Hacker News: polytely

New comment by polytely in "The End of an Era"

polytely — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:44:26 +0000

yeah for me it's all about specificity, like no one else but Philip K. Dick could have written VALIS, it is so tied to his life and psychology. Its difficult for me to imagine something which is is build on huge amounts of various cultural output to retain the specificity of a singular limited human life-perspective.

New comment by polytely in "AI revenues are growing fast, but not fast enough"

polytely — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:30:13 +0000

I guess the bet is that they will become embedded in basically 8% of the tasks in every sector. which I guess could happen long term? thinking about the whole ass economy in this way always make my mind boggle so I don't really feel equipped to talk intelligently about this.

New comment by polytely in "Demis Hassabis has a plan to harness AI safely"

polytely — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 01:32:54 +0000

bad guys doing bad stuff with the model is a worthwhile thing to watch out for, but for me the big question is mostly how these labs are going to make sure that these models will not collapse society. Like mass unemployment + ability to generate incredible amounts of propaganda and disinfo, seems to me like a recipe for incredible amounts of bloodshed. like to me the biggest risks look like Khmer Rouge-ing: "all people who know what matrix multiplication is get the wall"; or something like: Boston Dynamics killbots doing tiananmen square every day.

New comment by polytely in "Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained"

polytely — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:40:42 +0000

Of course Americans want us to dismantle the EU, we are even weaker against US influence without it.

New comment by polytely in "Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions"

polytely — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:55:04 +0000

strong disagree, as a user the recent updates have been awesome and immediately useful.

New comment by polytely in "Changes to Our Contribution Policies"

polytely — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:37:04 +0000

Godot is such a nice project, I feel like almost every release brings stuff with it that is directly useful for me. It feels like the main contributors there are really on the ball.

New comment by polytely in "Ford AI hiccups push carmaker to rehire ‘gray beard’ inspectors"

polytely — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 20:27:07 +0000

they should try and replace some executives with AI, seems like there is way more room for improvement there.

New comment by polytely in "NSA lost access to Mythos amid Anthropic dispute"

polytely — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:06:42 +0000

They probably also have an insane dataset

New comment by polytely in "Digital euro clears key hurdle as EU seeks to break free from U.S. credit cards"

polytely — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:14:56 +0000

can you give an example of being defrauded? I don't really know what people mean when they say that.

New comment by polytely in "Apertus – Open Foundation Model for Sovereign AI"

polytely — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 10:07:07 +0000

I don't want AI to fail but I would like to see Altman anf Musk fail for example. I'm very uneasy with the power hungry silicon valley freaks that are running the show at these labs/companies. Hassabis seems like the only one that is not actually Evil.

New comment by polytely in "The Raku Foundation is born"

polytely — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:06:26 +0000

I really should get back to playing some more with raku, it was a fun experience the last time I messed around with it. Feels very expressive, like it will support any harebrained scheme you come up with.

New comment by polytely in "Investigating how prompt politeness affects LLM accuracy (2025)"

polytely — Wed, 27 May 2026 08:41:27 +0000

it sort of makes sense to me, when asking a question to an expert in the field while you are a student. I would guess the successful interactions on average would be more polite . Like for example if you were asking a question to donald knuth or terrence tao, you'd probably be polite while doing so. Being hostile while asking questions gets you into forum discussion territory.

New comment by polytely in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

polytely — Tue, 12 May 2026 09:15:33 +0000

Yeah Raku feels so expressive and lovely to me with the help of an AI assistant. I've only done toy programs and scripts with it but it is actually so nice.

New comment by polytely in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

polytely — Tue, 12 May 2026 09:13:25 +0000

Working in C# i feel basically still read code structure by the visual block structure / indentation. I dont think I've ever counted braces in my professional life. The IDE makes sure it is formatted correctly and ambiguity is basically impossible.

New comment by polytely in "Cartoon Network Flash Games"

polytely — Fri, 08 May 2026 23:05:05 +0000

Thank you for preserving this piece of internet history, I have fond memories of playing these as a kid. Awesome stuff

New comment by polytely in "Community firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper reader"

polytely — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:12:40 +0000

For me how cheap it is makes it much more comfortable for me to just take it with me whenever I travel. My other e-reader is a Kobo Sage but it is so expensive that I'm way more careful with it. And I feel like the weight is seriously underrated as a selling point. It barely feels like a piece of tech.

New comment by polytely in "AI didn't delete your database, you did"

polytely — Tue, 05 May 2026 17:22:44 +0000

This is so well put, and it not only happens on the user level but also on the organisational level. Where you can completely abdicate both responsibility and explanation by moving the complicated questions into the black box of an AI model.

New comment by polytely in "The Last Contract: William T. Vollmann's Battle to Publish an Epic (2025)"

polytely — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 13:23:20 +0000

I haven't read any of his other stuff but I'm very interested in this subject in particular so I'm going pick this up as soon as it is available

New comment by polytely in "Get Shit Done: A meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven dev system"

polytely — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 08:23:24 +0000

> Automated tests are already the output of these specs, and specs cover way more than what you cover with code.

ok but how are you sure that the AI is correctly turning the spec into tests. if it makes a mistake there and then builds the code in accordance with the mistaken test you only get the Illusion of a correct implementation

New comment by polytely in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

polytely — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:50:01 +0000

unironically yes, I think with the huge payday they get for being responsible for Microsoft they should also carry an equivalent responsibility when they cause social harms. Billionaires have gotten way too comfortable.