Hacker News: asdfologist

New comment by asdfologist in "Cursor CLI"

asdfologist — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 22:41:54 +0000

Not sure. So far Reddit seems largely negative on Cursor CLI + GPT-5

https://www.reddit.com/r/cursor/comments/1mk8ks5/discussion_...

New comment by asdfologist in "Gemini with Deep Think achieves gold-medal standard at the IMO"

asdfologist — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 21:33:02 +0000

It did partially, which is why top players are nowadays playing Freestyle (chess 960) more and more.

New comment by asdfologist in "Undocumented backdoor found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices"

asdfologist — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 16:51:01 +0000

Someone on Reddit suspected this 3 years ago.

https://www.reddit.com/r/embedded/comments/wopjw8/how_sure_a...

New comment by asdfologist in "Ask HN: Are you unable to find employment?"

asdfologist — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 16:33:58 +0000

>I myself have had a difficult time landing an interview over the last year despite having two decades of experience.

Unfortunately many employers see that as a minus, not a plus.

New comment by asdfologist in "Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination"

asdfologist — Fri, 24 May 2024 17:40:03 +0000

Summarization

Translation

Writing emails

Code generation

...

New comment by asdfologist in "Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs"

asdfologist — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 00:46:17 +0000

Whoa, I had no idea PDFs can have formulas.

New comment by asdfologist in "Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs"

asdfologist — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 00:25:59 +0000

I find Chrome's built-in PDF viewer much snappier than Adobe Acrobat.

New comment by asdfologist in "Why does sleep become more elusive as we age?"

asdfologist — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 21:10:34 +0000

Amnesia? Or did you mean insomnia?

New comment by asdfologist in "How to protect your career from a ChatGPT Future"

asdfologist — Sat, 25 Feb 2023 12:47:46 +0000

If AI makes engineers more productive, then it follows that companies will hire fewer engineers for the same work. So AI is making some engineers obsolete.

New comment by asdfologist in "Ask HN: Burnt out from big tech. What's next?"

asdfologist — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 13:10:53 +0000

For those of you with families and took a sabbatical, what did you do about health insurance?

New comment by asdfologist in "UK scientists not backing Covid jabs for 12 to 15-year-olds"

asdfologist — Sat, 04 Sep 2021 00:55:14 +0000

New comment by asdfologist in "New algorithm flies drones faster than human racing pilots"

asdfologist — Sat, 24 Jul 2021 20:00:56 +0000

Sensationalism?

New comment by asdfologist in "Instacart to cut 1,900 jobs, including its only union roles"

asdfologist — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 04:00:46 +0000

Amazon Fresh.

New comment by asdfologist in "A researcher on how to live a happy life"

asdfologist — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 18:46:47 +0000

This pretty much sums up Christian ethics.

New comment by asdfologist in "My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file"

asdfologist — Sat, 08 Feb 2020 16:20:26 +0000

Yeah but with a .txt file how am I gonna boast about my productivity on Instagram every 5 minutes, geez.

New comment by asdfologist in "You May Be Better Off Picking Stocks at Random, Study Finds"

asdfologist — Sat, 17 Aug 2019 20:55:06 +0000

Not true because of trading costs. Both the non-random strategy and its inverse would lose money.

New comment by asdfologist in "What Happens to Spelling Bee Champions When They Grow Old?"

asdfologist — Sun, 14 Jul 2019 02:03:52 +0000

Spelling bees don't test English comprehension.

New comment by asdfologist in "China’s Plan to Build the World’s Biggest Supergrid"

asdfologist — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 00:50:46 +0000

Korea had a dictator too.

New comment by asdfologist in "12-Year-Old Claims to Have Achieved Nuclear Fusion at Home (2018)"

asdfologist — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 22:50:03 +0000

(2018)

New comment by asdfologist in "Google AMP case study: leads dropped by 59%"

asdfologist — Sun, 16 Dec 2018 16:18:27 +0000

As a user I like AMP because it's guaranteed to be very fast. There, I said it.