Hacker News: MattDamonSpace

New comment by MattDamonSpace in "Ask HN: I found out that I'm about to be laid off. How do people find jobs?"

MattDamonSpace — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:17:23 +0000

Have you noticed an increase in valid applications?

Presumably AI is helping some-to-many reasonable candidates apply to many more positions

New comment by MattDamonSpace in "Claude Opus 4.8"

MattDamonSpace — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:46:37 +0000

Not even 4 years old yet. This tech curve has been insane

New comment by MattDamonSpace in "Scientists say they've reversed brain aging in mice with a nasal spray"

MattDamonSpace — Wed, 27 May 2026 02:44:28 +0000

Presumably this drug (like all the others) is dirt-cheap to synthesize and the only reason anything is expensive is a government granted monopoly that’s nominally encouraging innovation

New comment by MattDamonSpace in "The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100"

MattDamonSpace — Sun, 24 May 2026 23:14:48 +0000

Someone doesn’t understand why we have nice things. “Increased productivity”, the thing you don’t give a shit about, is the only reason you’re not living in the dirt and dying of a tooth infection before 35.

If you wanted to live with a QoL of the 1940s you could do so today working 2 days a week. Of course you’d have no air conditioning, shitty food, no running water, etc etc.

You don’t have to LIKE corps but you should at least understand your world before calling for the guys with guns to get involved.

New comment by MattDamonSpace in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"

MattDamonSpace — Sun, 24 May 2026 18:49:36 +0000

Capitalist competition at its finest

New comment by MattDamonSpace in "Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs"

MattDamonSpace — Sun, 24 May 2026 18:45:19 +0000

“Bubble”

New comment by MattDamonSpace in "US employers spend more than $1.5B a year to fight labor unions, report finds"

MattDamonSpace — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:50:55 +0000

they literally provide value

Shareholders are investors who give valuable resources to business

New comment by MattDamonSpace in "Starship's Twelfth Flight Test"

MattDamonSpace — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:20:04 +0000

Oh wow that photo is from years ago but you’re correct, this is the first flight of that design

New comment by MattDamonSpace in "The American Rebellion Against AI Is Gaining Steam"

MattDamonSpace — Tue, 19 May 2026 03:13:13 +0000

Yes

New comment by MattDamonSpace in "OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens"

MattDamonSpace — Sun, 17 May 2026 06:07:27 +0000

Half of people are below average, these classes raise the floor they don’t expand the ceiling

New comment by MattDamonSpace in "The European Union backs Italy's right to make Meta pay for news"

MattDamonSpace — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:59:30 +0000

No, ads make them money. Users see the ads because they view their feeds.

It’s been proven in other markets that removing News from the feed doesn’t decrease engagement. Meta will continue to make money, and Italian news sites will see their traffic vanish.

Turns out they’re simply not valuable in the way they used to be, and country after country is learning this

New comment by MattDamonSpace in "The European Union backs Italy's right to make Meta pay for news"

MattDamonSpace — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:58:20 +0000

Yes

New comment by MattDamonSpace in "Starship V3"

MattDamonSpace — Wed, 13 May 2026 04:18:39 +0000

You need permission to do that in Morocco

New comment by MattDamonSpace in "Starship V3"

MattDamonSpace — Wed, 13 May 2026 04:08:56 +0000

It really depends on scale. There will be enough terrestrial vetoes that if what we build is 10-1000x what people are already halting through legal challenges…

New comment by MattDamonSpace in "A look at Denver’s “Unlocking Housing Choices” plan"

MattDamonSpace — Tue, 12 May 2026 01:41:27 +0000

He’s talking about legal codes, read the article before commenting ffs

New comment by MattDamonSpace in "Mythical Man Month"

MattDamonSpace — Sat, 09 May 2026 03:58:14 +0000

Doesn’t necessarily but does sometimes unless you have a concrete alternative

New comment by MattDamonSpace in "Agentic Coding Is a Trap"

MattDamonSpace — Mon, 04 May 2026 01:39:24 +0000

The slot machine metaphor gets thrown around a lot but it hasn’t really described my experience with LLMs since ~2024

New comment by MattDamonSpace in "Show HN: Apple's Sharp Running in the Browser via ONNX Runtime Web"

MattDamonSpace — Sun, 03 May 2026 18:18:05 +0000

No the 3D effects are much more simple for the lock screen…more akin to old-school animation via layers

New comment by MattDamonSpace in "Ti-84 Evo"

MattDamonSpace — Fri, 01 May 2026 20:56:43 +0000

It’s got a 3x faster processor brah

New comment by MattDamonSpace in "UAE Leaves OPEC and OPEC+"

MattDamonSpace — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:57:47 +0000

“Might” and either way breaking OPEC is good for the West, regardless of their intent

defecting from the cartel, a tale as old as time