Hacker News: Gimpei

New comment by Gimpei in "I Won't Download Your App. The Web Version Is A-OK"

Gimpei — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:56:06 +0000

My gripe is how iOS allows these companies to constantly bug us to use their stupid apps. I ended up installing the NYTimes app, not because I use it, but just to shut it up. I switched to duck duck go because I was sick of being bugged to install chrome. How many times do I need to say no?

New comment by Gimpei in "Cursor 3"

Gimpei — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:06:07 +0000

I used to have a pro-cursor subscription, but it was way too expensive because I'd always hit my limit. I realized I could just use claude code + the free version of cursor for autocomplete and it worked even better. At this point, I'm not understanding the value that cursor is bringing. A souped up claude code? All I have to do is wait a few months and anything useful will be in claude code or codex or whatever.

New comment by Gimpei in "British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time"

Gimpei — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 21:21:37 +0000

I’d guess that there is less of a need for light at the beginning of the day since most people don’t farm. Personally I prefer more light at the end of the day.

New comment by Gimpei in "Film students who can no longer sit through films"

Gimpei — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 17:20:10 +0000

I took a bunch of film classes in college and what they’re not mentioning is that sometimes the films bring assigned are crazy boring. I once had to watch an hour of footage shot from a camera in an outdoor elevator as it went up and down. One hour. The professor said it was the perfect summation of everything he’d been discussing over the term. I swear I’m not joking.

New comment by Gimpei in "Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native"

Gimpei — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 16:28:04 +0000

Isn’t the more fundamental question why Europe has not been as successful as the US or China in building a native tech industry despite having a huge market? What are the barriers to creating startups and how can you lower them and preserve the enviable European social model? Solve that and you’ll solve the problem of a native cloud.

New comment by Gimpei in "Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over "heroes""

Gimpei — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 18:01:13 +0000

Isn’t the whole point of Hamlet that he does have control over his life? At any moment he could have just stabbed Claudius and taken over. The dramatic tension comes from him being unable to get out of his own head and get down to businessto.

New comment by Gimpei in "I switched from VSCode to Zed"

Gimpei — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 15:29:56 +0000

I like zed. I just wish they’d support running multiple agents at once + chat history. If they did, I’d pay for zed just to support them.

New comment by Gimpei in "Karpathy on Programming: “I've never felt this much behind”"

Gimpei — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 04:30:25 +0000

I think people need to chill out on this thread. LLMs are neither pure slop nor the end of the programming profession. They are immensely useful tools, particularly for tedious tasks or for quickly getting up to speed on a new API or syntax. They’re great for catching bugs too. Every now and again I’ll give an LLM a prompt and it will knock it out of the park, but that’s exceedingly rare. Most of the time, though, it just allows me to focus on the more interesting parts of my job. In short, for now at least, it is a big productivity booster, not a career ender.

New comment by Gimpei in "New Kindle feature uses AI to answer questions about books"

Gimpei — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 20:52:00 +0000

Couldn’t agree more. This is actually a super useful feature. I can’t think of how many times I’ve been reading a book and some minor character resurfaces and I’m like, who the hell is that guy? Now I can know. I can also get information on historical context. Who knows, maybe I can finally read Ulysses without having to have 5 other books.

New comment by Gimpei in "Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?"

Gimpei — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 03:22:17 +0000

You could just give more time on tests such that it isn’t worth gaming the time limit. Aren’t we supposed to be teaching subject matter? Why do we care how quickly people can do it? If you’re worried about dumbing things down too much, make the actual content harder. Given how much grade inflation there is, I don’t understand why anyone would be gaming anything anymore anyway. And let’s be honest. Unless you’re trying to get a PhD, your grades don’t matter.

New comment by Gimpei in "The death of tech idealism and rise of the homeless in Northern California"

Gimpei — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 03:12:52 +0000

I don’t understand who commissions and who reads pieces like this. Here is a person with no expertise in housing policy, no expertise in homelessness, and no expertise in tech. The only thing he’s bringing to the table is an opinion, which, as the saying goes, are like assholes. Blame inequality and tech and libertarians all you want, but it won’t do a damn thing to solve the homelessness crisis, which is fundamentally a housing supply issue. But I suppose that doesn’t lend itself to the kind of uninformed moralizing that apparently brings such delight to the hearts of lithub readers.

New comment by Gimpei in "Detect Electron apps on Mac that hasn't been updated to fix the system wide lag"

Gimpei — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 14:53:08 +0000

So happy I haven’t updated yet. I always wait a few months for things like this to get fixed.

New comment by Gimpei in "How can England possibly be running out of water?"

Gimpei — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 14:03:00 +0000

I feel like this is burying the lede. England needs to adapt to long dry summers? If the water situation can be dealt with, this would make it a more pleasant place to live.

New comment by Gimpei in "Interview with Geoffrey Hinton"

Gimpei — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 04:13:53 +0000

This is not true. Look at median household income in FRED. It is unequivocally up for everyone across the board.

Inequality has increased but it’s no longer clear that it’s as severe an increase as Piketty and Saez once argued. So, yes, things could certainly be much better. The US could, for example, benefit from a more progressive taxation and a stronger social safety net. But at the same time, we aren’t all headed to hell.

New comment by Gimpei in "IQ tests results for AI"

Gimpei — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 15:10:30 +0000

I’m surprised the score isn’t higher. What’s to stop an LLM from training on the complete corpus of IQ tests. I assume they’d get perfect scores

New comment by Gimpei in "Stanford to continue legacy admissions and withdraw from Cal Grants"

Gimpei — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 20:07:25 +0000

A compromise would be to double the undergrad class size while limiting legacy to something less than or equal to what it is today in absolute terms. Many more deserving students would get and Stanford would get to keep its cash cow. But of course that would entail Palo Alto to let it expand, which it very much wants to do. And good luck with that.

New comment by Gimpei in "DumPy: NumPy except it's OK if you're dum"

Gimpei — Sat, 24 May 2025 14:43:51 +0000

I’ve known some people who didn’t want to learn the syntax of numpy and did it all in loops, and the code was not easy to read. It was harder to read. The fundamental issue is that operations on high dimensional arrays are very difficult to reason about. Numpy can probably be improved, but I don’t think loops are the answer.

New comment by Gimpei in "U.S. Economy Contracts at 0.3% Rate in First Quarter"

Gimpei — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 14:34:51 +0000

I’m curious if any Trump voters are starting to feel any buyer’s remorse. The pain from the tariffs is only going to get worse. Soon we will have Trumpflation and a Trumpcession. Meanwhile, auto manufacturers are laying off employees. We are seeing pain with no gain. There is no reindustrialization nor will there ever be through this policy. For every economist except for Navarro, this is quite the own goal. I’m guessing you all were expecting Trump 1. Any doubts creeping in yet?

New comment by Gimpei in "Business co-founders in tech startups are less valuable than they think"

Gimpei — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 23:46:36 +0000

Somebody has to manage the business relationships and go out and sell. Somebody has to be in charge of marketing, payroll, and PR. Somebody has to be the public face of the company, out networking and attending trade shows. If you’re a technical founder and all this sounds like fun to you, then yeah, a non-technical cofounder would not offer much. But there’s something to be said for having more time to put your head down and build.

New comment by Gimpei in "Watching o3 model sweat over a Paul Morphy mate-in-2"

Gimpei — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 20:16:42 +0000

Given that o3 is trained on the contents of the Internet, and the answers to all these chess problems are almost certainly on the Internet in multiple places, in a sense it has been weakly trained on this content. The question for me becomes: is the LLM doing better on these problems because it’s improving in reasoning, or is it simply improving in information retrieval.