Hacker News: rektomatic

New comment by rektomatic in "DoorDash to Acquire Instacart"

rektomatic — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 16:29:34 +0000

There's literally 100s of apps that provide food delivery service. Just because one is doing really good doesn't make it a monopoly.

New comment by rektomatic in "DoorDash to acquire Instacart"

rektomatic — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 16:04:28 +0000

How would this be a monopoly?

New comment by rektomatic in "Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy"

rektomatic — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:14:33 +0000

I'm imagining the horrors of character bots themed and named after popular disney characters at the expense of our youth. Dystopian stuff

New comment by rektomatic in "Socialism's Positive Rating Tops 40% for First Time"

rektomatic — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:37:28 +0000

Socialism means that the government owns the means of production.

Sweden is not socialist, it's capitalist. A large portion of the budget goes to welfare programs, just like the USA.

New comment by rektomatic in "GPT-5.6 Luna vs. GPT-6 Astra: Is a $1.20 Model Good Enough for Code Review?"

rektomatic — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 20:56:51 +0000

False positives have a real cost, especially if AI is reading a review. Consider if you have GPT-6 Astra looking at a review and finding a bunch of false positives it burns tokens to figure out.

New comment by rektomatic in "GPT-6 Astra"

rektomatic — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 20:03:27 +0000

Remember when the term "AGI" meant something? Pepperidge farm remembers

New comment by rektomatic in "CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO"

rektomatic — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 15:50:07 +0000

That repo is so thin, probably just took one prompt.

New comment by rektomatic in "Meta reaches $16.68B settlement over social media harms to children"

rektomatic — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:22:14 +0000

There was an ad going around for a while on how Instagram was trying to be safer for teens with parent controls, etc.

If I were to guess, he's thinking he can get the good (if there is any good to be found) without the bad still using more controls/technology.

New comment by rektomatic in "Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance"

rektomatic — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:59:56 +0000

Why would you read the microcode or assembly?

New comment by rektomatic in "Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance"

rektomatic — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:02:47 +0000

Forcing friction the way this post describes won't work because the genie is out of the bottle.

A much easier way to force friction is to expect everyone to read the code they are producing. Yes read all of it and understand what it's doing.

A lofty bar sadly.

New comment by rektomatic in "AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study"

rektomatic — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:25:32 +0000

Good exams don't just test memorization

New comment by rektomatic in "Do Chatbot LLMs Talk Too Much?"

rektomatic — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 14:45:13 +0000

Yes, yes they do

New comment by rektomatic in "AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon"

rektomatic — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 20:26:57 +0000

Nightblood? is that you?

New comment by rektomatic in "After the AI Crash"

rektomatic — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:52:10 +0000

what exactly is this finish line? AGI?

New comment by rektomatic in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

rektomatic — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 13:54:35 +0000

you live in all those places??

New comment by rektomatic in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"

rektomatic — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:23:18 +0000

Maybe the whole windows/linux thing is an apt comparison? Linux is OS and arguably runs the internet yet windows is still a cash cow. The paid-for models are like windows, the OS models are like linux?

New comment by rektomatic in "A graph that should be front-page news"

rektomatic — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:08:15 +0000

Isn't that the documentary that cited a study saying all snow would disappear forever from Earth by the year 2013?

New comment by rektomatic in "Jobs and Software Is Fucked"

rektomatic — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 20:58:28 +0000

Propertly testing and reviewing code is a must with AI, it's actually more important. I don't know why the author feels like it's assumed that this goes out the window with AI

New comment by rektomatic in "The Flat Curve Society"

rektomatic — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:40:48 +0000

Am I just a luddite, because this seems really far-fetched to me:

>In reality, behind the scenes, the curve is NOT flattening at all; the exponential growth will continue

every other technical leap hit walls where the exponential growth stopped

New comment by rektomatic in "A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer"

rektomatic — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:30:03 +0000

I really want to know what would've happened with an npm install, I guess something boring like crypto mining or identity theft?