Hacker News: beepdyboop

New comment by beepdyboop in "London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces"

beepdyboop — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:38:03 +0000

Makes me wonder, does anyone know of any countries with high living standards that do not have extensive surveillance? I live in Norway, and I assume I’m already being tracked in a lot of ways. Where would I move to, if I came to the point where I felt the downsides of surveillance was beyond the value of staying in the country?

New comment by beepdyboop in "The unbearable cheapness of open weight models"

beepdyboop — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:56:05 +0000

I don’t get it. So many here are saying open weight models will kill the frontier labs. But open source and similar have tried to beat private companies everywhere all the time, and people still buy the best products even if great open source alternatives are available. Why wouldn’t this be the case for AI too?

New comment by beepdyboop in "Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?"

beepdyboop — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 07:37:17 +0000

Rolling a bunch of socks together is.. a ball? Right?

New comment by beepdyboop in "Show HN: Auto-Architecture: Karpathy's Loop, pointed at a CPU"

beepdyboop — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 05:07:30 +0000

This is not a new idea at all, many many have had it, no one really can claim it

New comment by beepdyboop in "ChatGPT for Excel"

beepdyboop — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 05:04:02 +0000

That sounds like an extremely narrow use case, compared to what the vast majority of Sheets users will be comfortable with

New comment by beepdyboop in "British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time"

beepdyboop — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 13:23:58 +0000

As a dev, I think the entire world should just adopt UTC

New comment by beepdyboop in "Claude Skills"

beepdyboop — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 07:28:47 +0000

Isn't this the same as Cursor Rules ?

New comment by beepdyboop in "LLMs are mortally terrified of exceptions"

beepdyboop — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 11:20:54 +0000

Love this, but I do struggle with this same problem! How do we circumvent it?

New comment by beepdyboop in "Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model"

beepdyboop — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 16:51:01 +0000

haha that's a great test actually

New comment by beepdyboop in "Gemini CLI"

beepdyboop — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 09:50:27 +0000

Compare the user experience of exploring the suite of AI products from each company (OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, xAI, etc).

It is vastly more difficult to understand what Google is offering compared to the others, to what cost, getting an API-key or similar, understanding usage/billing across the suite, etc.

I wouldn't expect any regular person to bother signing up for any of Google's products, let alone understand what they're really offering.

Getting Out of a Rut

beepdyboop — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 12:54:11 +0000

Lately, I’ve just been trying to get by.

Feels like my body has been running on autopilot. The consequence of which life just seems to go by even faster. Losing the ability to relax and the feeling of self-control, over-indulging in endless feeds of videos, games and services that further drain the energy that I so crave to return. To a point where it feels more like an addiction, with my body now responding with physical discomforts and a relapse of anxiety that I have not felt for years.

But I think everything’s going to be alright.

Getting out of bed is a drag, my apartment might be a bit messy, work and relationships not going as well I’d like, procrastinated every possible task that needs to be done.. You know. Right now, I’m just surprised to find myself writing about it whilst grateful to be acknowledging that I’m in a rut.

I'm motivated to get out of this. At the same time I’m scared I’ll just go back to autopilot on Monday.