Hacker News: GeorgeOldfield

New comment by GeorgeOldfield in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

GeorgeOldfield — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:53:00 +0000

gemini isn't even that good. just tested 3.5 on usual complex prompts to opus/chat 5.5. meh

New comment by GeorgeOldfield in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"

GeorgeOldfield — Sat, 02 May 2026 13:34:57 +0000

so we are losing the only point of Android -- sideloading apps -- now it will be literally worse at everything compared to iOS :(

New comment by GeorgeOldfield in "MacBook Neo"

GeorgeOldfield — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 20:41:31 +0000

that's it boys. apple will take over the ENTIRE market with this. they will be at schools everywhere. only reason to not get a macbook before was the price.

New comment by GeorgeOldfield in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"

GeorgeOldfield — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:21:13 +0000

my 64GB M1 pro max is still fast AF. faster than my regular M3 in practice

i wish the new mbp had 256GB of ram :(

New comment by GeorgeOldfield in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"

GeorgeOldfield — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:19:11 +0000

I'm interested in the Ultra with 256GB/512GB ram :)))

New comment by GeorgeOldfield in "I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure"

GeorgeOldfield — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 14:29:00 +0000

the problem is - these don't work unless everyone uses them worldwide.

New comment by GeorgeOldfield in "I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure"

GeorgeOldfield — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 14:27:56 +0000

yeah I think trillions alone wouldn't be enough to replicate Apple's success and market dominance (especially the most valuable demographic)

New comment by GeorgeOldfield in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

GeorgeOldfield — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 12:03:21 +0000

nobody is switching

New comment by GeorgeOldfield in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me"

GeorgeOldfield — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 12:02:07 +0000

damn you guys are naïve. this is ragebait (not the blog author, the person who told AI what to do...)

New comment by GeorgeOldfield in "Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code"

GeorgeOldfield — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 13:55:14 +0000

I'm not saying the author is malicious. These are typical vibe-coded codebase characteristics.

New comment by GeorgeOldfield in "Trump Accounts"

GeorgeOldfield — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 12:39:35 +0000

Mr. Rand, not just goods and services. also anything that taxes pay for, done by younger people than you. roads laid, cleaned, police, firefighters, public parks, etc. deal or no deal? there is no third option. if you're really mad about it i can make up a third option specially for you but you won't like it, probably.

New comment by GeorgeOldfield in "Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code"

GeorgeOldfield — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 09:12:54 +0000

it's fun but PLEASE watch out for malicious code/supply chain attacks from random vibe-coded .sh scripts:

downloads other scripts (peon.sh, uninstall.sh) and executes them or places them where they will be executed later

edits your ~/.bashrc and ~/.zshrc files to add aliases and tab completion

parses a remote JSON file to get filenames ($sfile) and then does: curl ... -o "$INSTALL_DIR/packs/$pack/sounds/$sfile"

New comment by GeorgeOldfield in "Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan launches dark-money group to influence CA politics"

GeorgeOldfield — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 08:54:04 +0000

not this grifter again

New comment by GeorgeOldfield in "GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks"

GeorgeOldfield — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 07:36:56 +0000

the upfront cost

New comment by GeorgeOldfield in "Trump Accounts"

GeorgeOldfield — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:43:21 +0000

fine but the tradeoff is you are not getting any benefits or services from people younger than you. deal or no deal?

New comment by GeorgeOldfield in "Trump Accounts"

GeorgeOldfield — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:42:11 +0000

What is very disturbing, apart from the obvious, is the fact that they are using Google generated AI images. take the picture of the kid, put it into gemini.google.com and request @SynthID

New comment by GeorgeOldfield in "Why E cores make Apple silicon fast"

GeorgeOldfield — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 22:16:53 +0000

most of them are needed at one time or another.

also a mandatory: and yet the macbooks are faster and more battery efficient than any PC laptop with linux/windows

New comment by GeorgeOldfield in "OpenClaw is changing my life"

GeorgeOldfield — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 22:05:53 +0000

skill issue

New comment by GeorgeOldfield in "Substack confirms data breach affects users’ email addresses and phone numbers"

GeorgeOldfield — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 21:58:07 +0000

it's real, i have the leak.

New comment by GeorgeOldfield in "Noam Chomsky's wife responds to Epstein controversy"

GeorgeOldfield — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 21:51:58 +0000

he's a sophist. not terrible like Jordan Peterson, et al. but he is a sophist 100%