Hacker News: spike021

New comment by spike021 in "Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development"

spike021 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:44:21 +0000

Certainly won't work on my M4 Pro with 24GB lol

New comment by spike021 in "HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88"

spike021 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 06:28:12 +0000

there have got to be better ways to optimize pipelines. maybe set a limit on number of applications for a role based on the number you/your team can reliably go through them. if more are needed then open the role for another wave of applications.

New comment by spike021 in "Not everyone is using AI for everything"

spike021 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 21:17:10 +0000

If you're not already, try to see if those companies have engineering blogs or open github repos where you can see how they feel about AI beforehand.

New comment by spike021 in "How to setup a local coding agent on macOS"

spike021 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:36:52 +0000

what are you using on yours? I've got a M4 Pro 24GB also. tried the open source gpt one. it's alright but I found it can get stuck at times. maybe just my config in LM Studio.

New comment by spike021 in "Ask HN: How do you get into a flow state when using AI to code?"

spike021 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:22:01 +0000

I think planning is a big part. ironically, this wasn't a part of my typical routine as an engineer before AI came around. Sure I thought through the work or ticket I was assigned but not always at as much of a birds eye view.

Nowadays with AI I try to start most tasks with a plan, review each phase/step, research parts I'm more unsure of, and try to refine it. Ironically it's more of a dev cycle like process anyway IMO.

New comment by spike021 in "Waymo Premier"

spike021 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:09:35 +0000

One time I hopped in an Uber and got a missionary-like lecture on Islam and an invite to go to a mosque.

More typical of Christians so it kind of threw me off.

But anyway, a paid service shouldn't be starting that kind of conversation unless for some reason I started it and even then that'd make it just as uncomfortable for the driver.

New comment by spike021 in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

spike021 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:20:37 +0000

not just google maps but google search itself has been on the iphone since it launched

New comment by spike021 in "Siri AI"

spike021 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:58:50 +0000

we were doing the same thing and giggling a bit that it's basically "AI AI" now. realistically a lot of people thought of Siri as AI already.

New comment by spike021 in "Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds"

spike021 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:27:13 +0000

While I partly agree, I also disagree. I still use Instagram a lot to keep in touch with friends I've made in different places. Generally as long as they are making posts then my feeds have those posts. It's only when they do not and supposedly IG "runs out" that I don't.

Personally what I hate more is that there are some content creators I've been happy to support over the years and now instead of doing regular content posts they now do the "collab post" thing as an ad that looks like a regular post. Some of them may do but many do not.

New comment by spike021 in "Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot"

spike021 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 22:25:25 +0000

I tried creating an entirely separate account for a meetup group and had the same problem. Nothing I tried worked.

New comment by spike021 in "GTA 6 Developers Unionize"

spike021 — Fri, 29 May 2026 19:46:41 +0000

as a student back in 2012, the CS program i was in was mostly people who wanted to make games. that's just one person's POV but most people i knew at the time weren't really into anything else in software.

New comment by spike021 in "Can we have the day off?"

spike021 — Thu, 28 May 2026 03:30:07 +0000

At my most recent role we were definitely being judged by output metrics (both jira tickets completed and github prs merged). They showed us the jellyfish tool they used to check those metrics. Well, some of it. Regular ICs themselves didn't have that access.

New comment by spike021 in "Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links"

spike021 — Sun, 24 May 2026 02:22:23 +0000

A while back I had a reservation with a hotel on Booking and I received a phish attempt that came directly via the Booking site domain email and also DMs but "sent" by the hotel. When I looked into it at the time, it seemed less like an issue of hotels specifically having their accounts infiltrated and more like some kind of message/email endpoint on Booking's end was being abused in a similar manner.

I'm not sure this is the same type of issue but found this interesting, especially since apparently it's been reported to MS and no action has been taken.

Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links

spike021 — Sun, 24 May 2026 00:51:32 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/21/scammers-are-abusing-an-internal-microsoft-account-to-send-spam/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253186

Points: 304

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New comment by spike021 in "Remove–AI–Watermarks – CLI and library for removing AI watermarks from images"

spike021 — Wed, 20 May 2026 02:48:00 +0000

Are markers being removed here the same or similar to ones tools might add if you use an AI tool just to edit a photo? like a more complicated object removal in a photo editor?

New comment by spike021 in "U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app"

spike021 — Fri, 15 May 2026 20:49:14 +0000

I had a neighbor with a car they clearly wouldn't fix that desperately needed a smog check. reported them also. they moved away shortly after though, so i'm not sure if CARB ever followed through.

New comment by spike021 in "Cisco workforce reductions"

spike021 — Thu, 14 May 2026 05:18:52 +0000

we were acquired and part of our org moved into cisco HQ.

the entire floor were Indian other than our org, and over time our org was filled out with incoming transfers and new hires.

i'll never forget some irony in that one of the engineering leaders brought us together for a mini townhall once and praised our "diversity" but by then the percentage of people in the room were basically the same as you described, including said leader. even our twice a week catered lunches were almost always indian.

just an interesting experience being part of cisco for a couple of years.

New comment by spike021 in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"

spike021 — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:34:03 +0000

My current job is doing the exact same thing. My manager even showed me a tool with graphs showing token use and related metrics.

New comment by spike021 in "Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory"

spike021 — Mon, 11 May 2026 01:31:07 +0000

I'll have to try some more. I've been playing with gpt-oss 20b on my M4 24GB but it hasn't been the best experience.

New comment by spike021 in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

spike021 — Wed, 06 May 2026 05:45:08 +0000

Not only for those but being able to nitpick jira tickets or github PRs.