Hacker News: qweiopqweiop

New comment by qweiopqweiop in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

qweiopqweiop — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:39:34 +0000

Those features sound so narcissistic to me

New comment by qweiopqweiop in "AI has a multiplying effect on existing technical skills"

qweiopqweiop — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:09:42 +0000

If you decide to dig deeper, it's an incredible tool. Getting a summary of the internals of something you only use as an API, then getting it to test you on it until you understand. It really allows you to learn a lot.

New comment by qweiopqweiop in "Anna's Archive Hit with $19.5M Default Judgment and Global Domain Takedown Order"

qweiopqweiop — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:16:36 +0000

Metadata? Pretty sure they scraped the files and released them too.

New comment by qweiopqweiop in "UK government replaces Palantir software with internally-built refugee system"

qweiopqweiop — Fri, 15 May 2026 08:47:00 +0000

Honestly, a web app to match people looking for and willing to provide accommodation is completely different to dealing with the health data of an entire country that is pre-existing in different formats. The first is essentially a CRUD app that should never have been given to Palantir.

New comment by qweiopqweiop in "EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids"

qweiopqweiop — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:03:09 +0000

Weird analogy when ads aren't addictive in the same way. Look at people around and about and they're all like mindless zombies flicking through Tiktok, not looking at ads. IMO this doesn't go far enough.

New comment by qweiopqweiop in "EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids"

qweiopqweiop — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:01:31 +0000

Not on web (or the mobile web page either). It's a half baked solution right now.

New comment by qweiopqweiop in "Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school"

qweiopqweiop — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:40:11 +0000

I've always found that quite interesting. I agree women should have equal rights and never be discriminated against, but when push comes to shove I imagine men would be the ones called up to fight in wars for most countries around the world.

Should we call up women and put them in equal roles? I don't even know how you'd solve this so keen to hear any suggeations/thoughts

New comment by qweiopqweiop in "Talking to 35 Strangers at the Gym"

qweiopqweiop — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:02:28 +0000

100% this. As you say, language courses need content so a lot of it is talking about your life/opinions. Super easy to make friends after a few weeks of that if you make a tiny bit of effort

New comment by qweiopqweiop in "Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race"

qweiopqweiop — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 07:34:01 +0000

I'm not an expert, so do some research, but it's probably a bit of a) you've trained yourself to burn fat more (a good thing) b) you're not exercising as strenously c) yes, if you ate you'd probably "perform better".

I'd recommend you to do your own research though.

But to add - yes, if you don't eat you will "bonk" on a long bike ride.

New comment by qweiopqweiop in "An update on recent Claude Code quality reports"

qweiopqweiop — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:21:27 +0000

I agree. My real fear if this is how the company works, how are systems with real implications (e.g. defense) being treated.

New comment by qweiopqweiop in "Over-editing refers to a model modifying code beyond what is necessary"

qweiopqweiop — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:32:06 +0000

Likewise, this felt like an early agent problem to me.

New comment by qweiopqweiop in "YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney"

qweiopqweiop — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:23:45 +0000

It genuinely disgusts me that the world's largest media company shoves addictive, short form content down users throats (especially young people). Anyone working on it at Google should be ashamed of what they're doing.

New comment by qweiopqweiop in "Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops"

qweiopqweiop — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:29:23 +0000

Can someone convince me bitcoin mining isn't anything other than a huge waste of energy?

New comment by qweiopqweiop in "Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated"

qweiopqweiop — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:00:58 +0000

It also needs a validation loop. Give it the compiler output and I bet it would fix that code even without examples/a blog post.

New comment by qweiopqweiop in "MoD sources warn Palantir role at heart of government is threat to UK security"

qweiopqweiop — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:15:48 +0000

I don't consider it derailing and I'm not going to apologise for asking questions :)

New comment by qweiopqweiop in "MoD sources warn Palantir role at heart of government is threat to UK security"

qweiopqweiop — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 09:53:53 +0000

What? I want to know more to make an informed decision. Do you think you're adding more to the discussion than me here?

New comment by qweiopqweiop in "MoD sources warn Palantir role at heart of government is threat to UK security"

qweiopqweiop — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:54:09 +0000

Are you sure they hold sensitive data themselves though? My understanding was they integrate their tools with customers own data and don't have access to it themselves (at least in theory).

Of course I agree that quote is insane and you can dislike them for political reasons, but I want to understand the technological fears and see if any are unfounded.

New comment by qweiopqweiop in "MoD sources warn Palantir role at heart of government is threat to UK security"

qweiopqweiop — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:26:51 +0000

Can someone explain why Palantir are seen as such a threat? My understanding is their product is a PowerBI++ and they don't host any user data themselves. Are people scared of backdoors?

New comment by qweiopqweiop in "1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6"

qweiopqweiop — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 18:17:43 +0000

Clearly so. To me it's the LLM writing style at least.

New comment by qweiopqweiop in "1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6"

qweiopqweiop — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:01:25 +0000

Are you using AI to write this? Please stop.