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adamwong246on Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics (2023)

2016 is known in meme culture as a the climax of American culture, and I subscribe to this belief too. Everything since then has just gotten dumber and dumber. Not sure if DJT is cause or symptom but I do think the history books will regard 2016 as the beginning of great decline for America. Maybe we will put DJT away but the conditions for his rise to power remain.

adamwong246on Show HN: Broccoli, one shot coding agent on the cloud

I like everything about this idea but "one-shot". I work _with_ an LLM, but as Wozniak said, "Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window".

here's my [similar take](https://github.com/testeranto-dev/testeranto)

adamwong246on Ads in ChatGPT

I use DeepSeek because I trust the Chinese government more than OpenAI

adamwong246on Hold on to Your Hardware

I have often imagined writing a book, roughly "Fahrenheit 451 but with computers instead of books". Imagine a world you do not buy an iPhone- one is assigned to you at birth, a world were "installing software" on "a computer you own" are not just antiquated or taboo, but unthinkable.

adamwong246on Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?

I've never been more productive. If only I had a job...

adamwong246on Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock

easy problem to solve- single use zepplins.

adamwong246on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)

Testeranto - The AI powered BDD test framework for polyglot projects. There is a implementation now in ts, golang, rust, ruby, java and python. Add the language(s) that you need to your project and launch the server. Testeranto will run your BDD tests in docker and produce a set of results and logs. These logs, test results and your code are fed into an LLM, which fixes your tests for you. In essence, you write the tests and the LLM fills in the code.

AM3 - (Allied MasterComputer or Artificial Mind, version 3) - An attempt to make a symbolic AI that approaches the capacities of a LLM. An LLM makes variations on the same code and schedules those variations to play in "games". The results allow the LLM to make further changes.

adamwong246on Rentahuman – The Meatspace Layer for AI

We're all NPC's now

adamwong246on Tired of AI, people are committing to the analog lifestyle in 2026

I still think the internet could undergo a "collapse" and rapidly shrink to something resembling the 2000's internet. The enshitification of everything is quite literally, "mining out" the value of the internet, hollowing everything from below. At some point, nothing is believable and putting your "content" online amounts to giving it away. Eventually, the users _will_ walk away and suddenly the whole affair falls apart.

adamwong246on Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)

testeranto.com

I have built a multi language bdd test framework. A human can write the bdd specs and an LLM will generate the code to match.

adamwong246on I build products to get "unplugged" from the internet

We must stop pretending that we can implement restrictions that will keep us from becoming unfocused. You can delete your account, but you can always recreate it. You can add facebook.com to your etc hosts file, but then you can always re-edit that file to allow those domains. Focus is a mental discipline. The only way to focus is to focus on focusing.

adamwong246on All AI Videos Are Harmful (2025)

"synthetic reality" is my new favorite term.

adamwong246on Ask HN: What are you working on? (Jan 2026)

https://www.testeranto.com/

The AI-powered BDD test framework for polyglot projects.

adamwong246on Ÿnsect, a French insect farming startup, has been been placed into liquidation

I find it remarkable, and depressing, that so many people just cannot handle the idea of insect protein. You get similar resistance to water reclamation from sewage and nuclear power. How are we supposed to change the world when we always hamstrung by all the mercurial and irrational whining?

adamwong246on An ounce of silver is now worth more than a barrel of oil

You are right! Thank you for correcting me

adamwong246on An ounce of silver is now worth more than a barrel of oil

All petroleum was created from ancient forests before the evolution of microorganisms that could decompose fiber, so the plant material was simply buried and gradually became petroleum. Above ground, evolution produced organisms which could break down fiber. My point being, that not only is petroleum very useful, it is exceptionally rare on a geological timeline (at least on this planet ). It's like a cosmic trust fund, and like most trust fund recipents, we utterly squandered it. We took all this free energy, burned it to power ai slop, and poisoned ourselves in the process. We should have been using that oil to push humans out of the gravity well to Titan where petroleum is abundant. But no, we wanted big cars, cheap electricity and single use utensils.

Edit: I was mistaken, confusing coal and petroleum. While petroleum comes from microscopic ocean life, coal forms from the remains of terrestrial plants.

adamwong246on Grok and the Naked King: The Ultimate Argument Against AI Alignment

I think it's about time that we created a FOSS model

adamwong246on Ask HN: Bloggers, how do you manage your content?

https://www.npmjs.com/package/funkophile

adamwong246on Thin desires are eating life

Everything is slop now.

adamwong246on Thin desires are eating life

Get a motorcycle. Learn to ride it. Learn to fix it. Obtain joy.

adamwong246on US Tech Force

America as a brand... my soul weeps.

adamwong246on US Tech Force

> Backed by the White House

Yeah, that's going to be a hard pass from me

adamwong246on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

I will give it a try if you give my project a star ;-) https://github.com/adamwong246/testeranto

adamwong246on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

https://testeranto.com/

Testeranto: The AI-powered BDD test framework for polyglot projects.

Teseranto is test framework that integrates with LLMs to bring together BDD and vibe coding

adamwong246on Microservices should form a polytree

the problem with "microservices" is the "micro". Why we thought we need so many tiny services is beyond me. How about just a few regular sized services?

adamwong246on Wolfram Compute Services

What I know about Wolfram is pretty old, so maybe I was unaware. But I do remember a time before LLMs and even 15 years ago, Wolfram was very impressive.

adamwong246on Wolfram Compute Services

I'm slightly terrified of the combination of Wolfram and a LLM.

adamwong246on Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode

Fine, but I don't care about the average person. _I_ do not want this junk in my life. I don't deserve to be treated this way. If everyone else want to be manipulated by their fridge, thats one's on them, but count me out. It doesn't matter _if_ you install your own firmware, but _if you have the right to do so_. I don't own a gun, but I still believe that owning a firearm is a human right.

adamwong246on Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4Mn2NbjlqU

adamwong246on Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode

yeah but what if (just hear me out) we just SELL our content. Money exchanged for goods rendered. Why subsidize this exchange with ads?