Hacker News: warmedcookie

New comment by warmedcookie in "Trial of 12mph bike lane speed limit grinds gears of Dutch cyclists"

warmedcookie — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:53:43 +0000

Another N=1 here, a family friend in their late 60s died of a heart attack while biking.

New comment by warmedcookie in "Shepherd's Dog: A Game by Fable"

warmedcookie — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:38:55 +0000

I played it in Twilight Princess and I did not have fun and Link probably didn't either.

New comment by warmedcookie in "Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot"

warmedcookie — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 03:10:40 +0000

Having had my 2FA Facebook account banned 3 years ago because a bot signed up under my email for Instagram (which I did not have), I can confidently say the email verification issue has been a problem for a long time at Meta.

New comment by warmedcookie in "Iran Shock Jolts Asia and Europe to Speed Up Energy Transition"

warmedcookie — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:07:19 +0000

At least in America, most people do not like nuanced takes on issues / people, even if you are being playful.

I'm afraid you need to go fit inside one of the echo chambers and conform to a given narrative good sir.

New comment by warmedcookie in "LLMs Are Closer to Religion Than They Appear"

warmedcookie — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:14:48 +0000

Not a YEC, but you, the sentient being made in God's image, don't join a MineCraft world that is still a molten ball of lava/magma with no solid surface.

New comment by warmedcookie in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

warmedcookie — Sun, 31 May 2026 19:28:01 +0000

Indeed, although today I got on a plane at LaGuardia and they made me check my carry on at the gate even though there was plenty of space in the overhead bins ( 60% capacity flight, about half of us had to do this) so YMMV.

No idea why they made us do that, but I had to grab my bag at the luggage claim.

New comment by warmedcookie in "Multi-Stream LLMs: new paper on parallelizing/separating prompts, thinking, I/O"

warmedcookie — Fri, 22 May 2026 11:48:25 +0000

I do this kind of parallelism with a little merge request tool I slopped together. I spin up multiple small agents and assign them specific code review tasks (security, coding standards, etc.) and have it spit out a gitlab API draft json object with code examples for the MR I can deterministically validate against. If it fails to insert code examples (depending on the task) and the proper json object schema, I have "ask it to try again" logic in place.

Works fine, forcing LLMs to output parsable responses is a good workaround to get them to do what you want until they improve. It also allows you to use the fast models (ex. I spin up the Gemini 3.1 flash lite model for these tasks) to have these tasks done in seconds rather than minutes.

New comment by warmedcookie in "Technofascism"

warmedcookie — Sun, 17 May 2026 04:30:34 +0000

Indeed, how could it not have been more obvious than when Biden made it illegal for the railroad workers to strike in Dec. 2022. The sides are the same when it comes to an actual threat to the status quo.

New comment by warmedcookie in "Vercel April 2026 security incident"

warmedcookie — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 01:00:10 +0000

I love a good cathartic rant

New comment by warmedcookie in "I went to America's worst national parks so you don't have to"

warmedcookie — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:30:02 +0000

I don't recall Alaska being particularly bad when I went in July. The mosquitoes I did encounter were huge though.

New comment by warmedcookie in "Discontinuation and reinitiation of dual-labeled GLP-1 receptor agonists"

warmedcookie — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 03:35:45 +0000

n=1, been lifting weights for 25 years and lost 40 lbs on Zepbound and counting.

I can still do my routines easily with no issues. My muscles look slightly smaller I think, but maybe that's the fat around them that's been diminished.

New comment by warmedcookie in "Roblox is minting teen millionaires"

warmedcookie — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:49:58 +0000

We set time limits on tablet and rules like getting your homework done first, but my 9 year old specifically begs me to let him have Roblox, which I think he is too young to play.

I told him he can play it, but he has to beat Chrono Trigger (tablet version) first. He didn't even get to the county fair and gave up, saying it was too boring, the nerve!

New comment by warmedcookie in "Weight-loss jab could be made for $3 a month, study finds"

warmedcookie — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 23:52:53 +0000

Mounjaro/Zepbound is $450 a month without insurance (assuming you aren't on the starter dose through some third party, but ultimately LillyDirect.)

n=1, Insurance price is $25 a month (covered by my company if you have prediabetes+ or sleep apnea, otherwise $225 monthly subsidy if BMI is 25+ )

New comment by warmedcookie in "Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules"

warmedcookie — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 04:10:30 +0000

What's frustrating is that a lot of these keys were generated a long time ago with a small amount of GCP services that they could connect to. (Ex. Firebase remote config, firestore, etc.)

When Gemini came around, rather than that service being disabled by default for those keys, Gemini was enabled, allowing exploiters to easily utilize these keys (Ex. a "public" key stored in an APK file)

New comment by warmedcookie in "Red Robin Died by Spreadsheet. Don't Make the Same Mistake"

warmedcookie — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 04:37:17 +0000

Is it wishful thinking for Microsoft to reflect on their Windows 11 UX mistakes and turn around like Chilis did?

New comment by warmedcookie in "The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling"

warmedcookie — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 18:28:16 +0000

I'm curious as to what your thought process is for suggesting "the app" (not sure what app you are referring to) as an alternative for someone who essentially rage quits when they see a cookie banner, given that apps on average are even more so an invasion of privacy and riddled with dark patterns.

New comment by warmedcookie in "The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling"

warmedcookie — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 04:37:35 +0000

I like the cookie banners since it is an immediate indication to me that I should leave the site. It's an innate reflex at this point.

New comment by warmedcookie in "Discord Alternatives, Ranked"

warmedcookie — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:17:25 +0000

Outside of Dota, it's called "Group Chats" (below your friends list) and it looks very similar to a basic Discord interface. You may have to join a dota guild in order to see it, although everyone in my guild just uses discord.

New comment by warmedcookie in "Discord Alternatives, Ranked"

warmedcookie — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 04:35:45 +0000

It would be nice if Valve filled in the gaps here. They already got a lot of community features built into Steam.

New comment by warmedcookie in "AI’s impact on engineering jobs may be different than expected"

warmedcookie — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 21:53:21 +0000

Let's presume / speculate for a moment that companies will only need 1 developer to do the job of 10 developers because of AI. That would also mean 10 developers can do the job of 100 developers.

A company that cuts developers to save money whose moat is not big enough may quickly find themselves out-competed by a company that sees this as an opportunity to overtake their competitor. They will have to hire more developers to keep their product / service competitive.

So whether you believe the hype or not, I don't think engineering jobs are in jeopardy long-run, just cyclically as they always have been. They "might" be in jeopardy for those who don't use AI, but even as it stands, there are a lot of niche things out there that AI completely bombs on.