Hacker News: ambicapter

New comment by ambicapter in "How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?"

ambicapter — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:15:06 +0000

The job-hopping followed from companies not investing in their engineers, not the other way around. It was billed as the only way to get a promotion (which usually would come every 1-2 years).

New comment by ambicapter in "Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake"

ambicapter — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 17:01:34 +0000

I'm sure her skill here translates to other difficult CEO personalities.

New comment by ambicapter in "India's first privately-developed rocket reaches orbit on debut launch"

ambicapter — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:22:21 +0000

4 stages feels like a lot of added complexity for your first launch. I assume it gives you more performance margin to drop weight/stages more often?

New comment by ambicapter in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

ambicapter — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:58:56 +0000

Write slower.

New comment by ambicapter in "Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs"

ambicapter — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:10:47 +0000

> “exact match (close variant)”

I have to laugh to keep from crying.

New comment by ambicapter in "So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe"

ambicapter — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:12:20 +0000

This isn't sad at all, this will help me break my reddit addiction splendidly.

New comment by ambicapter in "Mechanical light bulb from 1675 [video]"

ambicapter — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:08:08 +0000

> naming the first "battery" (out of the concept of lined-up artillery)

That's an amazing fun fact.

New comment by ambicapter in "The Psychology of Software Teams"

ambicapter — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:14:22 +0000

I hereby give you permission to buy the book and read it for funsies.

New comment by ambicapter in "The Psychology of Software Teams"

ambicapter — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:13:21 +0000

Why is that a "yikes"? You don't always have to be "trendy".

New comment by ambicapter in "The Psychology of Software Teams"

ambicapter — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:10:58 +0000

I would even go so far as to say this is the general pattern of individuals learning models with explanatory power for dealing with reality. First, you learn the model, you try to apply it absolutely everywhere even in places where it won't work, you learn its limits, you then synthesize it into your holistic understanding along with every model you've learned thus far.

New comment by ambicapter in "The Psychology of Software Teams"

ambicapter — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:07:40 +0000

Hahaha my only experience with an "NVC" adherent was their absolutely terrible communication and workplace productivity habits.

New comment by ambicapter in "Corners Don't Look Like That: Regarding Screenspace Ambient Occlusion (2012)"

ambicapter — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:17:26 +0000

> I think this applies more generally

I would say the sky and a private eye's dimly lit, smoke-filled 1920s office are pretty different, actually.

New comment by ambicapter in "I Stopped “Creating Content”"

ambicapter — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:10:23 +0000

They're ambiguous words when there's no reason to not be more specific, so either the speaker is lazy or intentionally trying to muddy the waters.

New comment by ambicapter in "Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now"

ambicapter — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 16:06:25 +0000

Are you really "doing things securely" when you use as many unsafe blocks as the Rust port of Bun does?

New comment by ambicapter in "Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now"

ambicapter — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 16:04:27 +0000

What's the point of rewriting it to Rust if you're going to, on purpose, disable the most prominent benefits of using Rust?

New comment by ambicapter in "AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making"

ambicapter — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 03:38:34 +0000

Sure, or maybe the actual applications of “AI” are small and unobtrusive, like the dictation of doctor’s notes example, and it’s not actually the massive revolution it’s claimed to be.

New comment by ambicapter in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

ambicapter — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:29:32 +0000

No, but they have the internet in the afterlife, apparently.

New comment by ambicapter in "NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook"

ambicapter — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:53:42 +0000

The new chat interface in google meets is hilariously bad. Doesn't even load half the time.

New comment by ambicapter in "The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway"

ambicapter — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:04:03 +0000

We're talking about validating the regex, which you have to do with your own skills, while LLMs are still wrong, some of the time.

New comment by ambicapter in "The Three-Second Theft: Why AI Voice Fraud Outruns Every Defence"

ambicapter — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:16:01 +0000

Maybe a good time to bring up (again) the fact we don't impose enough liability risk on companies that collect data willy-nilly.