Hacker News: aaronsung

New comment by aaronsung in "Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

aaronsung — Fri, 08 May 2026 05:37:25 +0000

At the same time, Aussie tech giant pauses work, devotes entire week to AI Design software giant Canva has halted normal operations across its 5300-strong global workforce for five days of nothing but AI learning and hackathons, bucking the global wave of technology giants that have slashed jobs, citing the technology. https://www.smh.com.au/technology/aussie-tech-giant-pauses-w...

New comment by aaronsung in "Copilot Student GPT-5.3-Codex removal from model picker"

aaronsung — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 01:51:41 +0000

So now, basically, all the frontier models are being removed from GitHub Copilot Student.

Copilot Student GPT-5.3-Codex removal from model picker

aaronsung — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 01:51:41 +0000

Article URL: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-04-27-copilot-student-gpt-5-3-codex-removal-from-model-picker/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47957142

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by aaronsung in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

aaronsung — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:02:00 +0000

I do not think the current computers can catch up with Electron. When it is just one or two simple app it is ok, but when everything is built with Electron (which is happening now) then it is not enough even with 32gb+ ram.

New Copilot for Windows 11 includes a full Microsoft Edge package, uses more RAM

aaronsung — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 02:03:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/04/05/new-copilot-for-windows-11-includes-a-full-microsoft-edge-package-uses-more-ram/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47656146

Points: 38

# Comments: 7

New comment by aaronsung in "Warren Buffett dumps $1.7B of Amazon stock"

aaronsung — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 07:13:53 +0000

It's not that bad. From a finance and accounting perspective, Amazon’s retail business provides strong synergies with its cloud services. Although the retail segment has a relatively low net profit margin, it generates stable and substantial cash flow for the company. In contrast, cloud services are highly profitable but require significant upfront investment in hardware, and the associated asset depreciation is substantial.

By combining these two businesses, Amazon can achieve a more balanced capital structure. Compared to other cloud service providers such as Oracle, Amazon can maintain a lower debt-to-equity ratio, reduce its debt burden, and sustain stronger overall financial health. At the same time, it can achieve higher overall profit margins compared to traditional retailers like Walmart.

New comment by aaronsung in "Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room"

aaronsung — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 03:48:47 +0000

Full article: https://archive.is/g049r

New comment by aaronsung in "Ask HN: Is the rise of AI tools going to be the next 'dot com' bust?"

aaronsung — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 04:33:50 +0000

Most AI companies are losing money like the dot com era. They spent a lot on buying chipsets or training models, or paying an unsustainable rate for API access to LLM companies. https://ethanding.substack.com/p/windsurf-gets-margin-called If AI tools are charging the world the cost it should be, then homo sapiens will be way cheaper in most of the cases.

New comment by aaronsung in "Physicist, 98, honoured with doctorate 75 years after groundbreaking discovery"

aaronsung — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 14:04:45 +0000

Well deserved.

New comment by aaronsung in "Ask HN: Should I learn Awk or Perl? Or is that a bad question?"

aaronsung — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 14:22:51 +0000

If you just want to do what awk can do, then you do not really need other packages.

New comment by aaronsung in "Is Ruby still worth learning in 2020?"

aaronsung — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 02:20:38 +0000

What's the pro of Elixir and Crystal over Ruby?

New comment by aaronsung in "Is Ruby still worth learning in 2020?"

aaronsung — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 02:20:13 +0000

What's wrong with versions 2.x? Or what's coming with version 3.x?

Is Ruby still worth learning in 2020?

aaronsung — Wed, 01 Jan 2020 14:25:58 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21928132

Points: 1

# Comments: 5

Ask HN: Is it safe to travel to LA now?

aaronsung — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 15:42:40 +0000

I planned a road trip from SF to LA on next week but I heard the wildfire is quite bad in LA county now. Is it still safe to go for the trip?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18494615

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by aaronsung in "This is the face of the ISIS sex slave market – New York Post"

aaronsung — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 07:32:14 +0000

Sorry to hear that.

Ask HN: How do you memorize the tons of commands related to rails?

aaronsung — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 09:39:04 +0000

I am currently learning rails. I used to programming in .NET and Java ecosystem and I got good GUI tools/IDEs such as VS and Eclipse. However, when I had come into rails, I found there are tons of commands are needed to memorize before you can use rails efficiently, e.g. rvm commands related to gemsets, rails commands for generating controller and models, rake commands for managing databases, etc. I found it's a bit difficult for me. Do you guys have any tricks or tools for this hard job?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9093395

Points: 8

# Comments: 13

New comment by aaronsung in "Is 'Web 2.0' Another Bubble? 2006"

aaronsung — Mon, 14 Oct 2013 10:40:17 +0000

In fact, I also think that Web 2.0 is a bubble in that time and I still think it was. But luckily, iPhone launched and changed the world.

New comment by aaronsung in "PHP Sucks But I Like It"

aaronsung — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 06:54:53 +0000

I love PHP too, I can't agree more for the 'just work' point, besides unicode isn't built in. (It 's really a pain for far east users like me)

New comment by aaronsung in "Poll: What is your primary operating system"

aaronsung — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 05:28:51 +0000

Anyone would use OS/400 like me?

New comment by aaronsung in "Why we are taking our startup to Hong Kong and other crazy stories of 2011"

aaronsung — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 07:46:41 +0000

Beside Cyberport there is also a place called Science Park which also provide cheap places for start-up. From my second hand information the rent for a 1,000 sq. ft. office is about $1,100 US dollar (electricity inclusive)

I am from HK and if you want to know more about HK you can contact me.