Hacker News: sph

New comment by sph in "Rich Sutton on AI creativity and discovery"

sph — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:16:00 +0000

The world will not be satisfied until we have read, and discussed every half-famous person’s opinion on AI.

Still about ten million discussions to go.

New comment by sph in "Claude Fable 5"

sph — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:12:38 +0000

Are you seriously asking if employing people, for the same cost, is a better ‘investment’ than relying on LLMs? Jesus Christ.

New comment by sph in "The iPhone's Last Stand?"

sph — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:24:14 +0000

My pet peeve is that every flat earther there are 1000 people complaining about them and keeping the meme alive at every chance possible.

At those rates you might as well be complaining about people who believe they are Jesus Christ reincarnated, or that they are trolling for the fun of it.

New comment by sph in "Job: Head of Stonehenge"

sph — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:04:36 +0000

Red Delicious

New comment by sph in "Job: Head of Stonehenge"

sph — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:49:18 +0000

Comparing US and European salaries is the closest thing to comparing apples to oranges.

New comment by sph in "Apple WWDC 2026"

sph — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:54:00 +0000

Great selection, another of my favourites: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yYAw79386WI

This is the type of people that sent us to the Moon. No non-sense engineers.

New comment by sph in "Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers"

sph — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 09:56:57 +0000

I haven’t worked on any web app in months, I don’t use LLMs, I update my Linux system once a month, and I increasingly feel I should just not do anything, not install or update any software and for the love of God, do not touch anything that’s shipped with npm.

Most of my userspace apps are in Flatpak sandboxes (yeah they are not great), but otherwise it feels like isolation and airgapping is the most sensible solution for now, and it’ll get increasingly worse unless the vibe coders somehow learn how to write robust software.

It’s like during the black plague: the (software) world has become dangerous, we have no way to contain it, it is unfeasible to remove yourself completely from the world, so you better pray really hard you don’t catch the bug and infect your peers. How’s that for a field we used to call software engineering or computer science?

New comment by sph in "Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers"

sph — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 09:53:40 +0000

There is such a thing as too much software.

New comment by sph in "New Referendum Would Flip Brexit Result 10 Years On, Poll Finds"

sph — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:16:35 +0000

Brexit was about leaving Europe, whose immigrants where overwhelmingly young people or couples which would've been net contributors, spending up to a decade before returning to their home countries. I have literally seen this happen dozen of times in my time there.

Myself I have spent almost two decades in Britain, paid my taxes (at the highest rate at that), and decided to leave when I saw that the immigration talk had turned everybody into racist lunatics, and even people like me, from the same continent, were made to feel unwelcome by this rhetoric. For all I care, it's a failed state, yet it has not yet seen the bottom until it progresses its descent into decay, the same that has infected the US and elected Trump.

You will get your Reform government and it'll be Brexit times 10. Only then, maybe, the British people will stop falling for far-right propaganda paid for the Russians.

New comment by sph in "New Referendum Would Flip Brexit Result 10 Years On, Poll Finds"

sph — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:10:48 +0000

Why? One can parrot Reform talking points from anywhere.

New comment by sph in "Stop the Apple Music app from launching"

sph — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:01:02 +0000

The lack of applications like this is why macOS will always be a superior alternative to Linux.

/s for the sarcasm impaired

New comment by sph in "Show HN: Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes"

sph — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:51:01 +0000

  
  
  BERKSHIRE

God, that takes me back. MSHTML, the mismatched tags, , table layout, the webmaster that added the Google Analytics snippet before the DOCTYPE tag

New comment by sph in "Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds"

sph — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:47:56 +0000

I’d rather ask the Amish how can we fix the internet than a bunch of Bay Area VCs and FAANG employees.

New comment by sph in "Show HN: Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes"

sph — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:38:27 +0000

Why would you do that, when you can make shit nobody needs 10x faster with AI

New comment by sph in "Show HN: Performative-UI – a react component library of design tropes"

sph — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:31:42 +0000

Ah yes, the jeevacation special

New comment by sph in "The iPhone explains 33–52% of fertility decline among women aged 15–44"

sph — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:53:05 +0000

Why not go further? It's the Internet as a whole. People socialising online, and online becoming an actual place people spend their entire lives within, free from the hard constraints of the real world, was the natural evolution of the Internet.
Plenty has been written about how any technological innovation leads to massive societal changes no one could foresee, and no one could avoid, but only analyze in retrospect.

New comment by sph in "The EU Open Source Strategy"

sph — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:12:02 +0000

I don’t get your comment. They can make a distro secure enough for government use. It’s not like it’s alien technology only the US have, that you need to buy Apple or Microsoft.
It would certainly be the highest ROI to have a local, open system built (by funding) local enterprises. Who knows, maybe a slice of the private sector might adopt it instead of sending money overseas.

New comment by sph in "Making peace with your unlived dreams (2023)"

sph — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:30:36 +0000

I just finished reading Four Thousand Weeks and this post resonates with me a lot. I recommend it. Despite its subtitle, it's decidedly not a conventional "time management" book, just a reminder that life is too short to do all the things you are wishing for today, that the day where you'll finally find the time to tackle that project will never arrive, and freedom is found when you just drop all that hope and need to control your life.

New comment by sph in "Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say"

sph — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:15:34 +0000

If one wants to see them in blatant action, just head to Reddit's /r/worldnews

New comment by sph in "Texas grid flags risks as data centers, crypto sites fail voltage tests"

sph — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:40:04 +0000

Now you made me wish for nlog(n) income tax as well.