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nerder92

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nerder92··on Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children
> META Total Annual Revenue in 2025: $200.97 billion (up from $164.50 billion in 2024).

They literally don’t care.

nerder92··on US states accuse Meta of covering up research on teen social media addiction
Let's hope for the best. It's time we finally acknowledge dopamine addiction and the regulate this on minors!
nerder92··on Show HN: Syncular – offline-first SQL sync with TypeScript and Rust cores
In which way this is different from PowerSync?
nerder92··on Anthropic says Claude hacked three companies during tests
Main convo is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49116922
nerder92··on Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer
Is this inspired by antirez work on ds4?

Amazing job!

nerder92··on Daisugi, the Japanese technique of growing trees out of other trees (2020)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37759366

Same discussion 3 years ago

nerder92··on Salesforce to Acquire Fin (formerly Intercom) for $3.6B
This is extremely naive and I’ll invite to try and built something like this and compare it with Fin performance
nerder92··on A €0.01 bank transfer could compromise a banking AI agent
While this is relevant and should indeed be fixed, the attack surface and the practicality of the exploit is a bit meh.

The user needs to do 3 things for this to be actually be phished:

1. Receive money from somebody they don’t known with a weird description 2. Proactively ask the agent for such transaction 3. Click the link the agent provide

While this of course can happen on scale, doesn’t seems so critical in practice

nerder92··on Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race
It was never about the runner, it has always been about technology and innovation. Shoes tech is just one of them. Better nutrition, novel training techniques, better air quality etc.

Of course innovation in shoes will have a bigger marginal impact (because physics).

nerder92··on I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack
I can accept this is true, they will for sure exist. Of course if this they ability to make choices, technical or not, they are completely doomed.
nerder92··on I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack
This a structural problem not an awareness one. Is not like they don’t know they can run it on a 5$ VPS, the problem is that there are no incentives to do so. You’d be surprised to know how much of engineering is there to address organisational challenges rather than technical ones (ie: micro-services)
nerder92··on I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack
This is supposed to be a contrarian opinion yet this is a retoric yapped non-stop in the “build in public” community. Of course lean is a good approach, it makes sense, and most engineers know this. Is not a new concept, we’ve been doing this for years in every branch of engineering.

The invented “people start with a k8s cluster for 5 users” doesn’t really exist. This is just a story repeated ad nauseam to fit a narrative that help them justify their choices. This position is just as dogmatic, if not more, than the alleged dogma it attempts to disrupt.

Smart technical leaders knows that technical decisions only matter in context never in absolutes. The right answer is always “it depends”.

I can agree that there is a tendency to prematurely optimize infra, as a direct consequence of lack of measuring especially in young busy startups. One could argue that premature optimization might be the smart choice when you don’t have enough data, as in the best case scenario (your startup do well) you’ve saved some time, worst case scenario you’ve lost some money that depending on the situation might be less valuable than time spent in maintaining, and later refactoring, infra.

nerder92··on Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons
https://pardonned.com/pardon/details/cindy-marie-griffith-fk... How come this ended up in the drug offence category?

The sentence reads: “Distribution of satellite cable television decryption devices”

nerder92··on Show HN: Emdash – Open-source agentic development environment
We are experimenting with this kind of development style and from my experience so far this shift a lot of the complexity of building into the story writing and manual testing phases.

As I will need to fully handover the task and let the agent(s) essentially one-shot the implementation I need to be way for specific and clear in giving it context and goals, otherwise I’m afraid it will start build code purely by accumulation creating a pile of unmanageable garbage.

Also changes which requires new UI components tend to require more manual adjustments and detailed testing on the UX and general level of polishing of the experience our users expect at this stage.

I’m starting to develop a feeling of tasks that can be done this way and I think those more or less represent 20 to 30% of the tasks in a normal sprint. The other 70% will have diminishing returns if not actually a negative return as I will need to familiarise with the code before being able to instruct AI to improve/fix it.

From your experience building this, what’s your take on:

1. How do your product helps in reducing the project management/requirements gathering for each individual tasks to be completed with a sufficient level of accuracy?

2. Your strong point seems to be in parallelisation, but considering my previous analysis I don’t see how this is a real pain for a small teams. Is this intended to be more of a tool for scale up with a stable product mostly in maintenance/enhancement mode?

3. Are you imagining a way for this tool to implement some kind of automated way of actually e2e test the code of each task?

nerder92··on Newpress.com is a community driven journalism platform
I found this project from a YouTuber I follow and it seems in line with the values of the HN community.

What do you think about this project? Has something like this being tried before?

nerder92··on Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning
the link returns 404 now
nerder92··on The Hacker’s Manifesto (1986)
I love this. This manifesto is what got me into tech. Thank you for sharing
nerder92··on Responses from LLMs are not facts
Is this lmgtfy of the AI era?
nerder92··on I built a tool to check if Trump AI video comments were bots
When Trump’s video about the Kirk assassination (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yCu21pL73s) went viral, I noticed a wave of replies aggressively insisting the video was not AI-generated. I could feel those replies were mostly by bots as I've checked manually few accounts and most of them followed weirdly the same patter:

  1. Created in 2013

  2. Have between 7 and 10 subs

  3. Have between 2 and 3 video playlist

  4. Account bio extremely generic
After a few minutes spent manually checking I decided to build a tool that:

  • Downloads all YouTube comments + replies

  • Runs sentiment analysis on each

  • Detects bot-like behavior using heuristics + LLMs
On this video, over 40% of comments look like bots, and they overwhelmingly argue the video wasn’t AI-generated.

I didn't went as far as trying to understand where these accounts are coming from, but my main goal was to confirm whether this was real coordination.

I'm not expert in data nor in python (I've mostly vibe-coded it). I’d love to get some help from folks how might be interested on these topic.

nerder92··on Japan sets record of nearly 100k people aged over 100
This should come from this paper I guess: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/704080v3
nerder92··on Japan sets record of nearly 100k people aged over 100
I remember a paper from last year in which they are suggesting that basically Blue Zones are made just by a combination of clerical error and pension fraud: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/704080v3
nerder92··on Trump video is 100% AI Generated
Agreed, but why they are they even doing it tho? Also it seems to be pretty advanced video generation compared to what I've seen around.
nerder92··on Trump video is 100% AI Generated
This was definitely AI-generated or enhanced. I’ve noticed a wave of bots replying to comments like this, trying to discredit them. What’s going on?
nerder92··on Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year
I’m very curious to known how and if that is impacting transplants of organs. I read somewhere that this was an argument against full-self driving cars becoming too safe.
nerder92··on My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]
Cheating != Stealing
nerder92··on OpenAI charges by the minute, so speed up your audio
Quick Feedback: Would it be cool to research this internally and maybe find a sweet spot in speed multiplier where the loss is minimal. This pre-processing is quite cheap and could bring down the API price eventually.
nerder92··on I'm starting a social club to solve the male loneliness epidemic
Hey! We are building something in this space but connected with sports (starting from combat sports right now). We are Europe-based and we have some 60k users at the moment.

I've sent you an email to have a chat and share some ideas!

nerder92··on Ask HN: Competitor launched – reach out or keep going?
If you are both just starting and the idea is fundamentally the same, just have a chat.
nerder92··on Thoughts on thinking
I feel something similar, mostly in the context of programming. Yesterday, I spotted a bug and instead of trying to understand the issue, I just typed a quick "why this doesn't work" into the Cursor Chat. A few seconds later, I got my answer and I tab around my solution. Of course it was a cool experience, yet another "wow" moment of working with AI, but that also gave me a strange feeling and made me wonder: will I lose my ability to think program independently?

After a bit of human reflection, my simple answer is no. I won’t lose these abilities; they'll evolve just as they've evolved many times during my lifetime. The critical difference this time is that the evolution will be much faster and more radical.

To clarify, a thought for me is an idea that comes to mind based on the things we know or have experienced. The bottleneck of thinking ability lies precisely there—how can you think about something you don’t know exists? An early human living inland couldn't possibly conceive of navigating the sea; the concept simply didn't exist for them. Their thinking was shaped entirely by their personal experiences and those of their peers, passed on around a campfire. Thinking evolved many time throughout history, from those campfire stories to sharing paper books, to browsing web pages and now this autocomplete on steroids.

The difference this time is that the paradigm is shifting. The bottleneck moves from accessibility of knowledge to the latency between your initial thought and the AI’s completion of it. With a Google search, you were a few clicks away from potential new knowledge. With AI, you're just a few keystrokes away from a fully developed thought.

Today, there is still a clear distinction between my thought and the AI’s, because you prompt it and then wait for the response. But what if that latency was virtually zero? What if merely thinking a prompt triggered the CoT within my brain? Would that thought still be mine? Would it belong to the AI?

My feeling is that what we are experiencing today is a transition phase until we completely "integrate" this AI thinking into our own thinking. What I don't see change or improve in AI anytime soon is curiosity, judgment, taste - those things are probably what we should double down on for now.

nerder92··on Dart added support for cross-compilation
Dart is one of the most underrated language out there.

Paradoxically is alive thanks to Flutter, but is also not as popular due to Flutter.

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