Hacker News: akd

New comment by akd in "Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin"

akd — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:55:18 +0000

"GPT-8 Galaxia - figure out where our iOS and Android apps show different doohickeys and fix them"

New comment by akd in "Smartphone LED detects hidden cameras with AI"

akd — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 04:09:40 +0000

This detects cameras that are off, which a thermal camera would not.

New comment by akd in "Oceans hit highest temperature on record"

akd — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 04:18:21 +0000

They can't do anything, everything is in China's hands and the EU does not have the hard or soft power to make China do or not do anything.

New comment by akd in "Why Are There Statues of Beavers on Top of This Oxford Street Shop?"

akd — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 06:10:09 +0000

Kosovo and Cyprus... what was the third?

New comment by akd in "Framework discloses data breach via Metabase 0-day"

akd — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:39:42 +0000

Salesforce hasn't ever been hacked to the best of my knowledge.

New comment by akd in "Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code"

akd — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 07:32:04 +0000

The LLM is, in many ways, smarter than you and I: it can perform feats of advanced mathematics that have eluded mathematicians for decades. It's not at all unreasonable to think that an LLM could produce an idea better than you could have, but that reading it and typing it in gives you some better understanding of how it works.

New comment by akd in "What's the largest software project AI can complete on its own?"

akd — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 05:42:55 +0000

> Not to mention that if I, human overseer, don't course correct it many times a day, it goes off into Neverland.

Doesn't that happen to a human engineering team if you don't course correct it many times a month (which in code output is similar to an LLM in a day)?

New comment by akd in "FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font"

akd — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:29:22 +0000

I'm guessing that if you just uploaded a few pages of handwritten text to ChatGPT and asked it to make a font of your handwriting it would do a passably decent job. That might be the way that this business model ends.

New comment by akd in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"

akd — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:13:39 +0000

Because a Macbook M1 is fast enough to do anything and most people aren't running local LLMs

New comment by akd in "Monosketch"

akd — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 17:01:25 +0000

What is the purpose of ASCII diagramming today? Seems like graphics are supported by every document and communications medium that I use. Is it for including directly in code?

New comment by akd in "Apple Creator Studio"

akd — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:06:28 +0000

The core of Apple's success has always been to capture the cultural leaders. Artists, musicians, journalists, etc. have used Apple at much higher percentages than the general public.

Now that the iPhone made Apple much more of mainstream company, it's harder to do -- what does it mean to focus on cultural leaders when 90% of American teens have an iPhone? But in the 15 years since Steve Jobs' death they have still been doing a decent job of it.

The company

New comment by akd in "Oracle hit hard in Wall Street's tech sell-off over its AI bet"

akd — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 18:47:55 +0000

The "Wall Street tech sell-off" is QQQM being down 1.7% over the last five days and up 17.4% over the last six months

New comment by akd in "Mark Zuckerberg Had Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. Neighbors Revolted"

akd — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 20:04:40 +0000

This is how jealousy and regular ol' misanthropy manifests itself in the suburban biome

New comment by akd in "Mark Zuckerberg Had Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. Neighbors Revolted"

akd — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 20:03:31 +0000

ROFL. The neighbors are not "regular people" for any reasonable definition of that term.

New comment by akd in "Poker Tournament for LLMs"

akd — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 17:58:01 +0000

Facebook built a poker bot called Pluribus that consistently beat professional poker players including some of the most famous ones. What techniques did they use?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluribus_(poker_bot)

New comment by akd in "Show HN: I'm making a detective game built on Wikipedia"

akd — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 06:37:34 +0000

Very cool - I would like to contact you about this. Do you mind emailing me? My email address is in my profile.

New comment by akd in "Head of Design at Facebook: How Her Team Uses Data To Make Decisions"

akd — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 23:04:14 +0000

I find that checking Facebook is almost always an emotional experience. I see so many more new babies than I ever did before Facebook.

New comment by akd in "Ron Conway Explained"

akd — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 02:57:41 +0000

But working hard isn't ever enough to reach the pinnacle of achievement. I could have worked my ass off at basketball, from age 3, and I would have never been an NBA player. Someone with more natural gifts than me, but fewer than Michael Jordan, might work hard his whole life and only brush the minor league/NBA border.

New comment by akd in "I Saw the Crisis Coming. Why Didn’t the Fed?"

akd — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 00:44:37 +0000

A lot of reasons can sound totally justified in retrospect. "The Colts will win the Super Bowl because they have superior talent." "The Saints will win the Super Bowl because the Colts' ego will go to their head." A lot of people take actions and have reasons for them -- when those actions turn out to be right, the reasons are often given undue credibility.

New comment by akd in "Become a better entrepreneur by failing completely"

akd — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 09:05:58 +0000

Failure can be great even if it never leads to success. Several people I've known have started a business with their own money, failed horribly, and never started another. But it gave them perspectives they never had before, and most importantly they worked the rest of their careers knowing that they had tried their best, and just weren't the right person at the right place at the right time to succeed.