Hacker News: rektomatic

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?

New comment by rektomatic in "I stopped tracking my time. Now I can't focus"

rektomatic — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:38:32 +0000

It's point is highlighting a common issue that is becoming widespread due to AI tool proliferation. I have the same exact issues. I used to love sinking into deep work mode but now that's gone.

New comment by rektomatic in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

rektomatic — Sun, 31 May 2026 00:48:48 +0000

> The engineer’s advantage, the ability to translate a domain model into working code, is now cheap.

I say this as someone who uses AI a lot. Its still a far cry from cheap, especially with that pesky “working” word in there.

New comment by rektomatic in "Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app"

rektomatic — Fri, 01 May 2026 15:15:10 +0000

You're describing project-level shared resources, there are local versions of that like CLAUDE.local.md which should be gitignored

Does Gas Town 'steal' usage from users' LLM credits to improve itself?

rektomatic — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:49:48 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/gastownhall/gastown/issues/3649

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47785053

Points: 253

# Comments: 127

New comment by rektomatic in "The economics of software teams: Why most engineering orgs are flying blind"

rektomatic — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:54:04 +0000

Does anyone really believe that Slawk is a "replica of approximately 95% of Slack’s core product"??

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

rektomatic — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:49:58 +0000

I legitametly thought it was Dolt until you pointed it out

New comment by rektomatic in "Good Riddance, 4o"

rektomatic — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 17:36:46 +0000

this is so so sad on many levels

New comment by rektomatic in "The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday"

rektomatic — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:24:26 +0000

If i have to read one more "It isn't this. It's this" My head will explode. That phrase is the real singularity

New comment by rektomatic in "TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe"

rektomatic — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 15:06:04 +0000

are hard-drugs a design pattern?

New comment by rektomatic in "Two Amazon delivery drones crash into crane in commercial area of Tolleson, AZ"

rektomatic — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 20:01:40 +0000

China is way ahead on what exactly? Regulation?

New comment by rektomatic in "The story of DOGE, as told by federal workers"

rektomatic — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 23:13:17 +0000

Not saying anything about the actions themselves just pointing out what’s objectively true.

New comment by rektomatic in "The story of DOGE, as told by federal workers"

rektomatic — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 20:49:57 +0000

> A private citizen given a power to destroy organisations that overlook that citizens businesses?

Except he had no power to do this? In the end the executive branch had to authorize anything coming out of DOGE. Like it or not, elected officials (Trump) rubber stamped the cuts.

New comment by rektomatic in "The story of DOGE, as told by federal workers"

rektomatic — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 20:46:05 +0000

>you'll need to privatize the tasks / services which government agencies used to provide

Most of what DOGE cut was stuff no one wanted or needed in the first place. Just scroll their twitter feed, cutting this stuff shouldn't be termed as "smaller government".

New comment by rektomatic in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

rektomatic — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 14:28:20 +0000

> likely contributed to the Gen Z turnout that helped win in 2024

This is way over-estimated. There's a number of talking heads on the right that Gen Z listens to. For every Charlie Kirk, there's five others.