Hacker News: surbas

New comment by surbas in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

surbas — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:22:30 +0000

IMHO this is clear case of correlation vs causation…

This generation of kids were fucked so hard by Covid and all the remote “schooling” and closing of public life.

AI rise happens to be happening when the kids who were just entering teens at Covid time are now going to school.

New comment by surbas in "Claude Opus 4.7"

surbas — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:44:01 +0000

Something is very wrong about this whole release. They nerffed security research... they are making tokens usage increase 33% and the only way to get decent responses is to make Claude talk like a caveman... seems like we are moving backwards... maybe i will go back to Opus 4.5

New comment by surbas in "Axon’s Draft One is designed to defy transparency"

surbas — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 12:28:02 +0000

Wonder if OpenAI has all the originals, especially in light of that lawsuit with nytimes.

He Has Months Left. His Son Hopes an A.I. Version of Him Can Live On

surbas — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 13:31:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/13/magazine/ai-avatar-life-death.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44282204

Points: 3

# Comments: 3

New comment by surbas in "NYC Congestion Pricing Tracker"

surbas — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 00:12:21 +0000

Both Work, however cheaper if you have an EZ Pass.

New comment by surbas in "Dear OAuth Providers"

surbas — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 12:29:39 +0000

Giving a talk about this today. Biggest problem imho is the fact there were over 33 revisions, and now over 20 RFCs related to oauth. Developing to spec is hard when you don’t realize how big the spec is.

New comment by surbas in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

surbas — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 14:30:25 +0000

The definition of “disposable income” used in this chart is gross income minus taxes.

I don’t think this corresponds with what most people think that means. i.e. gross income - (taxes + housing costs + food + health/childcare). I certainly didn’t.

New comment by surbas in "The Art Forger Had Fooled Thousands. Then He Met Doug"

surbas — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 12:07:57 +0000

Earl Washington is a very interesting character. Obsessed with making wood printing blocks while also being a top-level con artist.

The Art Forger Had Fooled Thousands. Then He Met Doug

surbas — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 12:05:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/18/arts/earl-washington-woodblocks-art-fraud.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41015874

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by surbas in "Brian Kernighan on “The Practice of Programming” [video]"

surbas — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 01:31:47 +0000

I would say that I would hire that person if that was the solution. That said maybe repo wasn’t included in interview. (Would be even better if person figure out how to diff against a new clone)

New comment by surbas in "Ask HN: What prevents Google from having the leading LLM?"

surbas — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 23:26:14 +0000

Which ones?

Breaking Down PFAS (it’s everywhere and harmful)

surbas — Sun, 21 Aug 2022 02:06:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/18/science/pfas-forever-chemicals.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32536786

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by surbas in "300 Drones Formed a QR Code That Rick Rolled Dallas on April Fools' Day"

surbas — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 18:52:27 +0000

An interesting phishing method… i.e. the new “leave a usb drive in the parking lot” trick.

New comment by surbas in "Portugal announces immediate granting of visas for Ukrainian refugees"

surbas — Sat, 26 Feb 2022 13:03:08 +0000

Adding some more context. The Ukrainian refugees are fellow Slavic people and the refugees from last time were mostly Muslims from the Middle East... and that the Far-Right tends to be racist.

New comment by surbas in "What Is a Unified API?"

surbas — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 18:29:21 +0000

An good article on some of the dark patterns that Unified APIs sort of hand wave around.

What Is a Unified API?

surbas — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 18:28:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pandium.com//blogs/what-is-a-unified-api-and-how-to-evaluate-one-for-product-integrations

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30012664

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

The unmistakable signs you are participating in Fake Agile theater

surbas — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 14:38:47 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/serious-scrum/the-unmistakable-signs-you-are-participating-in-fake-agile-theater-a7d1bd6a5dbc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29199633

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

An Ant Wiki

surbas — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 13:30:30 +0000

Article URL: https://antwiki.org/wiki/Welcome_to_AntWiki

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28593576

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by surbas in "Back Orifice (1998)"

surbas — Sat, 04 Sep 2021 15:49:58 +0000

Wikipedia would seem to disagree:

> “ However, use of NetBus has had serious consequences. In 1999, NetBus was used to plant child pornography on the work computer of a law scholar at Lund University. The 3,500 images were discovered by system administrators, and the law scholar was assumed to have downloaded them knowingly. He lost his research position at the faculty, and following the publication of his name fled the country and had to seek professional medical care to cope with the stress. He was acquitted from criminal charges in late 2004, as a court found that NetBus had been used to control his computer.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBus

New comment by surbas in "How did American “wokeness” jump from elite schools to everyday life?"

surbas — Sat, 04 Sep 2021 10:49:16 +0000

Why is any particular word derogatory? Every language has taboo or offensive words. This is one of them in English.