Hacker News: burntalmonds

New comment by burntalmonds in "Atlassian says it had right to fire engineer for suggesting CEO is 'rich jerk'"

burntalmonds — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:07:44 +0000

The headline definitely took a side. Not surprising given the source.

New comment by burntalmonds in "Sub-Millisecond RAG on Apple Silicon. No Server. No API. One File"

burntalmonds — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 20:57:32 +0000

Is this like zvec?

New comment by burntalmonds in "Privilege is bad grammar"

burntalmonds — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 21:43:39 +0000

There needs to be a new sig like "Written by Claude" or something. I'd rather somebody just openly admits it.

New comment by burntalmonds in "A built-in 'off switch' to stop persistent pain"

burntalmonds — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 15:30:19 +0000

Chronic pain is different. It's a messenger telling you there's something wrong with your back when there's actually nothing wrong with your back. There's something wrong with the messenger.

New comment by burntalmonds in "Apple introduces AppleCare One"

burntalmonds — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 14:40:51 +0000

It also doesn't look like it would cover spouse/kid devices in Family.

Can I add my family’s devices to my AppleCare One plan?

AppleCare One plans can cover devices that are on the same Apple Account as the subscriber.

New comment by burntalmonds in "Writing toy software is a joy"

burntalmonds — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 19:39:57 +0000

It's kind of scary how good it is. I haven't completely switched over, but I think a lot of that is just not wanting to admit that this is the new paradigm and the implications. The ability to not only find what you're looking for faster, but have it tailored to your specific context? It's hard to go back from that.

New comment by burntalmonds in "GCP Outage"

burntalmonds — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 18:36:02 +0000

Same here. Getting this in AI Studio: Failed to generate content: user has exceeded quota. Please try again later.

New comment by burntalmonds in "Apple introduces a universal design across platforms"

burntalmonds — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 19:50:08 +0000

I'm hoping that's true and there's still an option for a flat, minimal look.

New comment by burntalmonds in "Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc"

burntalmonds — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 19:02:50 +0000

I think practically everyone is better off with a laptop. iPad is great if you're an artist using the pencil, or just consuming media on it. Otherwise a macbook is far more powerful and ergonomic to use.

New comment by burntalmonds in "Ask HN: Decided I no longer want to be a SWE – what next?"

burntalmonds — Tue, 27 May 2025 23:47:11 +0000

I was going to suggest this as well.

New comment by burntalmonds in "British naval dominance during the age of sail"

burntalmonds — Fri, 16 May 2025 17:22:36 +0000

After seeing the movie I devoured the entire series. Great stuff.

New comment by burntalmonds in "Who's Afraid of Peter Thiel? A New Biography Suggests We All Should Be (2021)"

burntalmonds — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 14:29:45 +0000

I don't have a problem with billionaires per se, but I do have a problem with them being able to spend unlimited amounts of money to influence politics and undermine our very system of government.

New comment by burntalmonds in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

burntalmonds — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 20:29:03 +0000

The only humiliation that I saw was that of the United States by Trump's conduct. I was amazed at how calm Zelensky remained during that meeting.

New comment by burntalmonds in "Science YouTuber physicsgirl (Dianna Cowern) stands for the first time in 2 yrs"

burntalmonds — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 15:59:57 +0000

Many conditions aren't well understood and simply don't have effective treatments.

New comment by burntalmonds in "The Origins of Wokeness"

burntalmonds — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 02:40:39 +0000

For over 20 years I've been clicking on pg's essays, knowing that I can look forward to an interesting and insightful read. I can no longer assume that.

New comment by burntalmonds in "Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson"

burntalmonds — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 21:36:21 +0000

Yeah, I think people are incorrectly assuming that everyone had the same experience with the stream. I watched the whole thing and only had a few instances of buffering and quality degradation. Not more than 30 seconds total during the stream.

New comment by burntalmonds in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

burntalmonds — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 14:23:30 +0000

I don't buy it. There's a reality distortion field at work here. If Trump had been in office he would he would have been touting the economy as the greatest in history. And 'average people' would have 'seen that' despite not 'seeing it'.

New comment by burntalmonds in "Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?"

burntalmonds — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 18:00:13 +0000

It's been a long time since I read it, but it definitely gets better.

New comment by burntalmonds in "Karpathy on VS Code Cursor and Sonnet 3.5 vs. GitHub Copilot"

burntalmonds — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 22:00:38 +0000

What he describes is why I have stayed away from using these tools so far. I don't want to be exposed to something that is just useful enough to feel indispensable, but still comes with so many drawbacks.

New comment by burntalmonds in "OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show"

burntalmonds — Thu, 23 May 2024 14:50:18 +0000

Same here. In the demo it never sounded like SJ to me. After the story broke I listened to clips from Her and the 4o demo. It doesn't sound like SJ.