Hacker News: foobaw

New comment by foobaw in "First place in Tetris 99 using computer vision, classical AI, a lot of free time"

foobaw — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 17:00:15 +0000

yes but this aligns with the initial statement in the post that top 1 doesn't happen as much and top 15 is more common.

New comment by foobaw in "Malaysia started mandating ISPs to redirect DNS queries to local servers"

foobaw — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 06:17:50 +0000

Very scary...

New comment by foobaw in "U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly"

foobaw — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 17:22:42 +0000

I just want Apple to release RCS already

New comment by foobaw in "Sam Altman's knack for dodging bullets with a little help from bigshot friends"

foobaw — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 19:14:23 +0000

You're implying that you knew how to hire and identify smart architects and provided them the right vision to build a good building.

There wouldn't be a counterfactual in your hypothetical scenario, but I'm confident that the difference between someone that got lucky and hired "smart" architects versus a visionary doing the same task would be drastic.

Money can only get you so far.

New comment by foobaw in "DALL·E 3"

foobaw — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 17:26:43 +0000

I wonder how comparable this will be to MidJourney and I'm excited to try it out.

New comment by foobaw in "GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023"

foobaw — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 04:38:24 +0000

400,000+? I don't mean to question this but that's a crazy high number assuming it's not Amazon or Walmart.

New comment by foobaw in "The Tripitaka Koreana is the most successful large data transfer over time"

foobaw — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 01:16:16 +0000

Amazing!

New comment by foobaw in "Dear Chess World"

foobaw — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 20:18:08 +0000

I'm actually curious what the Chess.com statement would be - they seem to have some bombshell that's coming soon. Also curious how Hans' will react to all of this.

New comment by foobaw in "Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe Unconscious After Shooting; Man in Custody"

foobaw — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 04:29:54 +0000

we should all mourn this tragedy but do not paint this guy as a good man. He is a historical revisionist.

New comment by foobaw in "Email startup Superhuman lays off 22% of staff"

foobaw — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 02:54:55 +0000

people said that about Honey (just a chrome app store solo dev project) and look how much they got acquired for. Don't underestimate them.

New comment by foobaw in "Uber and Lyft’s new road: Fewer drivers, thrifty riders and jittery investors"

foobaw — Sat, 28 May 2022 19:49:28 +0000

I think we need to stop comparing Uber to Lyft. To me, this is more of a Lyft problem as Uber has diversified way more.

New comment by foobaw in "Nintendo Switch prevents downgrades by irreparably blowing its own fuses (2020)"

foobaw — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 03:23:55 +0000

Qualcomm did the same thing on their phones back in the days (known as QFUSE). Not sure about right now.

New comment by foobaw in "Tetr.io"

foobaw — Thu, 30 Dec 2021 02:09:07 +0000

there is no ARE and there's also a "0ARR" handling setting - so this is actually considered 0 input delay.

New comment by foobaw in "DoorDash will require all employees to deliver goods"

foobaw — Sat, 25 Dec 2021 09:06:37 +0000

I think the right approach for this is to make this program voluntary - not forced. If someone wants to learn more about customers, they can CHOOSE to do this. This just shows that DD doesn't trust their employees to care and have empathy.

New comment by foobaw in "Expensify S-1"

foobaw — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 23:45:10 +0000

Concur is painful to set-up but once it's done, it's not too bad

New comment by foobaw in "Facebook-owned sites were down"

foobaw — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 16:37:00 +0000

This is taking a longer time than expected for a company like Facebook - must be serious where a rollback isn't possible or trivial.

New comment by foobaw in "Ask HN: How did Google botch messaging/video/hangouts so badly?"

foobaw — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 04:14:21 +0000

reminds me of Google Wave

New comment by foobaw in "Google Plans to Cut Remote Workers’ Salaries by 25%"

foobaw — Sat, 28 Aug 2021 23:07:28 +0000

that sounds way more rare than most jobs

New comment by foobaw in "Google Plans to Cut Remote Workers’ Salaries by 25%"

foobaw — Sat, 28 Aug 2021 03:33:28 +0000

x-googlers are expensive. most companies can't afford them. They'd likely need to sell with stock options and IPO prospects

New comment by foobaw in "Netflix Fires Marketing Execs for Criticizing Bosses over Slack"

foobaw — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 01:47:00 +0000

It's unclear if these were private messages. It's possible these were posted on public channels. AFAIK, Slack doesn't allow companies/IT access to private messages unless there are legal implications.