Hacker News: tacon

New comment by tacon in "New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6"

tacon — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 14:46:35 +0000

Where is a Steve Jobs to return to Apple and simplify the product lineup again?

New comment by tacon in "Like Magic? ("Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets")"

tacon — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 18:52:56 +0000

Batalden's Principle

Like Magic? ("Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets")

tacon — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 18:52:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ihi.org/library/blog/magic-every-system-perfectly-designed

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50213698

Points: 1

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Should I Stay or Should I Go?

tacon — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:06:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/10/05/should-i-stay-or-should-i-go

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49880226

Points: 1

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New comment by tacon in "Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges"

tacon — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:06:22 +0000

A more likely scenario is that display shoes of the same nominal size/model can be made in different factories, and when they are reboxed to be sold, they end up in a box from the wrong factory. Different factories make the same model but can have differences in processes so the shoes are noticeably different. Having left and right made in separate factories, much less countries, would be a total nightmare of inventory management.

New comment by tacon in "I am done with this shit"

tacon — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:03:02 +0000

I am not challenging the definition, only your "pejorative" connotation, which is simply incorrect. Everyone is a beginner at some point. Does that make "beginner" pejorative?

New comment by tacon in "I am done with this shit"

tacon — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:42:10 +0000

>You can't ship faster than you can comprehend, unless you stop caring about comprehension.

Of course you can. "You can't ship a nuclear aircraft carrier because no one human comprehends it all." Again, obviously wrong. Humans have been shipping systems that no one person understands for a long time. If it all had to fit in one human's brain, it would quickly stunt the growth of civilization.

The fact that AI agents are really fast at generating code suddenly moves the bottleneck to the review step. The fact that AI agents are great at attacking computer systems moves the bottleneck to log analysis and triage. Neither of these are going to block forward progress for long. AI agents have to be reading the logs, because there are not enough human eyeballs to keep up. AI agents will be reviewing code soon enough, and they already are in high performing organizations.

New comment by tacon in "I am done with this shit"

tacon — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:35:24 +0000

Since there is an entire AI community[0], claiming 135,000 members, that labels themselves 'tinkerers', any pejorative meaning in tinkerer is long gone. Probably in the same way as 'hacker' was once a rather pejorative term to the general public.

[0] https://aitinkerers.org/

New comment by tacon in "Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk"

tacon — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 20:05:37 +0000

No, the evidence is that there is no significant difference in satiety. HFCS is 55% fructose / 45% glucose, while sucrose is 50% fructose / 50% glucose.

New comment by tacon in "Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report"

tacon — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 20:03:33 +0000

Is this something like Fable can help with?

New comment by tacon in "Exercise intensity influences body composition in healthy older adults (2025)"

tacon — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:18:53 +0000

If you want to do Super Slow, great, but that is the original HIT, High Intensity (Strength) Training from Arthur Jones of Nautilus fame. I just went to YouTube and searched for HIIT. I don't see any videos of "moving slowly with form" (which is exactly what Super Slow is built around - 10 seconds concentric, 10 seconds eccentric, one set to failure).

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

https://youtu.be/2PdJFbjWHEU

New comment by tacon in "Exercise intensity influences body composition in healthy older adults (2025)"

tacon — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:58:02 +0000

Just ask the orthopedists down the street from any CrossFit box.

Or their journal articles.

New comment by tacon in "Jobs and Software Is Fucked"

tacon — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:17:12 +0000

You might be able to be a diesel mechanic and clean up in tech. This video is almost a year old, about applying Claude Code to boring businesses, a mobile diesel mechanic service in this case study: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWNFna6fgS8

How Does Google Maps Work? [video]

tacon — Sat, 30 May 2026 19:00:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-CGkiPetQ

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48339559

Points: 2

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New comment by tacon in "Colossus: The Forbin Project"

tacon — Sun, 17 May 2026 17:01:20 +0000

And when that movie played on the Caltech campus in the early 70s, everyone waited for the point when the US and Russian computer started exchanging a private language and one engineer exclaims "That's like five years at Caltech in thirty seconds!" The entire theatre exploded and my ears hurt from the screams.

Code Red: The Business Impact of Code Quality

tacon — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:34:47 +0000

Article URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/3524843.3528091

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48063842

Points: 3

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Ten simple rules for optimal and careful use of generative AI in science

tacon — Wed, 06 May 2026 22:44:05 +0000

Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013588

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042881

Points: 4

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Is your business idea good?

tacon — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:40:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.inc.com/ben-sherry/is-your-business-idea-actually-good-this-claude-hack-provides-the-cold-hard-truth/91328813

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47851203

Points: 1

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New comment by tacon in "Why I love NixOS"

tacon — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:45:26 +0000

I put a Claude Code token on all my machines, local and cloud. Machines now practically fix themselves. Especially with NixOS, as soon as the basic install runs, it gets the Nix claude-code package. It's all downhill after that. OpenClaw hit a few weeks ago, so I took an ancient PC lying around, put NixOS on it, added Claude Code, and then Claude installed OpenClaw. Claude, tell me about the security posture of OpenClaw. "Would you like me to turn on the exec permissions feature and disable dangerous commands?" Claude does that and then turns around and tests that they are really turned off. My Telegram bot gets confused: "I'm sorry, I don't have a shell/exec to run that command. How did I run anything a few minutes ago?"

Nvidia Just Made the Claw Enterprise-Ready

tacon — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:27:49 +0000

Article URL: https://nervegna.substack.com/p/nvidia-just-made-the-claw-enterprise

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47416387

Points: 1

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