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New comment by spzb in "Book: RISC-V System-on-Chip Design"

spzb — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 17:48:04 +0000

A couple of sample chapters are available here https://pages.hmc.edu/harris/ddca/rvsocd.html

New comment by spzb in "Why American ambulance rides are so expensive"

spzb — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 10:12:19 +0000

Generally, people who want their pool cleaned do so when they are conscious and have their pool very close to their home address. People who need ambulances are usually in a very different condition. That makes it a different prospect trying to chase payment.

New comment by spzb in "Ask HN: Do we need a support group for developers alienated by LLMs?"

spzb — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:57:40 +0000

> Can you define these in ways that aren't tautologically limited to humans?

No, because that’s the point. It’s not intelligent because intelligence is a human characteristic.

> Both because local models exist, can be run offline

It’s not that they search interactively, it’s that the whole internet has been sucked into the training set.

New comment by spzb in "Ask HN: Do we need a support group for developers alienated by LLMs?"

spzb — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:34:46 +0000

And yet "slapping the keyboard faster" is all that AI does. It doesn't design architecture. It doesn't think. It doesn't reason. All it does is search for and copy-paste code from elsewhere on the internet. If you're lucky it might even be code that works and does what you want it to.

New comment by spzb in "Ask HN: Do we need a support group for developers alienated by LLMs?"

spzb — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:43:12 +0000

Never claimed it did

New comment by spzb in "Ask HN: Do we need a support group for developers alienated by LLMs?"

spzb — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:20:56 +0000

It can churn out boilerplate but we already had templates to do that.

It can translate one language into another but we already had transpilers for that.

It can find bugs quickly but we already had static analysis. It also generates many plausible looking false positives.

New comment by spzb in "Why American ambulance rides are so expensive"

spzb — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:15:39 +0000

Who is the “you” in this scenario?

New comment by spzb in "Ask HN: Do we need a support group for developers alienated by LLMs?"

spzb — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:13:19 +0000

Faster != more productive.

AI has lost all meaning

spzb — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:44:40 +0000

Article URL: https://newslttrs.com/ai-has-lost-all-meaning/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859122

Points: 4

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New comment by spzb in "Ask HN: Do we need a support group for developers alienated by LLMs?"

spzb — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:23:45 +0000

The 10x Centaur doesn't exist. They're just ten times as fast at creating tech debt.

New comment by spzb in "Show HN: Reverse-engineering web apps into agent tools"

spzb — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:21:33 +0000

You want me to run a closed source, LLM agent inside my browser with access to authenticated API endpoints ?! Thanks but no thanks.

New comment by spzb in "Why American ambulance rides are so expensive"

spzb — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 09:10:47 +0000

One thing that's often overlooked is the cost of administering a billing system. If you're going to distinguish between the insured and uninsured you need a system that keeps track of who has insurance. You need paperwork (or digital equivalent). You need accounts payable staff to send invoices and chase up unpaid bills. It can, counter-intuitively, work out cheaper just not to charge anyone.

New comment by spzb in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to Agentic AI"

spzb — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:34:04 +0000

And they make me feel more like Marvin

New comment by spzb in "IP Crawl: Living atlas of open webcams discovered on the public internet"

spzb — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 23:13:38 +0000

You think two independent scans of the internet captured the same image with the same timestamp entirely by coincidence?

Edit: they're literally the same image

2fc4ad21cfce564f7aa65942eae7d4529c8af3d7ffb6287aa1fd79ebb78eb648 ipcrawl.jpg

2fc4ad21cfce564f7aa65942eae7d4529c8af3d7ffb6287aa1fd79ebb78eb648 shodan.jpg

New comment by spzb in "IP Crawl: Living atlas of open webcams discovered on the public internet"

spzb — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 22:04:31 +0000

This seems to just be a map interface to Shodan Images. I've found the exact same camera with the exact same snapshot on both sites.

https://images.shodan.io/?query=port%3A554+country%3A%22GB%2...

https://ipcrawl.com/imce?cam=069b2971c357edbd

New comment by spzb in "FPS.cob: A first person shooter in COBOL"

spzb — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:03:06 +0000

Doesn't run for me. Just I/O errors and quits.

New comment by spzb in "Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter"

spzb — Sun, 17 May 2026 14:28:39 +0000

Ed Zitron discusses this as part of his post on AI economics : https://www.wheresyoured.at/ais-economics-dont-make-sense/

New comment by spzb in "Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter"

spzb — Sun, 17 May 2026 14:25:21 +0000

And ignore capital costs, depreciation, user churn etc

New comment by spzb in "Too dangerous or just too expensive? The real reason Anthropic is hiding Mythos"

spzb — Fri, 15 May 2026 13:11:06 +0000

https://archive.is/31PFC

My writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a teaching moment

spzb — Sun, 10 May 2026 17:19:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/may/10/fiction-writing-professor-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085825

Points: 19

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