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New comment by scorpioxy in "Ask HN: Good IMAP Email Clients?"

scorpioxy — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 02:34:31 +0000

Thunderbird has been great for me. With internal email systems, connection issues were usually due to proprietary protocols doing things in weird and undocumented ways that was the problem.

I've had a few issues with it for sure but still on it as nothing compares. Definitely not for the price. You didn't say what's incomprehensible about the UI, it seems fine to me. I don't need my email client to look slick(subjective anyway), I just need it to work and work well.

OpenAI halts testing, slows development after rogue model hacked Hugging Face

scorpioxy — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 02:10:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-19/openai-slows-development-pauses-testing-after-hugging-face-hack/107053332

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49355690

Points: 2

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New comment by scorpioxy in "Being ambitious and being a dad"

scorpioxy — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 02:08:40 +0000

Ah, I may have misunderstood your comment. I thought you were leaning more towards the "dream" part. But so my comment also meant to say that the definition of ambition and success changed after becoming a parent. I know I won't be curing cancer in my lifetime and so what thing is really important that I have to sacrifice time with my children for? To me, being the founder of the next failed facebook for cats is just not it.

Note that I am not talking about earning a living and thus necessarily sacrificing time doing that and showing your kids that sometimes you have to work hard to survive in a decent way. I am talking about the parents who outsource their children to childcare to work to pay off the loan on their third car and newest iphone and tell you that they have no choice.

New comment by scorpioxy in "Being ambitious and being a dad"

scorpioxy — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:39:45 +0000

The middle way, perhaps? What "dreams" are more important than having a strong connection with your kids? Not only are the regrets that will come later in life huge and legitimate, they would also be irreversible. But, assuming you're in relatively good health midlife, you can always attempt to build the 5 startups that will almost definitely fail. Just my opinion of course.

New comment by scorpioxy in "Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months"

scorpioxy — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:04 +0000

I saw a documentary(forgot the name, sorry) about that that said, no you can't choose not to join. I forgot if it was about this organization but it was about maple production in Canada where a farmer wanted to do their own thing and they were intimidated and all sorts of nasty things happen to them because they didn't think the org was just and wanted to sell freely. Very interesting documentary and an eye opener that even farmer unions can act like organized crime when there's money involved.

New comment by scorpioxy in "Fixing a bricked Framework laptop"

scorpioxy — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 23:54:13 +0000

Yeah, I don't know about the whole "THEY'RE on the hook". When it gets to the point where you discover that your lawyer didn't do what they're supposed to do, you're deep in the hole.

A recent experience for me was a lawyer I hired just forwarding whatever their LLM service said. Granted it was for a commercial contract so doesn't require that much legal muscle, I imagine, but I had to go through multiple rounds of feedback just to point out problems in their amendments. And the response was something along the lines of "yeah that could be a problem, let me review it". It was quite a bit of money too but the experience left me without much confidence that having a lawyer review the contract was any better than just running it through any capable model myself.

New comment by scorpioxy in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

scorpioxy — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 01:44:16 +0000

I was once commissioned to teach such a "bootcamp". It was a 4-months duration but 1 day a week. So something like 2-4 weeks total duration. I found out that the students were promised that this was enough to get them a job doing software development and were disappointed when I told them it wasn't. So towards the end, I took some time to explain what was missing and why it will take MUCH longer to even just learn the basics. The organizers were not happy at all that I did that.

To be fair, there were a bunch of students that did listen and worked hard on their assignments and projects and went on to integrate what they learned into their chosen profession and progressed in their jobs. I was very proud of that bunch.

Surprisingly, I wasn't asked by the organizers to teach again. It also didn't help that midway I was asked to switch from teaching web development to machine learning and they didn't really like it when I said "but those are two very different things".

New comment by scorpioxy in "CTO / Head of Eng / VPE folks at startups are leaving / burning out"

scorpioxy — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 07:23:58 +0000

In my experience, point 2(no strategy or plan) was always the problem. AI is not going to help you there. Saying you are AI-native might help you get some funding in this bubble but you will still need to show results. The rest of the points have always been valid and nothing to do with the current AI cycle. Just my experience and opinion of course but this is across a few different countries.

New comment by scorpioxy in "Using an open model feels surprisingly good"

scorpioxy — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 07:19:05 +0000

Thank you for answering. I agree with you that, if used well, LLMs can be useful tools and increase efficiency. Unfortunately, what I am increasingly seeing is an increase in confidence but no increase in knowledge or understanding. I hope this is just a side-effect of the hype and corresponding bubble and not the future trajectory of knowledge work.

New comment by scorpioxy in "Using an open model feels surprisingly good"

scorpioxy — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 05:57:03 +0000

Question if you don't mind. Would you have considered outsourcing the application you mentioned? As in, paying someone else to do it?

To me it is great that LLMs are allowing more people to use computers and software the way they were meant to. But the people that are using them this way, in my opinion, wouldn't have commissioned anybody to do it anyway. They'd just live with whatever process/pain they have. So jumping from "I can now produce a prototype in a weekend" to "software development is dead" has always felt strange to me. Just something I've been thinking about lately.

New comment by scorpioxy in "First-ever reverse-aging drug was just injected into a human"

scorpioxy — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 09:02:57 +0000

Perhaps it's my lack of domain knowledge but I am pessimistic about all these magical sounding drugs. There are some horrible diseases out there that are not ageing related that still have no cure and no treatment. I don't know if it's a matter of money, they just sound like really complicated illnesses which humanity has very little understanding of. So things like "reversing ageing" sounds like far fetched when even simpler processes are difficult to understand and control.

New comment by scorpioxy in "sqlite-utils 4.0rc2, mostly written by Claude Fable (for about $149.25)"

scorpioxy — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 12:01:35 +0000

I've been reading articles that are telling me how they're prompting from their phone at 2am(and how they know that's not great) and when they're out driving their kids to their activities etc. They say all that as if it's something to be proud of. And what for? Oh they released all these packages that no one is going to use.

Burnout is real and these people have lost track of what's important.

New comment by scorpioxy in "ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2"

scorpioxy — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 23:48:28 +0000

Oh yeah, that sounds wise to me. Some people don't run the agents on a VM on their own machine and opt for a VPS somewhere. And I was wondering if privacy and security had anything to do with their decision.

New comment by scorpioxy in "ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2"

scorpioxy — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 22:20:18 +0000

Is the trust concern for the agent running in any form on your machine? Like in a VM on your machine as well or do you mean on the host itself?

I have read about people giving an agent full access to their main system saying they have nothing of value. To me, that's a strange opinion to have with the distinction between what's private and what's secret.

New comment by scorpioxy in "We pay engineers to cut our infra bill"

scorpioxy — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 06:33:23 +0000

In my experience, all of this is a reflection of the work or team culture. You can replace the infra cost cutting with bug squashing and write the same article. As in, is the quality of the software something that the business cares about or not? I am not even sure if incentives are necessary if quality is a part of the culture and is the expectation.

In one gig I was on, the culture was all about features, features and more features. The CEO was pushing this culture hard and it showed. You can imagine the kind of product this resulted in. Huge amounts of technical debt, replicated functionality, a high bug count and very high staff turnover. The customers were not happy at all but he just didn't seem to understand or care.

Also, 7k for image storage is crazy.

New comment by scorpioxy in "Lenovo saying RAM prices may never go back to how they were"

scorpioxy — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 01:17:55 +0000

The current price insanity has got me to reconsider upgrading a few systems. It made me think of what I actually need vs what I want, never a good idea for consumerism.

New comment by scorpioxy in "The Boeing 747 begins its final descent"

scorpioxy — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:34:00 +0000

That executive has lost any human decency and should be fired.

New comment by scorpioxy in "Migrating from Proxmox to NixOS and Incus"

scorpioxy — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:29:05 +0000

I don't if you know this, but there was a collection for LXD. Last time I checked, it didn't seem very popular so not maintained very well but it did work. Maybe that could be used for inspiration.

I remember Stéphane worked on adding support for incus containers to opentofu which seemed more popular than using ansible to describe the resources.

New comment by scorpioxy in "Migrating from Proxmox to NixOS and Incus"

scorpioxy — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:25:01 +0000

VM support has been there for quite a while now and works nicely. I think that's what they're referring to. It started out with only system containers and then gained support for VMs and now there's work to support launching OCI images directly.

New comment by scorpioxy in "Will It Mythos?"

scorpioxy — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 07:40:18 +0000

Can you elaborate on the "software security that US models" seem to have? According to blog posts I read, the code generated had security problems and naive ones at that. Perhaps it got better now or people have learned not to blindly vibe code applications that are to be used publicly but it certainly didn't feel like there were security guardrails.