Hacker News: Velorivox

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

Velorivox — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 00:10:23 +0000

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

Velorivox — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 20:34:01 +0000

You’ve misrepresented the core of your argument. Wikipedia on dark forest hypothesis:

“The "dark forest" hypothesis presumes that any space-faring civilization would view any other intelligent life as an inevitable threat…”

> not because they wouldn't love to meet us and form positive-sum interactions

Not sure where you got this adaptation from.

New comment by Velorivox in "Ask HN: How do you tune your personality to get better at interviews?"

Velorivox — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 15:27:02 +0000

You have no idea what you even did wrong. What you need to do is call up your friends and have them mock interview you, there's even free platforms and exchanges where you can do that. Get some actual feedback, don't act on wild conjectures.

Also keep in mind it could be as simple as that they had a better candidate.

New comment by Velorivox in "Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage? A Data Distribution Lens"

Velorivox — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 15:00:10 +0000

I’ve never seen so much misinformation trotted out by the laity as I have with LLMs. It’s like I’m in a 19th century forum with people earnestly arguing that cameras can steal your soul. These people haven’t a clue of the mechanism.

New comment by Velorivox in "Beyond Meat is headed to Chapter 11 bankruptcy"

Velorivox — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 04:05:27 +0000

Does this headline need to state it is an opinion? I didn't see this as a "fact" anywhere in TFA.

New comment by Velorivox in "Google loses US appeal over app store reforms in Epic Games case"

Velorivox — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 00:42:24 +0000

Time to buckle up for more of this [0] awesomeness, now coming to a Play store near you. Problems created by tech illiterate elders, for tech illiterate elders.

[0] https://securelist.com/open-source-package-for-cursor-ai-tur...

New comment by Velorivox in "Engineering Buy-In"

Velorivox — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 18:58:57 +0000

This is called nemawashi in Japanese. Plenty of literature exists on it (if you look for that term).

New comment by Velorivox in "AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks"

Velorivox — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 01:55:59 +0000

Really?

[0] https://i.imgur.com/ly5yk9h.png

New comment by Velorivox in "How YouTube won the battle for TV viewers"

Velorivox — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 16:20:10 +0000

Exactly. Also, people keep forgetting that Youtube doesn't just make money from ads. They also continue to introduce new revenue generating features such as the recent tips model.

New comment by Velorivox in "AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks"

Velorivox — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 15:59:30 +0000

I don’t know. I searched for how many chapters a popular manga has on Google and it gave me the wrong answer (by an order of magnitude). I only found out later and it did really piss me off because I made a trek to buy something that never existed. I should’ve known better.

I don’t think this is substantively different from cooking temperature, so I’m not trusting that either.

New comment by Velorivox in "How YouTube won the battle for TV viewers"

Velorivox — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 05:03:16 +0000

First, this is just a pervasive myth. Not that Google doesn’t operate money losing services: Blogger is a good example of that.

Second, “if Google can’t make it work no one can” is also a myth. YouTube, even the idea of which came after Google video was already launched, is a good example of that.

And, of course, Google+…

New comment by Velorivox in "Man wearing metallic necklace dies after being sucked into MRI machine"

Velorivox — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 20:43:08 +0000

It’s certainly bad enough that you shouldn’t be able to enter a room with an operational MRI machine just like that, as a normal guest with no training and no escort. One cheap RFID reader could have saved a life here.

New comment by Velorivox in "OpenAI claims gold-medal performance at IMO 2025"

Velorivox — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 18:16:03 +0000

"AI" already contributes "substantially" to "scientific discovery". It's a very safe statement to make, whereas "full self-driving" has some concrete implications.

New comment by Velorivox in "It's rude to show AI output to people"

Velorivox — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 18:05:41 +0000

I like to use em-dashes as well (option-shift-hyphen on my macbook). I've seen people try to prompt LLMs to not have em-dashes, I've been in forums where as soon as you type in an em-dash it will block the submit button and tell you not to use AI.

Here's my take: these forums will drive good writers away or at least discourage them, leaving discourses the worse for it. What they really end up saying — "we don't care whether you use an LLM, just remove the damn em-dash" — indicates it's not a forum hosting riveting discussions in the first place.

New comment by Velorivox in "It's rude to show AI output to people"

Velorivox — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 17:46:54 +0000

Really!?

[0] https://i.imgur.com/ly5yk9h.png

New comment by Velorivox in "The AI bubble today is bigger than the IT bubble in the 1990s"

Velorivox — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 14:45:50 +0000

In this very thread people are discussing “superintelligence” being around the corner. So yes, it is overhyped. Like if I took the invention of a steam engine and said teleportation is coming tomorrow.

Of course the steam engine was revolutionary. That doesn’t excuse or legitimize the nonsense.

New comment by Velorivox in "The companies laying off staff for AI today will regret it in five years"

Velorivox — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 11:56:31 +0000

You’d have to change comp across the board. No one is going to want some draconian lock-in package when the other guy across the street makes a king’s ransom in a quarter.

“Ratchet, ratchet, and bingo,” as they say.

New comment by Velorivox in "Code highlighting extension for Cursor AI used for $500k theft"

Velorivox — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 11:19:56 +0000

Easy: stay away from crypto.

New comment by Velorivox in "Kiro: A new agentic IDE"

Velorivox — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 16:08:03 +0000

I really like that the testimonials are linked directly to the Github accounts of the contributors. I've seen a lot of websites where it's questionable at best whether the people reviewing the product even exist.

It's also interesting that the pricing is in terms of "interactions" rather than tokens. I don't believe I've seen that before.

New comment by Velorivox in "Preliminary report into Air India crash released"

Velorivox — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 06:11:15 +0000

This is highly reminiscent to me of this case. [0] The co-pilot accidentally hit the wrong switch and then quietly corrected his mistake later, without resetting the previous switch (which led to feathering).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeti_Airlines_Flight_691