Hacker News: Gtex555

New comment by Gtex555 in "The risk of AI isn't making us lazy, but making "lazy" look productive"

Gtex555 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 22:33:39 +0000

Its not as simple as just being lazy, our brains are hardwired to take the path of least resistance. I believe someone industrious like you is the exception and not the rule which is why industrious people do well in life and a priased.

New comment by Gtex555 in "Ask HN: Why Do People Prefer YouTube Videos over Big-Budget Movies and TV Shows?"

Gtex555 — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 05:53:33 +0000

Interesting, your point kind of reminds me of the reality TV boom.

New comment by Gtex555 in "Ask HN: Why Do People Prefer YouTube Videos over Big-Budget Movies and TV Shows?"

Gtex555 — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 05:52:49 +0000

This I can understand and if you look at the body of my post I talk about understanding if youtube was a selector of quality content, but people will watch hours of slop on youtube that is neither authentic or niche and that's what I want to get to the heart of. I fall victim to this too, I watch hours of youtube (long form) which in retrospect I accept as garbage, but will refuse to watch the the new hot netflix show that cost 100 million with some of the top writers and actors in the world, that's what I'm trying to understand.

New comment by Gtex555 in "Ask HN: Why Do People Prefer YouTube Videos over Big-Budget Movies and TV Shows?"

Gtex555 — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 05:48:12 +0000

Fair, but people will watch a random youtuber doing a video essay for the first time on an old topic like sbmm or AI in games and enjoy it yet find a 500 million dollar movie boring. I feel that your answer it correct, but there is something deeper than just para friendships to explain these other cases and I'm guilty of it too (watching a random youtubers video essay).

Ask HN: Why Do People Prefer YouTube Videos over Big-Budget Movies and TV Shows?

Gtex555 — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 01:09:26 +0000

I understand the basic arguments—YouTube’s rise in short-form content, faster dopamine hits, and lower expectations placed on creators. But even if we set short-form content aside, the contradiction still stands. You’ll find people calling the new Avatar movie boring, even if they pirated it and watched it for free, while those same people will happily spend hours watching livestreams where someone reacts to content or talks about nothing in particular, day after day, for an entire year. How can Avatar be dismissed as boring, yet that kind of content is considered engaging? I would understand if it was a Wikipedia like scenario were all those hours of User generated content just lead to better quality content being produced by process of selection but that isn't really the case with youtube.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46341287

Points: 9

# Comments: 11

Ask HN: Does documentation for programming languages matter anymore?

Gtex555 — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 18:52:10 +0000

So does documentation for programming languages matter anymore (at a the lower levels)? Sure if a programming language has better documentation the LLM can understand it better and give better suggestions but on a personal level if I'm learning a language any decent LLM should be enough right?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43550181

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

New comment by Gtex555 in "Pro bettors disguising themselves as gambling addicts"

Gtex555 — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 09:03:51 +0000

the government's goal should be to protect the population not to be fair to one person who enjoys the odd $5 bet.

New comment by Gtex555 in "Tell HN: YouTube disabling playback after 3 videos"

Gtex555 — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 22:10:09 +0000

Brave breaks too many websites.

New comment by Gtex555 in "Tell HN: YouTube disabling playback after 3 videos"

Gtex555 — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 21:32:28 +0000

What you don't realize is YouTube would rather have half the users if all of them watched ads vs AdBlock users, so they actually want you to stop using YouTube. Most people will just white list it, I mean the bulk of users use mobile anyway and cant really use AdBlock.

New comment by Gtex555 in "Ask HN: Why is it assumed to be harder to bootstrap a Reddit-type site today?"

Gtex555 — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 20:42:00 +0000

chicken and the egg problem

New comment by Gtex555 in "Goodreads was the future of book reviews, then Amazon bought it"

Gtex555 — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 21:48:28 +0000

Couldn't you do this implicitly if I rate book A an 8 and book B a 7 then I have technically said book A is better than book B, so ignore the numerical value and take the better reading. Now put the rating out of 100 as out of 5 or 10 would lead to too many ties.

New comment by Gtex555 in "Goodreads was the future of book reviews, then Amazon bought it"

Gtex555 — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 21:45:03 +0000

This reminds me of my favourite scene from the social network when movie Zuck gets the idea for facemash:

Billy Olson’s sitting here and had the idea of putting some of these next to pictures of farm animals and have people vote on who’s hotter. Yea, it’s on. I’m not gonna do the farm animals but I like the idea of comparing two people together. It gives the whole thing a very “Turing” feel since people’s ratings of the pictures will be more implicit than, say, choosing a number to represent each person’s hotness like they do on hotornot.com. The first thing we’re going to need is a lot of pictures.

New comment by Gtex555 in "Making Blogs Popular Again"

Gtex555 — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 05:54:30 +0000

Without some level of recommendation engine wouldn't you need to pre-emptively know the blogs you want to follow already in which case what is the point of the site. What you are saying applies to a social network like facebook but could never work for blogs or youtube where you actually want to be exposed to new and interesting content.

New comment by Gtex555 in "Making Blogs Popular Again"

Gtex555 — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 05:52:03 +0000

The only way to stop a blogging site from being filled with crap is to limit uploads to lets say 12 per account , but give extra upload credits to blogs that get views or read time (however you calculate that). That way someone who wants to spam without providing good content is limited to only 12 posts.

New comment by Gtex555 in "Ask HN: Are you still tipping on takeout/pickup orders?"

Gtex555 — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 00:34:15 +0000

If the tip is mandatory include it in the price or shut up

New comment by Gtex555 in "The $300B Google-Meta advertising duopoly is under attack"

Gtex555 — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 01:57:09 +0000

ad blocking is not as popular as you think , I think 70-80% of people don't even use it especially on mobile.

New comment by Gtex555 in "The hyperinflation gallery"

Gtex555 — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 01:20:42 +0000

Let me correct you on whole Zimbabwe point, the implication is oh the white farmers were so good and Mugabe ruined it by giving the land to the incompetent or uneducated locals and while there is some truth to that its definitely not the whole story. In truth the whites were stealing minerals and precious metals from the country on the cheap and laundering that money as farming proceeds giving the impression of this bread basket cause it was all funded by illicit funds. When they were kicked out they continued to steal these minerals through bribing the top officials but the only difference was there was no-longer an incentive to send the money back into Zimbabwe and hence the farming was no-longer supported by illicit funds and it collapsed.

tl:dr its easy to run a successful casino when you are funding it with drug money. Zimbabwe only ever had two options get robbed or get robbed, at least now the locals actually owned the land. The inflation was retaliation for standing up to the bullies!

New comment by Gtex555 in "Ask HN: How to validate a startup idea whilst employed?"

Gtex555 — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 07:41:23 +0000

Get your brother or sister to pretend they are building it , no one is going to verify this. Once it gains enough traction consider quitting.

New comment by Gtex555 in "Why are deep learning technologists so overconfident?"

Gtex555 — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 17:21:58 +0000

Very true Haha.

New comment by Gtex555 in "Why are deep learning technologists so overconfident?"

Gtex555 — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 17:21:40 +0000

Very true but lets pretend we are in the real world where making all these changes is exponentially harder than only changing the cars. Listening to Geo-shot the main problem is to get them to co-exist with human drivers.