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SrslyJosh

2,190 karma · joined June 5, 2012

Mostly harmless.
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SrslyJosh··on Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent
It solves the problem of Jensen Huang wanting more money.
SrslyJosh··on Search – A small, fast WebKit browser for macOS
I looked at the list of contributors, saw claude at the top, and just closed the tab.
SrslyJosh··on Show HN: Foremerge – Catch intent conflicts between parallel coding agents
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SrslyJosh··on AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up
> The new iOS has actually increased the quality for the first time in years.

In what ways? When did previous releases stop meeting your criteria?

> There are open source projects now that tackle problems nobody has before.

Such as?

SrslyJosh··on AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up
> Last year people were asking "if AI is so great then where are the new apps?". Then data for 2026 came out and now the IOS app store has a 84% percent year-over-year increase in new app submissions.

That's exactly the opposite of what I want to see. As an app store user, I want to see fewer, higher quality apps, not more shovelware or slop.

SrslyJosh··on Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md
Truly incredible innovation.
SrslyJosh··on Show HN: Rickub – The Smartest Git in the Universe
> The tools we host code on were designed for a different era — before AI wrote half the diff, before half our time went on reviews or waiting for CI, and before data sovereignty and protection was a concern.

Hello, slop. closes tab

SrslyJosh··on Txt: A fast, keyboard-driven terminal text editor for engineers
FYI: Claude has committed to the repo.
SrslyJosh··on More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math
> The rumor I’ve heard from multiple employees at OAI and Ant is that the model has solved hundreds of open problems in maths

Obviously these are unbiased and trustworthy sources.

SrslyJosh··on Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives
I think you need to re-read the parent comment, specifically this part:

> I'd much rather all of the resources that are going into autonomous cars was instead going into proper public transit infrastructure.

You're almost certainly an American, and you probably have no idea what public transit is like in countries that have been investing in it for decades instead of focusing 95% of their resources on infrastructure for cars.

SrslyJosh··on Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions
Yes, I'm not normally prone to motion sickness, but the change of perspective during a turn is quite unpleasant.
SrslyJosh··on Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain
This is hard to understand without any references. Can you please share a relevant link or two?
SrslyJosh··on The next era of AI is about infrastructure, not just models
> We're in the same situation now, with your access to the Internet - commerce, social networking, information - going through a walled garden of Gemini or OAI or Ant or Perplexity.

Really? I'm still using the internet, and I don't touch any of that stuff.

> by providing developers the ability to choose to use their own AI tooling

Wait, what does that have to do with any of what you said before? That doesn't sound like "access to the Internet."

> create a viable alternative to a bleaker, non-open Internet.

And now you've switched back to talking about the open (or not) Internet, which has nothing to do with "developers [choosing] their own AI tooling".

It sounds like you're just pursuing your own pet project while trying justify it using the language of internet freedom.

SrslyJosh··on AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less
So, using artificial intelligence requires more expertise than not using it?
SrslyJosh··on AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less
> The writing was fine, and each individual paragraph was fine, but the whole thing together was meandering and dare I say pointless. It was so many words and yet so little seems to have been said.

I bet that I know why!

SrslyJosh··on Agents need control flow, not more prompts
> "Agents need control flow, not more prompts"

Can't wait for ya'll to come full circle and invent programming from first principles.

SrslyJosh··on Agents need control flow, not more prompts
I can't tell if this is satire or not. Well done!
SrslyJosh··on Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement
Rules for thee but not for me.
SrslyJosh··on Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle?
Yes, no credit if I have to ask someone to turn it off for me. It could obviously be a toggle here in the US.
SrslyJosh··on I’m spending months coding the old way
> "coding the old way"

You mean the way that the majority of code is still written by professionals?

SrslyJosh··on Users lose $9.5M to fake Ledger wallet app on the Apple App Store
> A lot of people got into crypto because they want to manage their own money

uncontrollable laughter

SrslyJosh··on Users lose $9.5M to fake Ledger wallet app on the Apple App Store
Not "investing" in cryptocurrency would be a good start. =)
SrslyJosh··on Robots eat cars
> The Fremont factory lines that built those cars are converting to manufacture Optimus humanoid robots: one million units per year at $20,000 each, with public sales beginning in 2027.

Sure, why not? Seems just as likely as Tesla having 1 million robotaxis on the road by the end of 2026. =)

SrslyJosh··on Scotty: A beautiful SSH task runner
This is where I stopped reading:

> Scotty was built with the help of AI

So it sounds like my heuristic worked. =)

SrslyJosh··on Securing Elliptic Curve Cryptocurrencies Against Quantum Vulnerabilities [pdf]
I can't think of a less useful avenue of research in cryptography right now.
SrslyJosh··on Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
I think that the ideas of AI boosters and other tech maximalists will pretty much always "struggle to land" with normal people. (See also: the ring ad.)
SrslyJosh··on Realfood.gov includes a Grok search box
That's not a search box.
SrslyJosh··on An AI agent published a hit piece on me
> the AI did respond graciously and appears to have learned from it

I have a bridge for sale, if you're interested.

SrslyJosh··on Microservices should form a polytree
Because it's simpler, duh. </sarcasm>
SrslyJosh··on Google boss says AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality'
> The middle class have financially benefited very little from the past 20+ years of productivity gains.

More like the last 50 years.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2018/08/07/for-most-...

"For most U.S. workers, real wages have barely budged in decades"

The TL;DR is that in 1964 the average hourly wage was $20.27. As of 2018, average hourly wage was $22.65.

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