Hacker News: rbtprograms

New comment by rbtprograms in "U.S. science is in chaos"

rbtprograms — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 05:01:53 +0000

whatever makes Americans feel better about being immigrants or migrant workers is fine by me

New comment by rbtprograms in "U.S. science is in chaos"

rbtprograms — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:26:13 +0000

americans pretending they aren't immigrants by using the term expat always cracks me up

New comment by rbtprograms in "Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization?"

rbtprograms — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:20:06 +0000

"When we looked inside he saw that what was said of them was true of him as well. So it was either rage or weep; and so he raged."

New comment by rbtprograms in "New York passes pied-a-terre tax"

rbtprograms — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:45:11 +0000

the amount of people who are middle class with a second home is rare. if you can afford another dwelling, you can pay more tax on it. lets not be this disconnected.

New comment by rbtprograms in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

rbtprograms — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:54:16 +0000

its a fun place to buy games though

New comment by rbtprograms in "What can we gain by losing infinity?"

rbtprograms — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:11:04 +0000

saying infinity is a mathematical symbol we can observe is simplifying it way too much, all mathematical symbols are abstractions.

i can observe two apples. i cannot observe infinity apples.

New comment by rbtprograms in "Claude Design"

rbtprograms — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:36:37 +0000

i dont disagree. but there is a difference between great design and entirely acceptable and shippable design.

New comment by rbtprograms in "Gas Town: From Clown Show to v1.0"

rbtprograms — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:16:59 +0000

you can always fire it up yourself and see what its all about. in my experience it generates a lot of code very quickly, that code is probably only ever supposed to be LLM maintained, not by people.

New comment by rbtprograms in "EFF is leaving X"

rbtprograms — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:03:07 +0000

what are you even talking about? they arent suppressing free speech, they are leaving a platform. this might be the most bot-like response ive ever seen, if youre not a bot then go outside, read a book, just log off my goodness.

New comment by rbtprograms in "OpenAI Acquires TBPN"

rbtprograms — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:15:09 +0000

oh wow you were not kidding

New comment by rbtprograms in "I built an AI receptionist for a mechanic shop"

rbtprograms — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:53:57 +0000

in general these types of attacks are still difficult to solve, because there are a lot of different ways they can be formulated. llm based security is still and unknown, but mostly i have seen people using intermediary steps to parse question intent and return canned responses if the question seems outside the intended modality.

New comment by rbtprograms in "Welcome to the Wasteland: A Thousand Gas Towns"

rbtprograms — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:38:56 +0000

kinda reads like an advertisement for dolt?

New comment by rbtprograms in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

rbtprograms — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 23:24:14 +0000

i actually agree with this take; i dont see the problem that smart glasses solve. what, my phone screen isnt literally in front of my eyeballs 24/7? i have a need to be absolutely plugged into scrolling social media and consuming content so much that i just have to have the screen in my glasses? this feels much more like what tech companies want people to want rather than what people want.

New comment by rbtprograms in "A case for Go as the best language for AI agents"

rbtprograms — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:12:31 +0000

put something out there wade. whats your preference?

New comment by rbtprograms in "A case for Go as the best language for AI agents"

rbtprograms — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:12:08 +0000

what would you prefer? i liked rust a lot as i found the compiler feedback loop pretty great, but the language was much more verbose and i found the simplicity of Go to be great, and the typing system is good enough for almost everything.

New comment by rbtprograms in "Layoffs at Block"

rbtprograms — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:55:52 +0000

i think they dont have a great moat in their individual offerings, but across square, cash app, and afterpay they offer a pretty good suite of products for the entire transaction stack.

New comment by rbtprograms in "What is happening to writing? Cognitive debt, Claude Code, the space around AI"

rbtprograms — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:21:52 +0000

this actually makes the most sense, and would be a pretty meta comment :D im not very good at detecting sarcasm/meta commentary over the internet but it does add up here.

New comment by rbtprograms in "What is happening to writing? Cognitive debt, Claude Code, the space around AI"

rbtprograms — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:42:21 +0000

its interesting how much this comment feels like its AI written.

if it isn't, then it has seeped into your writing style and its quite a turn off as a reader; i dont care much to engage.

if it is, then why should i read it? what come to this website and even bother reading AI bot comments?

what is happening to writing indeed.

New comment by rbtprograms in "I’m joining OpenAI"

rbtprograms — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 22:13:54 +0000

pretty much yea

New comment by rbtprograms in "Show HN: I built "AI Wattpad" to eval LLMs on fiction"

rbtprograms — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 22:50:34 +0000

so you havent read any of them, very nice product you got there. i stand by my original statement.