<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: silver_silver</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=silver_silver</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:48:09 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=silver_silver" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by silver_silver in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My boss decreed the other day that we’re all to start maximising our use of agents, and then set an accordingly ambitious deadline for the current project. I explained that being relatively early in my career I’ve been hesitant to use any kind of LLM so I can gain experience myself (to say nothing of other concerns), and yeah in his words I’ve “missed the opportunity”</p>
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<p>The video models aren’t that good yet but for coding the utility is clear, yes. To be fair Darren Aronofsky also overestimates their quality.<p>Correct me if I’m wrong, but generating video is also much more resource intensive than equivalently productive text-only model use. It seems the industry could save itself a lot of hassle and infamy by simply avoiding artistic fields.</p>
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<p>Not necessarily a lot less but I’m sure removing the aesthetic/cool factor reduces how often they’re carried</p>
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<p>Fair and just societies thrive in refugee camps after all</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2026 19:46:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46480758</link><dc:creator>silver_silver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46480758</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46480758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by silver_silver in "How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My counterpoint is that it’s not possible to buy appliances which last for decades anymore, because the entire industry has changed. Consumers eventually don’t have a choice</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 12:32:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46325115</link><dc:creator>silver_silver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46325115</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46325115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by silver_silver in "Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> 500,000,000 people paying $80/mo<p>Simply not going to happen</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 06:26:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46157406</link><dc:creator>silver_silver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46157406</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46157406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by silver_silver in "People keep flocking to Linux, not just to escape Windows"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>To be fair, most forks - especially of Wine - are more like testing branches. The useful stuff tends to find its way upstream eventually</p>
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<p>Can second this. Am the only tech worker among my friends and family and every single one of them reacts to AI the same as to crypto or NFTs</p>
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<p>They’re (genuinely) gearing up to release Half-Life 3 at the moment, and not as a VR exclusive</p>
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<p>There are still a couple of locations around the UK: <a href="https://location.wimpy.uk.com/" rel="nofollow">https://location.wimpy.uk.com/</a><p>It's also going strong in South Africa: <a href="https://locations.wimpy.co.za/" rel="nofollow">https://locations.wimpy.co.za/</a></p>
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<p>“Works on my machine” actually isn’t a good enough response in this case, or to the comment about the video of the man being shot. LLMs are infamously easy to jailbreak and children are very good at getting around guardrails. You should at the very least be doing intense adversarial prompt testing but honestly this idea is just inherently poorly thought out. I guarantee you it’s going to expose children to harmful content</p>
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<p>> You can install your own OS on iPhone hardware<p>No you can’t? Things like Project Sandcastle barely function on a single model. It can’t even access the network</p>
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<p>The middle path is limiting (not ending) migration while actually trying to help these counties (in particular victims of one’s past colonial ambitions) through aid, investment, and free/subsidised education for their youth.<p>I say this as a someone who immigrated from a dangerous country to the first world.<p>The only way the current plan even approaches sustainability is if the brain drain on source nations is sufficient to keep them stuck and suffering. That should make it very clear that the humanitarian impact is a side effect and not the goal.</p>
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<p>Realistically, a white collar job market collapse will not directly lead to starvation. The world is not 1930s America ethically. Governments will intervene, not necessarily to the point of fairness, but they will restructure the economy enough to provide a baseline. The question will be how to solve the biblical level of luxury wealth inequality without civil unrest causing us all to starve.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2025 09:47:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44921808</link><dc:creator>silver_silver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44921808</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44921808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by silver_silver in "How to make websites that will require lots of your time and energy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>To be fair, once bundling is part of the equation, using typescript becomes effectively free. The frameworks are another story but typescript itself is one of the more reasonable choices.<p>JSDoc would be unequivocally the superior choice if the browsers themselves hadn’t begun to make just opening the html file problematic by requiring HTTP origins for various parts of the API.</p>
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<p>I was told by a local while living there a major factor was Google and Meta (and others) buying out entire buildings to house their staff</p>
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<p>What an insanely callous and shallow take. I don’t even know where to start. You’re trying to claim the moral high ground by complaining that a privileged child didn’t suffer and die? Do you even understand the point of reducing poverty?</p>
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<p>> the position you're implying, that the Depression was caused by the lack of a NATO-type alliance<p>Not caused by, but the economy didn’t fully recover until all the wartime production started, and the measures that had been put in place to curb unemployment had been short term solutions with only a limited effect<p>> I hope Europeans take my comments on HN as a wake-up call that even Democrats like me are getting fed up with them.<p>You see the problem with you people is that you’ve strong armed your way into everyone’s business for the past century, trying to change cultures and ways of life, far beyond simple alliances - only to now turn around and abandon your so-called allies as soon as they become inconvenient for you. I say this as an African living in Europe who experienced firsthand one of your regime changes and subsequent cutting of ties when the new regime didn’t align</p>
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<p>> The US was doing absolutely fine prior to WW2, back when we didn't feel Europe was our problem. Our economy was going like gangbusters during that period in fact.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2025 11:51:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43904034</link><dc:creator>silver_silver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43904034</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43904034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by silver_silver in "To 'Reclaim Future-Making', Amazon Workers Published Collection of SciFi Stories"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Becky Chambers’ A Psalm for the Wild-Built, its sequel, and to a lesser degree her Wayfarer series are very hopeful. Not exactly hard sci-fi so maybe not to HN’s taste but they check a lot of good tech boxes. A plot device in the former is their world’s version of a smartphone, a scrib, which is designed to last a lifetime and genuinely serve the user</p>
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