Hacker News: rightbyte

New comment by rightbyte in "I told them forced consent was unlawful. 5 years later it cost Elkjop €1.8M"

rightbyte — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 09:15:40 +0000

"Corporatism" not "cooperatism" though, right?

Nothing wrong with cooperatism I think.

New comment by rightbyte in "The AI Hate Progression"

rightbyte — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:04:09 +0000

Adding an lying abstraction just makes noticeing lies even harder. Google's summary even lies about the sources for the lies.

New comment by rightbyte in "Under-16s to be banned from social media, Starmer announces"

rightbyte — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:46:21 +0000

Yes that is another drawback.

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

rightbyte — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:23:23 +0000

I unironically not as a joke think that rolling a dice after vetting candidate credentials is about as good as most recruiting policies or better. To much bias for players.

Like talk to the person abit to avoid obvious toxic people and then fact check the credentials.

So yeah draw lots. Guessing right on whether you want a practical response for the gotcha or for them to solve the puzzle adds no value to the process.

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

rightbyte — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:37:24 +0000

> My favorite answer was on a phone interview where he just hung up and wouldn't answer when we called back.

Heh ... yeah well I wish I had it to do that.

However, you are asking gotcha questions.

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

rightbyte — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:06:19 +0000

Yeah I agree. I was trying to makee the point that it is quite easy to make yourself blocked by others and it is a deep skill to get other stuff done while blocked anyway, like say cleanups and tests etc.

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

rightbyte — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:41:13 +0000

> you place all burden on high performers

If their PRs don't get merged they don't perform. It is trivial to overload your coworkers with secondary tasks due to your "high performance".

New comment by rightbyte in "Developer gets Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95"

rightbyte — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:45:14 +0000

Didn't you have a Voodoo-card or something? I'm quite sure I could run HL1 on a P166 with a Voodoo-card with ok frame rate.

New comment by rightbyte in "Doing nothing at work"

rightbyte — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:28:32 +0000

> get no credit for not having such outages because you can't measure that.

Well from a philosophical point I would argue that you can measure the weight of nothing too.

New comment by rightbyte in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

rightbyte — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 18:49:50 +0000

> Now it's feasible for your local culture to grow its own office suite, operating systems, Active Directory competitor etc. A less interdependent world with more competition does have its advantages.

That is allready solved by FOSS.

New comment by rightbyte in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

rightbyte — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 18:08:25 +0000

> If in doubt... first try raising a few dozen chickens in your yard as a starting point.

No. Just try to make a 5x8 plot to grow vegetables and realise how ridiculously hard it is.

New comment by rightbyte in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

rightbyte — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:34:54 +0000

There certainly are 10x engineers just that they get most of the x from turning down bad ideas and saving work.

New comment by rightbyte in "Retro-Tech Parenting"

rightbyte — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:07:14 +0000

Yeah I feel you. I didn't experience it as extreme as you, but it really sets its marks.

When I go to a store with my kids nowadays I let them spend 10% of what I buy. I whine a bit about buying too crappy plastic toys but that is it.

If they want some silly fruit or bouncy ball they get it.

I hope I don't overcompensate...

New comment by rightbyte in "Retro-Tech Parenting"

rightbyte — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:57:59 +0000

How old are you? The internets were way more nice when we were kids. Not in the no 4chan edgelord way but the not toxic algorithmic way.

There is no way feeding YT etc. to kids is at any way good for them, their parents, humanity and so on.

edit: And yes, I agree with you.

New comment by rightbyte in "New York just passed a one-year temporary ban on data centers"

rightbyte — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:14:00 +0000

Amazon wanted a deal that was just bad for NY.

New comment by rightbyte in "Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses"

rightbyte — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:04:06 +0000

I have some vague recollection of a sketch where the user walks around and gets popups and ads in his glasses and later removes them to discover there is a calm city life around him. Was that Black Mirror?

New comment by rightbyte in "Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses"

rightbyte — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:27:52 +0000

I was going to write something about that. The "techno fatalism" is annoyingly strong nowadays.

New comment by rightbyte in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

rightbyte — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:37:16 +0000

> Taken far enough, and given enough compute, that trend points to an AI system capable of fully autonomously designing and developing its own successor. This is called recursive self-improvement.

Sounds iterative to me.

New comment by rightbyte in "DaVinci Resolve 21"

rightbyte — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:43:14 +0000

Sure. I guess the intent is the main difference.

New comment by rightbyte in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

rightbyte — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:15:18 +0000

Yeah like, what evil does Netflix do other than autoplaying the next episode? Like ... it is not just not the same league but different fields.