Hacker News: enos_feedler

New comment by enos_feedler in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

enos_feedler — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:17:50 +0000

Wtf is beach period?

New comment by enos_feedler in "What is a product?"

enos_feedler — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 19:53:53 +0000

I also think you under appreciate the value of toy software. We’ve spent 20 years talking about serious practices for making serious software but what if the next 20 years is about making personal toys that scratch our own itch? Perhaps LLMs fill this need quite well and they aren’t suppose to replicate what already exists.

New comment by enos_feedler in "Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs"

enos_feedler — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:12:29 +0000

Its been inspiring to use it and know that I dont really need much more for all my intents and purposes.

New comment by enos_feedler in "Karpathy’s Pelican"

enos_feedler — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 19:46:12 +0000

Usually when I say insensitive things there are more downvotes then upvotes. That isn't the case here. I might be rubbing against a truth somewhere here.

New comment by enos_feedler in "Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management"

enos_feedler — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:14:37 +0000

I would add that writing down your reactions to the books and not the book content itself is helpful. If something reminds you of something else then write about that. I mostly throw away all these things as the point is just to write them not to read them back

New comment by enos_feedler in "Karpathy’s Pelican"

enos_feedler — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 21:54:21 +0000

AI has deeply changed the way I think, feel and act around a computer. In the same way that dialing into the internet changed things for me. Since using ChatGPT the first time until now I have never cared once to look at these pelicans on bikes people seem to get hung up about. It could never have been a thing and nothing would change. See the forest through the trees.

New comment by enos_feedler in "The iPhone Upgrade Program is being replaced by Apple Upgrade"

enos_feedler — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 01:42:03 +0000

I mean this isn’t rocket science. I feel ideas like these are always sitting on the back burner waiting to deploy. The same goes with product features. They know the upside and impact to finances and are just waiting for the right conditions to pull the trigger

New comment by enos_feedler in "Did They Ghost You?"

enos_feedler — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 07:34:42 +0000

you mean you make a site using people? that's like a baby's toy

New comment by enos_feedler in "The Voice of Google"

enos_feedler — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 05:51:03 +0000

Ticketmaster. Just throwing that out there. Stubhub.

New comment by enos_feedler in "Show HN: Bribes.fyi – Built something to report bribes"

enos_feedler — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 20:14:22 +0000

Its already bribing its operators to pay more money or it will stop functioning

New comment by enos_feedler in "Three ways people respond to a problem (other than solving it)"

enos_feedler — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:47:40 +0000

If this is true then a restructuring of the entire organizations might help. It seems the flaws are built in.

New comment by enos_feedler in "The state of open source AI"

enos_feedler — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:39:26 +0000

IMO we are there almost. I had every iphone until 14 pro and still use this today. I know what the top of the s curve feels like. From a pure model standpoint weighed against every day use cases for every day people (the right way to measure when comparing to something as ubiquitous as a phone), the models already have diminishing returns.

New comment by enos_feedler in "The state of open source AI"

enos_feedler — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:33:13 +0000

The biggest hurdle is whether humans volunteer their expertise. Not time or money. We need top talent to make the open models. Sponsorship is plentiful. Open source volunteers are less critical with LLM doing the grunt work. Its about talent contributing to the open

New comment by enos_feedler in "The state of open source AI"

enos_feedler — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:30:02 +0000

There is a massive difference when you zoom in close or take an angled perspective. You can manufacture uniqueness. The issue is when it comes to every day use for every day people there is no differentiation.

New comment by enos_feedler in "Show HN: Reverse-engineering web apps into agent tools"

enos_feedler — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 13:04:43 +0000

Many years ago I wrote a simple script to periodically pull my aeroplan miles from Air Canada using an extracted auth token. I was building my own mobile app to track all kinds of important numbers in my life. One day I woke up to my air canada account being nuked without access. I was on the phone for 3 days talking to many layers of support. At one point they were not going to re-enable my account and would lose 400k points. I was devastated. Thankfully i was able to get it back eventually. This whole era of using LLMs to manipulate services on the client is not going to end well. We need proper business-level support or its just an irresponsible hack you are letting loose into the wild.

New comment by enos_feedler in "CarPlay Is Additive"

enos_feedler — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:30:14 +0000

What the auto industry should have really woken up to is the idea of a singular carplay for both android and ios. I have a 2021 BMW that only supported carplay and was fine for many years. It is wireless even. I love it. But now i have a pixel.

New comment by enos_feedler in "The case for physical media ownership"

enos_feedler — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 13:54:23 +0000

Why were you watching movies when you should have been setting up your apartment

New comment by enos_feedler in "Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line"

enos_feedler — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 04:51:55 +0000

To me AI is on par with the internet and what made it so powerful was piracy and porn and just the wide spectrum of things that are possible when you connect machines together. We are going to need the same thing again. Freedom to use any model that does any thing we want.

New comment by enos_feedler in "Code duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction (2016)"

enos_feedler — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 17:44:52 +0000

What if there is no good abstraction for the entire stack of software on each of computers? What if we built a common one because we had to? What if now we get to all make our own with natural language?

New comment by enos_feedler in "S‑CURVES a field guide to technology adoption · 1825–2026"

enos_feedler — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 18:48:24 +0000

It feels like this whole site was manufactured to convince us that generative AI is a rocketship right now? While we might be basing a rocketship right now, to draw that line up at this point is total bullshit. the pc is real. the internet is real. the smartphone is real. its hard for me to even wrap my head around how you compare generative AI to these things. At this point I don't think we are far enough time to allow hindsight to let us see what the "thing" is that we should be tracking. Its not "generative ai"