Hacker News: sputknick

New comment by sputknick in "Bible as RAG Database"

sputknick — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 01:56:55 +0000

Nevermind, it eventually loaded

New comment by sputknick in "Show HN: Bible as RAG Database"

sputknick — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 01:55:27 +0000

Would love to use if you can get it back up! Sounds like an awesome idea for a way to converse with the Bible

New comment by sputknick in "Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore"

sputknick — Mon, 25 May 2026 23:52:28 +0000

Hot take: I'm reading programming books more now. There is so much to know about any technological topic and an LLM can tell you all of it, but it's overwhelming. What a book does is disciple and structure what you need to know, and what order to learn it in. Start with a book, grow your knowledge and put it into practice with an LLM.

New comment by sputknick in "Googlebook"

sputknick — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:18:43 +0000

You have my attention. I assume this would also work well on a worse laptop (since the processing is done in the cloud)?

New comment by sputknick in "Three Inverse Laws of AI"

sputknick — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:51:34 +0000

I'm surprised with how quickly I stopped anthropomorphizing AI. I can remember in college have dorm room pseudo-intellectual debates about AI being alive and AI being "conscience". then once we had AI that could pass the Turing Test, and I knew how it was architected, any thought of it being alive or conscience went right out the window.

New comment by sputknick in "Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?"

sputknick — Sat, 02 May 2026 17:56:36 +0000

I've been looking for 4 months and only had one phone screen from HR. Cybersecurity in Raleigh, my last employer was MAG 7. My particular problem is I took off 6 years to be a stay-at-home parent.

New comment by sputknick in "Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers"

sputknick — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:02:09 +0000

The nice thing is that with LLMs using markdown we are getting a nice ecosystem for a universal method for communicating textual information. The negative is that Markdown is starting to look like the https://xkcd.com/927/ cartoon.

New comment by sputknick in "Show HN: Built a daily game where you sort historical events chronologically"

sputknick — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:51:51 +0000

I'll take the other side of this argument: I like the AI art. Easy way to make it more visually engaging

New comment by sputknick in "Uber’s Anthropic AI push hits a wall"

sputknick — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:48:09 +0000

Maybe the lesson here is we shouldn't rely on the guys selling picks and shovels when determining if we should be buying picks and shovels.

New comment by sputknick in "Is anyone actually using OpenClaw?"

sputknick — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:57:17 +0000

I tried using it for a specific web search task. I wrote a skill, got it all set up and deployed. It worked. But also, would have worked just as well as a cron job with some LLM looking at Brave API results. Like a lot of AI tools, it was a lot of work for underwhelming results.

New comment by sputknick in "Vulnerability research is cooked"

sputknick — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:22:52 +0000

I agree with this take. Nothing changes, everything just evolves. Been happening for 60 years, will (likely) continue to happen for the next 60 years.

New comment by sputknick in "Are you team MCP or team CLI?"

sputknick — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 02:05:49 +0000

CLI because if you have to ask, the answer is almost always the more simple one

New comment by sputknick in "So where are all the AI apps?"

sputknick — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:45:50 +0000

This is probably my favorite gain from AI assisted coding: the bar for "who cares about this app" has dropped to a minimum of 1 to make sense. I recently built an app for grocery shopping that is specific to how and where I shop, would be useless to anyone other than my wife. Took me 20 minutes. This is the next frontier: I have a random manual process I do every week, I'll write an app that does it for me.

New comment by sputknick in "Cameras built to police Iranians became the regime's Achilles' heel"

sputknick — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 23:48:56 +0000

Similar to how the roads Rome built to control their empire were used by Barbarian invaders. History doesn't repeat but it does rhyme.

New comment by sputknick in "I don't know how you get here from “predict the next word”"

sputknick — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 07:15:19 +0000

I'd like to explore this idea, did you make a blog post about it? is it simple enough to post in the reply?

New comment by sputknick in "An AI CEO said something honest: ExperiencedDevs"

sputknick — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 02:39:02 +0000

My hot take is that as that percentage increases, salaries will go up asymptotically, until you get to 100%, then they crash to 0. If 80% of your job can be done by AI, I'm going to give you the work of 5 people. When is 99%, I will give you the work of 100 people

New comment by sputknick in "Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed"

sputknick — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 02:54:08 +0000

If you load it in Chrome, it loads MUCH faster

New comment by sputknick in "A Single Diplomatic Meeting Crashed Gold 7% in One Hour"

sputknick — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 13:28:46 +0000

Or said another way: "Gold returned to the price it was a Tuesday". The world is too multi-variant to conclude this conversation caused the price of gold to collapse.

New comment by sputknick in "Iran's state broadcaster IRIB was hacked to air a message from Reza Pahlavi"

sputknick — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 21:43:25 +0000

Serious question: do you think people in Iran would prefer the status quo, or Return of the Shah (son)? My gut says Shah, but I don't know anyone from Iran, so that's just a guess.

New comment by sputknick in "Epic fined €1.1M over manipulating children through in app purchases"

sputknick — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:49:22 +0000

I'm on Epic's side on this one. Having things for sale in a game is different from "manipulating children" into buying things in a game.