Hacker News: didip

New comment by didip in "WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding"

didip — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:25:14 +0000

I don’t quite understand this new product strategy.

I usually am a pro Apple consumer but how many high end users actually want this form factor?

New comment by didip in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

didip — Fri, 29 May 2026 19:20:44 +0000

I finally pulled the trigger after being in tech for 21 years. 10 years at a FAANG.

I simply can’t handle the performative Machiavellian culture anymore.

I could play that game for longer, but I don’t want to. All I want is to build cool and ambitious things without any of the theatrics.

I don’t want to go offline. I just want to live a normal, modern, and peaceful life. I would go nuts without all of the comfort of modern tech, especially the high speed broadband.

New comment by didip in "Private Equity Bought America's Essential Services"

didip — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:45:39 +0000

Had pension fund just invest in VOO, PE won't need to exist.

New comment by didip in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"

didip — Tue, 26 May 2026 20:02:14 +0000

Finally realized what Steve Jobs said was true: Dropbox is a feature, not a product.

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

didip — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:04:51 +0000

I think the billionaire class will expand BNPL type products so everyone will stay in-debt forever. And expand gig economy so everyone can stay "employed" forever.

New comment by didip in "MCP Hello Page"

didip — Sun, 17 May 2026 00:10:33 +0000

I never quite understand why /mcp endpoint is needed.

You can still keep using Rest API with swagger docs and tell the AI to read the swagger docs. It's the same thing. The entire Rest API specification is a lot more flexible than the JSON RPC format /mcp uses.

New comment by didip in "Googlebook"

didip — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:46:20 +0000

It looks great. If the price is good, I think it will sell well. The only thing holding it back is Google’s own reputation of canceling things so rapidly.

New comment by didip in "I Will Never Use AI to Code"

didip — Sat, 09 May 2026 07:13:25 +0000

This kind of writing makes you sound immature.

People used to drive manual. Now it’s all automatic transmission. Some cars even drive itself.

People used to proudly use Vi to write code. But now IDE is commonplace.

People used to write asm by hand. Transport Tycoon was written in assembly. But these days that would be insane.

Technological progress is an absolute thing. It produces too much convenience and wealth to ignore.

New comment by didip in "DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal"

didip — Thu, 07 May 2026 21:17:37 +0000

What if PyTorch is extended to have a pluggable compiler? For M GPU types and N models, if the backend allows, run a specialized compiler?

New comment by didip in "OpenAI president forced to read his personal diary entries to jury"

didip — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:54:42 +0000

I know a lot of people use private conversations with chatbot as a replacement to journaling which is a form of self therapy.

So… those can be aired willy nilly too then. They are out on public clouds now.

New comment by didip in "Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks"

didip — Tue, 05 May 2026 01:42:11 +0000

As someone who recently retired early, you really need to have a solid game plan on what you want to do with all the time you have. Spend a solid 3-6 months planning and mocking your post retirement days while still working.

The more detailed the plan the better. If you want to go to the gym, what will you do there and for how long and how many days a week?

If you want to have a tech side project, how many hours do you plan on spending on this project? And be reasonable. Don't trade one burnout over another.

If you are planning to learn something new, what are those? and don't just learn one thing. 8 hours plus is a crazy amount of time.

One of those plan should include making new friends post retirement, revolving around activities that are not work related.

It is far too easy to lose track of time without a brand new schedule to fill the void.

New comment by didip in "How ChatGPT serves ads"

didip — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 01:31:09 +0000

So news about OpenAI demise is real. They can’t sustain themselves without ads.

New comment by didip in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

didip — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:36:51 +0000

I agree. Data and userbase are still the moats.

Once a new model or a technique is invented, it’s just a matter of time until it becomes a free importable library.

New comment by didip in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

didip — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 05:02:45 +0000

I have to ask, what is the difference between this and private WhatsApp groups?

New comment by didip in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

didip — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:54:31 +0000

wow… I didn’t expect this. My guess would have been after the current administration.

Why so soon?

New comment by didip in "The Hateful Eight is 85% of S&P 500 Decline"

didip — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:57:53 +0000

Just QQQ and chill. You get all of the hardware companies monster gains to offset the losses.

New comment by didip in "South Korea Mandates Solar Panels for Public Parking Lots"

didip — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 01:33:57 +0000

This is surely a good thing. The only thing better than this is to build a tall multi purpose structure on that same land AND THEN put solar panels on top of that structure.

New comment by didip in "Should QA exist?"

didip — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 01:06:33 +0000

Yes, but should be supercharged with AI.

I’d like them to record their steps in details in videos and have AI dissected the steps into text descriptor that’s relevant to the code.

New comment by didip in "DOOM Over DNS"

didip — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 22:48:10 +0000

What is the serialization format? Base64?

New comment by didip in "Goodbye to Sora"

didip — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 01:46:08 +0000

The thing about Sora is that it becomes outdated very quickly. OpenAI cannot even protect THAT moat properly.