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New comment by throwaway20174 in "This is not the future"

throwaway20174 — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 16:34:05 +0000

When they coined the term "influencer" it was a perfect definition for what that is.

It's not a question about the one who cannot influence the 7.9B. The question is disparity, which is like income disparity.

What happens when fewer and fewer people influence greater and greater numbers. Understanding the risk in that.

New comment by throwaway20174 in "MIT Missing Semester 2026"

throwaway20174 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 16:16:46 +0000

It's tough to for me to judge cause I've been programming for 30 years maybe I'm underestimating how hard it is, but I look at learning a new language very different that trying to understand the graduate level CS work I've seen at a top STEM school.

Git, shell, basics.. even simple python if you have any at all programming experience - not nearly as hard as what they're teaching in the class.

Most of the time something like that like learning latex or git basics.. they'll say.. you'll pick up what you need. They're not gonna spend 12 weeks on those subjects they aren't hard enough.

Ask HN: Highest performance/price AI workstation?

throwaway20174 — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 00:52:24 +0000

Assume also those used machines on ebay. Looking at the Macs, PC with CPU+GPU, the Jetson devices. Others?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44991850

Points: 3

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New comment by throwaway20174 in "AI is different"

throwaway20174 — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 03:04:33 +0000

Humans have a proven history of re-inventing economic systems, so if AI ends up thinking better than we do (yet unproven this is possible), then we should have superior future systems.

But the question is a system optimized for what? That emphasizes huge rewards for the few, and that requires the poverty of some (or many). Or a more fair system. Not different from the challenges of today.

I'm skeptical even a very intelligent machine will change the landscape of our dificult decisions, but will accelerate which direction we decide (or is decided for us), that we go.

New comment by throwaway20174 in "Two narratives about AI"

throwaway20174 — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 16:30:50 +0000

AI more of a force muliplier than a replacement. If you rated programmers from 0 to 100. AI can take you from 0 to 80, but can't take you from 98 to 99.

I'd love to record these AI CEOs statements about what's going to happen in the next 24 months and look back at that time -- see how "transformed" the world is then.

Quick web stack for vanilla JavaScript

throwaway20174 — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 04:14:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.npmjs.com/package/instaserve

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44506287

Points: 1

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New comment by throwaway20174 in "Why we still can't stop plagiarism in undergraduate computer science (2018)"

throwaway20174 — Sat, 31 May 2025 21:45:59 +0000

In my recent class many people were using AI and I know people don’t think this way, but just totally defeats the purpose of taking the class.

New comment by throwaway20174 in "Open Source Society University – Path to a free self-taught education in CS"

throwaway20174 — Mon, 26 May 2025 00:39:48 +0000

There is something that I find very often gets lost, not in this comment but in the general conversations.

There are reasons to study CompSci that have nothing to do with trying to get a job, or make yourself a better worker. Namely, it's fun!

You can be a lifetime student of it and can be very rewarding. Both the practical side (programming) and delving into the mathematical underpinnings (theory) and history of computation.

News articles where people tell young people, "don't study computer science" don't get it.

Simple Web Components Editor

throwaway20174 — Thu, 08 May 2025 18:22:16 +0000

Article URL: https://qeditor.dev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43929486

Points: 3

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Instaserve: Instant Web Stack

throwaway20174 — Sat, 03 May 2025 16:46:55 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/digplan/instaserve

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43880294

Points: 2

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New comment by throwaway20174 in "The hidden cost of AI coding"

throwaway20174 — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 20:43:50 +0000

The catch is that when AI handles 95% or 99% of a task, people say great, don't need humans. 99% is great.

But when that last 1% breaks and AI can’t fix it. That’s where you need the humans.

New comment by throwaway20174 in "Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries"

throwaway20174 — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 19:57:06 +0000

The refinance is a real issue, but it doesn't matter too much cause the Fed can (and will) always intervene. They can soak up any supply to push the 10 year down.

Same reason why it doesn't matter if China etc.. wants our treasuries. Fed is always there to buy them.