flitzofolov (u/flitzofolov)

flitzofolov commented on Meta acquires Moltbook axios.com/2026/03/10/meta... · Posted by u/mmayberry

Correct. Now just waiting for it to reach full circle and have them write a "I have joined XXXX company to make the world a better place" blog and have it reach front page of HN.

Like that malware author who recently joined OpenAI did https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47028013 or that other one who went to his hairstylist and was enlightened while having a haircut that he should join OpenAI https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46920487

flitzofolov · 2 days ago

malware author is pretty harsh, but fair analysis overall

flitzofolov commented on Software engineers can no longer neglect their soft skills qu8n.com/posts/most-impor... · Posted by u/quanwinn

CrulesAll · 2 months ago

Software 'engineers' are going to have learn the hard skills that they have gotten by without thus far. The ones who were never engineers in the first place will have to learn 'soft skills' because they are incapable. I believe @ Tsoding put it best: The only thing AI will do, in so far as coding goes, is to remove a lot of people who should never have been in it in the first place.

flitzofolov · 2 months ago

Can you elaborate on this?

What are some examples of skills you think are now essential, that prior have been taken for granted or obviated in some way?

flitzofolov commented on A Navajo weaving of an integrated circuit: the 555 timer righto.com/2025/09/marilo... · Posted by u/defrost

djmips · 6 months ago

This is how we pass our chip designs to our descendents so they may rebuild civlization.

flitzofolov · 6 months ago

Reminds me of "A Canticle for Leibowitz".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz

flitzofolov commented on Sam Altman was wrong: AI didn't defeat auth. Single factors did stytch.com/blog/ai-didnt-... · Posted by u/prydonius

flitzofolov · 7 months ago

Nice to see a well reasoned counter to Altman's hyperbole.

flitzofolov commented on Meta’s brave new horizons ft.com/content/df26fc4c-5... · Posted by u/KnuthIsGod

xyzzy9563 · a year ago

I think the metaverse will do well once they can use AI to generate content, or other AI game features.

flitzofolov · a year ago

That's like adding puke frosting to a turd cake.

flitzofolov commented on It is time to standardize principles and practices for software memory safety cacm.acm.org/opinion/it-i... · Posted by u/mepian

flitzofolov · a year ago

Makes sense, good luck! I know that sounds snarky, I'm looking forward to rational progress and cooperation on the evolution and adoption of the standard. Just haven't seen that played out in such a planned orderly fashion yet (ipv6?).

flitzofolov commented on Does anyone else wonder about this? · Posted by u/ekoeko

flitzofolov · a year ago

You are not alone, it is absurd. The meaning is what you make of it.

I recommend reading Carl Sagan for the cosmic perspective and embracing the awe.

It's worth adding, that while it is indeed all arbitrary and we are cast here without rhyme or reason, not everyone is born with the same lot in life. I also recommend reading Angela Davis for the perspective of systematically oppressed people and their struggles for liberation.

For me, when I do get lost in similar thoughts, it helps me to ground in my actual experience, and especially in what I can do in the short time I've been given to ponder to help others make their lives better.

flitzofolov commented on Principles for building and scaling feature flag systems docs.getunleash.io/topics... · Posted by u/ferrantim

flitzofolov · 2 years ago

I couldn't find an easy link from these docs to the product page on mobile. Seems like a wasted opportunity. I had to edit the URL to get to the company website.

flitzofolov commented on Principles for building and scaling feature flag systems docs.getunleash.io/topics... · Posted by u/ferrantim

gingerrr · 2 years ago

Definitely getting strong uncanny valley prose vibes.

Hard to tell if it's generated or written in an attempt to be as plain English as possible, but either way feels strangely vacuous for a technical opinion piece. There's no writer's voice.

flitzofolov · 2 years ago

It's not really an opinion piece is it? It's docs. The language seems appropriate for articulating principles.

flitzofolov commented on Show HN: EthicalAds – Privacy-first ad network for developers ethicalads.io... · Posted by u/ericholscher

ericholscher · 4 years ago

Definitely true. Hopefully the folks who have the skillset to build a large OSS project, and build a network of fake traffic, would find other ways to spend their time with a higher return on investment than a 30% increment of their revenue.

But it will certainly happen, and hopefully we can continue to minimize it. We've generally seen fraud that looks like a site with no real traffic, and trying to generate 1000% returns, which is a much easier pattern to catch.

If you have any suggestions for ways we might improve our fraud tracking, definitely happy to hear them at eric@ our domain.

flitzofolov · 4 years ago

There are products designed to solve this problem: https://www.humansecurity.com/products/ad-tech-teams

Disclosure - I used to work for WhiteOps (now known as Human Security apparently).

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