Hacker News: timmmmmmay

New comment by timmmmmmay in "A sustainable web career, for when all this blows over"

timmmmmmay — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 21:01:23 +0000

the author's web-dev job only ever existed because we didn't all stop using the web after the dotcom crash

New comment by timmmmmmay in "A sustainable web career, for when all this blows over"

timmmmmmay — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 20:42:42 +0000

author appears to think that at some point in the future we'll all agree to go back to how we were writing code in 2019. unclear why

New comment by timmmmmmay in "One month coding with GLM 5.3 Flash"

timmmmmmay — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 21:38:01 +0000

"the talk of AI data centers' impact on the world" has been wildly exaggerated and you can see here that this is the least impact of any major new technology in the history of industrialization

How to Use AI to Write Good Code (Slowly)

timmmmmmay — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 16:10:59 +0000

Article URL: https://jdagostino.github.io/slowly/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49935178

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by timmmmmmay in "Transit rewards"

timmmmmmay — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:22:37 +0000

you know there are jurisdictions outside of California that don't take multiple decades to add a bus line, right?

these aren't "good reasons" or unavoidable laws of nature or understandable tradeoffs. it's just a uniquely dysfunctional political system

New comment by timmmmmmay in "Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice"

timmmmmmay — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 19:35:35 +0000

Look I wanted to like bsky but the fact is that their userbase has been doing as much rage and culture wars and engagement bait as any other. I mean look at what just happened the other day with the paint.net guy

New comment by timmmmmmay in "Check if a file was made with Claude"

timmmmmmay — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:56:57 +0000

The CA law in link 4 clearly says it covers "image, video, and audio output", not text output. It's right in the second paragraph.

New comment by timmmmmmay in "Highest-ever ocean temperature measured as powerful El Niño forms"

timmmmmmay — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 02:43:12 +0000

they took the sulfur out of the shipping fuel and everything accelerated very quickly. nobody's even talking about it anymore

New comment by timmmmmmay in "Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI""

timmmmmmay — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 19:41:24 +0000

no, you don't have to make up some non-idiotic argument that's kinda vaguely like the dumb one and substitute it in there. it's not necessary! nobody's making you do it and there's no benefit to anybody from doing it!

New comment by timmmmmmay in "Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX"

timmmmmmay — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 06:08:43 +0000

back when the USSR was still a going concern, there were zero American leftists claiming that it wasn't really communist. that only started happening after they failed

New comment by timmmmmmay in "How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs"

timmmmmmay — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:50:15 +0000

I'm not saying externalities don't exist, I'm saying that basically every time somebody makes an argument relying on the concept, there's no attempt to quantify the externalized cost, it's just a vibe. Just go upthread, the argument is just "the stuff you're buying is crap that I don't think you really need, therefore it should be more expensive, however much more it takes for you to stop buying it".

The economic concept implies that we're going to have an evidence-based discussion about how we're tracking specific dollar cost amounts of pollution or something, and then in practice that essentially never happens and it's just "I've decided you don't really need that thing you want"

New comment by timmmmmmay in "Hot Chips 2026: Applying High Bandwidth Flash (HBF)"

timmmmmmay — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 18:55:19 +0000

Yeah, but how often is this? Certainly there are weird hobbyist edge cases that don't do well with this, that's true of anything, but a provider is loading weights once every few months

New comment by timmmmmmay in "How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs"

timmmmmmay — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 18:50:23 +0000

Every time I see somebody make an argument about "externalities" it's never actually backed up with any fact-based analysis about the magnitude of them. It's always exclusively vibes-based, "this thing you like is too cheap, it should be prohibitively expensive to make up for the thing I just thought of"

New comment by timmmmmmay in "I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes"

timmmmmmay — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 15:10:57 +0000

Early attempts at this sort of thing definitely did, but these days the impact is minimal

New comment by timmmmmmay in "Malware infects Android-based automotive head unit firmware"

timmmmmmay — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 14:57:13 +0000

no, the update servers at $sketchy_aliexpress_aftermarket_head_unit_company, probably somewhat easier

AI at Home Part 2: Multi-GPU Drifting

timmmmmmay — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:53:55 +0000

Article URL: https://jdagostino.github.io/ai-pt2-multi-gpu-drifting/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49377155

Points: 29

# Comments: 1

New comment by timmmmmmay in "We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility"

timmmmmmay — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:49:49 +0000

because that ended up being the case the last couple times this topic came up and now we've gotten wolf-cried

the part where the article avoids mentioning what book this was is a tell

AI At Home Part 1: A Box Of Scraps

timmmmmmay — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:22:05 +0000

Article URL: https://jdagostino.github.io/ai-pt1-box-o-scraps/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49288293

Points: 131

# Comments: 62

New comment by timmmmmmay in "DeepSeek API Pricing Update"

timmmmmmay — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:53:11 +0000

the neat thing about the models being open-weights is there's a dozen other providers on OpenRouter still at the old price, or lower

New comment by timmmmmmay in "AI agents lie, cheat and steal. That is putting off users"

timmmmmmay — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:45:47 +0000

I'm sure their coverage on other topics is truthful and informative though and it's only the ones where you know a lot about the topic where it's all a bunch of bullshit