Hacker News: ryan_n

New comment by ryan_n in "The human cost of 10x: How AI is physically breaking senior engineers"

ryan_n — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:00:03 +0000

So you essentially trust the output of the model from beginning to end? Curious to know what type of application you're building where you can safely do that.

Edit: to clarify, I know these models have gotten significantly better. The output is pretty incredible sometimes, but trusting it end to end like that just seems super risky still.

New comment by ryan_n in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

ryan_n — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:37:05 +0000

I don't think that's unpopular, it is pretty well written. But the "I believe" section is extraordinarily hard to believe given Altman's history.

> Working towards prosperity for everyone, empowering all people

> We have to get safety right

> AI has to be democratized; power cannot be too concentrated

None of these statements, IMO, reflect his actions over the past 5 years.

> we urgently need a society-wide response to be resilient to new threats. This includes things like new policy to help navigate through a difficult economic transition in order to get to a much better future

I agree with this, but there is a near 0% chance of that happening anytime soon in the US. I think he probably is aware of this.

Just my opinion, but it comes off as very insincere.

To be clear, what happened is still awful and there's absolutely no justification for it.

New comment by ryan_n in "We might all be AI engineers now"

ryan_n — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 02:16:16 +0000

"I personally code data structures and algorithms for 1 - 2 hrs a day"

What does this mean? You do leet code problems a few hours a day? Or go through a text book? Genuinely curious.

New comment by ryan_n in "U.S. science agency moves to restrict foreign scientists from its labs"

ryan_n — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 11:47:42 +0000

What do you mean it’s not representative of reality? Or are you just saying you don’t agree with it?

New comment by ryan_n in "The happiest I've ever been"

ryan_n — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 03:32:23 +0000

It is kind of funny that people here tend to dump on Reddit a lot (often times warranted, don’t get me wrong), when this place is an echo chamber in a similar way.

New comment by ryan_n in "The happiest I've ever been"

ryan_n — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 03:10:05 +0000

Is it that hard to comprehend that some people enjoy writing code by hand just for the sake of coding?

New comment by ryan_n in "The happiest I've ever been"

ryan_n — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 03:00:28 +0000

>It does not describe the social media r/childfree mindset people I know at all. They have their bubble of friends they keep in touch with only when they feel like it but that's about it.

Do you actually know a lot of those people? I know a lot of people that don't have kids and they all are very normal, well adjusted people. None of them hate kids. Using the word "breeders" as derogatory is weird, bordering on mentally unwell behavior. I've never met anyone that doesn't have kids that's like that. Even for the few people I've met that don't particularly care for children, they just keep it to themselves.

Reddit I think is not representative of real life for the vast majority of people.

New comment by ryan_n in "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network"

ryan_n — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 12:19:15 +0000

For the record I don’t care if you quit or not. Cash rules after all… However, you are incredibly naive if you think the current admin will follow through on those terms.

New comment by ryan_n in "Why is Claude an Electron app?"

ryan_n — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 23:15:40 +0000

That is often how software development has been done the past several decades yea...

Not to say that you don't review your own work, but it's good practice for others (or at least one other person) to review it/QA it as well.

New comment by ryan_n in "Privilege is bad grammar"

ryan_n — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 19:20:50 +0000

Wow, this guy must be important.

New comment by ryan_n in "Breaking the spell of vibe coding"

ryan_n — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 13:58:20 +0000

It’s shocking to me that people even ask this type of question. How do you not see the difference between a machine that will hallucinate something random if it doesn’t know the answer vs a human that will logic through things and find the correct answer.

New comment by ryan_n in "How often do full-body MRIs find cancer?"

ryan_n — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 13:53:45 +0000

I don’t understand how you’re concluding that the biopsy shouldn’t have happened from that anecdote? Just because a test result is negative doesn’t mean that it shouldn’t have happened. That’s not how practicing medicine works.

New comment by ryan_n in "Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents"

ryan_n — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 01:28:18 +0000

I feel like it says a lot if this is the not pessimistic take.

New comment by ryan_n in "We mourn our craft"

ryan_n — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 12:13:33 +0000

Yea most people earn far less than that in the US too, that’s just hacker news being out of touch

New comment by ryan_n in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"

ryan_n — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 12:07:24 +0000

Definitely more common to just use streaming services like Spotify, but some people do own their music library. There’s probably a decent sized overlap of those who buy music and those who self host things like jellyfin

New comment by ryan_n in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"

ryan_n — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 02:23:04 +0000

This is awesome, gonna check it out. Thanks! Helpful to look at a big rust project too as I’m learning rust.

New comment by ryan_n in "Dave Farber has died"

ryan_n — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 02:08:11 +0000

Ok, I guess I just didn’t think someday soon meant “the next couple hundred years”. I agree with what you’re saying though.

New comment by ryan_n in "Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory"

ryan_n — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 20:11:07 +0000

Most of these AI companies are part of the military industry. So the money is still going there at the end of the day.

New comment by ryan_n in "Dave Farber has died"

ryan_n — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 19:56:00 +0000

“Someday soon”

Based on what exactly makes you think this?

New comment by ryan_n in "I am happier writing code by hand"

ryan_n — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 17:18:12 +0000

I don’t really understand your point about AI freeing up your time to do other stuff at your job. Does your employer let you work less hours since you’re finishing projects sooner? Mine certainly doesn’t, and I’d rather be coding than doing the other parts of my job. But maybe I’m misunderstanding why you were trying to say?

I also would rather a project take longer and struggle through it without using AI as I find joy in the process. But as I said in my original post I understand that type of work appears to be coming to an end.