Hacker News: throwitaway222

New comment by throwitaway222 in "Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs"

throwitaway222 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:57:07 +0000

The solution is to make an AI approve things based on the user's configuration. And only ask if it is having a hard time making a decision on some specific question.

New comment by throwitaway222 in "AI Lowers Wages but Doesn't Cut Jobs"

throwitaway222 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:54:06 +0000

Not creating new jobs is a way of cutting jobs since population is growing, and there are fewer opportunities. Everyone seems to be on the "AI is going to eventually take my job, so what makes my skill set valuable in the future that's no AI-replaceable". And no one can even answer this question well because AI's second wave will be robots, and no one has in their head that this is coming or will be disruptive in any meaningful way.

However, I will say, that I am creating more companies lately, because AI is making it very cheap to do so. Will those companies be profitable? Hopefully, but probably not.

New comment by throwitaway222 in "Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage"

throwitaway222 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:54:41 +0000

Why call it a plagiarism machine but not call other (pre-ai) programmers plagiarism machines?

New comment by throwitaway222 in "What's Behind the Sharp Drop in Labor Force Participation?"

throwitaway222 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:45:54 +0000

maybe it was that 90% of all hiring in 2020-2024 was foreigners thing?

New comment by throwitaway222 in "Mamdani's tax database doxed wealthy New Yorkers"

throwitaway222 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:55:11 +0000

I'm confused how a mayor actually has the power to do these types of taxes.

New comment by throwitaway222 in "[dead]"

throwitaway222 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:48:39 +0000

So I guess we're going to start getting article titles like:

Mass murderer used 85000 Google Servers and 8000000 LLM tokens to choose his target.

New comment by throwitaway222 in "Dario worried people were joining Anthropic for the money, not the mission"

throwitaway222 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:42:09 +0000

The only thing that matters is a) family, b) community, c) country. Your job is very low on the list, but the money it provides makes the 3 above better.

New comment by throwitaway222 in "2x, not 10x: coding with LLMs in 2026"

throwitaway222 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 23:49:42 +0000

Skimmed, it's using the word llm a lot, no instances of the word Agent, codex, claude. The person writing this isn't using LLMs correctly.

New comment by throwitaway222 in "Programming is dead, we're all code engineers now"

throwitaway222 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:57:33 +0000

In the past 2 months I have coded on the side two projects. One would have literally taken me 8 months. The other 3-6 years. The massive difference is definitely because one was primarily codex using Gpt 5.4 and the latest was on 5.6 Sol. Both were done in a little over a week (each). While that seems useful, a lot of people are going to see the value in these tools and this will be normal soon. Do yourself a favor and find a way to not be a code engineer. Instead be an entrepreneur that uses these tools to create businesses.

New comment by throwitaway222 in "U.S. Weighs $100k Fee for Foreign Students Wanting to Work After Graduation"

throwitaway222 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:20:55 +0000

I'm not sure I fully trust this data anymore. If all of the major US companies have a CEO that is Indian, and these companies still employ a lot of US people, but that number is changing fast - is it really just a study that's trying to convince you not to believe your lying eyes

New comment by throwitaway222 in "U.S. Weighs $100k Fee for Foreign Students Wanting to Work After Graduation"

throwitaway222 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:18:38 +0000

No foreign employment until the US is at 100% employment.

New comment by throwitaway222 in "A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands"

throwitaway222 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:22:40 +0000

We're heading into a period where you need to adapt your life to a career on a dime, and be ready to switch again. SW engineering is going away.

New comment by throwitaway222 in "A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands"

throwitaway222 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 02:51:51 +0000

oil

New comment by throwitaway222 in "A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands"

throwitaway222 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 02:48:24 +0000

Yeah, because having Meta or OpenAI or Microsoft on your resume as an Electrician is basically blackballing yourself. /s

New comment by throwitaway222 in "Sam Altman is ready to decelerate"

throwitaway222 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 01:36:20 +0000

Lol, thanks for the joke. Made me chuckle.

New comment by throwitaway222 in "Running Kimi K3 on a M1 Max"

throwitaway222 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 01:21:20 +0000

how much money in hardware would it cost to get 100tps?

New comment by throwitaway222 in "Why Are Gay Bars Building Databases of Their Patrons?"

throwitaway222 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:28:53 +0000

A) wow, that's crazy. B) So even then things were not purely what they seemed - those places became operations. But I guess the operations back then - monitoring for PEP "politically exposed people" by a single military base is way different than what Sayari does at scale for everyone everywhere and will pay money for feeds, incentivizing some giant surveillance network.

It's like the same answer to the question why did ads appear so quickly on the internet in the 90s. It's just that they found new ways to monetize seemingly random / normal everyday things.

New comment by throwitaway222 in "7.1 Earthquake in Japan"

throwitaway222 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:14:07 +0000

The speed of videos coming out was a little slower so it lost the HN attention span - but it was definitely a hot topic in many other news places - Reddit, X, etc...

New comment by throwitaway222 in "Why Are Gay Bars Building Databases of Their Patrons?"

throwitaway222 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:10:28 +0000

Has anyone else felt lately that like in the 80s and 90s things were what they appeared to be? A bar was a bar. A church is a church. A museum is a museum. A hospital is a hospital.

Now I can't help but think of all the nefarious owners - maybe it's some non-profit in Isreal, or has funding from China, or is run by the Russian mafia. Nothing seems to be genuine anymore, and every now and then there's some giant scandal that proves it all right. What's left of America. And everyone's asking for more privacy, but I fear the nefarious owner class that has allegiance to some other country is also asking for more privacy.

New comment by throwitaway222 in "[dead]"

throwitaway222 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:58:22 +0000

Just got to work, drinking a coffee. You?