0000

Fully agree.

If you don't change your approach but just use CLI "intead of" MCP, you'll end up with a new spin on the same problems. The guardrails MCP provides (identity, entitlement, multi-principal trust boundaries) still need to exist somewhere.

https://forestmars.substack.com/p/twilight-of-the-mcp-idols

New comment by polynomial in "Apideck CLI – An AI-agent interface with much lower context consumption than MCP"

polynomial — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:50:36 +0000

This is the right framing. The chain policy problem is what happens when you ask the registry to be the entitlement layer.

Here's a longer piece on why the trust boundary has to live at the runtime level, not the interface level, and what that means for MCP's actual job: https://forestmars.substack.com/p/twilight-of-the-mcp-idols

New comment by polynomial in "AI didn't simplify software engineering: It just made bad engineering easier"

polynomial — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:20:16 +0000

Understandable as always a proxy for predictable.

New comment by polynomial in "AI didn't simplify software engineering: It just made bad engineering easier"

polynomial — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:02:58 +0000

This is the under acknowledged "secret" of this reconfiguration.

It's like the Bill Joy point about mediocre technology taken to the next level.

New comment by polynomial in "AI didn't simplify software engineering: It just made bad engineering easier"

polynomial — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:58:04 +0000

Robots making fun of us complaining about them.

New comment by polynomial in "Claude helped select targets for Iran strikes, possibly including school"

polynomial — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 04:08:12 +0000

Well at least you know who to fire

New comment by polynomial in "Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 [video]"

polynomial — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 04:07:13 +0000

"Petri dish rewrites React in Rust"

New comment by polynomial in "Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 [video]"

polynomial — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 04:04:35 +0000

Tragically this reference is all but lost generationally.

New comment by polynomial in "Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global feeds"

polynomial — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:07:02 +0000

Plastic cutlery is a dead-on perfect analogy.

New comment by polynomial in "AI is making junior devs useless"

polynomial — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 04:20:31 +0000

TBF those RSUs come in handy on cold winter nights when you need tinder.

New comment by polynomial in "AI is making junior devs useless"

polynomial — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 04:19:26 +0000

I've hired that guy and he was a ticket grinder, well-respected by the team.

New comment by polynomial in "AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder"

polynomial — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 16:11:16 +0000

Classic LLM construction.

5 sentence paragraph. First sentence is parataxis claim. Followed by 3 examples in sentence fragments, missing verbs, that familiar cadence. Then the final sentence, in this case also missing a verb.

Pure AI slop.

New comment by polynomial in "An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward"

polynomial — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 05:09:45 +0000

> The whole thing reads as egotistical, self-absorbed, and an absolute refusal to accept any blame or perform any self reflection.

So, modern subjectivity. Got it.