Hacker News: culopatin

New comment by culopatin in "Ask HN: Want to build something open source on nights and weekends together?"

culopatin — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:10:25 +0000

Would help to know what fields you’re interested in or what problems you want to solve. No one is going to have much consistency or accountability working on things they don’t care about

New comment by culopatin in "How do you design a $30k electric pickup? Inside Ford's skunkworks"

culopatin — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:53:55 +0000

Even if objectively one could agree that currently the products from china are better than the US ones, all the “China so good now” stuff is starting to sound like straight up in your face propaganda.

New comment by culopatin in "Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee"

culopatin — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 01:32:30 +0000

And who pays that extra? Who are you taxing in the middle of nowhere?

New comment by culopatin in "Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee"

culopatin — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 01:31:03 +0000

It’s a matter of incentives. The avg American grows up with certain “American dream” that clashes with that rural America life. There is no incentive to leave everything behind and go be basically alone. Immigrants have a “lower” baseline or just want the experience of being abroad, or are willing to put up with rural living because from wherever they are, it looks better. You’d have to entice a city teacher to move to rural America.

You’ll say “pay them more”. But who are you taxing more? Because no one is happy when the gov starts looking at being more efficient and starts laying off some admin people either.

New comment by culopatin in "Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee"

culopatin — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 01:18:31 +0000

But evidently they don’t want to move to rural America.

New comment by culopatin in "OpenFOV – Webcam head tracking for iRacing"

culopatin — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:49:46 +0000

They are not serious

New comment by culopatin in "I built a ceiling projection mapping of the planes flying over my house"

culopatin — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:37:59 +0000

I thought the same exact thing and I thought that I would love a sky projection on my ceiling

New comment by culopatin in "What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?"

culopatin — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 05:23:49 +0000

I have the same experience. Getting hired with this background is weird. I don’t know how confident I should or shouldn’t be. And I wasn’t in consulting until recently. I like to put the focus on understanding the end to end workflows more than spending time worrying about my solution being the absolute best that would make HN drool over though

New comment by culopatin in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

culopatin — Sat, 30 May 2026 18:05:40 +0000

Didnt really need any. I’m still using my M1 Pro from when it was released. My mom using the oldest Air now.

New comment by culopatin in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

culopatin — Sat, 30 May 2026 17:26:14 +0000

Of the 6 MacBooks that have circled through my house since 2018 I’ve had to do repairs on 0 of them. 5 are still active

New comment by culopatin in "Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?"

culopatin — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:15:14 +0000

My room gets pretty bright in the afternoon and my screen sucks in that environment. I’ve been using the quest 3 and while I don’t think it’s perfect from a software point of view (like why do the windows snap at x distances? Why can’t I pick?) it’s pretty good. It lets me have a smallish display on my desk and when I need it, I have 3 displays in VR. Compared to the cost of the apple device, you can upgrade 3 times before you get to the cost of the apple vision.

New comment by culopatin in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

culopatin — Sat, 30 May 2026 15:20:39 +0000

By the time something breaks, you’re so far behind in tech that you’re not buying parts for it anymore. I used to be in the “must be able to fix/upgrade” and then realized in practice it never happens.

New comment by culopatin in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

culopatin — Fri, 29 May 2026 19:01:27 +0000

A few*. I have 4 at home and none smell

New comment by culopatin in "Please Use AI"

culopatin — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:02:22 +0000

AI is like cheap void calories. Writing by hand is calories from a good home cooked meal with all the nutrients and love, AI code (unless maybe you worked on putting together an AI system and the harness is your build), feels like calories from a Sprite.

Also I’ve been thinking that ai code is like cheap amazon furniture and hand crafted is well… hand crafted.

New comment by culopatin in "Five frontier LLMs disagree on 67% of 1k real-world fact-check claims"

culopatin — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:14:19 +0000

I’m no expert but if LLMs are token prediction machines, and you tell it to not build an explanation before the answer, isn’t it less likely that the token prediction for the final answer will have less raw material before it to build a grounded response?

In other words: no explanation > no foundation for prediction of the answer tokens?

New comment by culopatin in "My new obsession: A horse-racing board game of pure luck"

culopatin — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:52:13 +0000

Reminds me of an arcade mechanical game where you tossed balls into a panel with holes and depending on where it landed it would push your designated horse faster. It was a massive thing with room for an announcer in the middle like 20 seats at least around him in a horseshoe shape.

New comment by culopatin in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

culopatin — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:51:51 +0000

Ok? What does that have to do with what I was talking about?

New comment by culopatin in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

culopatin — Wed, 27 May 2026 05:20:02 +0000

This is a completely different discussion. One can be responsible, if you’re not, there are consequences. It’s not just this. Zone out a bit driving and go too fast? Ticket. Left weed in your jacket by accident and went to the airport to fly internationally? Well… Everything has consequences, all I’m trying to say is that people know what those are and we shouldn’t be “aw but what if they don’t read the rules?” Uncertainty is clear from the start.

New comment by culopatin in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

culopatin — Wed, 27 May 2026 03:28:16 +0000

Use a condom. If you’re smart enough to figure out a temporary visa, you’re smart enough to understand conception.

New comment by culopatin in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

culopatin — Sun, 24 May 2026 07:25:47 +0000

Look, I’m an immigrant. You know the risks you take when you come to the US on a non immigrant visa. We all choose to play the game and nothing is guaranteed. I would’ve considered reckless to have a kid in the US knowing that my status is not stable without having an alternative plan. We need to face the facts and stop acting like we immigrants were victims of some bait and switch and must be protected from any fallout of this process. The rules of the game are transparent.