Hacker News: winrid

New comment by winrid in "Who manages the agents?"

winrid — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 22:26:08 +0000

Excellent! We can use this to start to throw executives in jail and maybe society won't erode as fast.

New comment by winrid in "Why American ambulance rides are so expensive"

winrid — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 08:47:36 +0000

My fun ancedotal story about US healthcare:

Kaiser transported me 4hrs in a ambulance to get surgery and I think I just paid the $200 ER fee

But then they would never cover an MRI for an issue with the same leg.

It's like we're almost done with this project guys, come on.

New comment by winrid in "GPT-5.6"

winrid — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 07:40:33 +0000

oh for sure! I think in some ways LLMs have raised the bar in terms of what you an expect from software (once we get past the hurdle of increased bugs, but that seems to be getting better)

New comment by winrid in "GPT-5.6"

winrid — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:46:40 +0000

Yes, because now your competitors do the same. The winners: inference providers

New comment by winrid in "Fast Software, the Best Software (2019)"

winrid — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 05:05:46 +0000

Pretty proud that after six years fastcomments is still only about 30kb

I should probably work again on getting that down some :)

New comment by winrid in "Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable"

winrid — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 04:02:09 +0000

post-ban I've even had Opus 4.8 say it cannot let me continue (I was analyzing a nodejs heap dump)

New comment by winrid in "How VictoriaLogs Stores Your Logs in a Columnar Layout"

winrid — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:00:40 +0000

So basically if you have queries that are hard on the query planner, that constant fan out has higher CPU cost than the alternatives.

New comment by winrid in "Claude Sonnet 5"

winrid — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 11:04:52 +0000

Today I tested GLM 5.2 by giving it an example stylesheet and told it to change the background color of a submit button.

It then hallucinated the submit button class...

New comment by winrid in "The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online"

winrid — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 04:58:04 +0000

Your ISP will eventually require a new protocol that can hold your digital ID in every packet to access certain content and you'll have to upgrade/migrate your OS if you want to view p0rn etc.

New comment by winrid in "The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online"

winrid — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 04:54:44 +0000

It's not about the kids.

It's so Facebook can prove to advertisers the views are not bots/AI.

New comment by winrid in "Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models"

winrid — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 06:11:29 +0000

Next we'll be putting smart people in jail for being too dangerous.

New comment by winrid in "Michigan spent $1.8B and only created 602 jobs"

winrid — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 02:42:19 +0000

You mean what companies used to do before we decided to import cheap labor instead?

New comment by winrid in "I was wrong about the Midjourney ultra-sound scanner"

winrid — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:38:37 +0000

This is AI right?

New comment by winrid in "Think of the children: How to force real ID for all internet traffic (2023)"

winrid — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 17:58:17 +0000

Friendly reminder this is lobbied into existence by advertising companies since the advent of AI they aren't sure what is real traffic anymore, tying all traffic to a government ID solves that.

New comment by winrid in "Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?"

winrid — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:08:38 +0000

None of my LLM created rust code has unsafe, or unwrap and must pass clippy checks..

New comment by winrid in "Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?"

winrid — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:07:12 +0000

Python isn't even that bad, I have python desktop apps that use 50mb of memory. More than needed but not 1-2gb realm people complain about with electron stuff.

New comment by winrid in "Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?"

winrid — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 04:22:00 +0000

At the end of the day it's a battle of competence of who runs your company.

Sure you might be able to have PMs deal with the easy stuff for a short while.

But will the company that can hire more competent people pull ahead? Probably.

I can tell you one thing: I haven't worked with a PM for like 5 years.

New comment by winrid in "Amazon Announces Multibillion-Dollar Data Center in Missouri"

winrid — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:46:55 +0000

Which does technically distribute wealth to thousands of people

New comment by winrid in "Microsoft turns to AWS as GitHub faces AI capacity crunch"

winrid — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:24:09 +0000

I had a feeling this was all related to someone trying to run a database on networked disks.

every fucking time

New comment by winrid in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

winrid — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 22:54:51 +0000

The teeth ones "stretch" to grab different sizes, too, but they won't support as large a range as a chain or band one for sure.