Hacker News: tills13

New comment by tills13 in "Writing fingerprint analysis of responses reveals Kimi's similarity to Claude"

tills13 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:07:19 +0000

I get what you're saying and two wrongs do not make a right but the irony, and why people are even talking about this, is that the thing being distilled clearly, and knowingly, violated copyright & terms across the entire internet.

New comment by tills13 in ""How 500 HN users crashed my 2GB server in 60 seconds – postmortem"

tills13 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 05:48:25 +0000

An AI slop article about the limitations of vibe coding. How ironic.

New comment by tills13 in "Fixed three bugs that made Qwen3.5-122B a daily driver on Mac Studio"

tills13 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 05:26:02 +0000

Sorry but I'm not reading an AI slop article no matter how pertinent or interesting the subject is. You want my attention? Earn it. Write it yourself.

New comment by tills13 in "Ray Tracer in SQL"

tills13 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 19:02:52 +0000

Yes: because it will simply steal (rather, has stolen) this guy's genuine, human, work.

New comment by tills13 in "GPT‑Live"

tills13 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:45:29 +0000

I use AI for my job. I understand the impact (as much as anyone can) that it will have on society. I recognize the value.

But I just want to say that talking with AI casually is critically lame. I cringe every time I have to ask my Google Home to turn on the lights and people are having full-on conversations with it? And, imo, dangerous considering how sycophantic AI is. The stupidest, most gullible, most insecure person right now is looking at this thinking they are about to make a new friend.

New comment by tills13 in "Resetting Xbox"

tills13 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 04:52:07 +0000

Even in the age of AI how the hell can you make a game without programmers?

New comment by tills13 in "Ray Tracer in SQL"

tills13 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:19:29 +0000

Yeah. Remember when that guy made Doom in TypeScript types? That was incredible. This feels shallow and dull. Interesting idea and cool that ClickHouse -- a primarily human made piece of software -- can even do this but I agree it no longer does it for me.

New comment by tills13 in "Designing a Personal Pebble Watchface"

tills13 — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 22:18:23 +0000

I love my pebble time 2. I wanted a tide app for fishing -- there wasn't one for my country yet (Canada, there are some good US ones)... So I had Claude make me one and had it on my wrist in an hour or so. I think they did a really good job with the dev. process with this watch.

New comment by tills13 in "GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks"

tills13 — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 22:08:33 +0000

It costs nothing to not be pedantic.

New comment by tills13 in "Claude Tag"

tills13 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 23:19:09 +0000

+1. Claude Code shows that _even while the model is incredible_, you still need proper engineering discipline to ship stable (and good) software.

New comment by tills13 in "The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs"

tills13 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 23:06:42 +0000

I'm Canadian so that would be an honour.

New comment by tills13 in "The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs"

tills13 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:24:24 +0000

Beyond just being dangerous, it's also incredibly frustrating to go down to my local grocery store and 50% of the stalls have these massive trucks and SUVs sticking out over the sidewalk / into the through-road / taking up literally the entire width of the stall. It boggles me that people buy these things and then use them for puttering around town 99% of the time.

New comment by tills13 in "Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators"

tills13 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 04:24:16 +0000

Instant deposit via credit card? Is that not considered a cash advance?

New comment by tills13 in "Ten years of ClickHouse in open source"

tills13 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 06:18:04 +0000

We are fully embracing LGTM ourselves but this is really interesting. Loki for us has been great, though, so what is better about CH other than maybe sql being more expressive than LogQL?

New comment by tills13 in "Ten years of ClickHouse in open source"

tills13 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 06:15:32 +0000

Also like redis and clickhouse are diametrically different platforms. Wild to go from one to the other.

New comment by tills13 in "Midjourney Medical"

tills13 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 02:21:05 +0000

The app known for making shit up (as in: that's it's whole shtick)... Getting into medical advice?

New comment by tills13 in "GitHub Authentication issues related to API requests"

tills13 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:59:57 +0000

cool looks like this nuked all of our authenticated connections in Heroku, too.

New comment by tills13 in "SpaceX's IPO is a disaster waiting to happen for your pension fund"

tills13 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:58:18 +0000

Me selling lemonade at the end of my driveway is about 300-800 million dollar business. That's just one thing I sell at the end of my driveway.

250k people in my city x $4/lemonade x 365 days per year

New comment by tills13 in "Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions"

tills13 — Fri, 29 May 2026 03:38:22 +0000

It's apocalyptic to the people who previously clocked in, did mediocre work, and clocked out. For those of us willing to put in a little effort, it's just another tool. Though I think there's still a disconnect at the managerial level where they think firing half the team and giving the rest AI is going to 10x revenue.

New comment by tills13 in "Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months"

tills13 — Fri, 01 May 2026 17:05:43 +0000

> You get out of it what you put into it.

Beyond that, it's a force multiplier and it doesn't care if the force is positive or negative. Someone with poor software engineering principals can use AI to make an absolute mess quickly.