Hacker News: andersonpico

New comment by andersonpico in "What About Rails?"

andersonpico — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 22:47:06 +0000

described this way, his vision sounds more like an excel spreadsheet than an agent

New comment by andersonpico in "Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS"

andersonpico — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 11:56:58 +0000

> Building the product was never the hard part

this is an absolutely insane take

New comment by andersonpico in "Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents""

andersonpico — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 02:58:54 +0000

> Except, in this case the competitors are power hungry dictators who would kill you if they were rich enough to get away with it.

I'm not sure what side are you talking about here.

New comment by andersonpico in "Mark Zuckerberg: "Cambridge Analytica" (2017)"

andersonpico — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 22:14:18 +0000

It wouldn't be a stretch but only it the rest of the investigation didn't happen and we knew absolutely nothing else about Cambridge Analytica or Facebook. As that is not the reality we live in, you could read more about the case or not let you biases show so clearly.

New comment by andersonpico in "Mark Zuckerberg: "Cambridge Analytica" (2017)"

andersonpico — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 22:10:36 +0000

> instead of chastising me

Oh quit clutching your pearls, he was perfectly civil.

You're the one trying to downplay things we know weren't at all covered in full by these emails (and we've known that for quite a long time). And know about them since you're downplaying them in other comments in this thread (things like exploring the quizz apps and how Facebook knew CA had exploited the API since 2015, how CA initially said the data was for academic purposes, etc).

The latter part of your comment ("how far should we go, the invention of the printing press?") shows me you're not only crying about being corrected but being disingenuous to push a narrative based on lies. Since you're doubling down and running cover for Facebook/CA/Trump's campaign all over the thread it suggests there's more than plain stupidity and dishonesty as motives.

New comment by andersonpico in "Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice"

andersonpico — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 20:36:11 +0000

isn't nitter decentralized?

New comment by andersonpico in "Ok, but does it scale?"

andersonpico — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 16:21:02 +0000

you misunderstood me, I was responding to a2ff6eeb0 saying he agreed with the OP

New comment by andersonpico in "Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem"

andersonpico — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 22:05:49 +0000

> I optimistically expect to witness the advent of a global 'panacea' in my lifetime thanks to AI's efforts

this is a religious belief, maybe you should stop to really examine that (because it might be unintentionally so), but just know that it is obvious to anyone reading these words (anyone who is not mesmerized by technology)

New comment by andersonpico in "Ok, but does it scale?"

andersonpico — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 19:26:19 +0000

how would a single node system survive the failure of its only node?

New comment by andersonpico in "GPT-6 Astra"

andersonpico — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 15:38:23 +0000

maybe you're on European tzs? the sentiment changes quite a bit with who's awake at the time a thread reaches the frontpage

New comment by andersonpico in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

andersonpico — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 15:32:05 +0000

I don't particularly agree with DoD instance on this matter but look, they are not a regular customer, they do not pay regular customer prices and you get a lot in return for providing your services to them (think Boeing, Lockheed, Chrysler). The tradeoff is that now, you are commited to their vision of national security. Such are the Faustian bargains of the military-industrial complex.

New comment by andersonpico in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

andersonpico — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 15:16:34 +0000

europeans certainly did make their politics everyone else's problem for centuries (we're talking every other continent at this point), but certainly the cookie banner is not even comparable, right?

New comment by andersonpico in "GPT-6 Astra"

andersonpico — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 22:47:37 +0000

you're on one of the most pro AI spaces on the whole internet and yet you're still crying about "the hn crowd", what a bizarre distorted perspective

New comment by andersonpico in "Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video]"

andersonpico — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:26:34 +0000

> He compared Visual C++ 6's debugger on hardware from the time to current Visual Studio's debugger on current hardware, and found the former much faster when performing the exact same tasks on the exact same project file and code files.

this shouldn't be right, wtf

New comment by andersonpico in "Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video]"

andersonpico — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:24:05 +0000

animal well is such an incredible game and it shows how talented Billy Basso is in multiple disciplines

New comment by andersonpico in "Small Models Have Arrived"

andersonpico — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:48:39 +0000

we could have had that before, but in past era of tech companies, APIs were not designed with an individual needs in mind and management was all too happy to order you to update status (manually) across JIRA, Slack and whatever other tracking system they were using.

New comment by andersonpico in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"

andersonpico — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 21:16:05 +0000

How is DSA populist? The United States is a country famously opposed to socialist, I don't think they could've picked a more controversial position.

New comment by andersonpico in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"

andersonpico — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 21:14:28 +0000

> replace it with some "workers will decide" socialist mumbo-jumbo.

Isn't it clear to you that you're misrepresenting DSA's position?

New comment by andersonpico in "Hook, hold, harvest and hide: Meta's alleged strategy laid out in first week"

andersonpico — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 15:24:13 +0000

> There likely wasn't some twirly mustached executive giving a presentation with those words on the slide deck.

why oh why are giving them the benefit of the doubt? There was in fact a twirled moustache executive.

> Internal chats within the company stated, “Oh good, we’re going after <13 year olds now? Zuck has been talking about that for a while…targeting 11 year olds feels like tobacco companies a couple decades ago (and today). Like we’re seriously saying ‘we have to hook them young’ here.”

> Even after determining internally that teen safety was a massive problem on its platforms, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said, “teen time spent be our top goal of 2017.”

> One internal email from September 2018 indicates that, according to Meta, “The lifetime value of a 13 [year old] teen is roughly $270 per teen.”

New comment by andersonpico in "The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded"

andersonpico — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 06:36:43 +0000

Why though?

I didn't see it mentioned yet and maybe there are valid reasons for that happening that I'm not aware of.

Also, discussing the thread in itself seems more relevant than how hard/confusing/woke you find a language.

I'm not here making a call to action or trying to police the thread, if anyone want to go off topic be guest.