HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

scubadude

238 karma · joined March 12, 2015

submissionscomments
scubadude··on Waymo in Singapore
On the plus side, super low network latency to the people in the Philippines actually driving these driverless vehicles, it's a win!
scubadude··on A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals
A marketing company? ;)
scubadude··on We're extending access to Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12
> i struggle to find an equivalent industry that has been so all over the place and obtuse

No surprises, it's fundamentally built on promises and lies

scubadude··on CEOs who think AI replaces their employees are just bad CEOs
It's the eating your own dog food.

The Open AI guy said it's now better than doctors (he said it, not me lol). He's replaced his doctor, right?

scubadude··on Most Americans don't trust AI – or the people in charge of it (2025)
What about when it just flat out lies to you, how do you sort the right info from the wrong?

> recipes when cooking

I used it for a recipe, gave it a brilliant and detailed prompt, it told me to put 10x a particular spice and it ruined the dish.

> seek medical advice and results interpretation for my family

good luck

> repair electrical equipment

what can go wrong, really

scubadude··on Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data
Then you're testing how good someone is at exams as much as anything
scubadude··on Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license
You can sponsor a promotion; sales on a bunch of games - but it's not "Brought to you by the cool refreshing taste of Pepsi" it's like "Berlin Game Developers".
scubadude··on Ghostty is leaving GitHub
GitHub lost me when Microsoft used my shitty code to train shitty AI without my permission.
scubadude··on Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March
Long time Linux user, but I got lazy into the Windows ecosystem for too many years. My son convinced me to move over and I haven't looked back. I haven't found a game that hasn't run, the worst I have to do is change Proton version. Ubuntu was good, but Nobara is amazing (ndivia 5000 series drivers out of the box).
scubadude··on Why so many control rooms were seafoam green (2025)
Modern street lighting provides a way clearer view of the scene imo than the old sodium lighting. Maybe it's just brighter now.
scubadude··on Regular army and reserve components enlistment program: Summary of change
A 29 minute 5K is not trivial
scubadude··on ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did
> high quality medical advice

I'll replace my doctor with AI immediately after the tech bros do

lol

scubadude··on Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom
Don't buy the shit. You don't need a smart doorbell or robot vacuum at a minimum.
scubadude··on MacBook Neo
It just means the phone is massively overpowered :)
scubadude··on The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee (1830)
I had wondered about the same for nicotine, being a neurostimulant.
scubadude··on The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee (1830)
> instead of feeling animated, these people feel drowsy, and they say that coffee makes them sleep

Sounds like ADHD to me

scubadude··on Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter
It's flipped, so you now get a little petrol 4 stroke engine powering the game console in your electric car.
scubadude··on Vercel's CEO offers to cover expenses of 'Jmail'
>Why is everyone using Vercel and the likes anyway?

Because you literally connect to a git repo and your site is deployed, and scales with load. Compared to managing a VM, system and application packages, config, backups and then how do you scale that?

I have what is basically a demo running on Vercel free tier, there's no way I'm maintaining a VM for that lol.

If I had a serious site, same. If I had a team, then the equation would be different.

scubadude··on Feds maintain 3.5 – 3.75% rate
Why? Not everything is pure mathematics.
scubadude··on Don't fall into the anti-AI hype
> I really don’t get the sense of urgency

Mind-boggling amount of investment needing a return or the promise of a return

scubadude··on I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great
Linux is insanely easy to use these days. So mature. Even for gaming, I haven't encountered a single game that hasn't run, and most of the time I don't even have to think of setting any compatibility stuff like wine version, it just runs like it was native.
scubadude··on Is Gen X the Greatest Generation?
Everyone thought boomers were bad. Gen Xers, tech bros: hold my beer
scubadude··on We're learning more about what Vitamin D does
We only need a few minutes sun exposure in the Australian sun at a UV Index of 14 for vitamin D. 20 minutes to start burning. Maybe there's a happy medium between a bit of sun exposure and no sun exposure.
scubadude··on Companies are lying about AI layoffs?
100% agree. No direct developer job losses from AI. But if it makes you more efficient, there are indirect job losses. Still borderline as to how much nett efficiency it provides. I needed unit-tests pronto, it saved my bacon in crunch time. But then in scaffolding some code in a system I don't know, it's been nothing but trial and error, mostly error.
scubadude··on Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford tells Borderlands 4 critics: "code your own engine"
Show me a good Unreal Engine game? Supposedly it can be optimised to be decent but so many of these games don't even run properly on top end hardware.
scubadude··on AI surveillance should be banned while there is still time
Isn't this pretty much the main reason AI is being pushed so hard?
scubadude··on Survey: a third of senior developers say over half their code is AI-generated
At a minimum, 30-50% of bogus surveys are bogus but I'm willing to bet it's a lot more.
scubadude··on Apple and Amazon will miss AI like Intel missed mobile
>AI is two things: 1) software and 2) extremely fast-moving/evolving

3) massive scam

scubadude··on Ask HN: With all the AI hype, how are software engineers feeling?
> Stack Overflow has to be actually dead at this point. There's no reason to go there, or even Google, anymore.

If, like the meme, you just copied from SO without using your brain then yes AI is comparable.

If you appreciate SO for the discussion (peer review) about the answers and contrasting approaches sometimes out of left field, well good luck because AI can't and won't give you that.

scubadude··on Long-term exposure to outdoor air pollution linked to increased risk of dementia
There's a study from Stanford showing the dropoff based on road traffic volume. The house I tested is 40 metres from a 30,000 cars/day road (2 lanes in each direction). The study suggests that the pm2.5 drops to the equivalent of the ambient air quality of the surrounding area at 37m away. An air quality sensor showed great AQI and no changes during rush hours.
Page 1 of 5Next →