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New comment by satyrnein in "Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models"

satyrnein — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 22:06:50 +0000

This has been the prevailing advice all along, and yet we have security vulnerabilities everywhere that LLMs are good at spotting and exploiting. I think we need more options on the menu.

New comment by satyrnein in "Agentic Coding Is a Trap"

satyrnein — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:22:41 +0000

This is a curious choice of fields for you, if the last technology you think was a net positive was literacy!

What happens when code becomes abundant

satyrnein — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:11:44 +0000

Article URL: https://zendesk.engineering/what-happens-when-code-becomes-abundant-cc3239c4561b

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47793247

Points: 2

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New comment by satyrnein in "AI coding is gambling"

satyrnein — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 23:28:19 +0000

For folks who are not familiar, this is "The Library of Babel" by Borges. There is no creating, just selecting among characters sequences we already knew were possible.

New comment by satyrnein in "Italians celebrate village's first baby in 30 years"

satyrnein — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 15:16:06 +0000

If other people didn't have children who grew up to be doctors, nurses, etc, there would be nobody to pay.

New comment by satyrnein in "Italians celebrate village's first baby in 30 years"

satyrnein — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 15:04:41 +0000

You need schools, pediatricians, daycare, other kids, etc. Cities (and suburbs) have those, not sure about every rural area. Certainly not the village in the article.

New comment by satyrnein in "U.S. added 911k fewer jobs in year through March than reported earlier"

satyrnein — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 04:25:23 +0000

Bush was 8 years while Biden was only 4. Biden was much higher on a per year basis than anyone else since 2000, but obviously people believe what they want to believe.

New comment by satyrnein in "U.S. added 911k fewer jobs in year through March than reported earlier"

satyrnein — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 07:38:24 +0000

I think the graph you linked obscures the issue a bit by showing total immigrant population by year, which would change much more slowly than arrivals by year.

I found a graph of arrivals by year here: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-u-s-net-immigration...

It certainly seems to be a big increase under Biden, compared to the last 25 years. Anyway, I personally favor immigration, I just don't want to use statistics to lie to myself either!

New comment by satyrnein in "U.S. added 911k fewer jobs in year through March than reported earlier"

satyrnein — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 18:16:31 +0000

I thought that was basically accepted truth? For example, the New York Times described it as:

Recent Immigration Surge Has Been Largest in U.S. History

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/briefing/us-immigration-s...

New comment by satyrnein in "Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors"

satyrnein — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 15:09:03 +0000

I was wondering about this, but digital versions are typical DRM-encumbered and actually a license (not a true purchase) whose terms probably don't allow this. The court's decision was that training is fair use, but in practice, it seems many avenues are blocked.

It reminds of the theoretically public beaches that are blocked off by privately owned land.

New comment by satyrnein in "A look at XSLT 3.0 (2017)"

satyrnein — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 00:14:57 +0000

I'm on the distributor side, I used to fantasize about using XSLT to produce all the different XML formats (beyond DDEX, like Apple, etc) from one house format, but that was probably a bad idea!

New comment by satyrnein in "The AI Replaces Services Myth"

satyrnein — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 22:25:08 +0000

It's almost more of a warning to founders and VCs, that an AI developer that replaces a $100k/year developer might only get them $10k/year in revenue.

But that means that AI just generated a $90k consumer surplus, which on a societal level, is huge!

New comment by satyrnein in "LLM Inevitabilism"

satyrnein — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 11:43:57 +0000

This is how non-engineers have always lived! The code is a black box, but Product Managers develop a sense of whether the developer really understood what they meant, the QA team verifies the outputs, etc.

New comment by satyrnein in "Show HN: Tesseral – Open-Source Auth"

satyrnein — Wed, 28 May 2025 18:19:52 +0000

From the docs:

Users exclusively belong to Organizations; every User belongs to exactly one Organization.

But I also see a screenshot where, after login, the User has to choose an organization or to create a new one. It seems to me that you support Users and Organizations in a many-to-many relationship, is that correct?

At my work, we landed on the terminology of Users, Memberships, and Accounts to describe this (a User can have Memberships to multiple Accounts, an Account can have multiple Members, etc). As a result, you don't "delete a user", you "revoke a membership".

New comment by satyrnein in "HP deliberately adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support calls"

satyrnein — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 03:27:55 +0000

It's the latter, but is there any effective difference, really? Say that lowering their their staff level from X to Y would result in a 15 minute wait for a smaller, undeterred group of callers. Putting an artificial floor for wait time of 15 minutes would mean that (X-Y) agents are sitting idle while callers are artificially waiting. I assume HP would not continue to employee them, since cost reduction was the point, after all. So it seems like the only difference is order of operations.

New comment by satyrnein in "The Deck: An open-source cross-platform multiplayer card game engine in Flutter"

satyrnein — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 02:27:02 +0000

Sounds interesting, I'll have to look into that. I'll say that the shared TV was better in one respect: it was right-side-up for more than just one person!

New comment by satyrnein in "The Deck: An open-source cross-platform multiplayer card game engine in Flutter"

satyrnein — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 02:15:43 +0000

In this specific case, I bought it during a long overseas trip and our physical games were back at home!

That said, while I love physical games, some digital aspects seemed potentially appealing: automatic scoring, rules enforcement to prevent mistakes, not taking up space, ability to try new ones out easily, etc.

New comment by satyrnein in "The Deck: An open-source cross-platform multiplayer card game engine in Flutter"

satyrnein — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 19:12:08 +0000

This is very cool! Somewhat similar, I recently bought a Nintendo Switch version of Ticket to Ride, which supports using a "companion app" on other devices to show each player their private hand.

However, one unfortunate bit is that the board (in my case, the TV connected to the Switch) is "read-only" and you don't interact with it, unlike real life. You pick which card to play on your phone, and then place it onto the board also on your phone. So basically, all the action is on your phone, and the central board is kind of an afterthought. It doesn't feel as much like interacting with a shared space as I was hoping.

I'm not really sure how to solve that. I thought of some weird stuff (like, maybe after you pick your card, your phone is just a touchpad controlling the card as it now moves around on the big screen) but nothing seemed practical.

New comment by satyrnein in "Ask HN: Did you regret staying at a job for too long?"

satyrnein — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 13:48:45 +0000

I would recommend updating your resume (or at least thinking about what you would put in it) and considering how attractive it is to other employers. The situation you want to avoid is being comfortable and respected in your current role for reasons that are not transferable (like knowing how to maintain some legacy stack), and then finding out you have poor options when your employer has layoffs.

New comment by satyrnein in "No "Hello", No "Quick Call", and No Meetings Without an Agenda"

satyrnein — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 13:45:01 +0000

Well, you kind of assumed it away in your second sentence, but alignment is more important than individual productivity. And unfortunately, meetings, interruptions, and other communication are the best tools most teams have for that.