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BarryMilo

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BarryMilo··on Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr
It's Claude with a "slang+profanity" filter lol. The cadence is so tired and grating.
BarryMilo··on The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening
It's demonstrably not. This summary, somehow, often fails to search, or fails to read what it searches and gives you the opposite answer. You shouldn't trust it.
BarryMilo··on Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?
Your comment seems to imply there's a good guy in a this. I just see the inevitable end of an era, championed by predictably selfish actors.
BarryMilo··on Show HN: Ordewell – turn one goal into an ordered plan of coding-agent tasks
Complete brainrot lol
BarryMilo··on Show HN: The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021
From a content point of view, this could've been a tweet (or a toot).
BarryMilo··on The shrinking landscape of linguistic diversity in the age of LLMs
Talking to developers about humanities often highlights how smart we're not.
BarryMilo··on Exit the Cave
hahah what a weird take! You don't have any biological imperatives for sex, and dare I say affection? Must be quite the peaceful life indeed!
BarryMilo··on Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study
The number of ridiculous claims in this thread...

First off, all Canadian provinces are different. Here in Quebec, there is a absolutely a private option. Not everyone likes that it exists, but most people seem to like having that option.

Canadians live better for longer on average (for cheaper healthcare overall). Any other metric is just a misguided attempt to justify the US status quo, which has nothing going for it unless you're rich.

BarryMilo··on Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
Not my experience at all. Ever since Google neutered ABP with this move, it feels like everyone else just gave up the arms race. Which makes sense give how little market share FF now has.
BarryMilo··on AI Is Solving CTF Challenges in Minutes
Reads like AI writing again. Can you just post the prompt?
BarryMilo··on How to Exist
As someone who used to meditate, I don't think you did it wrong. There are many right ways to do it, depending on what you seek.

Maybe it's not what you needed at the moment, especially if you're not an anxious person. But these days most people are anxious or stressed out, and the barest amount of meditation can help tremendously. Or it might do nothing, everyone is different.

BarryMilo··on Leaked financial docs show OpenAI is losing billions of dollars a year
You've seen Sam Altman's interviews, yet you still think him a competent man? I think he's rather the embodiment of the death of meritocracy as an idea.
BarryMilo··on Domain expertise has always been the real moat
Your dad owning the company?
BarryMilo··on Domain-Camouflaged Injection Attacks Evade Detection in Multi-Agent LLM Systems
This is an "uh oh" moment, isn't it?
BarryMilo··on Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud (Resolved)
Surely this is automated. They wouldn't waste precious dollars on employing humans just to keep other humans happy.
BarryMilo··on Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent
They learn if they have to, like we always did. In-person exams (proctored) are good for testing that.
BarryMilo··on An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below
How are people still deluded enough about this economic system to believe rank implies competence?
BarryMilo··on Are the costs of AI agents also rising exponentially? (2025)
It also used to be that reddit comments were the epitome of quality in their time, much closer to current HN if not better. I attributed that to the voting mechanism; clearly I was mistaken.
BarryMilo··on Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net
Other commenters laughing at you for the price... It's not about the price it's about the barrier. Even if I love a service, I won't get very many people to try it if they need to enter a credit card.
BarryMilo··on Embarrassingly simple self-distillation improves code generation
I seem to remember that's one of the first things they tried, but the general models tended to win out. Turns out there's more to learn from all code/discussions than from just JS.
BarryMilo··on Python 3.15's JIT is now back on track
Indeed, Python's version format is semver but it's just aesthetics, they remove stuff in most (every?) minor version. Just yesterday I wasted hours trying to figure out a bug before realizing my colleague hadn't read the patch notes.
BarryMilo··on John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists
its*
BarryMilo··on Google Workspace CLI
Took them this long to realize MCPs are just worse APIs.
BarryMilo··on Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
I'm not scared that my skills will be obsolete, I'm scared employers will think they are. The labor market was already irrational enough as it was.
BarryMilo··on The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday
Well, I've worked as a developer in many companies and have never met a DBA. I've met tons of devops, who are just rebranded sysadmins as far as anyone can tell.
BarryMilo··on Self Driving Car Insurance
Imagine this for a whole neighborhood! Maybe it'd be more efficient for the transport to come at regular intervals though. And while we're at it, let's pick up other people along the way, you'll need a bigger vehicle though, perhaps bus-sized...

Half-jokes aside, if you don't own it, you'll end up paying more to the robotaxi company than you would have paid to own the car. This is all but guaranteed based on all SaaS services so far.

BarryMilo··on The Writers Came at Night
Marvel movies is the worst example, it's a roller coaster ride, not a movie. I agree any braindead idiot or machine could write one. But they couldn't know to write The Pianist or how the subject could be approached or why it's time to write it.

AI can make slop yes, but it can't make the kind of art people don't get tired of. It's the difference between wisdom and knowledge.

BarryMilo··on The Writers Came at Night
> Let's say, just for the sake of argument, that AI can eventually serve to level the playing field for everything. It outputs novels, paintings, screenplays - whatever you ask it for - of such high quality that they can't be discerned from the best human-created works.

This requires the machine to understand a whole bunch of things. You're talking about AGI, at that point there will be blood in the streets and screenplays will be the least of our problems.

BarryMilo··on Texas police invested in phone-tracking software and won’t say how it’s used
Truly a "why say many words" title!
BarryMilo··on Show HN: Distributing AI agent skills via NPM
Of all the packaging systems to do this with, npm is certainly one of them.
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