Hacker News: ramblerman

New comment by ramblerman in "GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released"

ramblerman — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:08:56 +0000

Now maybe, but the gap is closing.

New comment by ramblerman in "Ask HN: Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code?"

ramblerman — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 12:04:04 +0000

Someone answered the question with some actual examples. Please refrain from the hyperbole

New comment by ramblerman in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

ramblerman — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:37:24 +0000

> But if you're tolerant of someone in your workplace that wants to make it a monoculture, and then succeeds in doing so, will you remain glad?

Isn't that exactly the argument Örebro would make about islam and europe.

New comment by ramblerman in "What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance"

ramblerman — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:19:20 +0000

What a ridiculous strawman. OP wasn't proposing removing the police, and any charitable take would have understood that given the topic of the article.

New comment by ramblerman in "Midjourney Medical"

ramblerman — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:10:26 +0000

If you think the premise and conclusion of Op's statement form a tautology then you agree with him strongly.

New comment by ramblerman in "I procrastinate by building tools to stop me from procrastinating: A sad story"

ramblerman — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:46:54 +0000

From the title alone I was going to comment that these tools we build are not about not procrastinating but about chasing some illusionary productivity.

My own examples

- Instead of learning a language, I can write a tool that generates flashcards for me from books I'm reading, surely that's better than "actually" reading a book

- Instead of using my morning willpower to hit the gym, surely a dashboard that shows me how many reps I did per week, with graphs of my progressions will get me better gains ... someday.

The fact you called it ProductivityProxy seems like we are on the same page.

New comment by ramblerman in "Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?"

ramblerman — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:30:17 +0000

This is a silly form of no true Scotsman, you don't create a Messi if he had been kicking a coke can around.

New comment by ramblerman in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

ramblerman — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:12:44 +0000

That's good advice to stay employable.

But I used to enjoy learning - I think most of us did. The existential crisis many are experiencing is about the lack of fulfilment in rolling an LLM slot machine all day in an already dopamine depleting environment.

New comment by ramblerman in "Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs"

ramblerman — Wed, 27 May 2026 11:20:21 +0000

Or simple economics kicks in, price/demand all that.

If hand coding pays better there will be plenty who can still do that.

New comment by ramblerman in "Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed"

ramblerman — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 07:22:35 +0000

> The UK doesn't support cigarettes, so the law gets passed. If someone has a public opinion poll there showing less than 50% support for this, I'd love to see it.

Isn't the impetus on the makers of this bill to show there is more than 50% support for this.

I'm not a fan of smoking but this isn't the governments job imo. Not to mention the odd precedent of do what I say not as I do, with different laws for different generations.

New comment by ramblerman in "Krafton CEO used ChatGPT in failed bid to avoid paying US$250M bonus"

ramblerman — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:55:19 +0000

> ChatGPT initially responded that the earnout would be “difficult to cancel” but later at ChatGPT’s suggestion Kim formed an internal taskforce, dubbed Project X.

Anyone know how they got access to his conversation with ChatGPT? Can the court order the transcripts for a particular user, or was this leaked more conventionally - e.g. a coworker / hack?

New comment by ramblerman in "Saying goodbye to Agile"

ramblerman — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:39:34 +0000

Communism comes to mind.

It's led to misery every time - but it's always because they just "did it wrong"

New comment by ramblerman in "jj – the CLI for Jujutsu"

ramblerman — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:03:31 +0000

The new solution is better. It’s so good we must get all the big players to mandate its usage.

If ur making an appeal on a forum like this u could have gone with ur favorite feature, or anything else really.

New comment by ramblerman in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

ramblerman — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:48:27 +0000

I think reparations could be spent as they see fit. Reconstruction implies the money is going to exactly that.

But I agree it's a weird nitpick at this stage, as it seems almost impossible to verify once in place

New comment by ramblerman in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

ramblerman — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:22:33 +0000

Taxpayer money project being tied to a dependency on Apple google is 100% counter what that money should be used for.

You are copy pasting a “correct” argument against eu bureaucracy in the absolute wrong space

New comment by ramblerman in "Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns"

ramblerman — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 06:55:53 +0000

> You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of action. Never consider yourself the cause of the results of your activities, and never be attached to not doing your duty.

I have a hard time interpreting that as what geohotz is saying. If anything it seems to promote rent seekers by telling you - stick to your lane and don't complain. I.e. the caste system

New comment by ramblerman in "What Is a Centipawn Advantage?"

ramblerman — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:43:19 +0000

If there is a 15 move sequence that leads to a guaranteed win, stockfish would not call it a 1 pawn advantage (given the sufficient calculation time) instead calling it a won position.

I think you may be mistaking your understanding of stockfish as shallow in that regard.

Where the big differences might emerge is in strategic mid game positions without any clear tactics or forcing moves. There lc0 can somehow "feel" that a position seems better.

New comment by ramblerman in "Claude Code for Infrastructure"

ramblerman — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 11:40:48 +0000

Eh, this is the kind of pithy soundbite that sounds vaguely deep and intelligent but doesn't hold up.

In what domains have you had experience taking non programmers with domain knowledge and making them programmers?

New comment by ramblerman in "Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant"

ramblerman — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:52:00 +0000

OP did't like anthropomorphizing an LLM.

And you tried to explain the whole thing to him from the perspective of a duck.

New comment by ramblerman in "AI can 10x developers in creating tech debt"

ramblerman — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 07:39:09 +0000

for what it's worth, it didn't seem odd to me. I guess the missing article and phrase indicate it's a verb.

"So AI can ... developers" is begging for a verb, there is no room for an adjective there.