Hacker News: quick_brown_fox

The AI Productivity Illusion

quick_brown_fox — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 13:43:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.hardresetmedia.com/p/the-ai-productivity-illusion

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49047526

Points: 71

# Comments: 28

Aging Baby Boomers are America's real labor problem, not AI

quick_brown_fox — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 09:56:44 +0000

Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/07/18/us-labor-shortage-ai-baby-boomers-2032/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48966531

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

The New Luddite Movement

quick_brown_fox — Sat, 23 May 2026 07:28:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/f5c96fa6-5b9b-4951-b71d-e32b3b57d8df

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48245533

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Why birth rates are falling everywhere all at once

quick_brown_fox — Sat, 16 May 2026 07:19:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/fba35eca-df3a-4ad6-b42d-eb08eb7c9ad3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48157663

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

New comment by quick_brown_fox in "The recurring dream of replacing developers"

quick_brown_fox — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 06:36:51 +0000

+1 on programming as theory building. If it wasn’t already, the bottleneck has shifted from code generation to understanding & reasoning.

The Future of Veritasium [video]

quick_brown_fox — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 16:46:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piHGnG4LsmQ

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46377093

Points: 21

# Comments: 11

New comment by quick_brown_fox in "Signs of introspection in large language models"

quick_brown_fox — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 08:31:48 +0000

> I think Anthropic genuinely cares about model welfare

I've grown too cynical to believe for-profit entities have the capacity to care. Individual researchers, yes - commercial organisations, unlikely.

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek to step down as music streamer splits role

quick_brown_fox — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 13:44:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/cbb1e082-5ddc-41a9-a310-4f74a88d9bab

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45425367

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Trimodal Nature of Tech Compensation in the US, UK and India

quick_brown_fox — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 09:55:04 +0000

Article URL: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/trimodal

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43288781

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Personal Security Checklist

quick_brown_fox — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 07:14:43 +0000

Article URL: https://digital-defense.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43022717

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

What if all the biggest problems have the same solution? [video]

quick_brown_fox — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 07:13:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_fHJIYENdI

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43022708

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Hottest January on record shocks scientists

quick_brown_fox — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 06:52:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/b5d18aa4-92b0-45a5-8c31-4ec2646ff700

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42959782

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by quick_brown_fox in "Discovery Coding"

quick_brown_fox — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 07:09:41 +0000

Related concepts in Peter Naur's "Programming as Theory Building" [0] or Gerald Sussman's "Problem Solving by debugging-almost Right Plans" [1]

[0] https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MYzvQ1v8Ww

Dan's Way Back to Health and Fitness [video]

quick_brown_fox — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 11:39:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ9ls0LExUw

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42682416

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

The utterly plausible case that climate change makes London much colder

quick_brown_fox — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 07:50:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/7711109e-0338-43ad-aada-853f058a24f1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42671961

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

World breaches 1.5C global warming target for first time in 2024

quick_brown_fox — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 07:20:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/fd914266-71bf-4317-9fdc-44b55acb52f6

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42653429

Points: 9

# Comments: 1

New comment by quick_brown_fox in "Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases"

quick_brown_fox — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 08:53:44 +0000

I mostly agree, however experienced a different challenge exactly for the very reason of consistency:

I used to work within the Chromium codebase (at the order of 10s of million LOC) and the parts I worked in were generally in line with Google's style guide, i.e. consistent and of decent quality. The challenge was to identify legacy patterns that shouldn't be imitated or cargo-culted for the sake of consistency.

In practice that meant having an up to date knowledge of coding standards in order to not perpetuate anti-patterns in the name of consistency.

New comment by quick_brown_fox in "Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer'"

quick_brown_fox — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 09:11:29 +0000

How about “We sell a computer called the tinybox. It comes in two colors + pro.

tinybox red and green are for people looking for a quiet home/office machine. tinybox pro is for people looking for a loud compact rack machine.” [0]

[0] https://tinygrad.org/#tinybox

New comment by quick_brown_fox in "Levels.fyi's annual compensation report 2024"

quick_brown_fox — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 07:35:38 +0000

I'm still having a hard time comparing US salaries across continents. I used to halve SF salaries to arrive at the EUR equivalent for purchasing power parity. In addition to that, median salaries are a poor summary statistic due the "Trimodal Nature of Software Engineering Salaries in the Netherlands and Europe" [0]

[0] https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/software-engineering-sala...

How your Brain chooses what to remember [video]

quick_brown_fox — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 18:10:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceFFEmkxTLg

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42596506

Points: 1

# Comments: 1