Hacker News: AFF87

New comment by AFF87 in "Startup Just Got Approval to Test Beaming Sunlight to Earth"

AFF87 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 08:42:47 +0000

Now it comes the hard part, making it happen. It's easy to create a computer video to demo and raise money, and the approval is just a paperwork game... now it's time to see if the science and engineering is there

New comment by AFF87 in "Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk"

AFF87 — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 16:08:07 +0000

We are very early in the semaglutide world, exciting times ahead!

New comment by AFF87 in "A quarter of YC Fall 2025 startups are blank pages to AI crawlers"

AFF87 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 22:59:31 +0000

Why does this matter at all? Duolingo has the same and it does not seem they have an issue attracting users?

New comment by AFF87 in "Garry Tan says turning down early offer to join Palantir a $2-4B 'mistake'"

AFF87 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 22:50:19 +0000

According to Peter Walker's analysis [1] Garry should had been employee 1 to 6 to get that... possible?

[1] https://carta.com/data/linkedin-early-startup-employee-equit...

The cost of being too patient

AFF87 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:15:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nber.org/papers/w26677

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49279340

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by AFF87 in "I'm leaving OpenAI to build Jurassic Park"

AFF87 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 07:53:17 +0000

Finally a company I am qualified to work for, how do I apply?

New comment by AFF87 in "I downloaded and reviewed NYC's grocery store RFP"

AFF87 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:51:40 +0000

Then I'll be happy and change how I think. My information is based on the RFP discussed on the link and the experience we have from state run grocery stores in other countries, but happy to be proved wrong

New comment by AFF87 in "Show HN: No-Bullshit CRM – Fast, simple and local"

AFF87 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:26:52 +0000

You may want to add English and also a few pages about how to use it and so on

New comment by AFF87 in "Uber pledges $10B to win robotaxi race"

AFF87 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:25:42 +0000

Interesting, with Waymo coming to London this year (or so they say) the competition is heating up

New comment by AFF87 in "Ask HN: Are you working 996 hours?"

AFF87 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:59:33 +0000

No. I can understand doing so if it's your own company and you have a significant % of the business. But if you are an employee it does not make sense, you will not gain the time back

New comment by AFF87 in "Mini retirements: like a sabbatical, but much smaller"

AFF87 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 11:47:35 +0000

A break is just not as sellable. We need to call them something different so we can have blog posts and podcasts about them

New comment by AFF87 in "I downloaded and reviewed NYC's grocery store RFP"

AFF87 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:29:26 +0000

On the one hand I want they to go ahead with this so that everyone can see how bad of an idea this was. On the other hand I like Mamdani and some of his policies and this will undo a lot of the good things

New comment by AFF87 in "The Great Attack: Survivors' Tales"

AFF87 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:15:48 +0000

Yes, it's a fictional scenario. They have several narratives exploring different potential futures

The Great Attack: Survivors' Tales

AFF87 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 08:02:30 +0000

Article URL: https://athena.westpoint.edu/items/0b0a7046-90f8-48ef-8b73-429b6536cbd4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49142153

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by AFF87 in "Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots"

AFF87 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:03:20 +0000

Baffles me how this is not that well known

New comment by AFF87 in "First Teaser for Apple TV's 'Neuromancer' Debuts at SDCC"

AFF87 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 22:25:01 +0000

Apple TV has really good productions, excited to see this one

New comment by AFF87 in "The Future According to LLMs"

AFF87 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 09:39:48 +0000

Really interesting! If I may suggest a slight change, for the confidence classification it would be useful to have probability percentages or a probability yardstick

New comment by AFF87 in "Hannah Fry Wins the Leelavati Prize in 2026 for Mathematics Outreach"

AFF87 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 12:54:56 +0000

Really well deserved! And to think her whole life's trajectory changed because of her year of saying "yes" to everything

Stories from Tomorrow. Ministry of Defense (2023)

AFF87 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:25:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/stories-from-the-future-exploring-new-technology-through-useful-fiction/stories-from-tomorrow-exploring-new-technology-through-useful-fiction

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49033094

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by AFF87 in "Neill Blomkamp's new zombie AI 'film' is just slop warmed over"

AFF87 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 22:08:10 +0000

The first uses of GCI in movies are from the 70s and the 80s [1] way before than Jurassic Park. AI in videos is what? 3? There will slop and failures along the way but we are still very early on

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-generated_imagery