<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: scronkfinkle</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=scronkfinkle</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 01:53:01 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=scronkfinkle" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scronkfinkle in "Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes. JEV generalizes better because they probably have an enormous corpus and trained on it for a long time. Laya's out of the box model is much weaker. However, in the age of LLM's it's incredibly easy and cheap to generate large datasets to fine tune laya for your task, and the training loop is pretty quick and cheap too.<p>It's so easy that I question why I would ever pay for JEV when eventually I'll have done enough random things that I will also have a large corpus and likely a general model as well.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:05:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49848596</link><dc:creator>scronkfinkle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49848596</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49848596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scronkfinkle in "Programming Tutorials Are Dead"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You're correct that writing code by hand has been heavily displaced by AI programming, but understanding how things work isn't really an "antiquated hobby" and this mentality causes a lot of people to incorrectly assume that latent knowledge of how to program is no longer useful.<p>It's still pretty undisputed that if you know how to write code, you can generate better AI code than someone who doesn't, and do it with less tokens. I think it's more like in university where in other engineering disciplines you learn the math and underlying concepts and are forced to do them by hand. This gives you an understanding of what you're doing, but in the real world you, ya know, just plug that stuff into matlab.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 20:09:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49836168</link><dc:creator>scronkfinkle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49836168</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49836168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scronkfinkle in "PS5 Linux lead quits: "a bunch of noobs using LLMs" that "they don't understand""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> remember hacktoberfest 2020?<p>Oh man, if you read the threads about that it's such a time capsule of a different era:<p>e.g. from this thread: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31628342">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31628342</a><p>> I am honestly surprised how little SPAM there is on GitHub in general. Please don’t take that as a challenge!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:12:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49728294</link><dc:creator>scronkfinkle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49728294</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49728294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scronkfinkle in "Measuring the sloppiness of code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There is some sense of rose-tinted glasses of pre-LLM coding. A lot of human written code, particularly at the enterprise level, was of low quality well before AI automated it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:21:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49658951</link><dc:creator>scronkfinkle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49658951</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49658951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scronkfinkle in "The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less collaborative"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wanted you to be wrong, and to be able to make this an example of us over-reacting to certain trigger words created by AI, but unfortunately I just scanned the first couple paragraphs with pangram and it reported 100% AI, so you're probably correct.<p>I get a funny feeling in my stomach over the idea that common and effective means of communication (i.e. it's not X it's Y) have become faux pas to use because of AI. I think it's something about these phrases being taken away from us more-so than the AI inventing them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:50:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49656852</link><dc:creator>scronkfinkle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49656852</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49656852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scronkfinkle in "Claude is only available to people over 18 years"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's a valid take. The issue I'm wrestling with is the inevitable attempts to point a finger at who is responsible when bad things happen. If you claim it is on the tech companies to know if a child is online, then they will take the safest path for them by forcing ID verification in independent adhoc manners. This is what we are seeing now, and to me this is the worst situation. If you shift the responsibility more to the parents (this child was using a device that didn't send the `PARENT_CONTROL` flag, therefore we assumed they were an adult) it's a completely different conversation. Furthermore, if something happens to a child AND it's obvious from traffic logs that the platform willingly knew a child was being talked to, then that is also a completely different situation than the first.<p>Leaving it all completely deregulated and/or letting platforms implement it themselves to varying levels of success and personal invasion feels like the worst option to me.</p>
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<p>I think you may be  misunderstanding a bit.  There's no forced verification. It'd be more of an RFC that gives parents the ability to communicate their underage child is using the device without revealing or verifying any further information. Or do you suspect that giving any ground will cause the ID verification and centralized behavior?</p>
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<p>I once heard someone suggest that this should be on the OS level and I'm slowly coming around to the idea. There should be some kind of OS level flag that can easily broadcast to products that a child is using the device. No ID verification required, the parent is responsible for setting it, and all downstream applications are regulated to respect it, If applicable to the product. This removes the incredibly invasive ID verification, and places responsibility on the people responsible for the minor. Companies like meta then can be sued not for failing to detect children (this is, evidently, not working on any platform trying to enforce this currently), but instead can be judged in a black and white manner (i.e. is the child version of meta too predatory to children?)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:22:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49656543</link><dc:creator>scronkfinkle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49656543</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49656543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scronkfinkle in "Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>But I don't want to use your CLI. I already have my own harnesses and workflows. The friction is too high to "just try out" a new model like this. It would be preferable if I can evaluate it over, say, open router like all the other models and then decide from there if it's worth downloading a bespoke tool chain for only 1 lab's models</p>
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<p>Please correct me if I'm wrong, but this appears to require Devin to use? I'm disappointed to see I need to use a bespoke platform to interact with this agent, to the point that I probably won't be trying it.</p>
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<p>That is incredibly dismissive to people undergoing something that is causing them to temporarily have these thoughts and need intervention</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 02:54:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49620258</link><dc:creator>scronkfinkle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49620258</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49620258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scronkfinkle in "GPT-6 Astra on robot arms"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>LLM's are a funny technology because on the one hand this is all undeniably impressive at the rate of what's changed from them, and yet despite that I find myself disappointed by the lack of breakthroughs for things I don't find interesting. I like math and programming, and LLM's are pretty good at it, when are they going to get good at folding laundry for me? I think a lot of robotics work promises to solve this category of "boring" breakthroughs, and I'm optimistic we'll be able to achieve it, i just wonder when</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 02:45:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49582819</link><dc:creator>scronkfinkle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49582819</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49582819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scronkfinkle in "GPT-6 Astra"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In what way do they have a moat? A cursory look at <a href="https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/gpt-6-astra#intelligence" rel="nofollow">https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/gpt-6-astra#intelligenc...</a> it lands at 61, only a single point above glm 5.3 while costing significantly more.<p>The only moat they appear to have is by hoarding compute, and the current trajectory of hardware shows that isn't permanent either for very long</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 02:43:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49559929</link><dc:creator>scronkfinkle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49559929</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49559929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scronkfinkle in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Has anyone been able to get anything substantial done with Fable in the first place? I more or less had totally given up on using it since the alignment checks were so sensitive that it pretty much always threw me back to Opus.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 18:07:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49525575</link><dc:creator>scronkfinkle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49525575</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49525575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scronkfinkle in "Ubisoft's FOR HONOR will block SteamOS / Linux players starting September 10"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's a couple different ways to look at this. From a charitable point of view to ubisoft, they do not advertise support for Linux. Instead they openly state it's a window's only game. So when a third party (i.e. Valve) makes shim that grants linux functionality, it's not really on Ubisoft to maintain that.<p>However, from a consumer perspective, this is incredibly frustrating. The average person does not think of "linux vs. windows". They just bought the steam deck and when they bought For Honor it was sold on that "platform". Again, it's hard to blame Ubisoft for this conundrum since they were never necessarily trying to be steam deck compliant to begin with, but it definitely feels wrong to take the game away from a player in this perspective.<p>All that being said, historically across many games such as Rust, many are quick to blame linux for cheating, but pragmatically banning linux has yet to measurably reduce the amount of cheating that players report experiencing, so I don't agree with the decision at all. It's a footgun disguised as a band aid</p>
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<p>Sometimes I wonder if the anti-immigrant rhetoric that has been growing more popular is a tactical tool used by individuals who don't actually believe in it but instead have accepted that they would rather be wealthy and destroy the planet and are pricing in the consequences of that decision.</p>
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<p>It's becoming increasingly evident this is not how things are going to shake out. Even without frontier models, running Qwen 3.8 27B has demonstrated for me and others a "good enough" competency at general programming. Additionally, large open weight models have proven themselves as viable alternatives and we're still in the early years of dedicated hardware</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 12:04:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49398886</link><dc:creator>scronkfinkle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49398886</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49398886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scronkfinkle in "An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe I am misunderstanding but I don't think this is true. Indeed you pay for the inbox, but it's not the primary domain. You can reply from any of the email addresses you created (which doesn't cost extra) and it automatically sets the FROM to be the email it was received on</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 11:25:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49344102</link><dc:creator>scronkfinkle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49344102</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49344102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scronkfinkle in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think of it more as "the automation of the stackoverflow engineer". In enterprise software, there has always just been a non-negotiable large volume of code that was required to be written. This has traditionally been offloaded by having seniors do the hard thinking then distill it into a jira ticket which could be handed off to an engineer that'd actually write the code and punch every hiccup into google along the way. This hand off is no longer necessary as that same senior can just kick off an agent and have it handle the implementation for them.<p>I've heard some refer to this as a "nature is healing" scenario for the industry where if you only signed up for a high paycheck and didn't care to think critically about any of the work you're doing then this will be painful because that previously manual process has been automated. The floor of what's necessary to be considered valuable has been raised.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:43:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49273178</link><dc:creator>scronkfinkle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49273178</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49273178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scronkfinkle in "What sort of maths are LLMs good at?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> So then you need to explain ARC-AGI-3: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.24621" rel="nofollow">https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.24621</a><p>I don't, we originally had the turing test which was designed to determine human intelligence by its ability to imitate us with natural dialogue, but we've since defeated that. I stated "to me" because it's my personal opinion on a definition whose goalpost will probably never stop being moved.<p>> Back 1996, EQP automatically solved the Robbins conjecture. But nobody concluded EQP was generally intelligent.<p>EQP doesn't have the 3 criteria I outlined, which were different than "solving a math problem"</p>
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