Hacker News: rukuu001

New comment by rukuu001 in "Federal Cyber Experts Called Microsoft's Cloud "A Pile of Shit", yet Approved It"

rukuu001 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:56:31 +0000

Just like everyone else tasked with buying Microsoft

New comment by rukuu001 in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

rukuu001 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 01:54:32 +0000

I've noticed a considerable drop-off in HN commenters who are unable to deal with the substance of a comment if it contains errors in spelling or grammar, so I don't think this is the issue it used to be.

It's still daunting posting in a second language, and LLMs are an attractive solution to that (depending on your definition of 'solution').

New comment by rukuu001 in "Meta acquires Moltbook"

rukuu001 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 06:31:48 +0000

"Clown car that fell into a gold mine" feels a little different when you're the gold mine

New comment by rukuu001 in "Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting"

rukuu001 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 02:43:20 +0000

Absolutely this:

> Some people can really benefit from using LLMs to help them write. E.g. non-native speakers.

New comment by rukuu001 in "Hugging Face Skills"

rukuu001 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 23:27:33 +0000

Say it fast out loud - "Hugging Face Skills" - probably not the message Hugging Face wants to send.

New comment by rukuu001 in "I’m joining OpenAI"

rukuu001 — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 22:54:58 +0000

Never mind the list of companies - I'd be very curious to know what the 'trust signals' are that would help you trust a company?

New comment by rukuu001 in "Show HN: Rowboat – AI coworker that turns your work into a knowledge graph (OSS)"

rukuu001 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 08:19:01 +0000

Nice

New comment by rukuu001 in "Show HN: Rowboat – AI coworker that turns your work into a knowledge graph (OSS)"

rukuu001 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 07:50:15 +0000

This is a product that just makes sense to me - well done on picking a great problem to solve and communicating it so well.

What are the plans for monetization?

New comment by rukuu001 in "Show HN: Rowboat – AI coworker that turns your work into a knowledge graph (OSS)"

rukuu001 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 07:44:39 +0000

Also interested to hear about your Logseq scripts and the plugins you use as well

New comment by rukuu001 in "AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder"

rukuu001 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 04:20:38 +0000

> The hard part is investigation, understanding context, validating assumptions, and knowing why a particular approach is the right one for this situation

Yes. Another way to describe it is the valuable part.

AI tools are great at delineating high and low value work.

New comment by rukuu001 in "Iran summons families of exiled journalists to halt their activities"

rukuu001 — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 22:31:02 +0000

Because if MSF says anything they lose their access and can't get anything done.

New comment by rukuu001 in "Design Thinking Books (2024)"

rukuu001 — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 04:10:16 +0000

Design thinking is a collection of techniques that have been professional-ized into a consulting practice. Hence the mystique.

What I appreciate about a good design thinking session is:

- It externalises the insides of peoples heads in a way that allows other participants to share that knowledge. Individual tacit knowledge becomes shared general knowledge.

- Knowledge elicited during the session is presented in a way that makes it actionable

A design thinking session is doomed to failure if it isn't comprised of:

- Domain experts

- Decision makers

- A facilitator who actually knows what they're doing

New comment by rukuu001 in "Your app subscription is now my weekend project"

rukuu001 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 10:54:41 +0000

> I’m still skeptical of vibecoding in general. As I mentioned above, I would not trust my vibecoding enough to make these into products.

That’s the whole point - there’s no need for it to be a product when you can do it yourself, and it’s the death knell of products like this.

New comment by rukuu001 in "Ask HN: How do you safely give LLMs SSH/DB access?"

rukuu001 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:43:53 +0000

This is the answer, and this strategy can be used on lots of otherwise unsafe activities - put a tool between the LLM and the service you want to use, and bake the guardrails into the tool (or make them configurable)

New comment by rukuu001 in "My article on why AI is great (or terrible) or how to use it"

rukuu001 — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 01:37:04 +0000

It shaves yaks for me. I appreciate that.

New comment by rukuu001 in "Show HN: Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans, by Selenium's creator"

rukuu001 — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 19:58:26 +0000

Hey man, just wanted to say thanks for Selenium - it was a game changer and had a big impact on my professional life.

I’m interested in checking out Vibium - I’ve been a reluctant adopter of Playwright and hopeful for a new approach.

New comment by rukuu001 in "AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'"

rukuu001 — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 20:50:20 +0000

Think of highly competitive environments where looking foolish can be weaponised against you. They definitely exist here (my experience in UK and Australia)

New comment by rukuu001 in "Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden"

rukuu001 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 07:19:32 +0000

I think a lot about how much we altered our environment to suit cars. They're not a perfect solution to transport, but they've been so useful we've built tons more road to accommodate them.

So, while I don't think AGI will happen any time soon, I wonder what 'roads' we'll build to squeeze the most out of our current AI. Probably tons of power generation.

New comment by rukuu001 in "How to Attend Meetings"

rukuu001 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 23:00:07 +0000

Google Cal will auto-decline meetings that occur during ‘out of office’ events.

I have several of these ‘out of office’ events recurring in my calendar that I use for concentrated work

New comment by rukuu001 in "Why top firms fire good workers"

rukuu001 — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 05:31:55 +0000

Up or out.

Yes, re the gamesmanship on pay, but if you don’t have the specific ability to bring in new business, then you’re on your way out, no matter how good a lawyer (or whatever) you are