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New comment by yearesadpeople in "Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend"

yearesadpeople — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 11:11:42 +0000

I've read OP blog and writings for a time. The one takeaway - for me - is how negative/defensive the writing is. And, I'm not sure why it has to be that way.

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Node kept doing its thing when Bun, Deno, etc. was all the rage. And I do respect Node team for trying to improve little by little. It's not an ideal runtime but, it is _trying_... and that's a positive story.

New comment by yearesadpeople in "Qualcomm licenses patents on Huawei’s LogicFolding chip tech"

yearesadpeople — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 15:41:21 +0000

Will be interesting to see how Ericsson - if at all - responds to this

New comment by yearesadpeople in "The problem is not AI code, but not knowing about system architecture or intent"

yearesadpeople — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:51:05 +0000

Exactly the same issues we are facing right now. And, well why wouldn't it end up like this? The promises of going 'faster' while ignoring the organisational processes capability to handle it is - and continues to be - the greatest delusion of this new age. But, even in the face of all of this, we are seeing leaders asking for more. At some point the culture will collapse in on itself, and no one will understand anything anymore.

New comment by yearesadpeople in "Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?"

yearesadpeople — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 13:42:35 +0000

That was so well written, a lovely read. So refreshing to be brought along on the authors journey into thought.

New comment by yearesadpeople in "London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces"

yearesadpeople — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:57:58 +0000

Cost of living is an interesting comparison to invoke. For low, mid, high income households and individuals - per region - would the cost of living - in the UK - be higher or lower considering the same factors (income, region, family) of the US?

New comment by yearesadpeople in "London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces"

yearesadpeople — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:29:52 +0000

It's the usual responses isn't it: _'I'm saddened'_ or, _'what has happened to Britain'_. Had a look at America, Russia, or Belarus, etc.?

Living in the UK is fantastic.

New comment by yearesadpeople in "LLMs reward expertise"

yearesadpeople — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:53:32 +0000

Yes. I agree with most, if not all of this. For instance, I am seeing folks either relying in the LLM as an _assumed_ expert or, assuming someone - who knows the structure of skill definitions - also has some expertise (in the area of the skill). It's a difficult situation; there is not much point in explaining _why_ the LLM output or skill in use (on a domain problem) isn't what the person actually _needs_ to address the domain problem, because the person isn't a domain expert or indeed, adjacent to domain expertise. But, it is an interesting experiemnt to arm folk with little domain expertise with the _skill_ necessary to be able to extract the right solution from the model.

New comment by yearesadpeople in "How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?"

yearesadpeople — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:01:00 +0000

> _"...Canny..."_

What a time to be alive

New comment by yearesadpeople in "Chinese chipmaker shares surge 470%"

yearesadpeople — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 11:55:14 +0000

Oh Jon

New comment by yearesadpeople in "The New AI Superpowers: Focus and Followthrough"

yearesadpeople — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 18:34:24 +0000

> Now that AI makes things 2-100x more efficient

What things, why, and how did you measure this?

New comment by yearesadpeople in "Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke"

yearesadpeople — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:46:00 +0000

Wow. Wonderful post; best read this year so far. Lots of gold in this one. I like the way the author slowly undressed the - social media influenced - hype to reveal both Anthropic and Bun as they are: awfully basic

New comment by yearesadpeople in "Developers don't understand CORS (2019)"

yearesadpeople — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 13:25:13 +0000

The comments - helpfully - are great examples of the essence of what the article is attempting to communicate. Bravo!

New comment by yearesadpeople in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

yearesadpeople — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 13:51:23 +0000

Genuinely surprised of the breath and level of interaction with this post. It would appear - perhaps we have data to back up? - a distinct _'flavour'_ of post are becomming dominant. A shame.

New comment by yearesadpeople in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

yearesadpeople — Sun, 31 May 2026 13:58:35 +0000

Very well articulated for sure. But, I do think the word _'expert'_ always tends to do a lot of heavy lifting.

What looks like _'expertise'_ may actually be pattern recognition built through repeated practice. I do believe that is what a model can already do faster than humans.

So, to me, we've got to be cautious here in that what this post implies is humanity must strive to be in the 99.99th percentile of domain knowledge to 'beat' the model. This is perhaps problematic.

I do think focusing on judgement is the only tact discourse here, and I do think that is fine. Once we have invariance well-defined and covered in suites of various types of testing strategies, and are focused on regulation, wouldn't that be a more doable objective?

New comment by yearesadpeople in "Backpressure is all you need"

yearesadpeople — Sun, 31 May 2026 13:38:09 +0000

If the systems invariants are well defined, and a suite of conformance + requirements tests (ensuring invariance is respected) are defined, wouldn't this be a broad - _'base case'_ - approach in general?

New comment by yearesadpeople in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

yearesadpeople — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:37:24 +0000

YouTube blog: _'...when creators disclose they've used AI tools.'_

I think this labeling strategy has an immediate issue.

New comment by yearesadpeople in "I spent 50 hours drawing a line graph"

yearesadpeople — Sun, 24 May 2026 22:46:45 +0000

This is a lovely toy project. But please do not do this for real; imperfections - even minute imperfections - in data visualisations have consequences. 'Non-techy' people take for granted shapes and lines over numbers and sequences simply because computers are accurate. Correctness of data is a separate matter of course

New comment by yearesadpeople in "Declining America"

yearesadpeople — Wed, 20 May 2026 21:28:34 +0000

It would appear rage has well and truly been bated. My word.

New comment by yearesadpeople in "The bottleneck was never the code"

yearesadpeople — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:27:30 +0000

That's an oppinion for sure, and a very shallow, general oppinion. Some people like solving problems, sometimes via code, while others tend to hide behind the 'Collaboration' banner, to help their own career progression. Both are legitimate tracks. To dismiss one, is to make the other appear 'non-Good'. But, perhaps data can be furnished as part of this post to support either as 'better'.

New comment by yearesadpeople in "The Prompt API"

yearesadpeople — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:50:59 +0000

It is important, however, not intellectualise repugnant, racist, or inflamatory language; it deserves to be called out for what it is aimed at doing