Hacker News: VirusNewbie

New comment by VirusNewbie in "AirPods 5"

VirusNewbie — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 23:05:59 +0000

this is not even remotely true. I have plenty of headphones, Airpod Pros are quite good sound quality.

New comment by VirusNewbie in "Are people who only seem happy when they're angry increasing? Seems like it"

VirusNewbie — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 17:17:10 +0000

I don't think outrage porn is new. I grew up in the tail end of evangelical christianity being angry about how corrupt society was getting in the 80s.

I think shock news and outrage was a thing since TV...

Feeling 'righteously angry' has always been popular.

New comment by VirusNewbie in "GPT-6 Astra"

VirusNewbie — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 22:03:07 +0000

If there was no moat, nvidia and meta would have SoTA models too.

New comment by VirusNewbie in "How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?"

VirusNewbie — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 18:09:59 +0000

>Anthropic admitted last year to losing money on inference, it had negative margins.

No they did not. Dario has repeatedly stated if they stopped training new models, they would be very profitable.

New comment by VirusNewbie in "Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber"

VirusNewbie — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:28:39 +0000

Check my profile?

New comment by VirusNewbie in "Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber"

VirusNewbie — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:53:45 +0000

I found 3.5 pro to be much better than 3.5 flash, but 3.7 flash with high reasoning is comparable and way way faster.

New comment by VirusNewbie in "How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?"

VirusNewbie — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 04:59:25 +0000

yes, we should also point out when he makes silly predictions that don't come true.

New comment by VirusNewbie in "How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?"

VirusNewbie — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 02:37:36 +0000

He charges people money for a newsletter that reinforces completely detached from reality viewpoints. If he's just making stuff up, that's called grifting, and it's good people call that out.

New comment by VirusNewbie in "EVE Online moves to Python 3"

VirusNewbie — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 22:12:53 +0000

>I long for a true, in-depth economic MMO

Schwab?

New comment by VirusNewbie in "Ask HN: Should I leave web development to study medicine in my mid-30s?"

VirusNewbie — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:34:31 +0000

non profit hospitals are the norm. Many insurance companies have capped profits. but the profits are capped as a percentage of revenue. So... Hmm...

New comment by VirusNewbie in "Ask HN: Should I leave web development to study medicine in my mid-30s?"

VirusNewbie — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:51:35 +0000

>The US operates a for-profit health system.

I have a non profit insurance and most of the hospitals in my area are non-profit as well. Some of the parts of the system are for profit (maybe the imaging centers?, pharma companies), but most of it isn't... that doesn't seem to be the main issue.

New comment by VirusNewbie in "GLM-5.3-Flash"

VirusNewbie — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:51:06 +0000

It looks like gemini 3.7 flash actually beats it in a lot of benchmarks, no?

https://x.com/Zai_org/status/2092616204787626030/photo/1

New comment by VirusNewbie in "OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell"

VirusNewbie — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:43:48 +0000

"How can OpenAI produce a LLM at scale more economically than Google, Amazon, and Microsoft which have experience in planet scale software and scale efficiencies unlike them".

One answer is they're quite good at poaching talent.

New comment by VirusNewbie in "Do teams still use scrum and sprints?"

VirusNewbie — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 19:31:19 +0000

I've worked at Verizon and Google, and they were much more interested in having quarter or bi-yearly shipping goals and really didn't give a fuck how the teams hit that goal.

Managers may or may not run daily or weekly 'check-ins' (I've never been on a team that did daily ones), there were no points assigned, there were very rough guesse of how long projects would take, but management just assumed people didn't need babysitting and people would work hard when necessary to unblock other folks.

New comment by VirusNewbie in "Do teams still use scrum and sprints?"

VirusNewbie — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 19:18:11 +0000

Yes, but not at big companies. SCRUM and Sprints are useful when you're a consultant and the client doesn't actually know what they want to build. When you're working at a software company, it's a red flag if product can't map out what they want.

New comment by VirusNewbie in "Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?"

VirusNewbie — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 16:04:52 +0000

yes, it does sound weird to brag about that. 'Swapping out a data center' is something engineers working for AWS or GCP are do practiaclly every week.

New comment by VirusNewbie in "Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?"

VirusNewbie — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:46:57 +0000

> Spend a minute or two thinking about the product journey GitHub would have taken under Google, and then think about how many non-search, non-advertising products have succeeded there.

Android

Youtube

Waymo

Chrome

Workspace

GCP

>Which amazing developer tools from Google do you use regularly?

Kubernetes

Jax

Tensorflow

gRPC

Istio

New comment by VirusNewbie in "Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study"

VirusNewbie — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:54:50 +0000

>In every case costs have gone down and outcomes have improved.

this isn't really true though, if you look at survival rates of many diseases.

New comment by VirusNewbie in "Ask HN: Let's all sell our AI stocks, short Nvidia and pop the AI bubble"

VirusNewbie — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:23:26 +0000

why do you like normal data centers but not "AI data centers"? What do you think the difference is? When does a normal data center turn into an AI data center?

New comment by VirusNewbie in "Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's"

VirusNewbie — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:29:45 +0000

is there any actual truth that real sugar is not as bad as HFCS? If I drink an american coke every day am I really worse off than if I have the cane sugar coke?