Hacker News: timacles

New comment by timacles in "A 'bananas' order for 5000 obscure book titles fuels suspicion"

timacles — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:25:17 +0000

And what, potentially make things easier for a competitor? Not in capitalism sir

New comment by timacles in "Analyzing data from Silicon Valley ventures and founders prosecuted for fraud"

timacles — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:57:07 +0000

This is literally the American way.

Everyone does this at every level, from Execs down to middle managers, for every possible metric.

New comment by timacles in "Analyzing data from Silicon Valley ventures and founders prosecuted for fraud"

timacles — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:45:24 +0000

well i've got some bad news, that era has now entered its maximum power phase. Our government has literally been systematically deconstructed to become unable to govern.

New comment by timacles in "Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD"

timacles — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 03:17:53 +0000

What is your motivation? What you are doing is very impressive for sure, but the longer term life of this project seems incertain to me. While you might be able to accomplish your goal of production readyness, you'll only have version 1.0 at that point.

Its unlikely an AI written project is one which people will want to maintain even if it "works", which means AI has to maintain it. Maintaining a code base of a production database is going to continue costing 100s of thousands, if its even possible at all with AI. Its also unlikely to find users even if its almost perfect, because a bug in a database is not something users can accept.

Postgres is postgres because its like 30 years old and battle tested. Sure its missing some modern features, but its incredibly stable, which is part of its popularity.

New comment by timacles in "The Gargantuan Lie That Is Collapsing the Climate"

timacles — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:34:17 +0000

When it tips the other way, we will be entering the economic dark ages, exactly proportional to how long we’ve been kicking this can down the road, which is likely since 2007 at least.

New comment by timacles in "The Gargantuan Lie That Is Collapsing the Climate"

timacles — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:44:26 +0000

The only solution that will come is from large swaths of the words population to be rapidly reduced, from a garden variety of natural disasters

New comment by timacles in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

timacles — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:23:23 +0000

Out country is ran by bunch of Lionel Hutz clones

New comment by timacles in "Taste Is All That's Left"

timacles — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 01:42:47 +0000

Would this apply to software that runs oil refinery plants, or video games or an fighter jet flight stabilization systems?

Surely there is more to software than CRUD apps

New comment by timacles in "Taste Is All That's Left"

timacles — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 01:35:59 +0000

No, the "essence" of engineering is having a cohesive vision for a larger plan.

No quality large scale project can exist without it. And any seasoned engineer should understand by now that no SOTA LLM can produce quality engineering at scale.

New comment by timacles in "How Americans view capitalism, socialism and free enterprise"

timacles — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 12:06:36 +0000

I’m thinking any human made system implies corruption

New comment by timacles in "U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war"

timacles — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 21:17:32 +0000

The us military has been a wealth transfer mechanism for decades.

New comment by timacles in "U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war"

timacles — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 21:00:47 +0000

You have tactics and strategy mixed up. Killing Iran leadership was a tactical success. Continually shooting long range missiles into a giant country is a strategic failure.

New comment by timacles in "US Treasury undertakes historic intervention in yen market"

timacles — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 20:56:39 +0000

Not really a conspiracy theory, it’s just an indicator of the underlying issues either the global economy. Yeah it’s been red for decades, it just shows there are segment of the world economy that are under high stress.

Difference is US now has its own issues which just makes the overall situation even more fragile.

No one knows for how long or what happens next, but you can’t look at things and think, eh it’s just the way it is. Things are a certain way until they’re not

New comment by timacles in "Karpathy’s Pelican"

timacles — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 19:32:15 +0000

All small business marketing material now looks exactly the same.

LLMs produce an extremely small range of artistic expression, and its kind of ironic, that while it certainly looks functionally good. It immediately becomes noise because everything looks identical.

So companies are going to have to hire creatives again, in order to stand out, and be "creative"

New comment by timacles in "US Treasury undertakes historic intervention in yen market"

timacles — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 17:48:03 +0000

We as humans have to accept that systems operating on this scale have no other options than kicking the can down the road.

Like, throw the global economy into a 5-10 year depression is not an option, despite the fact that clearly it is what the economy needs in terms of a reset.

There is a very real possibility going down that path could cause an irreversible deflation spiral.

So the safer option must be chosen even if it creates mass wealth inequality and a different upwards inflation spiral which at least they can control

New comment by timacles in "Claude: Elevated errors across all models"

timacles — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 20:36:22 +0000

He’s like the guy from the Green Mile

“I’m tired, boss”

New comment by timacles in "League of Legends designer shares game design field manual"

timacles — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 15:12:00 +0000

It’s just optimized for generating text and evoking emotional responses rather than getting a point across.

A good writer says what needs to be said and no more, AI is on the other side of the spectrum, it just needs to say things just to say things

New comment by timacles in "It's getting harder to focus every day"

timacles — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:54:34 +0000

Just make your phone boring.

Delete instagram, log out and don’t go on YouTube. Delete games.

It’s really not that hard to make your phone a device for communication and not entertainment

New comment by timacles in "AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt"

timacles — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:55:52 +0000

If it crashes the global economy will crash and they will have to print money for a bail out which means another 30% increase to the price of everything

But minimal real impact

New comment by timacles in "AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt"

timacles — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:50:55 +0000

Because they have even more debt than the debt we assume they’re trying to hide