Hacker News: tomlockwood

New comment by tomlockwood in "The tool that won't let AI say anything it can't cite"

tomlockwood — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:09:48 +0000

I love how at the beginning of this boom people were talking about how heuristics applied to AI outputs were short-term gains disguised as real progress. Now it seems like almost every new tool is a series of heuristics applied to AI outputs.

New comment by tomlockwood in "GPT-5.4"

tomlockwood — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 02:42:42 +0000

Is this the best one for blowing up arab children and identifying their bodies in the rubble?

New comment by tomlockwood in "Toyotas and Terrorists: "Why are ISIS's trucks better than ours?" (2023)"

tomlockwood — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:40:19 +0000

Go on?

New comment by tomlockwood in "Toyotas and Terrorists: "Why are ISIS's trucks better than ours?" (2023)"

tomlockwood — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:21:55 +0000

One of the books that influenced my thinking the most was The Accidental Guerilla by David Kilcullen where he posits that economic disadvantage drove a lot of people to insurgency. This article supports that. Worth a read!

New comment by tomlockwood in "Big Tech groups race to fund unprecedented $660B AI spending spree"

tomlockwood — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 11:07:05 +0000

https://archive.is/ZwCIo

New comment by tomlockwood in "X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok"

tomlockwood — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:12:08 +0000

Yes yes such a complex situation and so hard to tell whether the guy with the pedo non-con site wanted to go to the pedo non-con island.

New comment by tomlockwood in "X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok"

tomlockwood — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 20:24:24 +0000

Elon's in the files asking Epstein about "wild parties" and then doesn't seem to care about all this. Easy to draw a conclusion here.

New comment by tomlockwood in "A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks"

tomlockwood — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:07:08 +0000

Oh wow! Guy who's current project depends on AI being good is talking about AI being good.

Interesting.

New comment by tomlockwood in "ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data"

tomlockwood — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 20:29:40 +0000

The people working for Palantir are collaborators.

New comment by tomlockwood in "Video filmed by ICE agent who shot Minneapolis woman emerges"

tomlockwood — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 21:11:25 +0000

Doesn't contradict what I said at all.

You think she was aiming at this chump?

New comment by tomlockwood in "Video filmed by ICE agent who shot Minneapolis woman emerges"

tomlockwood — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 21:09:28 +0000

In no way is this "towards" anyone.

New comment by tomlockwood in "Video filmed by ICE agent who shot Minneapolis woman emerges"

tomlockwood — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 21:06:45 +0000

ICE agents should be tried in the Hague.

New comment by tomlockwood in "The creator of Claude Code just revealed his workflow"

tomlockwood — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 00:23:25 +0000

When these companies run out of VC hype money, what's the actual cost of running 10-20 instances of this at all times, going to be?

New comment by tomlockwood in "Poor Johnny still won't encrypt"

tomlockwood — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 05:02:09 +0000

I thought this title was a reference to this David Bowie/NIN song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT3cERVRoQo

New comment by tomlockwood in "Id Software devs form "wall-to-wall" union"

tomlockwood — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 19:57:02 +0000

Congrats to them! Unions are the reason we have (had) an 8 hour day.

New comment by tomlockwood in "The architecture of “not bad”: Decoding the Chinese source code of the void"

tomlockwood — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 03:11:54 +0000

Yes we also invented drinking coffee.

New comment by tomlockwood in "The architecture of “not bad”: Decoding the Chinese source code of the void"

tomlockwood — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:00:51 +0000

Not only did Australians invent it, we also invented Pavlova, Sam Neill, etc.

New comment by tomlockwood in "The architecture of “not bad”: Decoding the Chinese source code of the void"

tomlockwood — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:04:36 +0000

As an Australian can I just say of this article: yeah nah

New comment by tomlockwood in "Everyone in Seattle hates AI"

tomlockwood — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 22:00:42 +0000

I don't know if anyone has been reading cover letters recently but it seems that people are prompting the LLMs with the same shit, dusting their hands and thinking "done" and what the reader then sees is the same repetitive, uncreative and instantly recognizable boilerplate.

The people prompting don't seem to realize what's coming out the other end is boilerplate dreck, and you've got to think - if you're replaceable with boilerplate dreck maybe your skills weren't all that, anyway?

The hate is justified. The hype, is not.

New comment by tomlockwood in "Brexit reduced UK GDP by 6-8%, investments by 12-18% [pdf]"

tomlockwood — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 03:17:56 +0000

So a largely imaginary "problem" was replaced with an even larger "problem".