Hacker News: adamesque

New comment by adamesque in "The current AI pricing was always going to go away"

adamesque — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:31:40 +0000

It's hard to take this piece seriously if he's citing _Ed Zitron's_ math, and equally hard to make the blanket statement that flat-rate plans = "the current AI pricing". But yes, those pricing models were pretty silly and unsustainable.

New comment by adamesque in "Box of Secrets: Discreetly modding an apartment intercom to work with Apple Home"

adamesque — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:04:08 +0000

At least on the HomePod side, intercom is at best a half-baked feature and at worst an infuriation machine. It uses a cumbersome voice trigger ("siri, tell …") to begin recording audio, with no clear indication of when recording began and no way to know for sure that the audio was directed where you wanted it to go.

To respond is similarly cumbersome and soon you give up completely. I can only assume it was designed by someone whose parents were killed in an intercom-related disaster and has sworn revenge.

I bought a mini for my office with this purpose in mind, but it has been a total waste.

New comment by adamesque in "The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to "The Office" (2009)"

adamesque — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:04:28 +0000

Okay, so then — who gets squeezed more by AI: the clueless or the losers?

New comment by adamesque in "Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR"

adamesque — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:15:08 +0000

Nope. Still does not. I have 2 macs on my desk and no simple way to connect them to a single Apple display! It's a glaring hole that to me suggests they have no idea who their market is for these.

New comment by adamesque in "I am happier writing code by hand"

adamesque — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 17:05:52 +0000

I think many deployments of modern technology do turn us into reverse centaurs, and we should rail righteously against those.

But I don’t at all believe that AI-assisted coding is doomed to do this to us and believe thinking so is a misread of the metaphor.

(As is lumping all of “GenAI” together.)

New comment by adamesque in "A2UI: A Protocol for Agent-Driven Interfaces"

adamesque — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 19:39:43 +0000

Unlike many of those approaches which concern themselves with delivery of human-designed static UI, this seems to be a tool designed to support generative UIs. I personally think that's a non-starter and much prefer the more incremental "let the agent call a tool that renders a specific pre-made UI" approach of MCP UI/Apps, OpenAI Apps SDK, etc for now.

New comment by adamesque in "GPT-5.2"

adamesque — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:58:13 +0000

that's not quite what parent was talking about, which is — don't just use one giant long conversation. resetting "memories" is a totally different thing (which still might be valuable to do occasionally, if they still let you)

New comment by adamesque in "Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban"

adamesque — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 17:52:55 +0000

i'm geniunely curious about how you made the jump from "here's a single regulation" all the way down the slippery slope to "can't regulate away ALL parenting". does this one regulation cross that threshold? how'd you get there?

in an ideal world, parents would also prevent their kids from smoking, but the fact that in many places minors aren't allowed to purchase tobacco sends a social signal and actually does seem to put a speed bump in place deterring casual use.

is it not _also_ ideal to have some of these regulations in place? does it not help parents make the case to their kids?

New comment by adamesque in "Hollow Knight: Silksong causes server chaos on Xbox, Steam, and Nintendo"

adamesque — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 15:48:57 +0000

Very surprised they didn’t do preorders for this

New comment by adamesque in "Magentic-UI: Towards Human-in-the-Loop Agentic Systems"

adamesque — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 21:28:07 +0000

Much better version of the paper here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/magentic-ui-an...

New comment by adamesque in "MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System"

adamesque — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 16:27:52 +0000

I think for enterprise it’s going to become part of the subscription you’re already paying for, not a new line item. And then prices will simply rise.

Optionality will kill adoption, and these things are absolutely things you HAVE to be able to play with to discover the value (because it’s a new and very weird kind of tool that doesn’t work like existing tools)

New comment by adamesque in "Stuff I Learned at Carta"

adamesque — Sat, 24 May 2025 14:31:54 +0000

> The bulk of the responsibility is, and should be, on the leader to avoid misunderstandings in the first place.

This can be both true and unhelpful at the same time. “Extracting the kernel” is about putting agency back into your own hands when someone else is less-than-perfect. How do you read beyond the utterance to understand the intent? Will that lead to better outcomes?

Since you sadly cannot force leaders to improve, and sadly cannot usually also pick for yourself perfect leadership, what power do you have to make things better?

New comment by adamesque in "Fleurs du Mal"

adamesque — Sat, 10 May 2025 01:42:42 +0000

Not to look a gift horse too much in the mouth, but I find the multiple English translations overwhelming! But at the same time, the range of interpretation and the different colors a translator can inject are truly wild. There is no true translation, all are copies, all imperfect.

New comment by adamesque in "Show HN: Aqua Voice 2 – Fast Voice Input for Mac and Windows"

adamesque — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 12:55:17 +0000

Looking forward to giving it another try!

New comment by adamesque in "Show HN: Aqua Voice 2 – Fast Voice Input for Mac and Windows"

adamesque — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 04:09:30 +0000

I was very delighted by Aqua v1, which felt like magic at first.

But I’ve noticed/learned that I can’t dictate written content. My brain just does not work that way at all — as I write I am constantly pausing to think, to revise, etc and it feels like a completely different part of my brain is engaged. Everything I dictated with Aqua I had to throw away and rewrite.

Has anyone had similar problems, and if so, had any success retraining themselves toward dictation? There are fleeting moments where it truly feels like it would be much faster.

New comment by adamesque in "Thank HN: The puzzle game I posted here 6 weeks ago got licensed by The Atlantic"

adamesque — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 16:36:48 +0000

Fantastic game, and really enjoyed the thought you put into "submit-gate" and entertaining ideas from the peanut gallery.

New comment by adamesque in "Natural fission reactors in the Franceville basin, Gabon"

adamesque — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 04:37:04 +0000

Manifold Space specifically (unless it’s also present in his other Manifold books)

New comment by adamesque in "Reflections on 1 Year of (Trying to) Become Successful on YouTube"

adamesque — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 18:21:56 +0000

I love this nongrammatical/idiomatic use of parentheses actually. Language is a tool, and its rules can be just as powerful when violated as when upheld.

In this case they convey a subtext you can’t get as gracefully by being a slave to syntax— that the author hoped the post would be about how they did achieve success, but that didn’t happen, forcing the parenthetical qualifier. I don’t think another treatment would express that quite as well; you can almost feel the wince.

New comment by adamesque in "AI founders will learn the bitter lesson"

adamesque — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 16:13:23 +0000

Interestingly, this is the exact opposite of the point the article makes — which is that over time, more general models and more compute are more capable, and by building a domain-specific model you just build a ceiling past which you can’t reach.

This is not the same as having unique access to domain-specific data, which becomes more valuable as you run it through more powerful domain-agnostic models. It sounds like this latter point is the one you say has value for startups to tackle

New comment by adamesque in "Uber charges more if you have credits in your account"

adamesque — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 23:46:35 +0000

Is it less evil if an unsupervised process does it?