Hacker News: throwrioawfo

New comment by throwrioawfo in "Northflank Breached"

throwrioawfo — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 20:59:14 +0000

> The runtime platform for autonomous software

Well, at least they were honest I suppose

New comment by throwrioawfo in "Where the Romans Fought (interactive map)"

throwrioawfo — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 21:35:32 +0000

Slop

New comment by throwrioawfo in "Eunice is almost here"

throwrioawfo — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 20:34:47 +0000

2020 called, it wants its HN comment back

New comment by throwrioawfo in "Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]"

throwrioawfo — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 19:38:01 +0000

This seems like cope to me.

Humans have a bias towards assuming that problems have solutions. Mathematicians probably more than average.

This talk is predicated on the theory that the problem of "maintaining the relevance of humans in mathematics" is tractable. Not sure I agree

New comment by throwrioawfo in "Docker Agent"

throwrioawfo — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:23:43 +0000

gimmick

The AI apocalypse may not look how we expect

throwrioawfo — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 16:34:55 +0000

Article URL: https://deanfaenger.bearblog.dev/the-ai-apocalypse-may-not-look-how-we-expect/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49858140

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by throwrioawfo in "People who know the most often sound the least certain"

throwrioawfo — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 18:33:51 +0000

Not sure I agree with this. It's often true in SF, but that is largely an affectation, people imitating people like Peter Thiel etc. But not as true elsewhere

New comment by throwrioawfo in "Tell the speakers that you liked their talks"

throwrioawfo — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:48:00 +0000

The creator of Lanyrd replied to another comment elsewhere on this page

New comment by throwrioawfo in "Your intellectual fly is open when you use an LLM to author a post (2025)"

throwrioawfo — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 12:32:36 +0000

Has any research been done to try and determine the percentage of the population that are able to detect obvious LLM-generated text?

New comment by throwrioawfo in "Learn Programming with OCaml"

throwrioawfo — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 19:57:12 +0000

(1) complexity

(2) performance

New comment by throwrioawfo in "To become a better writer, read as much as you can"

throwrioawfo — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 11:06:28 +0000

Both reading and writing are necessary, but writing alone is not sufficient.

New comment by throwrioawfo in "Saying No"

throwrioawfo — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 21:26:28 +0000

Self-aggrandisement

New comment by throwrioawfo in "Saying No"

throwrioawfo — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 21:26:12 +0000

Even LinkedIn slop isn't as bad as this

New comment by throwrioawfo in "Saying No"

throwrioawfo — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 21:25:09 +0000

Sounds like you're being highly unreasonable and childish to me

New comment by throwrioawfo in "How I use LLMs to learn complex topics"

throwrioawfo — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 21:06:09 +0000

Gell-Mann Amnesia: the blog post

New comment by throwrioawfo in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

throwrioawfo — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:22:06 +0000

Nothing. I get no satisfaction out of side projects nowadays

New comment by throwrioawfo in "Zero-copy in Go: sendfile, splice, and the cost of io.Copy"

throwrioawfo — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 22:44:19 +0000

Ugh, AI slop writing.

New comment by throwrioawfo in "Pint in England"

throwrioawfo — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 22:29:43 +0000

"cooper" derives from the verb "coop", which likely derives from Latin "cūpa", from which we get the word "cup".

New comment by throwrioawfo in "Can you build a recognizable World Map in under 500 bytes?"

throwrioawfo — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 23:27:51 +0000

What's the point in doing things like this if you just get Claude to do it?

New comment by throwrioawfo in "Rob Pike – 'Concurrency Is Not Parallelism' [video] (2012)"

throwrioawfo — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 18:59:16 +0000

Compliance with the absurd and draconian OSA