Hacker News: apsdsm

New comment by apsdsm in "Agents that run while I sleep"

apsdsm — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 22:39:57 +0000

Do you really, honestly, have to be doing this stuff even when you sleep? To the point it hits you “wait is this even any good? Gee I don’t want to push out slop.”

If you don’t trust the agent to do it right in the first place why do you trust them to implement your tests properly? Nothing but turtles here.

New comment by apsdsm in "GPT‑5.3 Instant"

apsdsm — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 22:40:07 +0000

I would be more impressed if it could give a straight yes/no answer to a yes/no question.

New comment by apsdsm in "Letting Claude play text adventures"

apsdsm — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 08:18:35 +0000

Probably less than the cost of an LLM doing exactly the same thing?

New comment by apsdsm in "CEOs are hugely expensive. Why not automate them? (2021)"

apsdsm — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 00:18:05 +0000

A hundred thousand posts on HN about how you can, without hesitation, replace your network security team with AI, and you can see the flood of CEOs (or CEO wannabes) nodding and murmuring about saving costs. A single post about CEOs being automated and all of a sudden it’s all about “intangible human relation skills” and “AI couldn’t possibly” and “but my network of angel investors and other CEOs”.

I swear there’s a joke or cautionary tale here somewhere about “first they came for..” or something along those lines. The phrasing escapes me.

Maybe the problem isn’t that you can’t automate a CEO, it’s that the actual tangible work just isn’t worth as much as some companies pay for it, and this thread it touching a few too many raw nerves.

Well, either way it’s hilarious.

New comment by apsdsm in "AI's Biggest Flaw? The Blinking Cursor Problem"

apsdsm — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 22:52:10 +0000

This pencil is unclear. Has pointy tip problem. Needs more examples.

New comment by apsdsm in "Older gamers are a growth opportunity for AAA publishers"

apsdsm — Thu, 30 May 2024 22:14:04 +0000

ChatGPT, here are some stats, write me an article about older gamers and list reasons why appealing to them is a good business decision.

New comment by apsdsm in "Text adventure ported to social media"

apsdsm — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 05:13:51 +0000

Amazing. Hyperlinks.

New comment by apsdsm in "Show HN: Stock Photos Using Stable Diffusion"

apsdsm — Sat, 01 Oct 2022 00:45:34 +0000

This might just be the best stock photo site for YouTube creepypasta videos.

New comment by apsdsm in "Magic Leap 2: The most immersive AR platform for enterprise"

apsdsm — Sat, 01 Oct 2022 00:20:44 +0000

Came to the comments to ask this. Looks like an Amazon product description.

New comment by apsdsm in "Why have a blog? (2020)"

apsdsm — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 11:19:39 +0000

We’ll I think you’re great and that other person is a poopy head.

New comment by apsdsm in "Show HN: Goopt – Search Engine for a Procedural Simulation of the Web with GPT-3"

apsdsm — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 10:18:47 +0000

His latest book, “Fall, or Dodge In Hell” also uses the same idea as a major plot device. And alike all things written by Neal Stephenson, is amazing.

New comment by apsdsm in "macOS Monterey"

apsdsm — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 05:28:10 +0000

Affinity Photo is pretty good though it may not suit your needs. I know you already tried it but Clip Studio is very powerful if you stick with it (possibly depending on what art you’re making)

New comment by apsdsm in "Machu Picchu was built over major fault zones (2019)"

apsdsm — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 00:26:29 +0000

Unrelated, but is it just not possible any more for anybody to write a title for an article that doesn't sound like it was composed by a click-bait robot?

New comment by apsdsm in "I write code 100 hours/week, here's why I probably won't stop"

apsdsm — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 03:11:47 +0000

Good for you, kiddo. Let’s talk when you hit your 40s and tell me how it all went.

New comment by apsdsm in "14kb WASM game written in D"

apsdsm — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 02:03:18 +0000

I think it's pretty cool too. The people shitting on your post should go try implementing the same thing.

New comment by apsdsm in "Show HN: VentScape – Minimalistic site to vent, chat and see others do the same"

apsdsm — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 00:57:30 +0000

I kind of liked that. It was like an evolving art piece/drama where Chris was one of the characters, together with Eth man.

Google on the News Media Bargaining Code [video]

apsdsm — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 23:44:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHypeuHePEI

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25951171

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by apsdsm in "Is Apple Silicon Ready?"

apsdsm — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 21:07:00 +0000

On mac? No.

https://netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?options...

Yahoo Groups is closing down

apsdsm — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 05:27:30 +0000

Article URL: https://uk.help.yahoo.com/kb/groups/SLN35505.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24773390

Points: 148

# Comments: 80

New comment by apsdsm in "How I got my Japanese permanent residency"

apsdsm — Sun, 09 Aug 2020 23:57:12 +0000

Here’s how I got mine: got married to Japanese national. Worked and paid taxes for 8 years in a job that wasn’t teaching English. Applied for and paid ¥8000. Waited half a year. Received the OK to pick up my new perm resident card the week before my family packed up to move back to Australia...

Seriously one of the most simultaneously exciting and annoying pieces of mail I’ve ever received.