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nickphx

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Sausage factory field technician for digital meat processing firms (internet marketing).
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nickphx··on Ask HN: Anyone still coding like 2021? Where do you work?
I ended a 10 year contract when the new clownshoes CTO started hyping the slop. I would rather stare at a wall than 'manage' an 'agentic team'.
nickphx··on Why office workers are turning against AI
I quit a position after 10 years because the latest "CTO" is "all in on AI".
nickphx··on Claude for Commerce Agents
lol much innovation wow
nickphx··on Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them
Ah nice, the site uses nextjs/vercel and is hosted by AWS ...
nickphx··on Kinney Drugs pulls back AI phone assistant after hundreds of customer complaints
and that was not due to answering phones .. adding a nondeterministic black box of bullshit will change nothing.
nickphx··on US agency ends 39% household cap on local TV station owners
How does a commission override a congressional ruling though? Seems like the "checks" part of the "balances" is a bit out of balance.
nickphx··on What does GitHub's security team even do?
"security" is a cost-center, it does not generate revenue. Incidents from lack of "security" need to have a greater impact on revenue before the typical corporate entity spends money.
nickphx··on Brazilian farmers tokenized dairy cows to get loans, bypassing bank limits
huh? platform? lol. you go to bank with proof of collateral.. get secured loan. wtf does everything need a platform or some VC garbage scrambling to find rent.
nickphx··on GDID Windows – Cut the tracker that follows you even under VPN
it is generated from identifiers on device by a remote microsoft system where it is stored ..
nickphx··on GDID Windows – Cut the tracker that follows you even under VPN
They claim it was an ngrok account that was used to host an endpoint used in the compromise, tied to a microsoft account / gdid that was passed when ngrok software was downloaded from the "microsoft store".
nickphx··on “We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”
Oh, ok. How would you describe how the "frontier us companies" acquired the data used to form their models?
nickphx··on Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude
anthropic etal would not have a product to sell without their violation.. kdc had a service that just happened to be popular for pirating... how are the two even remotely similar?
nickphx··on Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?
Who is "we"? Is there a mouse in your pocket?
nickphx··on Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds
oh boy, who validates that the blackbox of bullshit is spewing valid information and not the typical nonsense ...?
nickphx··on ChatGPT Work
who cares?
nickphx··on Show HN: LastShelf – an emergency map of your family's documents bills& contacts
uhhhh why yes, i would love to give a vibecoded app access to all of my important information so it can stored for "safe" keeping... a post it note on your front door would be more secure and likely last longer.
nickphx··on The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war
huh? how does one keep a human in the loop for decision making it there is not an 'electronic tether'?
nickphx··on Microsoft Can Track Users via a Windows Device ID
from the microsoft store. the ngrok app was downloaded via microsoft store...
nickphx··on Spain's cadastre API is SOAP from 2003, so I built a JSON wrapper (+MCP)
those honest caveats though.. lol
nickphx··on How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s
google has a large amount of "caching servers (GGC)" located in data centers for residential providers all over the world.. They use these servers for a variety of services.. Most of the traffic I have seen from them have been for their "URL preview" service ..
nickphx··on What it feels like to work with Mythos
oh look, more overhyped drivel from a non-technical person.
nickphx··on FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs
Only if you do not require voice service.
nickphx··on New York just passed a one-year temporary ban on data centers
the economics do not work without the density.
nickphx··on New York just passed a one-year temporary ban on data centers
not really. datacenters require greater weight, power and cooling density per square foot than the typical commercial office space was built to accomodate..
nickphx··on FBI arrests CIA official with $40M in gold bars in his home
and what sovereign nation's regulations are you subjected to?
nickphx··on Real-time LLM Inference on Standard GPUs: 3k tokens/s per request
cool.. so now approximations of copies of copies can be approximated and copied faster?
nickphx··on FBI Arrests CIA Official with $40M in Gold Bars in His Home
flock or any number of cameras that contribute to flock would see you.
nickphx··on The X-Files has made me nostalgic for a time I never experienced
I am not sure where you experienced the 90s or at what age, but your experience is the opposite of mine.
nickphx··on One Brain to Query: Wiring a 60-Person Company into a Single Slack Bot
i have found flagging and ignoring is better than complaining... the bots dislike those that point our the uselessness of llm.
nickphx··on AI may be making us think and write more alike
Who is "us"?
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