Hacker News: MetaMalone

New comment by MetaMalone in "Don't Paste the AI, please"

MetaMalone — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 11:59:25 +0000

Does anyone else think the angry version reads like AI? “Here’s what you just did”

New comment by MetaMalone in "Ask HN: Can I realistically make an app as a junior dev?"

MetaMalone — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:51:21 +0000

Yes, keep things as simple as possible. Keep asking questions; don't solve reach for complex solutions unless you've confidently drilled down on the problem

New comment by MetaMalone in "The Amazon tax"

MetaMalone — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:41:52 +0000

> An alternate hypothesis: if you tried to sell literal garbage on Amazon, poor reviews and a high return rate will be visible in the product itself.

Yeah but at the time when I buy it it's gonna have thousands of 5 star reviews, and the images themselves will be the shiniest most beautiful garbage ever seen by mankind.

New comment by MetaMalone in "Advertise in ChatGPT"

MetaMalone — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:15:49 +0000

Yeah, that ought to boost the IPO.

New comment by MetaMalone in "Beer CSS – Build material design in record time"

MetaMalone — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 13:09:01 +0000

This was my first impression as well. The layout options just didn’t work on mobile

New comment by MetaMalone in "Claude for Small Business"

MetaMalone — Thu, 14 May 2026 13:11:01 +0000

True! Between improving training data and figuring out how to provide better context to the LLM, there will be rapid improvement within a year

Six Selfish Reasons to Have Kids

MetaMalone — Sun, 10 May 2026 19:04:08 +0000

Article URL: https://kevinkelly.substack.com/p/six-selfish-reasons-to-have-kids

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48086790

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Artemis II Real Time Orbit

MetaMalone — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:17:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis-ii/arow/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47666430

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

CEOs Don't Steer

MetaMalone — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:22:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/11/09/ceos-dont-steer/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591452

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

The Intent Layer: Make agents perform like your best engineers

MetaMalone — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 22:57:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.intent-systems.com/learn/intent-layer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46520045

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by MetaMalone in "What an unprocessed photo looks like"

MetaMalone — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 06:02:54 +0000

I have always wondered at the lowest level how a camera captures and processes photos. Much appreciated post.

New comment by MetaMalone in "Gmail AI gets more intrusive"

MetaMalone — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 19:58:24 +0000

I just experienced this and was wondering why it was happening!

New comment by MetaMalone in "Poker fraud used X-ray tables, high-tech glasses and NBA players"

MetaMalone — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 14:19:07 +0000

Thanks for the link. So basically, you are at a private game and if everyone has their phones out (and you are also an unsuspecting idiot), you are screwed.

Crazy that there is a USB port exposed outside the machine.

New comment by MetaMalone in "Poker fraud used X-ray tables, high-tech glasses and NBA players"

MetaMalone — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 13:36:04 +0000

“An X-ray poker machine was employed to read facedown cards and a rigged card-shuffling machine was also used in the plot, prosecutors say.”

Would love to know more about such a machine, if anyone has any insight. Are these developed underground? How expensive could they be?

If it can efficiently take in a deck of cards and deterministically return a rigged deck in a reasonable amount of time, I would be fascinated at how they solved that problem.

Counter Strike 2 update wipes nearly $2B off skin market value

MetaMalone — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 15:24:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.eurogamer.net/counter-strike-2-update-wipes-nearly-2-billion-off-skin-market-value-by-making-fancy-knives-and-gloves-easier-to-get

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45682924

Points: 8

# Comments: 2

New comment by MetaMalone in "Libghostty is coming"

MetaMalone — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 19:55:05 +0000

They'll be working on it soon: https://x.com/mitchellh/status/1964826929326153898

A Million Is Made Out of a Million Ones

MetaMalone — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 13:13:46 +0000

Article URL: https://benthams.substack.com/p/a-million-is-made-out-of-a-million

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45157898

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by MetaMalone in "You can choose tools that make you happy"

MetaMalone — Mon, 26 May 2025 02:49:21 +0000

Should we feel happy solving our problems with our fancy tools? Are our tools and in-depth knowledge a distraction to inflate our egos, or a sign of self-respect and passion?

I’m inclined to believe the latter. Our fancy tools provide so much more utility beyond keeping us happy. Our tools teach us new things and stretch our curiosity and creativity. Our happiness stretches us to solve more problems and ask better questions.

New comment by MetaMalone in "Reinvent the Wheel"

MetaMalone — Sun, 25 May 2025 01:30:51 +0000

This group is much more tangible for me. Instead of trusting the status quo, this group fears it.

New comment by MetaMalone in "Strengths Are Your Weaknesses"

MetaMalone — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 17:09:59 +0000

I think strengths are more difficult to define than weaknesses, because they are very context dependent. “Speed” may be useful in certain situations, but in many cases “speed” can be harmful in more ways than just overlooking details. You miss out on opportunities to learn, to ask for help, to become better at thinking critically as a software engineer.

What the idea of “strengths being weaknesses” reflects is how much we identify with our present state of ability. It seems like we get it backwards. We ask our jobs to fit us as people, rather than how we as individuals can become best for the job.