Hacker News: TSiege

New comment by TSiege in "Show HN: Axe – A 12MB binary that replaces your AI framework"

TSiege — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:17:44 +0000

This looks really interesting. I'm curious to learn more about security around this project. There's a small section, but I wonder if there's more to be aware of like prompt injection

New comment by TSiege in "Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decryption failure"

TSiege — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:11:17 +0000

> Pretty much every bill that has ever been put forward for needing an ID to vote has had a provision for free IDs.

Do you have a source for this because I have seen very few laws like this and runs counter to the overt intention of these laws

New comment by TSiege in "Meta acquires Moltbook"

TSiege — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:17:41 +0000

Mark Zuckerberg is a joke of a CEO and we should not take him seriously as a leader

New comment by TSiege in "I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project"

TSiege — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 23:36:09 +0000

more like LLM garbage are rotting search engines from the inside out

New comment by TSiege in "Iran War Cost Tracker"

TSiege — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:05:01 +0000

Cost is not the first thing I care about in war, but I felt like this is a useful site for tracking the money we're lighting on fire in order to pursue this conflict

Civilian costs are real, unjustified, and incalculable.

Iran War Cost Tracker

TSiege — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:01:57 +0000

Article URL: https://iran-cost-ticker.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47237080

Points: 324

# Comments: 446

New comment by TSiege in "Layoffs at Block"

TSiege — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:25:47 +0000

This makes it make way more sense. That is a huge amount of growth really fast. I've worked in those companies, it's really hard on the work culture and organization when things grow that quickly.

I think the potential for productivity is there with AI, but this size of a cut based on speculation made no sense. This is actually reasonable in this light and is probably for the best. I'll be curious to see if any employees, former or otherwise talk about it

New comment by TSiege in "How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week"

TSiege — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:59:03 +0000

What else exactly would you expect for a competitor to do when trying to take a rival's market share?

New comment by TSiege in "Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking"

TSiege — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:50:18 +0000

I see your point, but I don't think he's being sarcastic in this paragraph. To me this paragraph isn't sarcasm rather he's presently a serious factual recounting of the logic driving AI evangelists that he then undermines by contrasting it with the callousness, messiness, and illogic of the people pushing this narrative. (I too had a good chuckle at the termite description)

But this is veering into lit crit territory, so agree to disagree

New comment by TSiege in "Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking"

TSiege — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:19:21 +0000

It is not sarcasm he is fleshing out this sentence earlier in the paragraph, "One of the pervasive new doctrines of Silicon Valley is that we’re in the early stages of a bifurcation event"

New comment by TSiege in "Techno-cynics are wounded techno-optimists"

TSiege — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:10:08 +0000

OpenAI, Meta, and Anthropic all are known to have done this. It's even been exposed in company internal communications. Anthropic already settled their court case. You're an 11 month old account and I suspect you are some sort of bot or user meant to spread misinformation on the forum.

New comment by TSiege in "Techno-cynics are wounded techno-optimists"

TSiege — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:59:02 +0000

This is a false equivalency if I just share torrented data I can go to prison. These companies downloaded and seeded copy righted material and then sold a product made from that data. If I a civilian did this I would face time in prison. If you think this is fine great, but what people are made about is the hypocrisy of the current moment.

As the title said "Techno-cynics are wounded techno-optimists"

New comment by TSiege in "Claims of disability are highest at elite universities"

TSiege — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 22:43:06 +0000

I'm really tired of hearing about college students "misbehaving" when with something like this the fish rots from the head. Children learn from the role models we elevate, and look who gets ahead in our society. Full of grifters who rarely if ever see any accountability for their misbehavior. Hold the powerful who are doing this accountable before we cause another manufactured social panic over the actions of teenagers

New comment by TSiege in "I’m joining OpenAI"

TSiege — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 01:39:55 +0000

Fair enough. Call it a high profile acquihire then

New comment by TSiege in "I’m joining OpenAI"

TSiege — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 01:13:52 +0000

There are a few take aways I think the detractors and celebrators here are missing.

1. OpenAI is saying with this statement "You could be multimillion while having AI do all the work for you." This buy out for something vibe coded and built around another open source project is meant to keep the hype going. The project is entirely open source and OpenAI could have easily done this themselves if they weren't so worried about being directly liable for all the harms OpenClaw can do.

2. Any pretense for AI Safety concerns that had been coming from OpenAI really fall flat with this move. We've seen multiple hacks, scams, and misaligned AI action from this project that has only been used in the wild for a few months.

3. We've yet to see any moats in the AI space and this scares the big players. Models are neck and neck with one another and open source models are not too far behind. Claude Code is great, but so is OpenCode. Now Peter used AI to program an free app for AI agents.

LLMs and AI are going to be as disruptive as Web 1 and this is OpenAI's attempt to take more control. They're as excited as they are scared, seeing a one man team build a hugely popular tool that in some ways is more capable than what they've released. If he can build things like this what's stopping everyone else? Better to control the most popular one than try to squash it. This is a powerful new technology and immense amounts of wealth are trying to control it, but it is so disruptive they might not be able to. It's so important to have good open source options so we can create a new Web 1.0 and not let it be made into Web 2.0

New comment by TSiege in "In the AI gold rush, tech firms are embracing 72-hour weeks"

TSiege — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 02:01:53 +0000

Now that Tech Oligarchs are a great leap closer to replacing programmers, are we any step closer to seeing the need to organizing and unionizing?

New comment by TSiege in "OpenClaw is changing my life"

TSiege — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 19:39:15 +0000

> Do you enjoy brick laying and calculating angles around doorways? You're the engineer. Do you want to be the architect hiring engineers, working with project managers, and assessing the budget while worrying about approvals?

These are inherently different levels of power. I'm not sure how your example is supposed to be the opposite when you compare someone laying bricks to someone making hiring and firing decisions about groups of people. Your scenario is fundamentally a power imbalance

New comment by TSiege in "Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments"

TSiege — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:15:48 +0000

This would be funnier if it wasn’t child porn being unredacted by our government

New comment by TSiege in "xAI joins SpaceX"

TSiege — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:44:00 +0000

One thing to keep in mind. xAI and SpaceX both have contracts with the DoD. So it makes sense he moved it there rather than Tesla. Not sure I buy the needing AI for doing more in space or if this is to save sinking ship, but if one of his two big companies needed to buy it to keep it afloat it makes sense it was SpaceX and not Tesla.

I'm wondering if SpaceX's going public will be delayed. If not we'll see the first test of the public's appetite for what the AI companies' balance sheets look like

New comment by TSiege in "Why software stocks are getting pummelled"

TSiege — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 21:46:31 +0000

I'd look at things beyond the magnificent seven. Economists and traders have noticed that the SP 500 now has a K shape similar to our class wealth distribution. https://fortune.com/2025/11/10/markets-k-shaped-economy-apol...