<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: thaanpaa</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=thaanpaa</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:52:05 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=thaanpaa" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thaanpaa in "Claude Opus 4.8"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Probably limits the number of intermediate tokens one way or the other. Almost certainly the impact on the result is close to zero.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 14:23:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48323488</link><dc:creator>thaanpaa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48323488</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48323488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thaanpaa in "Claude Opus 4.7"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well, the fun part is that the algorithms themselves are deterministic. They are just so afraid of model distillation that they force some randomness on top (and now hide thinking). Arguably for coding, you'd probably <i>want</i> temperature=0, and any variation would be dependent on token input alone.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:49:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47804506</link><dc:creator>thaanpaa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47804506</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47804506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thaanpaa in "Finland Bans Smartphones in Schools"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Voting for right-wing politicians repeatedly.  You know, tax cuts for the wealthy, education cuts in fear of national debt, and all that jazz.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 11:55:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43843936</link><dc:creator>thaanpaa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43843936</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43843936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thaanpaa in "AI LinkedIn Post Generator"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Transforming Normalcy into Epic Success!<p>It took a seemingly ordinary sentence and turned it into a thrilling adventure of epic proportions! The result was nothing short of mind-blowing, leaving us all in awe of our collective genius. Together, we conquered the challenge with grace and finesse, showcasing the power of teamwork and collaboration. Let's continue to push boundaries and defy expectations in all that we do! #EpicSuccess #Teamwork #Collaboration #Innovation</p>
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<p>I think it's already happening. I've been using Claude a lot since 3.5. For a while, I barely bothered to check what it was doing because the code it generated tended to be fairly straightforward and usually worked on the first try. But in the last few weeks, I've started reading everything line by line again, because now it's not only often incorrect but also written in a goofy, convoluted way. AI-generated code being constantly fed back to it in a feedback loop would explain a lot, I think.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2025 07:41:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43690031</link><dc:creator>thaanpaa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43690031</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43690031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thaanpaa in "Ask HN: Have you seen an impact of AI on speeding up development of products?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I use AI a lot these days, and the funny thing is that it feels much faster, but looking back, new features seem to take roughly the same amount of time, and the number of bugs appears to be about equal. The main time-consuming issue seems to be finding the right balance between providing too little and too much information. Give the AI too little reference data, and it begins deleting what it thinks is unnecessary, or it simply starts overlooking things; give it too much, and it chokes. I do spend less time writing or copying and pasting boilerplate code, but in the end, double-checking and debugging AI-generated code tends to equal it out.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2025 18:26:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42880591</link><dc:creator>thaanpaa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42880591</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42880591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thaanpaa in "Tesla fourth-quarter results: Revenue drops 8%"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wouldn't be surprised if the first-quarter drop was even larger. Constant reports of poor quality haven't gone anywhere, and traditional car manufacturers are catching up and taking over. Meanwhile, Musk's popularity is rapidly declining due to the way he acts in public to the point of being high as a kite on TV, and people are finally starting to realize that he spends the majority of his time just tooting his own horn and being an asshole to those who actually work at his companies. Tesla's days could very well be numbered.</p>
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<p>This is clearly about censorship, as anyone living outside of the United States can see. It's actually pretty obvious that they're banning the one platform where US oligarchs have no say over what goes viral and what doesn't.</p>
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<p>I didn't bother reading beyond the second paragraph. I've never seen a corporation use anything other than their own private VPN. In fact, I've never seen a company even allow a commercial VPN product to be installed on employee laptops. This seems to be a complete misunderstanding of what a VPN fundamentally is.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2024 17:55:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41927567</link><dc:creator>thaanpaa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41927567</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41927567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thaanpaa in "Sam Altman catapults past founder mode into 'god mode' with latest AI post"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sam's post reads like it was written by an AI. And that makes it kind of creepy, because that's a lot of sugarcoating when it comes to AI being useful one day.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2024 08:08:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41634285</link><dc:creator>thaanpaa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41634285</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41634285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thaanpaa in "Show HN: High-performance Location tracking server built with PHP, Swoole"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's not bad at all!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2024 09:35:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41498997</link><dc:creator>thaanpaa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41498997</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41498997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thaanpaa in "Show HN: High-performance Location tracking server built with PHP, Swoole"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>PHP and a plain-text protocol aren't what I associate with high-performance, but I guess it's relative.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Sep 2024 18:09:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41468423</link><dc:creator>thaanpaa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41468423</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41468423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thaanpaa in "Firewall rules: not as secure as you think"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>100 %. Firewalls basically do nothing. If you are running vulnerable software, it won't help. If not, it's not helping, either. It basically only helps in the rare case that you have spectacularly misconfigured something. On the other hand, if a firewall is blocking automatic software updates, it's actually dramatically lessening security.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Aug 2024 20:46:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41404257</link><dc:creator>thaanpaa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41404257</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41404257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thaanpaa in "Calling Someone "Too Old" Is Ageist"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Judging by his recent podcast appearances, he is probably still fine. But it's also clear that he won't be for long, and it would have almost felt cruel had he been serving as president in his final years. He seems like the type of guy who'd rather spend time with his family and grandchildren.</p>
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<p>You're constantly missing the point. Artistic merit has nothing to do with your feelings about a particular work or how it was made. That is your personal preference or opinion, whatever. People decide on artistic merit organically as a collective.</p>
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<p>The lost artwork was discovered almost exactly ten years ago, in 2014. Are there any new developments on this front? If the article contained anything new, I missed it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2024 13:59:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41170936</link><dc:creator>thaanpaa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41170936</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41170936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thaanpaa in "ChatGPT Is Bullshit"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>FOMO, probably. Just like any other tech bubble, really.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Jun 2024 19:41:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40626961</link><dc:creator>thaanpaa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40626961</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40626961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thaanpaa in "Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I thought I said it. Its main purpose is to eliminate guesswork.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2024 13:41:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40597304</link><dc:creator>thaanpaa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40597304</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40597304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thaanpaa in "Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, it's misunderstood.<p>A lot of us were doing some form of agile before someone came up with the word agile.<p>I'll give you an example:<p>Imagine the process of creating a retro video game. 
First, you might write a function that clears the screen. 
Next, you'll get something simple drawn. Maybe just a simple block.
Then you write a function that allows you to move the block with a controller. 
Then you swap the block with some sort of character animation. 
Next, you'll write a routine to draw girders.
Then you'll implement gravity.
Etc., etc. You'll just keep iterating until you have a well-balanced and engaging game.<p>That's agile. You may have had a lot of the game designed beforehand, or none. In fact, you could even create the game design documents with the same method. Make a quick first draft, get feedback, make adjustments, and repeat. And then keep going back to it whenever you notice something doesn't work or some better idea comes along during the course of development.<p>Originally, agile had nothing to do with rigid meeting schedules. Or "adapting to changes," or whichever buzzwords people like to throw around.</p>
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<p>Which is funny because agile allows for almost anything. Even the Scrum Guide says that the process <i>must</i> be adjusted to the needs of the project. It's not even an option. Yet scrum meetings are treated as if they were religious gatherings.</p>
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