Hacker News: Torien

New comment by Torien in "Our position on open-weights models"

Torien — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:00:05 +0000

The comments about vance mean both are bad enough. Any toady shouldn't be controlling Ai

New comment by Torien in "Meta acquires Moltbook"

Torien — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 04:04:41 +0000

Logged in for the first time in years to say, I appreciate you leaving this up and being able to change your view. Thanks!

New comment by Torien in "White-Collar Work Is Just Meetings Now – The Meeting-Industrial Complex"

Torien — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 00:40:44 +0000

https://thezvi.substack.com/p/how-to-identify-an-immoral-maz...

New comment by Torien in "[dead]"

Torien — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 00:12:15 +0000

I have just launched my Indiegogo campaign for Artificial Intuition, a deck of cards with strategies for modifying your prompts for ML models like ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion.

New comment by Torien in "Show HN: Halloween game to show off my new Terminal"

Torien — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 02:02:18 +0000

Nice way to get me to look up your docs on how to search files! My first attempt managed to hardlock the game:

for(let i=0; i<=8; i++) for(let j=0; j<=8; j++) for(let k=0; k<=8; k++) for(let l=0; l<=8; l++) ls ${i}/${j}/${k}/${l}

New comment by Torien in "Ask HN: How do you get a job as a software engineer if you've been cancelled?"

Torien — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 04:54:45 +0000

This sounds similar to a situation I know of that occurred a few years ago and the person in question got terminated for a particular cause, but they were the kind of person who decides if what they were saying was a joke depending on if you laugh or agree and has been very careful around their manager.

The language you are using makes me think you might be getting pinged from hiring processes because you are very angry/anxious about this whole situation and probably not putting your best foot forward.

That combined with the anxiety of the world being on fire may be making things worse in all sorts of ways, both for you and the teams you are interviewing with.

No damage that is solely reputational is permanent, so it seems you are stuck catastrophising. That can put people in survival mode and I know when I’m at work I want to be in a creative mode environment so you may not be coming across as a cultural fit.

I don’t think you’ve come to terms with the situation and I’d recommend you talk to a therapist before resuming your job search.

New comment by Torien in "The Spinner"

Torien — Fri, 27 Sep 2019 18:17:00 +0000

My immediate thought when I saw this was "Fancy scam mixed with PR bomb", a little digging surfaced these:

https://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2019/02/27/spinner/

https://www.prexamples.com/2018/07/frustrated-husbands-can-u...

New comment by Torien in "Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything?"

Torien — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 20:54:29 +0000

'He loves quiet chats over his own dinner table with such friends as Gerhart Hauptmann and Professor Schrodinger. He reads only little. Modern fiction does not seduce him. Even in science he limits himself largely to his special field. "Reading after a certain age diverts the mind too much from it's creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking, just as the man who spends too much time in the theater is tempted to be content with living vicariously instead of living his own life." In his own field of thought Einstein follows every development with keen interest. He has the gift of reading at a glance a whole page of equations. Einstein can master a whole new system of mathematics in half an hour.'

http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/sateve...

Not really the total repudiation of reading that this quote is being implied to be