Hacker News: PierceJoy

New comment by PierceJoy in "Plex laid off the whole player team"

PierceJoy — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 19:50:47 +0000

The new Apple TV app is terrible. It’s completely redesigned, and visually looks good I suppose, but it’s so buggy and has terrible UX. So terrible, in fact, that after a decade of using plex I finally became a cliche and switched to jellyfin. The player isn’t quite as polished as plex, but it isn’t as buggy, and I’ll probably just take an open source player and have Claude customize it to my liking. Honestly plex deserves to fail at this point. They’ve been doing stupid user hostile shit for years. They finally cross the line though and made the core experience of watching something on their app significantly worse.

New comment by PierceJoy in "Superlite: A Faster Alternatie to Superpowers"

PierceJoy — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 03:25:10 +0000

I thought superpowers was the coolest thing for about 1 day. Then the endless approval prompts and huge time increase killed it for me. I'm finding Opus 5.5 does a pretty thorough job without anything like superpowers. What would I be getting from superlite that Opus 5.5 doesn't do by itself already, and are those things actually important, or do they mostly only serve to give you peace of mind?

New comment by PierceJoy in "Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously"

PierceJoy — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 21:09:41 +0000

Startups fail by default. It doesn't make the pessimists correct. What I have noticed though it that successful startups are rarely, if ever, run by pessimists.

New comment by PierceJoy in "Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously"

PierceJoy — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:50:16 +0000

People’s bullshit detectors have gone off on the launch of basically every single billion dollar tech company. That’s the downside of being early. No one believes it will work. If everyone believed it, you’re late. I’m sure I could find a comment such this, basically verbatim, on the launch post of every successful startup to come out of YC.

New comment by PierceJoy in "Aging brains blend memories together instead of just forgetting them"

PierceJoy — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:05:04 +0000

/compact

New comment by PierceJoy in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

PierceJoy — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 19:04:13 +0000

OP isn't criticizing the practise of leaving to renew. He's criticizing the this new policy of not letting you back in when you leave.

New comment by PierceJoy in "Former OC actor Ben McKenzie on crusade to take down 'stupid' cryptocurrency"

PierceJoy — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 11:30:42 +0000

I didn't. Ryan Atwood was great in Southland.

New comment by PierceJoy in "Former OC actor Ben McKenzie on crusade to take down 'stupid' cryptocurrency"

PierceJoy — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 04:23:52 +0000

You obviously weren't in high school at the time the OC was on. Everybody watched it. I don't think I've ever viewed Ben as anyone other than Ryan Atwood ever since.

New comment by PierceJoy in "Rewriting Bun in Rust"

PierceJoy — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 03:45:06 +0000

This seems like a much much harder problem than having a model translate between the two languages. I think people in general are way overvaluing determinism. In most cases, it doesn’t matter if the output from two runs is different as long as it accomplishes the desired goal.

New comment by PierceJoy in "Tidal AI Policy"

PierceJoy — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:11:19 +0000

I have serious doubts that their detection will be good enough, especially in cases where it's not 100% AI generated. The EDM and hip hop genres relies heavily on samples, and I guarantee all the sample services all being pumped full of AI generated creations. Many artists using the sample won't even know they using things that are AI generated.

New comment by PierceJoy in "Tidal AI Policy"

PierceJoy — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:08:08 +0000

Sure, if you're referring to people who actually play instruments or sing. Electronic music shows are mostly DJing though.

New comment by PierceJoy in "Rocketlab acquires Iridium"

PierceJoy — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:05:38 +0000

Rocket Lab's market cap is 57B and are buying Iridium for 8B. I'm assuming you're implying some other measure of worth, but it's not that crazy based on stock price.

New comment by PierceJoy in "The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated"

PierceJoy — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:08:52 +0000

How do you know the changes aren’t placebo?

New comment by PierceJoy in "US Consumer Price Index up 4.2%"

PierceJoy — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:49:35 +0000

If inflation due to energy costs is running hot they’ll have to raise rates which will cause stock prices to fall.

New comment by PierceJoy in "Vibe coding my way to a healthy family: Introducing Gamow Labs"

PierceJoy — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 06:32:59 +0000

In what way?

New comment by PierceJoy in "Judge dismisses human smuggling charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia"

PierceJoy — Fri, 22 May 2026 23:05:14 +0000

The rule of law is definitely dead, but the evidence is that this man was deported mistakenly and then charged with a fictional crime to cover up that mistake.

New comment by PierceJoy in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

PierceJoy — Tue, 05 May 2026 01:07:08 +0000

I think this is the opinion of someone who thinks about personal security (like many on this site) and would prefer not to use Facebook marketplace. From observing many of those around me, this is an uncommon concern. Facebook marketplace is insanely dominant, and nobody cares about inviting people to their house. They would rather invite someone to their house than have to drive to GameStop and drop off their stuff in exchange for losing money on gas, losing time, and losing a cut of the sale price.

New comment by PierceJoy in "If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive"

PierceJoy — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:42:05 +0000

They’re different scenarios. The prisoner’s dilemma is purely selfish. How do I maximize my own return? Cooperation is an option, but it’s still about maximizing your own return. This scenario leaves it open for people to choose to act selfishly by maximizing their own return, or selflessly by attempting to got maximize total return for everyone. But the choice required to maximize total return isn’t clear.

New comment by PierceJoy in "Allbirds, Inc. Announces Expansion into AI Compute Infrastructure"

PierceJoy — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:49:02 +0000

What a time to be alive.

New comment by PierceJoy in "Apple update looks like Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user"

PierceJoy — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 12:49:17 +0000

So don’t buy an iPhone if you don’t care about the security of your device and personal information. That would introduce a massive security hole that would negatively affect far more users than it would help.