Hacker News: MattDamonSpace

New comment by MattDamonSpace in "Sticky wage norms and the real wage cost of unexpected inflation"

MattDamonSpace — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 05:41:11 +0000

Most Americans are shareholders, I’m all for spreading the wealth but don’t ignore why there’s so much to spread. Americans reinvest for profit

New comment by MattDamonSpace in "Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months"

MattDamonSpace — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:03:50 +0000

Free Market doesn’t mean new ram production can “just be stood up”

And given that these are independent actors in the free market, they’ve seen the history of boom/bust cycles in this market

Free market doesn’t mean “everything just magically happens”

New comment by MattDamonSpace in "2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out"

MattDamonSpace — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 21:36:31 +0000

Why are “demand and supply driven price increases” considered inflationary?

Isn’t it just… prices?

New comment by MattDamonSpace in "Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting"

MattDamonSpace — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:38:29 +0000

It’s not Slack’s responsibility to do so, but it is their vulnerability if they don’t

New comment by MattDamonSpace in "A grumpy screed about AI in software engineering"

MattDamonSpace — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 01:55:57 +0000

Hes saying his site is written by hand

New comment by MattDamonSpace in "Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters"

MattDamonSpace — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:24:23 +0000

I maintain that if Humane wasn’t arrogant as hell and had just put a screen on their device, theyd have been PERFECTLY placed to become the open-platform AI Phone

Hell they might’ve been bought by OpenAI for billions instead of… HP lol

New comment by MattDamonSpace in "Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters"

MattDamonSpace — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:29:38 +0000

Agreed Steve would do this

But the iPhone is the most valuable consumer hardware product on the planet, and the accusations here is “conspiracy to steal” essentially.

Is it really that petty? Apple should be okay with theft of valuable secrets?

New comment by MattDamonSpace in "Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model"

MattDamonSpace — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:31:30 +0000

China’s got absolute control over its outputs. For America to have any guarantees around long-term availability of OW models, they need domestic production.

FWIW this is the same logic for China’s need for their own OW models

New comment by MattDamonSpace in "You're Not a Better Engineer Because You Type Git Commands by Hand"

MattDamonSpace — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:08:34 +0000

Never had a git GUI that worked for me either

New comment by MattDamonSpace in "You're Not a Better Engineer Because You Type Git Commands by Hand"

MattDamonSpace — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:08:17 +0000

Yes but you do not have to invoke them directly yourself anymore

New comment by MattDamonSpace in "You're Not a Better Engineer Because You Type Git Commands by Hand"

MattDamonSpace — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:07:38 +0000

“The consumer that maximizes utility of that structure is now an LLM”

New comment by MattDamonSpace in "Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt"

MattDamonSpace — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:19:19 +0000

Is that really a Quine

edit: it’s impressive as all hell but like

New comment by MattDamonSpace in "China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes"

MattDamonSpace — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:54:46 +0000

Yeah but that’s bad right

New comment by MattDamonSpace in "Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter"

MattDamonSpace — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 04:02:45 +0000

It’s just good etiquette to name the model, it only seems haughty when it’s the new one

New comment by MattDamonSpace in "Pros and Cons of Solo Development"

MattDamonSpace — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:39:16 +0000

“We need to go far, fast”

New comment by MattDamonSpace in "Revised Rules of Engineering Leadership"

MattDamonSpace — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:22:37 +0000

The section with actual examples is fantastic, ty

New comment by MattDamonSpace in "Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven't progressed enough"

MattDamonSpace — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:30:56 +0000

Altman was trying to get $1T of infra investment years ago

New comment by MattDamonSpace in "Claude Code is steganographically marking requests"

MattDamonSpace — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:04:31 +0000

“So the feature mostly punishes the exact people who are easier to fingerprint: normal developers doing weird but legitimate things”

What’s the punishment here exactly?

New comment by MattDamonSpace in "A way to exclude sensitive files issue still open for OpenAI Codex"

MattDamonSpace — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:07:02 +0000

Not sure I agree?

It’s not like gitignore should be independent from git

New comment by MattDamonSpace in "The AI Data-Center Boom Is Sparking a Third Wave of Inflation"

MattDamonSpace — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 01:41:50 +0000

Is it Inflation when it’s just supply and demand