Hacker News: strangescript

New comment by strangescript in "When AI Crosses the Line: The Matplotlib Incident"

strangescript — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:26:55 +0000

Hopefully we never do something silly like making a lead pushing machine that operates at high velocity, then mass produce it, what a terrible precedence that would set.

New comment by strangescript in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

strangescript — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 01:10:24 +0000

this is apples to oranges, the flash version version a full version

this thing is like 5x better than flash at fine grain detail

New comment by strangescript in "Sauna effect on heart rate"

strangescript — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:28:40 +0000

Anecdotal, of course, but the biggest change I ever made in my life was right before bed: take a screaming hot shower with dim lighting. I'd say 95% of the time, I get in bed and just pass out and have no real memory of time passing before falling asleep.

New comment by strangescript in "GitHub's Fake Star Economy"

strangescript — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:34:34 +0000

Same reason why two companies have the same idea, one goes viral and one doesn't. Public opinion matters even if its illogical at times.

New comment by strangescript in "OpenAI says its new model GPT-2 is too dangerous to release (2019)"

strangescript — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:15:36 +0000

Their concerns weren't completely off base, I think they just over estimated how much it would really matter in the grand scheme.

New comment by strangescript in "$500 GPU outperforms Claude Sonnet on coding benchmarks"

strangescript — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 13:47:42 +0000

I will "suffer" through .004 of electricity if I can run it on my own computer

New comment by strangescript in "The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling"

strangescript — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:51:57 +0000

When you cannot win, you regulate the scoreboard. This is why Europe keeps getting lapped. They mistake control for competence. They cannot build platforms at scale, so they try to govern everyone else’s.

New comment by strangescript in "The three year myth"

strangescript — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 13:00:51 +0000

If your co-workers are getting promotions and raises and you are not, its a you problem. If someone else is getting credit for your work, its a you problem. Given your claims of impeccable work, we are only left to assume its a personality issue.

Its not to say its fair or right, but life is a popularity contest, whether we like it or not. More likeable people get more things, sometimes undeservingly so.

New comment by strangescript in "Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant"

strangescript — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 03:54:17 +0000

If you read the PR, the bad issues are in a few extensions, not the bot itself. The unencrypted oAuth token isn't really a big deal. It should be fixed but its a "if this box is compromised" type thing. Given the nature of clawdbot, you are probably throwing it on a random computer/vps you don't really care about (I hope) without access to anything critical.

New comment by strangescript in "UN declares that the world has entered an era of 'global water bankruptcy'"

strangescript — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 15:36:29 +0000

Same with food. Plenty of food, just not where its needed.

New comment by strangescript in "GLM-4.7-Flash"

strangescript — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 15:50:58 +0000

I find gpt-oss 20b very benchmaxxed and as soon as a solution isn't clear it will hallucinate.

New comment by strangescript in "Cloudflare acquires Astro"

strangescript — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 15:52:18 +0000

Not really an apples to apples comparison. You are comparing it to core technologies that millions of things sit on. There will always be money for that.

New comment by strangescript in "Why senior engineers let bad projects fail"

strangescript — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 01:29:50 +0000

Its almost never correct to rip on a project from a distance. Only two things can happen, one, you are wrong, and the project succeeds. This is a personal catastrophe for your career at that company. Two, you are correct and the project fails. Its rare this will get you enough credibility to make the risk worth it. There are always others that will show up and dogpile as if they "knew" the entire time themselves. You need to be consistently correct about failure to get truly noticed, but then it asks a lot of questions. Why are you still working there? Why don't you have enough influence to prevent it in the first place? "I told you so" rarely accomplishes anything good.

New comment by strangescript in "Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source project"

strangescript — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 20:12:15 +0000

This is cool, but once a week seems a little slow

New comment by strangescript in "US Job Openings Decline to Lowest Level in More Than a Year"

strangescript — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 15:56:18 +0000

yes, AI isn't penetrating those fields with high job losses at all

New comment by strangescript in "Show HN: OpenWorkers – Self-hosted Cloudflare workers in Rust"

strangescript — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 16:53:03 +0000

Cool project, but I never found the cloudflare DX desirable compared to self hosted alternatives. A plain old node server in a docker container was much easier to manage, use and is scalable. Cloudflare's system was just a hoop that you needed to jump through to get to the other nice to haves in their cloud.

New comment by strangescript in "A guide to local coding models"

strangescript — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 02:24:51 +0000

this, provided you don't mind hopping around a lot, 5 20 dollar a month accounts will get you way more tokens typically, also good free models will show up from time to time on openrouter

New comment by strangescript in "AI helps ship faster but it produces 1.7× more bugs"

strangescript — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 14:15:04 +0000

If your outlook is 10 years then for sure, its valid. I am not sure how you come to that conclusion logically though. At the beginning of the year we had 0 code agents. Now we have dozens, some are basically free, (of various degrees of quality, sure).

The last 2-3 months of releases have been an unprecedented whirlwind. Code writing will be solved by the end of 2026. Architecture, maybe not, but formatting issues isn't architecture.

New comment by strangescript in "AI helps ship faster but it produces 1.7× more bugs"

strangescript — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 13:53:29 +0000

Do they consider code readability, formatting and variable naming as "errors" for the overall count. That seems dubious given where we are headed.

No one cares what a compiler or js minifier names its variables in its output.

Yes, if you don't believe we will get there ever, then this is totally valid complaint. You are also wrong about the future.

New comment by strangescript in "Independent review of UK national security law warns of overreach"

strangescript — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 12:52:59 +0000

AI can make you a basic signal for whatever group you want with zero oversight now anyway. The days of trying to proxy anti-encryption laws so you can spy on your people are numbered.