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New comment by willmadden in "Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence"

willmadden — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 02:39:18 +0000

What "decision" are you talking about? You said you don't code, but you administer and maintain code. It sounds like you integrate new features into an existing codebase?

New comment by willmadden in "Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence"

willmadden — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:12:36 +0000

The LLM needs to understand your existing codebase if it's going to be useful building features that integrate with said codebase seamlessly without breaking things or assuming things that don't exist. That's not something you want to give away to a private AI company, so self-host an open source model.

New comment by willmadden in "Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence"

willmadden — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 01:53:18 +0000

Did you train a self-hosted/open source LLM on your existing software and documentation? That should make it far more useful. It's not claude code, but some of those models are 80% there. In 6 months they'll be today's claude code.

New comment by willmadden in "Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence"

willmadden — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:59:11 +0000

Build a new feature. If you aren't bogged down in bureaucracy it will happen much faster.

New comment by willmadden in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"

willmadden — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:08:37 +0000

What they sold isn't a security regulated by the SEC. There is no "insider trading". There aren't enough facts to determine if what his sons did was ethical and/or legal.

New comment by willmadden in "Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?"

willmadden — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 22:16:53 +0000

Floor safes do better than above-ground safes.

New comment by willmadden in "A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw"

willmadden — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 18:44:17 +0000

AI is useful for researching things far more quickly before making a decision and for automation/robotics. Motivated people don't need a nagbot to replace their calendar.

New comment by willmadden in "xAI joins SpaceX"

willmadden — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:50:03 +0000

What are you talking about? They are both private companies. They don't have public financial reporting.

New comment by willmadden in "Tell HN: Merry Christmas"

willmadden — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 16:02:04 +0000

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New comment by willmadden in "Some Epstein file redactions are being undone"

willmadden — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 17:35:24 +0000

Terrible headline. The unredacted data was included in the file. That's not a hack.

New comment by willmadden in "More on whether useful quantum computing is “imminent”"

willmadden — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 23:23:47 +0000

We'll know when all of the old Bitcoin P2PK addresses and transacted from addresses are swept.

New comment by willmadden in "After 40 years of adventure games, Ron Gilbert pivots to outrunning Death"

willmadden — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:32:44 +0000

Here, educate yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFxu3Q71NvE

New comment by willmadden in "After 40 years of adventure games, Ron Gilbert pivots to outrunning Death"

willmadden — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:15:01 +0000

Yes, it is 100x better than the slop the big studios publish.

Enter: parasitic storytelling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFxu3Q71NvE

New comment by willmadden in "After 40 years of adventure games, Ron Gilbert pivots to outrunning Death"

willmadden — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:09:14 +0000

Correct, a better description.

New comment by willmadden in "After 40 years of adventure games, Ron Gilbert pivots to outrunning Death"

willmadden — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 05:34:37 +0000

It's self-inflicted. The big studios are beyond terrible. The games are more about social conditioning than entertainment.

See Clair Obscur. They got funding from the State of France and the French National Centre for Cinema, and the game is 100x better than the slop the big studios publish.

New comment by willmadden in "Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children with depression, experts"

willmadden — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 06:29:35 +0000

Issues like what? Civilization? Ending slavery? Those aren't teachings, they are genocidal lies.

New comment by willmadden in "New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise tooth repair"

willmadden — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 06:48:12 +0000

If you're going to use nHAP, get Apaguard from Japan. Their nHAP is rod shaped, not jagged. They were the first to make rod shaped nHAP and have been doing it for decades. It's not a great idea to introduce cheap/jagged nHAP into your mouth. Sharp nanoparticles tend to cause cancer.

New comment by willmadden in "Denmark reportedly withdraws Chat Control proposal following controversy"

willmadden — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 01:01:43 +0000

I don't think sockpuppet, aspiring actor to politician EU governments will be around in 10 years. People are waking up.

New comment by willmadden in "First convex polyhedron found that can't pass through itself"

willmadden — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 04:41:17 +0000

The sphere and anything cylindrical...

New comment by willmadden in "Kasparov: "Putin is testing Europe: before the end of the year, he will invade"

willmadden — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 01:41:53 +0000

During the 1990 German reunification talks, Western leaders verbally assured Gorbachev that NATO would not expand eastward beyond Germany. This is from declassified documents. Despite these promises, NATO admitted Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic in 1999. In 2004 they let in the Baltic. All of this culminated in Putin's 2022 Ukraine invasion to block the Ukraine from joining NATO.

Sources: https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2017...

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/16116-document-05-memoran...

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/16117-document-06-record-...