Hacker News: RickyLahey

New comment by RickyLahey in "Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief"

RickyLahey — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 15:47:02 +0000

wow thanks i somehow missed that.

I like to disable SIP and gut my Mac OS but i know that's not a very safe choice

New comment by RickyLahey in "Feynman's Hughes Lectures: 950 pages of notes"

RickyLahey — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 15:46:27 +0000

calling someone that is rich coming from paul graham. come on guys. what's next? reading mark manson? a16z?

New comment by RickyLahey in "Feynman's Hughes Lectures: 950 pages of notes"

RickyLahey — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 15:45:16 +0000

i don't mean the misogyny but the general vibe of how full of himself/sociopathic he was

there are books from the 19 century written by people with much better values

New comment by RickyLahey in "Children and Helical Time"

RickyLahey — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 13:34:18 +0000

i basically never had to work (EU privilege + luck of being born the skill of knowing how to sell to people well) and only worked on stuff that i enjoyed and not a lot of hours (and that turned into millions fast) and my 20s/30s flew like months instead of years and didn't have the intensity of my teen years. I think it's because despite technically travelling and living in different countries a lot, going to a new place is not really a new experience after you visit 7 very different ones. The same with women and a lot of other experiences. Having kids was the only think that surprised me. Making money got old fast (i mean trying to get to the "next" level)

New comment by RickyLahey in "Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades"

RickyLahey — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 13:10:21 +0000

damn you guys are gullible

New comment by RickyLahey in "Resistance training load does not determine hypertrophy"

RickyLahey — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 07:32:17 +0000

this is peak gym bro science

New comment by RickyLahey in "AI employees don't pay taxes"

RickyLahey — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 18:09:50 +0000

I'm going to be controversial and ask: who pays taxes in tech like they should be paid? i mean small and big corporations.

New comment by RickyLahey in "AI employees don't pay taxes"

RickyLahey — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 18:09:14 +0000

I'm going to be controversial and ask: who pays taxes in tech?

New comment by RickyLahey in "Feynman's Hughes Lectures: 950 pages of notes"

RickyLahey — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 15:59:25 +0000

especially reading Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! leaves a bad taste in my mouth after all these years. i can only take the title literally "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"

New comment by RickyLahey in "Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief"

RickyLahey — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 08:36:53 +0000

are macs m5 out? can you wait that long?

New comment by RickyLahey in "Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief"

RickyLahey — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 08:34:59 +0000

only slightly better? really?

New comment by RickyLahey in "Apple releases open-source model that instantly turns 2D photos into 3D views"

RickyLahey — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 21:00:25 +0000

New comment by RickyLahey in "Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system"

RickyLahey — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 18:18:34 +0000

right, we don't need a lot of things, yet here we are

New comment by RickyLahey in "I'm returning my Framework 16"

RickyLahey — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 15:13:42 +0000

i hear you but the latency between the cpu and ram, the battery life, and the quality of software is way worth a few weird buttons to me. everything has downsides. Windows is completely ridiculous, and between Linux and Mac OS, well, I think it depends on your use case.

New comment by RickyLahey in "I'm returning my Framework 16"

RickyLahey — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 15:11:27 +0000

no. but it gives you access to good hardware and software that works well on it. the only combination of this kind.

New comment by RickyLahey in "How I Left YouTube"

RickyLahey — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 22:25:50 +0000

right. also the whole job is bs to begin with. i don't know why this article is remotely interesting. it's a google job. that just tells me "i have skills but i don't know how to use them to make money"

New comment by RickyLahey in "Backing up Spotify"

RickyLahey — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 22:50:37 +0000

right but i'd rather watch rupaul drag race for the 100th time than write boring code

New comment by RickyLahey in "I'm returning my Framework 16"

RickyLahey — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 19:55:27 +0000

my tip to people who don't like mac os. buy a macbook pro, disable System Integrity Protection (SIP), gut the OS, live in the terminal and browser. works way better than linux (10h+ battery life, SoC with a lot of memory) and you will barely notice that you're on mac os.

It's not windows. there will be no forced updates and surprises.

New comment by RickyLahey in "GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability"

RickyLahey — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 10:42:28 +0000

i don't understand what is going on with people not training their own models

New comment by RickyLahey in "A guide to local coding models"

RickyLahey — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 11:11:19 +0000

depending on your usecase $200/mo is often not much for a coding tool if you're using it for commercial purposes

in my experience cursor is nicer to work with the openai/anthropic cli tools