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nickphx

417 karma · joined April 21, 2015

Sausage factory field technician for digital meat processing firms (internet marketing).
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nickphx··on Zuckerberg's "fix" for child safety could end anonymous internet access for all
sounds like a potential use for generative AI.. they can "validate" and "verify" the "biometrics" of the output from this-person-does-not-exist[.]com
nickphx··on Claude is a space to think
how is it useful to be fed misleading nonsense?
nickphx··on Rural Americans are trying to hold back the tide of AI
insanely loud. even more so when they are running massive natural gas burning turbines to generate power ...
nickphx··on Two kinds of AI users are emerging
Three kinds, those who do not use it.
nickphx··on Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out
great.. maybe they can leave the other 'networks' to the meatbags...
nickphx··on Without benchmarking LLMs, you're likely overpaying
ah yes... nothing like using another nondeterministic black box of nonsense to judge / rate the output of another.. then charge others for it.. lol
nickphx··on Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?
lol no. it is all fomo clown marketing. they make outlandish claims and all fall short of producing anything more than noise.
nickphx··on Google removes AI health summaries
huh.. so google doesn't trust it's own product.. but openai and anthropic are happy to lie? lol
nickphx··on I Fed Claude 7 Years of Daily Journals. It Showed Me the Future of AI
oh boy! another completely inane use of an LLM.. Lets make a blog about it?
nickphx··on Ask HN: Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha?
no.
nickphx··on Google broke my heart
send them a notorized dmca claim to their legal service mailing address...?
nickphx··on Meta made scam ads harder to find instead of removing them
is it really that difficult to conclude support quality is tied to overall advertiser spend?
nickphx··on 2025: The Year in LLMs
rapid advancements in what? hallucinations..? FOMO marketing? certainly nothing productive.
nickphx··on Show HN: Superset – Terminal to run 10 parallel coding agents
ah so now you can be a "10x" engineer -- 10x the cost with 0 to show. Where do I sign up?
nickphx··on Show HN: Mysti – Claude, Codex, and Gemini debate your code, then synthesize
how would using multiple services that are incapable of performing the work correctly result in better work?
nickphx··on Ask HN: What tech purchase did you regret even though reviews were great?
i got 4 used ones 20 years ago, still have them, excellent for my sedentary existence.
nickphx··on A16z-backed Doublespeed hacked, revealing what its AI-generated accounts promote
why was the original title edited to remove the reference to a16z? why hide investment into socially unacceptable product? if you are going to be a scumbag weasel, own it.
nickphx··on Show HN: Autofix Bot – Hybrid static analysis and AI code review agent
"shifted bottleneck to code review"... understatement of decade.
nickphx··on How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM
yeah.. their list of issues speaks more to their lack of experience and understanding of linux and embedded linux devices wrapped in xenophobic nonsense...
nickphx··on AI agents find $4.6M in blockchain smart contract exploits
lol, no, the "ai agents" found what was already known... so amazing.
nickphx··on Sycophancy is the first LLM "dark pattern"
ehhh.. the misleading claims boasted in the typical AI FOMO marketing is/was the first "dark pattern".
nickphx··on How do you handle lost webhooks in production?
Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaah.. I am not sure adding an additional third party and point of potential failure would help mitigate the issue of receiving data from third parties... but good luck.
nickphx··on EPA just approved new 'forever chemical' pesticides for use on food
which has been happening since the 1970s...
nickphx··on I Let Claude Build My Home Network: Two ISPs Bonded, $312/Year Saved
indeed.
nickphx··on I Let Claude Build My Home Network: Two ISPs Bonded, $312/Year Saved
If you believe the two are similar in complexity and effort, you have much to learn.
nickphx··on I Let Claude Build My Home Network: Two ISPs Bonded, $312/Year Saved
yeaaaaaah .. something the llm didn't explain is how asymmetric bandwidth or latency between the connections will degrade performance... or how many services like streaming, banking, gaming will restrict, block, or otherwise treat the connection differently because the traffic now exits via a datacenter or VPN IP/ASN..
nickphx··on I Let Claude Build My Home Network: Two ISPs Bonded, $312/Year Saved
oh boy, how amazing... an llm managed to generate some iptables rules and sysctl settings that have been well documented for years..
nickphx··on Agent design is still hard
ai is useless. anyone claiming otherwise is dishonest
nickphx··on Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10
airdrop uses wifi direct... so
nickphx··on GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT
smarter? lol.
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