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farseer··on Ask HN: What's a good title for a software engineer now?
Enabler
farseer··on Show HN: Domainpuff.com – Find memorable domain names within your budget
Getting the same problem, I wrote about 2 lines.
farseer··on Pentium II at 600Mhz with Voodoo 3 Emulated on 86Box with M6 Mac Mini
Emulated Voodoo 3? Does that mean I can run games using Glide?
farseer··on Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'
Nobody has made much money from AI yet unless you count the shovel sellers (Nvidia). Not sure closed models would make any money ever and eventually the benefits should flow to everyone.
farseer··on Show HN: Microsoft Office running with Wine on Linux with no virtualization
I feel like the entire world needs to take a plunge towards LibreOffice for the good of all.
farseer··on MITx is ending access to its courses for learners in Iran on September 8
Well your countrymen used advanced engineering knowledge to make the empire look weak and its leader a fool, did you really think there would be no consequences? :)
farseer··on Qantas Airbus A380 engine failure in 2010 (2023)
There have been two uncontained engine failures on the A380. The other one was in 2017: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_066
farseer··on Native Apps Why?
Native apps are not needed unless you want want performance and need to extract all the juice your hardware offers. Only AAA video games come to mind.
farseer··on Ask HN: What are independent software contractors doing now?
Off-topic but is there any independent study that has documented impact of AI on contractual work for software devs?
farseer··on Israeli PR wants to answer your ChatGPT questions
Wow, just a few minutes ago this made it to the frontpage, and look at the freshly created accounts trying to discredit it. Evil requires constant effort to mask it.
farseer··on The AI bubble is popping; we just don't know it yet
More and more companies are signing up with OpenAI and Anthropic at near exponential growth to automate everyday tasks. If anything, these two should manage to IPO just fine. The rest of the downstream startups probably won't make it.
farseer··on Ask HN: Should I do a CS masters at Cambridge or start as a new grad at Amazon?
Go for the job, you can pick up the equivalent Cambridge courses online in your free time. Tech jobs are a bit tight right now and the situation may become worse 1-2 years down the road when you graduate.

Unless you are a rich AF nepo baby with multiple trust funds. Then definitely go for Cambridge and have fun.

farseer··on Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable
No, this was a far superior sequel to Dune 2000.
farseer··on Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable
This was one of the best RTS of the era. Still holds up today. The music was also very good.
farseer··on Ask HN: What home printer do you use/recommend?
An old HP P2055dn with Chinese toner
farseer··on Tell HN: I never bought anything from clicking on a paid ad
But you definitely have bought an item you have seen in a paid ad LATER.
farseer··on Ask HN: Which companies gained a competitive edge purely via engineering?
Google search was way better than yahoo or altavista
farseer··on Ask HN: What is your go-to solution for a personal wiki in 2026?
Your self hosted option only works for up to 5 employees and prices for more are not listed.
farseer··on Ask HN: Is there a term for feeling sad about forced AI adoption?
Swaillop
farseer··on Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen
Most human medicines would be dangerous to dogs, what is your point?
farseer··on Ask HN: What Would Make Stack Overflow Great Again?
Its data was already used to train AI, maybe they could have sold it to the big AI companies? I am guessing its too late for that. All they have is their previous name and user fondness.

But now with the usage fallen, maybe they could train their own coding models to compete with OpenAI, Anthropic, sort of like a hybrid of their previous forum + AI. AI solutions that work will get locked as "Accepted" by stack overflow like before via user vote.

farseer··on Advice for tracking down a listening device?
I would suspect her phone first before looking for a physical device. An android phone is particularly vulnerable to being backdoored by cyber criminals that you can hire. Also any other computer or laptop in the house can similarly be compromised.

After that, the wifi thing is easy to check as you mentioned, but a dedicated listening device can also have a build in LTE radio with a SIM card. There is no upper limit on sophistication, even a completely passive device without external power is possible if the hostile actor has the money.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device) Stuff like this was possible in the 1940's imagine what is possible now.

farseer··on What would you do if you have AI software that may be transformers alternative?
Without a usable model trained on lots of data, it would be hard to give a demo.
farseer··on Ask HN: How are LLMs supposed to be used for warfare?
To add to that, you can always make your drone/bot loiter for a while before getting a fix.
farseer··on Altman takes jab at Anthropic, says gov't should be more powerful than companies
Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC), or Dutch East India Company
farseer··on Ask HN: Better hardware means OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. are doomed in the future?
The frontier of how good models are also shifts and will remain ahead of local models unless we hit some dead end limitation in the algorithms themselves. A ceiling so to speak on how good LLM can get before the law of diminishing returns starts to apply.
farseer··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
Is the discussion supposed to go back into some training set? Or this is only for humor?
farseer··on Coding agents have replaced every framework I used
I think it would be the opposite and we are all in for a rude awakening. If you have tried playing with Opus 4.6 you would know what I am talking about.
farseer··on Ask HN: Why LLM providers sell access instead of consulting services?
Yup, because LLM inference can be scaled by adding racks of hardware. Consulting can't be.
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Generative AI has failed to replace SaaS so far...It has disrupted plenty of other lower verticals in writing, proof reading, translation, graphics design, tutorials, searching case law etc. Unless the progress stops, you can't assume LLM efficacy has hit a ceiling.

Agents, properly setup can partially accomplish what you described already.

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