Hacker News: rat9988

New comment by rat9988 in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

rat9988 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 22:10:08 +0000

The art is not lost, just not funded. Feel free to fund the programmers for your own software projects.

New comment by rat9988 in "StepFun 3.5 Flash is #1 cost-effective model for OpenClaw tasks (300 battles)"

rat9988 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:13:06 +0000

Too late for what? For you? maybe. There are many others that are okay with it and it doesn't disminish the quality of the work. Props to the author.

New comment by rat9988 in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

rat9988 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:46:09 +0000

You usually cite the original story

New comment by rat9988 in "2% of ICML papers desk rejected because the authors used LLM in their reviews"

rat9988 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:31:02 +0000

Banned from doing free work?

New comment by rat9988 in "No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user"

rat9988 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 10:28:35 +0000

N*Log(N) can be approximated to O(N) for most realistic usecases.

As for LLM, there is probably some cost constant added once it can fit on a single GPU, but should probably be almost linear.

New comment by rat9988 in "Nobody gets promoted for simplicity"

rat9988 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 13:56:38 +0000

I wonder how you get paid if you fail the interview.

New comment by rat9988 in "Nobody gets promoted for simplicity"

rat9988 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:29:59 +0000

There is a difference between being smart and acting smart.

New comment by rat9988 in "Nobody gets promoted for simplicity"

rat9988 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:28:38 +0000

if you answer ""Well I would probably go home and work on my resume because that's a fool's errand." You probably are missing the wood and the trees.

New comment by rat9988 in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

rat9988 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:41:47 +0000

This part of trust was not about you trusting the government though so it is okay.

New comment by rat9988 in "Chrome extensions spying on users' browsing data"

rat9988 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 12:33:05 +0000

Just curious how much does it sell? It gives an idea about how much my personal data is worth

New comment by rat9988 in "Can Ozempic Cure Addiction?"

rat9988 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 14:39:21 +0000

This feels like piracy to me and an unintended usecase of archives.

New comment by rat9988 in "Amazon cuts 16k jobs"

rat9988 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:29:30 +0000

I'm not american, but it seems to me there are enough american job seekers in CS to justify not needing H1B.

I'm not sure anyway what is the relationship between the potential difficulty of hiring new folks, and firing current folks in USA to offshore roles, are relates.

New comment by rat9988 in "There is an AI code review bubble"

rat9988 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 10:28:25 +0000

Given we are more interested in the end than in the mean, it is a good usage.

New comment by rat9988 in "Polymarket refuses to pay bets that US would 'invade' Venezuela"

rat9988 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 20:51:52 +0000

What is the difference between having the militaire have boots in the ground to kill you if you don't comply, and having military in the border next to you to kill you, bomb you or kidnap you if you don't comply?

New comment by rat9988 in "Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far"

rat9988 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:59:48 +0000

Self driving cars is not a proof. It only proves that having quick gains doesn't mean necessarily you'll get a 100% fast. It doesn't prove it will necessarily happen.

New comment by rat9988 in "Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far"

rat9988 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 12:53:18 +0000

> Well, the first 90% is easy, the hard part is the second 90%.

You'd need to prove that this assertion applies here. I understand that you can't deduce the future gains rate from the past, but you also can't state this as universal truth.

New comment by rat9988 in "PyPI in 2025: A Year in Review"

rat9988 — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 02:25:54 +0000

They probably don't need it. You can start a crowdfunding campaign if you do.

New comment by rat9988 in "OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026"

rat9988 — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 14:52:38 +0000

I'm pretty the armies of accountants would have rated it higher if the cashflow was positive than negative. Negative can't be good even while accounting for taxes.

New comment by rat9988 in "Instant database clones with PostgreSQL 18"

rat9988 — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:58:14 +0000

>Yes, it’s there, but very much in the fineprint.

This is where it belongs, at best. He doesn't even have to disclose it. Prompting so that the ai writes the code faster than you is okay.

New comment by rat9988 in "Hash tables in Go and advantage of self-hosted compilers"

rat9988 — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 15:08:12 +0000

Yes, now generalize the theorem to any human to make it usable on a daily basis.