Hacker News: cgannett

New comment by cgannett in "Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS"

cgannett — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:17:41 +0000

Old web vibes!

New comment by cgannett in "LLMs reward expertise"

cgannett — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:17:44 +0000

You can get pretty dang far asking the AI to explain things and show you where it got that info, especially with IT/DEV stuff. Thing that has been very useful to me is specifically asking AI for that vocabulary. AI is suprisingly useful for giving a vague description of something you want and asking for possible words that match. But you have to KNOW to try that. A tinkerer might have started that convo with the chatbot by asking "What are web pages built from" "Can we use those building blocks to make our own simple app" and gotten there from a place of low expertise in web development but juicing out the knowlege from a place of low expertise is itself a skill.

New comment by cgannett in "Anime User Interfaces"

cgannett — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 23:35:03 +0000

oh yeah, this is nice

New comment by cgannett in "Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)"

cgannett — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:34:50 +0000

Time to make a better version for $4 install and a similar name... out of spite.

New comment by cgannett in "Cyberpunk Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels"

cgannett — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:18:47 +0000

Disagree, corvids collecting bullet casings because they are shiny is heavily Shadowrun/WoD/Hellboy coded aesthetically. Regular birds gathering fiber optic cables for nests is EXTREMELY CYBERPUNK are you kidding? The image evokes so much: capitalist excess, tech waste involving computers/internet/cybernetics, war bad, environmental degredation etc... the only part about this concept that isnt heavily cyberpunk is that the bird isn't sick, dying, or dead and is somehow happy to find such a workable and durable nest building material.

New comment by cgannett in "Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke"

cgannett — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:32:41 +0000

"A lot of reasonably good coders have never seen an example of a good manager, and have all kinds of weird ideas about what management is."

Banger of a quote that one.

New comment by cgannett in "For most of the world, open-source AI is the only way forward"

cgannett — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:46:20 +0000

A drop in the bucket compared to the value of the collective human work that was stolen to train it.

edit: come to think about it I think the ratio of one drop to one bucket is vastly over estimating the ratio of the trainer's effort.

New comment by cgannett in "Who will buy your services if you fire us all?"

cgannett — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:26:01 +0000

What people dont understand is we already invented Roko's Basilisk in the 1600s. It just doesnt have the power to torment you for more than 1 human lifetime yet.

New comment by cgannett in "Loopmaster – Livecoding Music IDE"

cgannett — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:10:54 +0000

I really want to see what would happen if you got a musically talented math teacher to teach a bunch of kids trig, music, and programming with this...

New comment by cgannett in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

cgannett — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:40:37 +0000

Hopefully the EU can get the battery situation to mirror the charging cable situation. IE force them all to adopt an industry standard.

New comment by cgannett in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

cgannett — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:36:27 +0000

You can go wherever you want whenever you want... until everyone does this and now you are stalled in traffic with no end in sight.

New comment by cgannett in "God Sleeps in the Minerals"

cgannett — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:15:35 +0000

pretty crystals are pretty, gonna file this under "cool game dev inspo"

New comment by cgannett in "The dangers of California's legislation to censor 3D printing"

cgannett — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:26:36 +0000

Literally giving children the means of production is way out of line. To the corporate owned gulag with you! /s

New comment by cgannett in "The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday"

cgannett — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:40:20 +0000

if people believe its a threat and it is also real then what matters is timing

New comment by cgannett in "Chuck Klosterman on why we've never actually seen a real football game"

cgannett — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 21:21:12 +0000

reminds me of a friend of mine who turned his alabama football passion into a cameraman career

New comment by cgannett in "Non-Zero-Sum Games"

cgannett — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 19:41:06 +0000

ugh what a pain

Another issue is that often effort is the only lever one has in providing value as what tasks you are assigned constrains potential value output.Hypothetically, If my boss assigns me a stupid project destined to failure and tells me to shut up when I push back I'm really not going to get much value regardless of how much effort I put in... unless I was wrong in my assesment which is admittedly possible. Good management I suppose would then use effort as a proxy to try to find projects with potential to match one's effort.

New comment by cgannett in "Non-Zero-Sum Games"

cgannett — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 17:46:32 +0000

This is further complicated by the difference between direct and indirect value. I build a thing that produces n value and is directly attributable to me. I also do things that help 100 others produce 10% more value themselves but most of that is attributed to themselves producing 10 * n value overall. How will I be rewarded if at all? Most likely as someone who produced n value.

New comment by cgannett in "Americans Lose Faith That Hard Work Leads to Economic Gains, WSJ-NORC Poll Finds"

cgannett — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 16:11:45 +0000

3. Private equity has made long term investment a poor mans game.

New comment by cgannett in "Using acetaminophen during pregnancy may increase childrens autism and ADHD risk"

cgannett — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 19:36:50 +0000

I have had to tell several people I know they can't just take whatever OTC meds they want whenever they want with no side effects and it is always important to read the bottle's instructions/warnings.

New comment by cgannett in "Artificial biosensor can better measure the body's main stress hormone"

cgannett — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 16:54:45 +0000

I suppose to mitigate that you could have that data not immediately viewable to the patient because seeing "stress line go up" would be pretty stressful and would skew the data anyway.