Hacker News: reverius42

New comment by reverius42 in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

reverius42 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:34:42 +0000

Right, like I hope your deep knowledge wasn't something you can just ask Claude!

New comment by reverius42 in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

reverius42 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:25:30 +0000

This would sound crazy in 2025 or prior, but I'm on board.

It's silly to have humans reviewing code that a human didn't even write.

New comment by reverius42 in "Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public"

reverius42 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:22:37 +0000

But, like, on paper it is, and on paper is where the prompt lives.

New comment by reverius42 in "Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows"

reverius42 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:16:10 +0000

"Young adult" fiction is supposed to be for like 11-15 year olds. By high school I'd think you should be reading regular "adult" material. I think the curriculum generally agrees and assigns what we'd call adult literature in high school English.

New comment by reverius42 in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

reverius42 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:05:27 +0000

Imagine telling someone in 2015 that you can just tell your computer to fix a 2-line CSS bug and it only costs $12

New comment by reverius42 in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

reverius42 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:38:02 +0000

We used to just write programs to do those things.

New comment by reverius42 in "They’re made out of weights"

reverius42 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:57:16 +0000

You have in several places repeated that "no one is working on the field to get food", but that's not actually true. While most people in modern society don't work on fields to feed themselves (and others), a small fraction actually do! They feed not only themselves, but all of us.

In this future utopia where everyone gets to be a mediocre handmade-furniture maker, who exactly will be the 1-2% needed to work the fields to feed us all?

New comment by reverius42 in "Openrsync: An implementation of rsync, by the OpenBSD team"

reverius42 — Sun, 31 May 2026 09:32:10 +0000

Are you new to the concept of open source? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source

There's some discussion here that might help answer your question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source#Economics

New comment by reverius42 in "Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software"

reverius42 — Sun, 31 May 2026 08:46:18 +0000

Does an AI rewrite in Rust cancel out?

New comment by reverius42 in "Flathub prohibits AI-generated code"

reverius42 — Sun, 31 May 2026 08:19:19 +0000

As far as I can tell, buggy apps written by humans are allowed, as long as the other requirements are fulfilled: https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/requirements#i...

New comment by reverius42 in "Flathub prohibits AI-generated code"

reverius42 — Sat, 30 May 2026 08:21:55 +0000

Disagree, why should an app that works (and has AI contributed code) be banned, but not necessarily a buggy app written by a human? It's worse than a double standard.

New comment by reverius42 in "The dead economy theory"

reverius42 — Fri, 29 May 2026 23:13:58 +0000

Too bad they poured so much of it into the metaverse. At least Messenger is a useful product.

New comment by reverius42 in "The dead economy theory"

reverius42 — Fri, 29 May 2026 23:13:05 +0000

Killed? Twitter's AI/datacenter business is practically the only thing propping up SpaceX's valuation now, per their S-1 filing!

New comment by reverius42 in "Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions"

reverius42 — Fri, 29 May 2026 07:30:02 +0000

But how can you be so sure a contraction is coming? (And when will it come? Just the idea that there surely will be one, someday, is not scary.)

New comment by reverius42 in "Where does next-token prediction leave us?"

reverius42 — Wed, 27 May 2026 08:01:37 +0000

Yeah, seems like a big downgrade to go from being a billionaire in society to a nobody in a bunker with no society waiting for you outside the bunker.

New comment by reverius42 in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"

reverius42 — Tue, 26 May 2026 23:06:22 +0000

My rule of thumb is inflation will eat half your principal every 20 years unless you're growing. An average of 3.5% growth will double every 20 years.

New comment by reverius42 in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"

reverius42 — Tue, 26 May 2026 23:04:49 +0000

A bank account (or a spread of bank accounts across different banks to stay under the FDIC insurance limit per-account) is way, way, way safer than a flat market cap publicly traded company -- and with the same or perhaps better rate of return. Stocks are "supposed" to give better rates of return than "flat", in exchange for the higher risk.

New comment by reverius42 in "Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter"

reverius42 — Mon, 25 May 2026 22:40:31 +0000

You, uh, can't get the RAM upgrades anymore now. But you? (I) could, when I last clicked the link.

New comment by reverius42 in "Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter"

reverius42 — Thu, 21 May 2026 00:53:17 +0000

Not sure what you mean by "can't order", both of those links show purchasable, orderable computers with RAM upgrades. You can get the Mac Studio in 12 weeks or the MBP in just a few weeks, with RAM upgrades, by ordering right now on Apple's website.

New comment by reverius42 in "Actually, democracy dies in H.R."

reverius42 — Thu, 21 May 2026 00:36:06 +0000

Just like the (perhaps unintuitive) three virtues of a Perl programmer: laziness, impatience, and hubris.