Hacker News: xyproto

New comment by xyproto in "Don't be a meat proxy"

xyproto — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:54:37 +0000

Some skills are easy re-pick-uppable, like bicycling. Mathematics is probably more challenging. Not sure about programming, especially "borint" business-like programming.

New comment by xyproto in "Don't be a meat proxy"

xyproto — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:38:46 +0000

It's also very easy to dismiss everyone falling into the "AI trap" as being mediocre in the first place, though. But one just can't know this without having seen their work pre-AI.

New comment by xyproto in "AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job"

xyproto — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:48:10 +0000

I can't tell if this is insightful or copium.

New comment by xyproto in "Ford rehires 350 engineers after AI fails to preserve expertise or train juniors"

xyproto — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:49:15 +0000

Oh how the wheels have turned.

New comment by xyproto in "CSSQuake"

xyproto — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 18:16:24 +0000

Has science gone too far?

New comment by xyproto in "AI Engineers aren't safe from being replaced by AI"

xyproto — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:15:20 +0000

Having long time perspective, seeing the wider context, talking to people, having vision and taste. Curating and sanity-checking the results. Security and trust.

The reasons are many.

New comment by xyproto in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

xyproto — Thu, 07 May 2026 08:20:01 +0000

I believe that the assumption that customers reviewing the output artifacts is "the final boss" is wrong. If AI use spreads, customers are also likely to use AI to review the artifacts. Vision, taste and curation remains, though.

New comment by xyproto in "Ti-84 Evo"

xyproto — Sat, 02 May 2026 18:30:13 +0000

I wonder why they don't have a "Buy now" button on their website.

New comment by xyproto in "AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it"

xyproto — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 05:55:36 +0000

I am all for taking AI out of education, like China recently announced that they will do.

New comment by xyproto in "AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it"

xyproto — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:40:51 +0000

Even if a tool can only be used for lobotomizing humans, the usage of the tool is where the main blame should be placed.

New comment by xyproto in "AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it"

xyproto — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:38:58 +0000

Calculators and computers are creating engineers that can't think without them either. There are many problems with AI, but from my point of view, the title has not thought things through.

New comment by xyproto in "Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video]"

xyproto — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:48:08 +0000

FT2 was written in Borland Pascal 7 and TASM, btw.

Making Gamedev Tooling For Windows 3.1 in Turbo C++ [video]

xyproto — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:11:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7mc-D5V4L8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47658532

Points: 3

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New comment by xyproto in "GPT‑5.4 Mini and Nano"

xyproto — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 10:24:35 +0000

OpenAI has "open" in the name without being anything similar to "open source". Additionally, they have not rejected using their technology for automatically killing people and for mass surveillance. I deleted my OpenAI account, and it felt good. Recommended.

New comment by xyproto in "“Car Wash” test with 53 models"

xyproto — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:15:48 +0000

Referring to "the normal people you know" is purely anecdotal evidence and can't be used to infer anything at all about "side-ideology". Perhaps you only know people that don't care about the environment?

New comment by xyproto in "FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me"

xyproto — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:26:35 +0000

Now we can have operating systems that write the drivers they need at boot.

New comment by xyproto in "GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark"

xyproto — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:45:15 +0000

Ah yes, thousands separator.

New comment by xyproto in "Google is stifling anti-ICE speech in the workplace"

xyproto — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 13:32:42 +0000

Yes, but cencorship is also politics. What happens if someone just tries to stay apolitical and "work safe" and are still cencored? Any attempt at fighting this will be categorized as "political", "difficult" or worse.

New comment by xyproto in "GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark"

xyproto — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 13:30:32 +0000

Space is also confusing! Then it looks like two separate numbers.

Underscore (_) is already used as a decimal separator in programming languages and Mathematics should just adopt it, IMO.

New comment by xyproto in "GLM-OCR – A multimodal OCR model for complex document understanding"

xyproto — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:43:33 +0000

Fax is still hard to hack, so some organizations have kept it alive for security.