Hacker News: singularfutur

New comment by singularfutur in "Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it"

singularfutur — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 17:13:02 +0000

Anthropic optimized for "clean UI" metrics and forgot developers care more about not having their codebase silently corrupted. Every AI company relearns the same lesson: autonomy is the enemy of trust.

New comment by singularfutur in "I’m joining OpenAI"

singularfutur — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 11:12:29 +0000

Moving the project to a foundation is smart. Most AI tools die when the founder leaves. This one might actually survive.

New comment by singularfutur in "Stoat removes all LLM-generated code following user criticism"

singularfutur — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:47:24 +0000

Reverting a few trivial commits because of purity tests is a bad precedent. It rewards the loudest commenters and punishes maintainers.

New comment by singularfutur in "Show HN: ScreenKite: Free alternative to Screen Studio with 4x export speed"

singularfutur — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:29:55 +0000

Looks polished. For me the switching cost is real since Screen Studio already works. If you can win on editing speed, captions, and clean exports that stay portable, there is definitely room for a new tool.

New comment by singularfutur in "GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics"

singularfutur — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 11:11:45 +0000

Humans did the actual work: framing the problem, computing base cases, verifying results. GPT just refactored a formula. That's a compiler's job, not a physicist's. Stop letting marketing write science headlines.

New comment by singularfutur in "GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark"

singularfutur — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 12:46:19 +0000

Every release they claim it writes production code but my team still spends hours fixing subtle bugs the model introduces. The demos are cherry picked and the real world failure rate is way higher than anyone admits. Meanwhile we keep feeding them our codebases for free training data.

New comment by singularfutur in "MinIO repository is no longer maintained"

singularfutur — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:29:11 +0000

COSS companies want it both ways. Free community contributions and bug reports during the growth phase. Then closed source once they've captured enough users. The code you run today belongs to you. The roadmap belongs to their investors.

New comment by singularfutur in "Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you"

singularfutur — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 09:44:42 +0000

Dark patterns are just polite robbery by corporations that realized psychological manipulation pays better than service. The grift is the product, not the bug.

New comment by singularfutur in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me"

singularfutur — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:40:09 +0000

AI companies dumped this mess on open source maintainers and walked away. Now we are supposed to thank them for breaking our workflows while they sell the solution back to us.

New comment by singularfutur in "AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it"

singularfutur — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:21:58 +0000

Funny how AI is an "agent" when it demos well for investors but just "software" when it harasses maintainers. Companies want all the hype with none of the accountability.

New comment by singularfutur in "Claude Code is being dumbed down?"

singularfutur — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 09:51:09 +0000

Claude got smarter so we see less. Same playbook every SaaS uses when power users become edge cases. File paths aren't noise. They're the only thing stopping your LLM from hallucinating your codebase into garbage.

New comment by singularfutur in "Claude Code is being dumbed down?"

singularfutur — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:22:42 +0000

Anthropic is optimizing for enterprise contracts, not hacker cred. This is what happens when you take VC money and need to sell to Fortune 500s. The "dumbing down" is just the product maturing beyond the early adopter phase.

New comment by singularfutur in "Show HN: Rowboat – AI coworker that turns your work into a knowledge graph (OSS)"

singularfutur — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 13:46:11 +0000

This is exactly why I am betting on open source for the AI future. Local first, code I can audit, no black box APIs that change their terms overnight. The future of knowledge work is not locked behind some corporate API with rate limits and price hikes. It is tools like this that keep the user in control.

New comment by singularfutur in "Chrome extensions spying on users' browsing data"

singularfutur — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 12:26:00 +0000

This is why I only run open source extensions that I can actually audit. uBlock Origin, SponsorBlock, the kind of tools where the code is available and the developer isn't anonymous. The Chrome Web Store is basically unregulated and Google doesn't care as long as they get their cut. Open source at least gives you a chance to see what you're installing before it starts exfiltrating your data to some server in a country you've never heard of.

New comment by singularfutur in "Clean-room implementation of Half-Life 2 on the Quake 1 engine"

singularfutur — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 09:45:00 +0000

This is what I love about the open source community. Twenty years later and people are still finding ways to make classic games accessible without DRM or platform lock in. Clean room implementations like this preserve gaming history better than any publisher ever will.

New comment by singularfutur in "The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday"

singularfutur — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:33:13 +0000

The singularity is always scheduled for right after the current funding round closes but before the VCs need liquidity. Funny how that works.

New comment by singularfutur in "Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents"

singularfutur — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:04:20 +0000

$60M seed to wrap git hooks in YAML config. The AI tooling bubble is just VCs subsidizing solutions looking for problems while developers want less complexity, not more.

New comment by singularfutur in "Oxide raises $200M Series C"

singularfutur — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:01:54 +0000

Another $200M for a company whose product most developers will never touch. VCs continue to confuse "hardware that sounds cool" with "business that makes money". This ends one of two ways: acqui-hire or Chapter 11.

New comment by singularfutur in "Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs"

singularfutur — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:08:32 +0000

We don't need AI to teach corporations that profits outweigh ethics. They figured that out decades ago. This is just outsourcing the dirty work.

New comment by singularfutur in "Qwen-Image-2.0: Professional infographics, exquisite photorealism"

singularfutur — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:50:09 +0000

fair enough, I read too quickly the article.