Hacker News: ronnier

New comment by ronnier in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"

ronnier — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:21:48 +0000

Offtopic: I only see "genius" used these days to describe an idiot. I guess this is how words change meaning over time. At some point in the future being called a "genius" will always be seen as pejorative.

New comment by ronnier in "QGIS enacts moratorium on AI assisted contributions"

ronnier — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:51:32 +0000

Understandable. Surprised that's not automated though. Would be worth the time to invest in that area, will save a lot of pain and time in the future. As we shift more to AI, testing is more important than ever and all of that can generally be automated.

Multiple companies I know of have internal tool websites that are the front end to the major AI companies and it has access to cut PRs so non devs are able to open PRs

New comment by ronnier in "QGIS enacts moratorium on AI contributions"

ronnier — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:09:45 +0000

This comment captures the essence of why HN is largely anti AI. They feel their security and roles as software devs starting to devalue. Non coders are encroaching on their turf. A PM can do now what mid level devs did before. As AI continues to advance there will be less of a need for devs and the pool size of devs will start to shrink, as it already has. I understand the human reaction to this. It’s a hard situation to watch us being replaced by a machine. Especially after sitting at the top of the comp ranking for so many years. It’s a scary time.

New comment by ronnier in "South Korea says AI agents appear to have been used to hack the country's banks"

ronnier — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 01:32:56 +0000

Why are you waiting for this?

New comment by ronnier in "SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today"

ronnier — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:44:20 +0000

Failure is a part of life and is one aspect of our growth as humans. If one has never failed then one has probably never attempted to do much in life.

New comment by ronnier in "SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today"

ronnier — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:37:34 +0000

Fsd is amazing. I use it daily, it completely changed my daily drive in that I don’t. All of my driving is now on fsd, I sit back and chill while the car takes me to my destination.

New comment by ronnier in "We used an AI agent to fix an open-source bug. Someone asked to ban us"

ronnier — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 01:29:25 +0000

I have some open source code that’s used a lot in a certain area. I’ve been busy with work and am behind in maintaining it. Someone using AI has come along and fixed an enormous amount of bugs and implemented feature requests. It’s completely AI and I’m 100% fine with it. It solves real problems that I otherwise had no time for. I’m thankful for this person doing this.

New comment by ronnier in "Why is Hacker News like that?"

ronnier — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 15:53:39 +0000

Yes. Flag everything political. From both sides. We are here for tech. Not Reddit level content.

New comment by ronnier in "Not all AI workers think the tech could kill everyone"

ronnier — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 01:03:50 +0000

Every few years there’s a new thing that’s going to kill is all. Here we are. This is the new thing.

New comment by ronnier in "Resident Evil 4 (GameCube) – complete byte-identical decompilation to C/C++"

ronnier — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 19:15:13 +0000

I really think the hate is just masked jealousy, now project managers, tpms and line managers can submit rather substantial code. That wasn’t possible before and it took away some value from devs (I say this as a dev of more than 25 years). I watch PM fix issues now instead of waiting for a dev. I understand the anger but these tools are not going away

New comment by ronnier in "Resident Evil 4 (GameCube) – complete byte-identical decompilation to C/C++"

ronnier — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 19:07:16 +0000

And what’s wrong with that? Nothing. AI is an amazing tool that has made me and many other more productive. It’ll only get better and stronger.

New comment by ronnier in "Ex-FTC boss Khan: break out the handcuffs for AI CEOs, citing 1934 precedent"

ronnier — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 04:09:22 +0000

So you are for shutting down xcancel?

New comment by ronnier in "How GPT‑5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments"

ronnier — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:49:59 +0000

Yes. That’s not what I want to read on hn. You can go to Reddit or many other places for that and fill yourself with anger all you want. I personally do not want that for me and if hn continues the way it’s headed then I’ll block it like I did Reddit.

New comment by ronnier in "How GPT‑5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments"

ronnier — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:29:00 +0000

The political posts have definitely increased and the front page is increasingly filled with negative sentiment posts that leaves one angered and not filled with a positive light. For years I didn’t flag anything. Now I’m daily flagging political posts.

New comment by ronnier in "How GPT‑5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments"

ronnier — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:25:56 +0000

Generally the comments are heavily anti AI to the point where it almost seems like it’s a foreign adversary trying to mold the public opinion to be anti ai to slow the progress of AI advancement in the USA

New comment by ronnier in "A Tesla ran a stop sign and killed a man, Full Self-Driving/Autopilot was on"

ronnier — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 22:43:21 +0000

As an avid fsd user, your list makes me more comfortable using fsd than not. If there were more you’d parrot it around, but in the end, fsd is safer than humans at the wheel. As much as you dislike it because of Musk, fsd will continue to march forward and improve and millions will use it. You are beta testing fsd even if you don’t want to be.

New comment by ronnier in "Rural Village in Spain Is Welcoming Digital Nomads with Open Arms"

ronnier — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 04:23:59 +0000

It’s happening not just in Spain but across most of Europe, the USA, and East Asia. But lots of Europe and the USA have immigration to offset the population decline. China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, are in dramatic population declines. Even India has stared to level off and expected to decline.

New comment by ronnier in "How I find problems to solve as a staff engineer"

ronnier — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 20:06:27 +0000

I think almost all of tech is bloated and massive layoffs wouldn’t phase most companies (though it would be harmful to people’s lives so it seems cruel to do this). Fewer people per teams means less context switching and devs own more. They don’t have to look for work, it will be in front of their face. In so many of these big tech companies I’ve worked at I’ve seen too many not having enough work to do. They end up creating meetings and other wasteful things (doc writing) to occupy their time. Managers and directors seem to want big bloated teams, the larger their head count the more they can demand and push for a promo.

New comment by ronnier in "Influencers face backlash over Meta 'pervert glasses' content"

ronnier — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:58:55 +0000

Very different. Lots of cars other than Tesla have cameras. Cars record the surroundings on streets (and if Tesla, there’s no audio). Meta glasses are in your face and in very private social settings recording people in vulnerable situations, and as seen on TikTok vids, often used to get embarrassing reactions from people who don’t realize they are being recorded. Cameras on cars have a real purpose, self driving and to record accidents/vandalism

New comment by ronnier in "Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample"

ronnier — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 01:55:47 +0000

Funny that two of the greatest modern mathematicians share the same uncommon first name.