Hacker News: NewEntryHN

New comment by NewEntryHN in "How many of the 170k English words do you know?"

NewEntryHN — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 08:00:00 +0000

Very easy for French speakers ahah

New comment by NewEntryHN in "You weren't meant to have a boss (2008)"

NewEntryHN — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:52:08 +0000

Maybe shadow hierarchy are still more productive than official ones? Looks like something that wouldn't have that many meetings.

New comment by NewEntryHN in "Show HN: I made an emergency page for my family"

NewEntryHN — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:45:52 +0000

Hmm I'm not sure why in an emergency situation accessing a webpage would be easier than making a phone call.

New comment by NewEntryHN in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"

NewEntryHN — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:09:46 +0000

If the thing "outside of reality" ever reveals useful to explain anything about reality, then it becomes part of reality.

New comment by NewEntryHN in "Newton's law of gravity passes its biggest test"

NewEntryHN — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:01:48 +0000

I think OP's question is more how could Newton's law "pass" a test any more than General Relativity would, considering that it's merely an edge case of GR?

New comment by NewEntryHN in "Newton's law of gravity passes its biggest test"

NewEntryHN — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:59:27 +0000

Why is the article titled "Newton's law of gravity passes its biggest test" if it doesn't explain the movement more than MOND?

New comment by NewEntryHN in "Alignment whack-a-mole: Finetuning activates recall of copyrighted books in LLMs"

NewEntryHN — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 09:47:38 +0000

You are comparing the fight between a p2p program and the entire music industry with the fight between the entire LLM industry and a newspaper. Notice how the order seems inconsistent.

New comment by NewEntryHN in "OpenAI ad partner now selling ChatGPT ad placements based on “prompt relevance”"

NewEntryHN — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 23:13:59 +0000

Ads are for the free tier.

New comment by NewEntryHN in "SQLite in Production: Lessons from Running a Store on a Single File"

NewEntryHN — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:36:08 +0000

It's a spectrum. Installing Postgres locally is not 100% future-proofing since you'll still need to migrate your local Postgres to a central Postres. Using Sqlite is not 0% future-proofing since it's still using the SQL standard.

If the only argument for a piece of tech in comparison to another one is "future-proofing", that's pretty much acknowledging the other one is simpler to setup and maintain.

New comment by NewEntryHN in "Post Mortem: axios NPM supply chain compromise"

NewEntryHN — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:26:57 +0000

He says it mimicks what is described here: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/unc...

Which is basically phishing:

> The meeting link itself directed to a spoofed Zoom meeting that was hosted on the threat actor's infrastructure, zoom[.]uswe05[.]us.

> Once in the "meeting," the fake video call facilitated a ruse that gave the impression to the end user that they were experiencing audio issues.

> The recovered web page provided two sets of commands to be run for "troubleshooting": one for macOS systems, and one for Windows systems. Embedded within the string of commands was a single command that initiated the infection chain.

New comment by NewEntryHN in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

NewEntryHN — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:35:59 +0000

Nothing worse than what would have happened to the Astral team if they had ran out of funding rounds without an exit...

New comment by NewEntryHN in "I don't use LLMs for programming"

NewEntryHN — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 10:22:36 +0000

This assumes you always learn something new with every new program you write.

New comment by NewEntryHN in "A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4k Developer Machines"

NewEntryHN — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 09:47:29 +0000

I would not have helped. People are losing their mind over agents "security" when it's always the same story: You have a black box whose behavior you cannot predict (prompt injection _or not_). You need to assume worst-case behavior and guardrail around it.

New comment by NewEntryHN in "OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation"

NewEntryHN — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:26:48 +0000

Netscape had 20 millions active users at its peak, out of 6 billions humans.

ChatGPT has 800 millions monthly active users currently, out of 8 billions humans.

New comment by NewEntryHN in "AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton"

NewEntryHN — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 11:09:52 +0000

This implication completely depends on the elasticity (or lack thereof) of demand for software. When marginal profit from additional output exceeds labor cost savings, firms expand rather than shrink.

New comment by NewEntryHN in "What “The Best” Looks Like"

NewEntryHN — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 17:57:08 +0000

One reason you see a pareto distribution in "normal sized" teams is not solely because of competency, but because the 80% can rest on the 20% and therefore don't feel too pressed to work that much. Therefore the pareto model breaks down in 1-man teams.

New comment by NewEntryHN in "Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings"

NewEntryHN — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 09:14:23 +0000

To be fair, the diction in modern movies is different than the diction in all other examples you mentioned. YouTube and live TV is very articulate, and old movies are theater-like in style.

New comment by NewEntryHN in "OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race"

NewEntryHN — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:36:08 +0000

"Software engineer complains bearing the burden of everything and concludes everything would be fixed by firing everybody except themselves."

New comment by NewEntryHN in "IQ differences of identical twins reared apart are influenced by education"

NewEntryHN — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 22:11:44 +0000

Of course. IQ tests measures nothing more than the ability to pass an IQ test, which is proxied by a lot of things such as western culture, education, propensity to cram tests, etc.

New comment by NewEntryHN in "Apps SDK"

NewEntryHN — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 07:13:27 +0000

Why doing it themselves instead of distributing the work to data owners?