Hacker News: Seanambers

New comment by Seanambers in ""IG is a drug": Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial"

Seanambers — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 12:57:01 +0000

everything is like that, reddit, X, fb, IG, tiktok.

user beware

New comment by Seanambers in "Google is dead. Where do we go now?"

Seanambers — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 02:22:16 +0000

Discovery was bad.

I was the one to push G+ and Gwave on my friends and it did not take at all.

New comment by Seanambers in "New Glenn Update"

Seanambers — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:27:46 +0000

Sad part is that even though SpaceX / Elon has been very clear about expected outcomes it's still used against them.

New comment by Seanambers in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

Seanambers — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 01:32:16 +0000

Exactly, and especially SV and the US has seemingly been almost entirely locked down by Indians.

New comment by Seanambers in "Do things that don't scale, and then don't scale"

Seanambers — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 23:13:51 +0000

At some point, everyone on Facebook realized almost at the same time, that it was no longer a place to share, but a place to compete.

Then everyone basically stopped sharing and started curating.

New comment by Seanambers in "UK government advises deleting emails to save water"

Seanambers — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 15:54:59 +0000

This is what "ESG" is in practice.

Its insanity.

Give powers to idiots and they will come up with stuff like this.

New comment by Seanambers in "GPT-5"

Seanambers — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 22:34:47 +0000

Trumps Playbook will actually work, so MAGA will get results.

Tariffs will force productivity and salaries higher (and prices), then automation which is the main driver of productivity will kick in which lowers prices of goods again.

Globalisation was basically the west standing still and waiting for the rest to catch up - the last to industrialise will always have the best productivity and industrial base. It was always stupid, but it lifted billions out of poverty so there's that.

The effects will take way longer than the 3 years he has left, so he has oversold the effectiveness of it all.

This is all assuming AGI isn't around the corner, the VLAs, VLM, LLM and other models opens up automation on a whole new scale.

For any competent person with agency and a dream, this could be a true golden age - most things are within reach which before was locked down behind hundreds or thousand of hours of training and work to master.

New comment by Seanambers in "How to grow almost anything"

Seanambers — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 16:47:07 +0000

omg notion is horrendous

New comment by Seanambers in "AMD CEO sees chips from TSMC's US plant costing 5%-20% more"

Seanambers — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 21:09:37 +0000

This is from the All in session? ;

https://youtu.be/9WkGNe27r_Q?si=w5BE2tZKdFcI6aC1&t=812

New comment by Seanambers in "Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI [video]"

Seanambers — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 11:30:47 +0000

Seems to me that this is just another level of throwing compute at the problem.

Same way programs was way more efficient before and now they are "bloated" with packages, abstractions, slow implementations of algos and scaffolding.

The concept of what is good software development might be changing as well.

LLMs might not write the best code, but they sure can write a lot of it.

New comment by Seanambers in "What Google Translate can tell us about vibecoding"

Seanambers — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 10:25:28 +0000

Prompting and context solves this.

New comment by Seanambers in "Why 'Margin Call' remains Wall Street's favorite movie"

Seanambers — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 08:42:37 +0000

Margin Call hits the spot without becoming overly pompous like The Big Short. Its story is centered around Goldman Sachs.

And make no mistake Wall Street gambles full well knowing that the government will save them - Steve Bannon was right on the spot about that.

New comment by Seanambers in "Jagged AGI: o3, Gemini 2.5, and everything after"

Seanambers — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 08:35:42 +0000

LK-99? The room temperature superconductor made by some guys in a small lab in Korea after 20 years of attempts - who doesn't want that to be real.

Won´t say people fell for it though it was just the current happening at the time.

New comment by Seanambers in "Microsoft’s original source code"

Seanambers — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 00:37:44 +0000

As a kid of the late 90s i feel like it was kinda unfair.

Back in the day (70s(?)80s) computers shipped with the programming language manual. All I got was a CDROM of ENCARTA and a slip to mail in for a restore set of MS DOS / WIN 3.1 diskettes(which was sorely needed I might add).

New comment by Seanambers in "Microsoft’s original source code"

Seanambers — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 00:32:37 +0000

Its written for people who know nothing about computers but most people who will read it knows loads.

New comment by Seanambers in "Web Server for AoE 1, 2 and 3 DE supporting LAN multiplayer 100% offline"

Seanambers — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 08:49:12 +0000

Remember we used to have Aoe2 sessions on LANS when we were kids back in the 00s and like 1 in 3 games just crashed after everyone had played for like 2-3 hours.

In a way it was even better because then nobody had to loose, and everyone believed they were winning.

New comment by Seanambers in "Show HN: Codemcp – Claude Code for Claude Pro subscribers – ditch API bills"

Seanambers — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 22:11:03 +0000

Why are people not using plugins like Cline?!

New comment by Seanambers in "Athena landed in a dark crater where the temperature was -280° F / -173° C"

Seanambers — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 21:23:29 +0000

Multiple sea landings, but I guess you'd argue those don't count since the vehicles tip over in water and explode.

Moving barges in the sea should qualify though.

New comment by Seanambers in "GeoCities in 1995: Building a Home Page on the Internet"

Seanambers — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 13:04:49 +0000

Most important was to have a under construction sign gif and a counter. And maybe a guestbook.

New comment by Seanambers in "Apple introduces iPad Air with powerful M3 chip and new Magic Keyboard"

Seanambers — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 14:26:47 +0000

I bought an iPad in 2020, its very practical the 5 times a year I use it.