Hacker News: edgarvaldes

New comment by edgarvaldes in "Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over"

edgarvaldes — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:50:42 +0000

As a heavy introvert, I've started organizing small get-togethers with the help of my wife. I realized that, past a certain age, I was seeing my friends less and less. There are good friends I might see only once a year, when I did the math regarding life expectancy, I realized that if things continued on that path, I might see certain important people, at best, only another 30 or 35 times in total. So, at the start of the year, I decided to organize a monthly poker night and dinner with my inner circle, and to my surprise, everyone accepted. A few days ago, I ran into a former university classmate, I suggested he'd be welcome at my home for these gatherings, and his eyes lit up at the prospect. Another thing that caught my attention is that my female friends all have active social lives, whereas that is very rare among the men I know (again, past a certain age).

New comment by edgarvaldes in "Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables"

edgarvaldes — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 22:59:45 +0000

Same here. I also keep an inventory and labels for Box A, Box B, etc.

New comment by edgarvaldes in "Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables"

edgarvaldes — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 22:56:58 +0000

I had four unused HDMI cables. One day, I needed to send a signal from my PC to my tv. I usually use Plex for convenience and the "resume where I left off" feature, but that day a certain update was acting up, so I decided to use a cable instead. Easy. The next day, I wanted to send a signal from my laptop to the tv downstairs (I still hadn't fixed the Plex issue) and pulled out the second cable because I needed a different length than the first one... but it turned out to be incompatible, so I ended up using the third one.

New comment by edgarvaldes in "iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max"

edgarvaldes — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:34:32 +0000

Maybe he interpreted the "how do you backup" as a particular question directed to him, not a general one.

New comment by edgarvaldes in "Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives"

edgarvaldes — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 21:33:25 +0000

>Rental scooters/bikes cover last mile service very well in my experience.

Not so great for family trips, shopping around, etc.

New comment by edgarvaldes in "Muse: Meta's personal AI agent, features and capabilities"

edgarvaldes — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 20:48:07 +0000

>My elderly parents would absolutely love if someone would just tell them what to do and eat every day

I guess a lot of the AI enthusiasts are already pushing the "I automated my daily life decisions to this awesome AI. I now have more time and more brain power left to be productive!" angle.

New comment by edgarvaldes in "Deadpan Photography: Enjoying the Pretence"

edgarvaldes — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:50 +0000

Yes, that sentence is completely ridiculous. It tries too hard to make a statement, but it doesn't adequately reflect the article's subject matter. It is overly pretentious and vacuous.

New comment by edgarvaldes in "I wanna live an NPC life"

edgarvaldes — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 21:24:26 +0000

>when you stop caring about being the main character, you finally get to just live your life. I am not sure there is a standard definition of "main character." In literature, at least, there are countless main characters who lead very introspective lives.

New comment by edgarvaldes in "Aphantasia Beginner's Guide"

edgarvaldes — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 20:40:51 +0000

To the people who have aphantasia, do you daydream?

New comment by edgarvaldes in "Uefa pursuing criminal legal action against Infantino"

edgarvaldes — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:34:03 +0000

>I'd value the right to present a case to a judge

Is the case presented directly to the judge/judge's office? Interesting indeed.

New comment by edgarvaldes in "Nvidia AVO scores 100% on the ARC-AGI-3 interactive reasoning benchmark"

edgarvaldes — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:53:41 +0000

>A 100% score means AI agents can beat every game as efficiently as humans. (0)

Yey, AGI is finally solved.

(0) https://arcprize.org/arc-agi/3

New comment by edgarvaldes in "I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers"

edgarvaldes — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 18:47:28 +0000

>there isn't time for that

If there is one thing I miss about my adolescence, it is the vast amount of free time. I have never again been able to devote hours upon hours to reading. I used to be able to finish entire books in a couple of days, or a week at most.

New comment by edgarvaldes in "Cyberdecks, going analog, and convivial technology"

edgarvaldes — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 03:22:45 +0000

Agree. Any hobby can become superficial content for Instagram, especially if your only or main source of information is online channels. But real communities exist, and you need to be in the real world to experience them firsthand.

New comment by edgarvaldes in "Show HN: An 8-bit live gamecast for baseball"

edgarvaldes — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:08:17 +0000

Super cool. I love how baseball tends to be easily represented through text.

New comment by edgarvaldes in "Not everyone is using AI for everything"

edgarvaldes — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:04:06 +0000

"But they will", "They do, but they don't know", "They do, indirectly"

I don't get these comments.

New comment by edgarvaldes in "Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers"

edgarvaldes — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:46:53 +0000

Almost all opinion pieces are like that. They lack information density, but some readers (like me) like them that way. Otherwise, I'd only read one-line summaries.

New comment by edgarvaldes in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

edgarvaldes — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:18:26 +0000

Cool. Big fan of dtmts.com myself.

New comment by edgarvaldes in "Hacker News, Sans AI"

edgarvaldes — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 22:10:25 +0000

Yes, please. A general-purpose filter like the one on 4chan would also work.

New comment by edgarvaldes in "Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel"

edgarvaldes — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:33:23 +0000

> the obsession with childbearing

To be fair, I think all species are obsessed with producing offspring, regardless of culture.

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

edgarvaldes — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:09:12 +0000

So exactly as we "modern" people are to the Amish, yet the Amish persist in its way of life.