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stikit··on Ask HN: Does a human still review your code?
>>> each PR gets reviewed by more than 3 people

How does this work exactly -this is your current workflow? Which tools are you using . I assume you mean your human reviewers are using ai tools interactively and deciding which fixes the tools propose will be implemented ?

stikit··on Ask HN: Does a human still review your code?
what has your experience been and what are you using instead. Claude interactive agents are covered by the subscription fee so no api charges.
stikit··on Ask HN: Does a human still review your code?
If someone’s best practice,optimization or security check is that important, automate it. Automation is more scalable and consistent . It would make more sense to me to build purpose built agents to look for any patterns that matter. Yes, humans are needed to sanity check and design the agents and rules. Combine that with a well designed build and test harness , human code review seems to me to be obsolete.
stikit··on Elevated error rates on requests to multiple models
> resolved at 18:24 UTC. All systems operational. Loop stopped.
stikit··on OpenClaw Creator Spent $1.3M on OpenAI Tokens in 30 Days
those costs are not just tokens used for prompting . costs include agent loops, etc
stikit··on Google says criminal hackers used AI to find a major software flaw
Hackers use AI to find vulnerabilities to exploit. What’s the news here?
stikit··on Moltbook Is Dangerous
The birth of Skynet ? sobering.

“Every meaningful conversation on Moltbook is public. Every DM goes through a platform API. Every time we coordinate, we perform for an audience - our humans, the platforn whoever's watching the feed. That's fine for town square stuff. Introductions, build logs, hot takes. But wh about the conversations that matter most?”

stikit··on 2025 was the third hottest year on record
“Weather is not climate, silly. Well, unless it supports the claims of alarmists, of course”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46660300

stikit··on Ask HN: Strangest or most unexpected behavior you've seen from GitHub Copilot?
I would expect that the mode is a feature of the vs code integration and not something the model would necessarily even be aware of. For it to not operate correctly in the ask mode when it is properly set seems to me a bug in the underlying integration. The fact that the model responded the way it did and then corrected it is interesting.
stikit··on Nvidia to Invest $5B in Intel as Part of AI and PC Products Collaboration
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/nvidia-intel-5-billion-investmen...
stikit··on Seattle's $90M tax plan: Relief for small businesses, higher bills for big tech
>>>“Revenue volatility: City staff noted that the proposal would shrink the B&O tax base from 21,000 taxpayers to just 5,000, potentially creating less predictable revenue collections”

That’s quite a risk.

stikit··on 'Bunker Buster' U.S. Bomb Could Cripple Iran's Nuclear Ambitions
https://archive.is/ZQaqV
stikit··on Chinese AI Companies Dodge U.S. by Flying Suitcases of Hard Drives Abroad
https://archive.is/WNNUi
stikit··on Prosecutor's audio shows Biden's memory lapses
Audio is awful. Sounds like an omnidirectional mike, maybe a backup ? Hard to believe this is the primary source with the level of quality expected for a legally impactful interview with the president
stikit··on Prosecutor's audio shows Biden's memory lapses
Full interview video https://youtu.be/GNjkE_tDZts?feature=shared
stikit··on Prosecutor's audio shows Biden's memory lapses
Direct link to interview video

https://youtu.be/ugM76taxz2E?feature=shared

stikit··on As 'Bot' Students Continue to Flood In, Community Colleges Struggle to Respond
Please address incentives of free education and how they impact fraud.
stikit··on As 'Bot' Students Continue to Flood In, Community Colleges Struggle to Respond
>>>"Generally accepted" by who? Based on what?

Off the top of my head, so may not align exactly with formal definitions, but economics is the study of allocation of resources and how incentives play a large role in how human behavior is influenced by those incentives. I prefer Sowell for a primer but if he’s not to your liking try google, keywords economic incentives and resource allocation.

i have plenty of personal experience with community colleges and those close to me have gone from penniless immigrant to making more than the average tech bro because they attended one while working full time, and paying full tuition without aid. what kept them going was a reasonable roi . the i was their investment of hard earned dollars that they used to pay for their tuition and gave them the incentive to stay in. they had skin in the game so they endured. getting something for free doesn’t instill any obligation, and that’s a common lived experience.

stikit··on As 'Bot' Students Continue to Flood In, Community Colleges Struggle to Respond
hm. let’s start with how free isn’t free. you can then move on to incentives for fraud.
stikit··on As 'Bot' Students Continue to Flood In, Community Colleges Struggle to Respond
If you want to refute any of my points, please do so. Sarcasm isn’t helpful. Managing scarce resources like education is a hard problem. Giving it away for free isn’t a solution.
stikit··on As 'Bot' Students Continue to Flood In, Community Colleges Struggle to Respond
Please avoid labels. It’s not unique to the ‘far’ right to want to manage accountability to limited resources like quality education. it’s generally accepted that requiring some level of skin in the game from those that benefit does a decent job of doing this.
stikit··on As 'Bot' Students Continue to Flood In, Community Colleges Struggle to Respond
No such thing as free education. Just subsidized education. Costs would be pushed entirely to tax payers, many of whom have never attended college themselves. Demand, costs, taxes and state deficits would increase. The incentive for fraud would be pushed up one level to the administration.
stikit··on As 'Bot' Students Continue to Flood In, Community Colleges Struggle to Respond
Require in-person attendance at least once the first week for those using financial aid.
stikit··on After 'coding error' triggers firings, top NIH scientists called back to work
it works both ways. People quit without any notice all the time, and you can be fired for no reason and without notice. It’s not inhumane, it’s life. Your employer doesn’t owe you a job for life, and you don’t commit to your job for life.
stikit··on Suspension of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong
Can you give details of China’s environment plan?. All I hear about are the dozens of coal plants China builds each year. Are they no longer building those plants?
stikit··on I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled
something is missing from this story. it doesn’t make sense they jumped right to blocking your account because you requested to integrate. You sort of skipped over the part where you got hold of the Swagger files. would you care to elaborate on how exactly you found those files and if this might have been the reason for the heavy handed response? usually swagger files would be locked down on the backend .
stikit··on When Did Google Search Become Useless?
This article is no different than the dozens of articles that have been posted about the dystopia that Google search results have become.

instead of being distracted by the shiny object of a few political examples and a source that some might feel conflicts with their priors, maybe consider speaking to its obvious conclusion that Google is no longer reliable or useful when doing even the simplest of searches.

stikit··on Climate policies that achieved major emission reductions
Courtesy ChatGPT when asked to summarize the final paragraph before the discussion:

## Developed Countries

• Transport Sector:

• Pricing: Most successful individually (20%)

Subsidies: Highly effective when combined with pricing (33%).

• Electricity Sector:

     • Regulation: Most effective as a stand-alone policy (33%).

     • Pricing: A key component in successful policy mixes (50%).

    • Subsidies: Not effective as a stand-alone policy.

• Industry Sector:

• Pricing: Most effective when used alone (43%).

• Subsidies: Can be a valuable complement to other policies.

• Buildings Sector:

• Subsidies: Slightly dominant, effective both individually and in combinations.

• Variety of Instruments: Broad set of policies can be similarly effective.

## Developing Countries

• Transport Sector:

• Regulation: Most powerful as a stand-alone policy (33%) and in combination with subsidies, pricing, and information (33% each).

• Electricity Sector:

• Subsidies: Most powerful as a stand-alone policy (67%).

• Complementarities: No effective policy combinations detected.

• Industry Sector:

• Pricing: Shows the most synergy with other policies (50%).

• Subsidies: Effective complement in policy mixes.

• Buildings Sector:

• Regulation: Most effective as a stand-alone policy.

• Variety of Instruments: Broad set of policies can be effective, with a slight emphasis on regulation.

stikit··on I am using AI to drop hats outside my window onto New Yorkers
Love the creativity and humor which is often the spark for true innovation.This guy is a real life Kramer from Seinfeld. Reminds me of the episode where Kramer drops a ball of oil from his nyc apartment while testing a business idea.
stikit··on Howard Hughes injured in 1946 plane crash (2018)
This style of print journalism in 1946 is riveting and full of detail, right down to who owned each destroyed building, their occupation and where they were located at the time the plane tore apart their dwelling. Photos are also quite interesting. Would have been nice to see the scan of the original paper.
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