Hacker News: scandox

New comment by scandox in "Giving up on smart rings"

scandox — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:17:42 +0000

One word on rings: degloving

New comment by scandox in "Show HN: Ordewell – turn one goal into an ordered plan of coding-agent tasks"

scandox — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:54:46 +0000

But why write these comments with AI?

New comment by scandox in "Claude is a Contrarian"

scandox — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:09:48 +0000

It's a correction. What the model does is not real contradiction. So more nuance is welcome in this case - even if at another layer it's tongue in cheek

New comment by scandox in "An Alien Mind"

scandox — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 20:13:36 +0000

> getting the AI to “try to do the right thing” by human standards.

Are these scientists really this hideously naive? If only Stanislaw Lem was alive to adequately dramatize the absurd, childish simplicity of these technicians.

New comment by scandox in "Show HN: Fly By – retro biplane flying game"

scandox — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 22:38:04 +0000

It's no Sopwith

New comment by scandox in "Saab has unveiled its A3 collaborative combat aircraft concept"

scandox — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 17:49:08 +0000

Yeah I remember we had a family friend and they had a Boost button in their Saab. I don't know if it literally said Boost but in my memory it does. We begged him to press it but he told us it was extremely dangerous and would cause flames to shoot out the back. So of course we begged him even more...

New comment by scandox in "Calibrate Before You Accelerate: Bias Toward Action in a New Role"

scandox — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:29:44 +0000

My internal metaphor for senior management is of a man sitting in a darkened room receiving slips of paper under the door with little messages on them.

That's why founder types have such a massive advantage. They've got a much better mental picture of what's beyond the door.

New comment by scandox in "Was modern art a CIA psy-op? (2020)"

scandox — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:50:34 +0000

All art requires growth and change. Artists can't go on doing the same things forever. Will they take a turn into some dead end...sure. Maybe even for centuries. But remaining static is certain death.

New comment by scandox in "Don't Paste the AI, please"

scandox — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:26:54 +0000

If you're absolving the other person from any understanding of the issue and the alternative is "stuff broken" then yes what you say makes sense. But that's an incredibly low bar and one would have to say - that's not a colleague, that's an end user type relationship.

New comment by scandox in "Taste Is All That's Left"

scandox — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 08:32:56 +0000

> I'm sincerely sorry for publishing something that has allowed you to feel this way.

What fresh hell is this? If this is human then I wish it was AI

New comment by scandox in "MariaDB: Promote getting to 10k GitHub stars in server log and client prompt"

scandox — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 21:50:12 +0000

The thing about the two women crawling on the road at night is the stuff of nightmares. I once saw two women - a mother and daughter - drunkenly rolling on the road at a major junction late at night. There was no way on earth a driver coming the other way would have seen them. I had to get out of my vehicle, run across and pull them out of the road. You can imagine their delight and gratitude /s. It was truly scary.

New comment by scandox in "How to write English prose (2023)"

scandox — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:17:06 +0000

What's interesting to me is that the examples he gives are beautiful because of their sincerity. Even if there is artifice, or they're being formal or playful, their style reflects their reading, their shared culture and of course as you say their audience - which I think for them was a very small elite.

Anyone who writes in a flamboyant style now - as the essay's author does - necessarily comes across as a kind of pastiche. There is something camp or affected about it. Maybe that can change. Maybe a new flamboyance can develop. But I think his antiquated style of flamboyance is unlikely to come back to real life.

New comment by scandox in "Show HN: HN Hall of Fame – browse 3,100 legendary Hacker News links"

scandox — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:37:09 +0000

There's no type for People which I would have thought has provided some of the all time high scoring submissions.

New comment by scandox in "Why do you suck at juggling now?"

scandox — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:34:09 +0000

Well I agree but clearly some people have ambiguous motives...they want to do what gives them joy but also a little bit in their heart they want to impress

New comment by scandox in "Why do you suck at juggling now?"

scandox — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:32:03 +0000

Lesson is actually: if you want to blow people's minds then practice secretly. An appearance of effortlessness. Sprezzatura. Whatever it is, it seems to be the only thing that impresses the average person.

New comment by scandox in "OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation"

scandox — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:08:49 +0000

OpenAI deployed a tool to perform a task. They failed to control it and it did something unintended but negative.

It is a mistake to view this as anything but human incompetence. They're just being given a pass because the technology is new.

New comment by scandox in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

scandox — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:20:02 +0000

But you do have to keep an eye on those things. It can make the adjustments but you can't take your eye off them.

New comment by scandox in "Could the next great novel be written by AI?"

scandox — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 10:35:19 +0000

> "We can’t build a machine to do something when we don’t know how it works."

Really not sure this is true is it?

Could the next great novel be written by AI?

scandox — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 10:34:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/jul/04/future-of-fiction-next-great-novel-ai-language-chat-gpt

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48784360

Points: 3

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New comment by scandox in "Blog HN: Claude Code Making an Ass Out of You and Me"

scandox — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:29:46 +0000

Nonetheless it did do it. Right in front of my eyes