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peterldowns commented on The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday   campedersen.com/singulari... · Posted by u/ecto
burkaman · 13 hours ago
This is incredible.

> A thoughtful-man named Maxwell Mouser had just produced a work of actinic philosophy. It took him seven minutes to write it. To write works of philosophy one used the flexible outlines and the idea indexes; one set the activator for such a wordage in each subsection; an adept would use the paradox, feed-in, and the striking-analogy blender; one calibrated the particular-slant and the personality-signature. It had to come out a good work, for excellence had become the automatic minimum for such productions. “I will scatter a few nuts on the frosting,” said Maxwell, and he pushed the lever for that. This sifted handfuls of words like chthonic and heuristic and prozymeides through the thing so that nobody could doubt it was a work of philosophy.

Sounds exactly like someone twiddling the knobs of an LLM.

peterldowns · 10 hours ago
Ballard covered this theme a few different times in his short stories, I believe before this
peterldowns commented on Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents   entire.io/blog/hello-enti... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
gabeidx · 16 hours ago
Pierre didn't shutdown, they said they just paused signups on the code review app to focus on the code storage service.

Productizing the building blocks of the platform seems like the smart play in today's environment honestly.

peterldowns · 16 hours ago
Sure but I dont want to build my own Github I just want to use a beautiful and faster alternative
peterldowns commented on Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents   entire.io/blog/hello-enti... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
peterldowns · 17 hours ago
Its a shame Pierre shut down. Wish they could have made it work. Github but made by Linear would be a dream.
peterldowns commented on Luce: First Electric Ferrari   ferrari.com/en-US/auto/fe... · Posted by u/kaizenb
tiffanyh · 2 days ago
Porsche is the only car company that has nailed interior EV design - IMO.

Their interiors look high-end, functional and not just a minimalist big computer screen.

https://www.caranddriver.com/photos/g46528574/2024-porsche-m...

peterldowns · a day ago
It literally is just a big minimalist computer screen. I drive a taycan and it would be significantly better if they were to remove the massive touchpad and replace it with a cluster of physical controls.
peterldowns commented on GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams   iankduncan.com/engineerin... · Posted by u/codesuki
peterldowns · 5 days ago
Agreed with absolutely all of this. Really well written. Right now at work we're getting along fine with Actions + WarpBuild but if/when things start getting annoying I'm going to switch us over to Buildkite, which I've used before and greatly enjoyed.
peterldowns commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)    · Posted by u/whoishiring
tannervanessen · 6 days ago
this sounds awesome! just put in my application, i promise i am real: https://tanner-vanessen.com/
peterldowns · 6 days ago
no impact on your application (will review shortly) but your site is down for me
peterldowns commented on Claude Code for Infrastructure   fluid.sh/... · Posted by u/aspectrr
hebejebelus · 7 days ago
Yeah. The times I have let claude off the read-only leash, it's gone fine for me too (with stern warnings not to do anything stupid, and a close eye). But that's not really solving the same problem as this project, I guess. From what I can see this is using a safer and more reproducible method (and not k8s native, so it feels a little foreign to me).
peterldowns · 6 days ago
Opus 4.5 is pretty good about following instructions to not do anything destructive, but Gemini 3 Flash actively disregards my advice and just starts running commands. Definitely recommend setting up default-readonly access for stuff like this and requiring some kind of out-of-band escalation process for when you need to do writes/destroys.
peterldowns commented on Claude Code for Infrastructure   fluid.sh/... · Posted by u/aspectrr
levkk · 7 days ago
So... I already tell Claude Code to do this. Just run kubectl for me please and figure out why my helm chart is broken.

Scary? A little but it's doing great. Not entirely sure why a specialized tool is needed when the general purpose CLI is working.

peterldowns · 6 days ago
I do this but make sure to only have readonly/nondestructive access. It's extremely cool how well it works.
peterldowns commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)    · Posted by u/whoishiring
peterldowns · 6 days ago
At CloudX (https://cloudx.io) we’re building a new supply-side advertising platform for mobile publishers. Yes, it's ads, and yes, there's AI involved, so stop reading here if that's not interesting to you.

It's a gnarly infra problem with huge scale, combined with an interesting product space that we think legitimately benefits from tasteful AI automation. We're doing cool things with Nitro Enclaves to prove that our auctions are fair. And our founding team have done this before with great success, first at MoPub (sold to Twitter) and MAX (sold to AppLovin).

We're hiring (all remote) for:

- Senior Fullstack Engineer https://jobs.gem.com/cloudx/am9icG9zdDogum5THF3fORqb1eEupFQx

- Senior Infrastructure Engineer https://jobs.gem.com/cloudx/am9icG9zdDo4vl4A1sEcc7sDQf8ZYiqR

- Senior Android SDK Engineer https://jobs.gem.com/cloudx/am9icG9zdDqPAWu1cxr3PmEuuTIdliI6

- Senior iOS SDK Engineer https://jobs.gem.com/cloudx/am9icG9zdDpOy3Qmt1fLsOu4gKwtwWTz

Our philosophy is to keep the team small, well-paid, and productive. We deploy every day and our monorepo CI suite takes about a minute to pass.

The best way to apply is directly through those jobs pages. I got so much direct email spam the last time I posted here, I'm afraid I have to ask you not to contact me directly about this role. If you're a real HN reader you're always welcome to contact me with any questions or concerns, but please do not just apply by sending me an email.

Any other hiring managers seeing an incredible amount of fake applicants?

peterldowns commented on Alex Honnold completes Taipei 101 skyscraper climb without ropes or safety net   cnn.com/sport/live-news/t... · Posted by u/keepamovin
peterldowns · 17 days ago
One of the most incredible feats of strength and daring I've ever witnessed. The only thing at all comparable was watching Baumgartner freefall back to earth from the edge of space. Unbelievable!

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