Hacker News: poszlem

New comment by poszlem in "To grieve, or not to grieve?"

poszlem — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:01:22 +0000

Every time I read an AI article that uses the "stages of grief" analogy, I remember that Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, who created the model, said in an interview near the end of her life that anger was the only stage she personally felt.

New comment by poszlem in "Why I didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letter"

poszlem — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 18:30:07 +0000

> At one end of the spectrum you have mathematicians who are primarily motivated by the wish to solve problems, who see conceptual understanding as a very important means to that end. At the other you have mathematicians who are primarily motivated by the wish to attain conceptual understanding, who see problem-solving as a very important means to that end.

Funny. Reminds me of programmers who like to program, and programmers who like programming because it lets them build things. The first group hates AI, the second loves it.

New comment by poszlem in "Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article"

poszlem — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:58:09 +0000

For the same reason you berate a person or hit a wall. And yes, it's a machine, even more reasons why it should just take the berating and not throw a hissy fit.

New comment by poszlem in "Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit"

poszlem — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:27:20 +0000

If you find that concerning, I recommend asking Claude or Codex to analyze all your HN comments and build a profile of you (I recommend that to everyone, not trying to single you out btw.) It takes about 20 minutes. It was eye opening and somewhat unsettling how accurate it was when I ran it on my own data. Even worse, there’s NO way to delete your old HN comments.

New comment by poszlem in "Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website"

poszlem — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:03:35 +0000

Hacker News moment. Imagine someone over 60 whose career has nothing to do with computers trying to make sense of a list of 45 different payment processors to choose from.

New comment by poszlem in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

poszlem — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 14:40:52 +0000

You can say what you want about Musk (I personally think that he is an appaling human being), but Starlink represents everybody who pays for starlink to get access to the internet, not just Elon.

New comment by poszlem in "You're Not a Better Engineer Because You Type Git Commands by Hand"

poszlem — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:35:00 +0000

"We are highly confident this text was AI generated" from gptzero, which is not perfect but is pretty spot on quite often. Just another small hint.

I put his older blog posts there: "We are highly confident this text is entirely human"

New comment by poszlem in "EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0"

poszlem — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:41:21 +0000

Yeah, there are two scummy things happening here. This would not be possible if they did their job. What sort of weird example does it set, when they don't ever care enough to stay for all the voting?

New comment by poszlem in "Hanami 3.0: In Full Bloom"

poszlem — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 23:15:53 +0000

I've used Hanami in exactly one production codebase (but it was a huge one). I fully expect to hear the chorus of "skill issue" TM type of comments and honestly, I won't even argue with that. But that app was hands down one of the messiest, most overengineered pile of hot garbage I've ever laid eyes on, and I can't shake the feeling that at least SOME of the blame lands on the framework itself, for nudging you toward a design where you drown in an explosion of tiny classes that do nothing but hide the actual behaviour from you.

New comment by poszlem in "I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI"

poszlem — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 17:10:24 +0000

This is a very peculiar use of the word "random".

New comment by poszlem in "15-minute at-home Lyme disease tick test"

poszlem — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 21:45:02 +0000

Again, I don't think you should be given antibiotics for a tick bite, unless you start showing symptoms, namely the infamous erythema migrans? Most ticks don't carry lyme.

New comment by poszlem in "15-minute at-home Lyme disease tick test"

poszlem — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 15:41:01 +0000

"LymeAlert seeks to help people avoid the cost and the wait of going to the emergency room after being bitten by a tick"

I might be mistaken, but I don't think you should go to the emergency room with a tick bite..? Do people really do that?

New comment by poszlem in "From Australia to Europe, countries move to curb children's social media access"

poszlem — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:57:21 +0000

All of that in a very organic, and not at all coordinated way.

New comment by poszlem in "Can Europe train a frontier AI model on the compute it owns?"

poszlem — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:38:28 +0000

That's a bit like arguing that the USSR was, in spirit, trying to defend workers' rights, and therefore we should not have opposed it. At some point, the gap between what something claims to be "in spirit" and what it actually is in practice becomes too large to ignore.

New comment by poszlem in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

poszlem — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:47:02 +0000

If anything is racist here it's thinking that redheads are a separate race.

New comment by poszlem in "Claude Fable 5"

poszlem — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:55:03 +0000

Looks like a marxist revolution is soon going to be on the mind of a lot of programmers. We've finally reached the point where the "means of production" in software are back in the hands of the bourgeoisie. It was good while it lasted. But now that only the wealthy can afford access to the best models, software development is starting to look like most other industries, no longer a place where some dude from nowhere can build something cool from his basement because he will be competing with huge companies with unlimited access to those models.

New comment by poszlem in "Claude Fable 5"

poszlem — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:47:56 +0000

Something I never thought I would utter: Here's hoping for china to surprise us.

New comment by poszlem in "Claude Fable 5"

poszlem — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:40:07 +0000

Lol. What support? When they blocked my account the only way to contact them was to send a google form. Then they responded that they blocked my by accident and are unblocking me. Then I remained blocked.

New comment by poszlem in "Home alone: Remote work, isolation, and mental health"

poszlem — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 23:29:25 +0000

Interestingly, when times were good, companies did everything in their power to pull employees' hobbies, interests, and social lives into the workplace. Hence the huge "campuses" and all the rest. Now, suddenly, everyone is surprised that people have no life outside of work.

This may turn out to be a huge wake-up call, perhaps even for the best. People may start going back to a proper 9-to-5, closing their laptops at the end of the day and actually living their lives. Let's hope that the next time the market goes crazy, we remember these lessons - though I'm very doubtful.

New comment by poszlem in "Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording""

poszlem — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:16:42 +0000

"Intellectuals are naturally attracted by the idea of a planned society, in the belief that they will be in charge of it." — Roger Scruton