Hacker News: sameerds

New comment by sameerds in "Yes, and"

sameerds — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 11:46:49 +0000

"friends" is not limited to people that you grew up with, or studied with, or people that your parents knew. They can also be contacts that you made by reaching out, in social circles or through shared interests or tecnhical workshops, etc.

New comment by sameerds in "Nobody pays for FOSS, we can force them to"

sameerds — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 08:33:30 +0000

> Otherwise you are no better than someone at an intersection with a bottle of Windex and a squeegee who, unsolicited, cleans a windshield and then demands the driver to pay for it.

I am struggling to see how this analogy is relevant. It seems more like a knee jerk to the use of "force" in the headline. TFA seems to be talking about a potential way to _generate revenue_ through side channels that are deemed valuable by the users. This is clearly different from "demand the user to pay for it" as the analogy would imply.

Open source contributors don't come unsolicited to "clean the users' windshields". They just write stuff that they find useful and the inherent value of that work attracts other developers as much as users. And then the whole thing grows too large to maintain without serious money.

New comment by sameerds in "If AI coding is lowering your code quality, you're not managing quality right"

sameerds — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 14:38:33 +0000

> It's asking somebody who writes code to now read and debug others code.

That's exactly right. Open source projects are currently drowning under LLM generated PRs, where those who used to write code are simply punting that work to AI, but still expecting others to review it. It's not okay to expect such a free lunch. If you moved the labour of writing code one step away, then you are yourself the first line of defence now, so you better start reviewing code that you claim to be yours.

New comment by sameerds in "Small programming tricks"

sameerds — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 03:53:17 +0000

That's how I learned Emacs!

New comment by sameerds in "The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment"

sameerds — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 01:16:33 +0000

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New comment by sameerds in "The Fermi Paradox, Percolation, and Inbreeding"

sameerds — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 01:46:28 +0000

> Makes me wonder if a solar system wide civilization, with trillions of beings, wouldn't invest in ships to go to the next system, extract resources, and create a stream of resources ships going back to the original solar system.

You mean colonize and feed the empire?

New comment by sameerds in "Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion"

sameerds — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:36:02 +0000

> If you weren't able to build it before then you aren't able to properly verify it

GP said "couldn't dream of building". To make an analogy, I wouldn't dream of building a house if I had to do every bit of brick-laying myself. But with others doing what I can't do, I can indeed dream of building a house and I do know how to verify that the house was built to satisfy my dream.

New comment by sameerds in "I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support"

sameerds — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 03:33:46 +0000

It could just be that each of the two reviewers is merely focussing on different sides of the same coin? I use Claude all the time. It saves me a lot of effort that I would have otherwise spent in looking up specific components. The magically autocompleted pieces of boilerplate are a tangible relief. It also catches issues that I missed. But when it is wrong, it can be subtly or embarassingly or spectacularly wrong depending on the situation.

New comment by sameerds in "I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support"

sameerds — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 03:15:06 +0000

> I can still run 2-3 clients almost 24/7 pumping out features.

Honest question. How does one do that? My workflow is to create one git worktree per feature and start one session per worktree. And then I spent two hours in a worktree talking to Opus and reviewing what it is doing.

New comment by sameerds in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

sameerds — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:12:12 +0000

You forgot "I am honoured and humbled to announce ."

New comment by sameerds in "Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they're right"

sameerds — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 04:08:34 +0000

I am hearing this term for the first time but I love it. It is novel and creates a picture. Exactly what Scott Adams says about labels used for persuasion. I usually say "highly trained autocomplete" in discussions at work, but I am going to say "stochastic parrot" from now on.

New comment by sameerds in "Chuck Norris has died"

sameerds — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 01:41:23 +0000

India too!

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

sameerds — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 01:53:48 +0000

> everyone that claims it makes them so perceptively and clearly faster - how do you know?

For me, AI tools act like supercharged code search and auto complete. I have been able to make changes in complex components that I have rarely worked on. It saved me a week of effort to find the exact API calls that will do what I needed. The AI tool wrote the code and I only had to act as a reviewer. Of course I am familiar with the entire project and I knew the shape of the code to expect. But it saved me from digging out the exact details.

New comment by sameerds in "End of Japanese community"

sameerds — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 17:14:02 +0000

> Would you be interested to hop on a call with us to talk about this further? We want to make sure we trully understand what you're struggling with.

That has the same vibes as a customer support helpline that has no intention to actually help.

New comment by sameerds in "Show HN: Why write code if the LLM can just do the thing? (web app experiment)"

sameerds — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 17:00:14 +0000

Everyone seems to be missing the point. Using an LLM to perform book keeping like this is akin to a business in the dot-com era hiring a programmer to help them go online. But since it's an LLM, the next step would be different. The LLM might initially do all the actions itself, but eventually it should train optimised pathways just for this purpose. It would become an app that isn't actually written out in code. Or alternatively, the LLM might actually dump its optimized logic into a program that it runs as a tool.

New comment by sameerds in "Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social video"

sameerds — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 02:43:56 +0000

I really hope that the same thing is happening to all kinds of SEO-ridden websites out there.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44631662

New comment by sameerds in "When did AI take over Hacker News?"

sameerds — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 16:52:09 +0000

I am amazed by your negativity at comments written to support all the gushing praise. It's really cool to support cool things and even though those comments are not perfect we should appreciate the effort that people put into making HN a more positive space.

New comment by sameerds in "AI is killing the web – can anything save it?"

sameerds — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 13:27:06 +0000

I am in that trap myself. I am doing work that I like, at a pay that I like but "something" has been missing for a long time. Two decades ago, back in my grad school days, I used to have a blog and was part of communities like livejournal. Now my blog is replaced with a blank page because I have nothing to share with my friends about my daily life.

New comment by sameerds in "AI is killing the web – can anything save it?"

sameerds — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 05:34:52 +0000

Come on, it can't be that bad! If such small nerdy groups existed, what are the chances that their membership does not overlap with places like HN? It would only be a matter of time before we heard about them.

> I am now older and more burned out and less prone to chasing after cool new things.

Yeah, mostly true for me too. I hear about cool new things, but rarely choose to chase after them.

New comment by sameerds in "AI is killing the web – can anything save it?"

sameerds — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 05:14:37 +0000

> The web started out idealistic, and became what it did because of underregulated market forces.

> The same thing will happen to ai.

Exactly! Let the AI market deal with that crap ... all I hope is that AI will get all these people off my lawn!