Hacker News: yunwal

New comment by yunwal in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

yunwal — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:05:11 +0000

It's perfectly possible to act on unclear directions. The correct course of action is asking clarifying questions.

New comment by yunwal in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

yunwal — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:54:14 +0000

what's the missing piece exactly? In every other situation where a company wants to launch an iphone app to hoover your data, Apple gives a clear message telling you what types of data you're giving access to. Why is this situation different?

New comment by yunwal in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

yunwal — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:47:32 +0000

Yep, shouldn't require Siri at all

New comment by yunwal in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

yunwal — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:12:37 +0000

At least in my work, this is sort of like asking "If you don't enjoy CI/CD or the cloud, why not do without it?" It's becoming integrated into every process at this point.

New comment by yunwal in "Can we have the day off?"

yunwal — Fri, 29 May 2026 03:16:04 +0000

Ah yes, the free labor market, where for some reason we’ve given one side a monopoly on whether you can see a doctor without going bankrupt.

New comment by yunwal in "Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs"

yunwal — Wed, 27 May 2026 12:57:37 +0000

My complaint with anthropic is actually the opposite. They seem too focused on building this suite of products (because they want lock-in), but they can’t even get the availability and speed on their models in an acceptable state. It really does seem like they’re falling behind google and OpenAI at the moment.

New comment by yunwal in "Growing tribe of jobless techies is stuck in Silicon Valley's new reality"

yunwal — Tue, 19 May 2026 23:42:49 +0000

This is really SDE pay coming back down to earth. You're still making way more than even most white collar jobs at a startup.

New comment by yunwal in "Chess puzzle I found in my dad's old book"

yunwal — Thu, 14 May 2026 00:34:38 +0000

If there is, it's not listed as the solution on the puzzle website

New comment by yunwal in "LLMs Are Not a Higher Level of Abstraction"

yunwal — Sun, 10 May 2026 05:05:22 +0000

You literally can contain a logic failure. If I execute logic on my computer that’s not connected to the internet it can’t get out of the box. Done. Contained

New comment by yunwal in "Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons"

yunwal — Tue, 05 May 2026 02:49:53 +0000

It's impossible to completely evaluate a product before buying. That's why it's important to shame once you have enough experience with it

New comment by yunwal in "LLMs Are Not a Higher Level of Abstraction"

yunwal — Mon, 04 May 2026 19:31:55 +0000

> but how many unpredictable edge cases are you going to cover?

This is the wrong question. The correct question is what specific subsets of cases do you allow, similar to any security question

New comment by yunwal in "LLMs Are Not a Higher Level of Abstraction"

yunwal — Mon, 04 May 2026 00:38:15 +0000

> A reasoning error has an infinite, unpredictable blast radius.

Says who? It’s quite easy to limit the blast radius of a reasoning error.

New comment by yunwal in "Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI"

yunwal — Fri, 01 May 2026 23:18:10 +0000

> The "song of the summer," the latest TikTok trend

These are 2 cases where you absolutely need a personality to go along with the song. Department store ads are probably already AI.

New comment by yunwal in "Approaching Zero Bugs?"

yunwal — Fri, 01 May 2026 21:37:00 +0000

> If we assume that we fix bugs faster than we introduce new ones and we assume that the AI tools can improve further, the question is then more how much more they can improve and for how long that improvement can go on.

Why would we assume this? Historically it's obviously inaccurate since the world began with 0 software bugs.

New comment by yunwal in "Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months"

yunwal — Fri, 01 May 2026 20:38:13 +0000

do you... honestly not believe that system design is real???

New comment by yunwal in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"

yunwal — Fri, 01 May 2026 12:40:04 +0000

No, hypothetically apple lets you run arbitrary code. In practice, they lock people out of their developer accounts all the time.

New comment by yunwal in "LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions"

yunwal — Fri, 01 May 2026 00:52:44 +0000

Reversible encryption wouldn’t be required for fingerprinting. They’re doing something even more sinister here.

New comment by yunwal in "HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing"

yunwal — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 03:34:22 +0000

How is it overreaction?

New comment by yunwal in "DeepSeek v4"

yunwal — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:08:13 +0000

> Uyger-genocide

I'm gonna go out on a crazy limb here and say that this is on par with the genocide in Gaza? Mass sterilization, forced labor, sex, and torture on a larger scale than Gaza. Certainly we can argue about which is worse, but they're both incredible atrocities. The only thing that makes China less scary IMO is that they currently aren't the empire ruling the world and at the center of the global economy. If that changes, as seems likely, I don't see any reason to believe China would be a better or more compassionate world ruler than the US.

New comment by yunwal in "Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys"

yunwal — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:34:19 +0000

> like the aforementioned free-range eggs

I noted this in another comment, but the "free-range" designation means almost nothing. Hens have access to the outdoors, but that can mean a packed coop with no grass where part is missing a roof.

Look for "Certified Humane" or research the farm directly.