Hacker News: 01284a7e

New comment by 01284a7e in "“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically"

01284a7e — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 13:43:26 +0000

Don't quote Nassim Taleb, unless it's to be an arrogant dick.

-- Me

New comment by 01284a7e in "Spending on AI Is Becoming Almost Impossible for Businesses to Budget"

01284a7e — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 14:51:46 +0000

Did anyone ever do a software project before AI? You can predict costs far better than you can with people.

Yeah, that guy you hired to write the prototype went on a 2 month bender and created 0 usable code. Did you budget for that? Oh, okay. The strategies to deal with spending on tokens are nothing compared to the overhead of managing actual people and their outputs.

New comment by 01284a7e in "OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company's culture is 'broken'"

01284a7e — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:06:09 +0000

Working in safety at OpenAI or Anthropic is zeroth world problems.

New comment by 01284a7e in "AI Makes Me Sad"

01284a7e — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 16:28:15 +0000

> I think I could have been a pretty formidable startup founder had I been born five or ten years earlier.

I wish that I was born a thousand years ago

I wish that I'd sail the darkened seas,

On a great big clipper ship,

Going from this land here to that,

In a sailor's suit and cap,

Away from the big city

Where a man can not be free

Of all of the evils of this town,

And of himself, and those around.

- The Velvet Underground, "Heroin"

New comment by 01284a7e in "Tells of a Slop UI"

01284a7e — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:34:29 +0000

Cloudflare is slopped out these days. Tons of people uncoordinated, all flailing around. Vibe flailing, I suppose.

New comment by 01284a7e in "Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI"

01284a7e — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 13:06:02 +0000

And at least a few poorly educated folks in positions of insignificance, like myself.

New comment by 01284a7e in "There's no point at which turning your brain off will work"

01284a7e — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:19:52 +0000

"What reason is there for the company to employ the meat proxy?" Maybe some form of liability, accountability...

New concept: the AI patsy

New comment by 01284a7e in "Intelligence per Watt: Measuring Intelligence Efficiency of Local AI"

01284a7e — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 17:40:09 +0000

This is annoying but, can you point me to where to get started with local models? A repo, website, something?

New comment by 01284a7e in "Let's make quality the norm again"

01284a7e — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:29:57 +0000

Sidebar: Don't video games have ever growing competition with existing games?

I decided not to buy games until I beat the ones I already have. I am now stuck on NES games and will probably be stuck for the rest of my life.

New comment by 01284a7e in "I'm sorry, you're not going to die from an AI-engineered supervirus"

01284a7e — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 02:27:57 +0000

I interpret it similarly, I think - in that you can't totally predict what's going to be the thing that really bites you in the ass.

New comment by 01284a7e in "I'm sorry, you're not going to die from an AI-engineered supervirus"

01284a7e — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 01:31:16 +0000

"The problems with which the universe can confront any society are, for practical purposes, infinite in number and endless in variety." - Joseph Tainter

AI will really aid the universe in generating more problems. Maybe it's not a supervirus, but hell, maybe it is.

New comment by 01284a7e in "iPhone Duo"

01284a7e — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 19:55:37 +0000

Just Klarna (or shall we say, "Apple Upgrade" [1] now) it. You need to consume. Not want, need.

1: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/07/apple-upgrade-launche...

New comment by 01284a7e in "AI models ran real businesses: They sent $12,431 in fake invoices, lost $3,200"

01284a7e — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 18:43:26 +0000

AI is trained on Reddit stooges who run businesses like this.

New comment by 01284a7e in "Keep Our Servers Running"

01284a7e — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 14:35:31 +0000

"Storj, the decentralized storage service, is currently in Chap 11 bankruptcy,"

"Internet Archive could buy Storj"

Insanely convoluted solution that only someone with crypto-brain would ever come up with. You are really suggesting the Internet Archive should buy a bankrupted crypto company so they can store their data? What?

New comment by 01284a7e in "Ask HN: So many patterns I know only in theory"

01284a7e — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 15:59:05 +0000

They are baked in to the libraries, frameworks, and services I have used throughout my 15 year career. In a practical sense, I can diagnose issues and point to them as potential solutions. I would not I really know them in the sense I could speak to a lot of them off the top of my head. I probably should be able to do so (if nothing else to impress the types of people who hire developers), but I do not find the inner workings of production-grade web development particularly interesting, at least not anymore.

New comment by 01284a7e in "Flock used >100 times to track veteran who recorded traffic stop"

01284a7e — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 17:21:21 +0000

They are the reason these companies exist. When it comes to the creation of large for-profit technology companies, they decide what comes about and what doesn't. The blame is on them.

New comment by 01284a7e in "Playa Phone"

01284a7e — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:30:49 +0000

If you can make it to Burning Man, then your life is what you make it. And if that's true, then it could be fun.

New comment by 01284a7e in "Terry Rozier and the Teleprompt Operator"

01284a7e — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 14:51:39 +0000

"This is frustrating to admit, because prediction markets can be societally useful: it is important to have good forecasts on federal government shutdowns, landfall of hurricanes in the Southeast, and traffic through the Strait of Hormuz"...

Prediction markets do not provide good forecasts, and are in no way "societally useful".

New comment by 01284a7e in "How Universities Should Prepare Founders"

01284a7e — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:12:36 +0000

"There probably aren't infinite good ideas that can be successful at any one time. If you encourage more people to become founders then they aren't going to go into other places where their skills might be better suited."

Yes, exactly. I do not think you need to try so hard to get more founders. Most small businesses fail. And even most venture-backed startups fail. You are already throwing a ton of eggs at the wall, which is mostly a waste of eggs. Even one of YC's largest successes (DoorDash) is nothing but a middle man of fast food enabled by mobile technology, which it did nothing to invent.

New comment by 01284a7e in "Anthropic Sees over $30T in Potential Revenue"

01284a7e — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 16:32:12 +0000

Before you dump it, you have to pump it...

In other words, we are to see a media barrage leading up to the IPO to get retail investors to jump on the stock.