Hacker News: fourside

New comment by fourside in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

fourside — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:01:04 +0000

Growing up, I’d wonder how people could work for companies like cigarette manufacturers even after it became well known that their products wreck havoc on your health.

This comment is a masterclass in the type of mental gymnastics people do to justify working for these kind of companies.

> Is the company toxic? where do you draw the line?

You couldn’t even answer the question you yourself posed.

New comment by fourside in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

fourside — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 06:07:36 +0000

Why does SpaceX warrant a change of existing trading rules?

New comment by fourside in "GTA 6 Developers Unionize"

fourside — Fri, 29 May 2026 22:25:41 +0000

And to the developing industry of software consultants who specialize in fixing vibe coded slop that has grown out of control ;)

New comment by fourside in "GTA 6 Developers Unionize"

fourside — Fri, 29 May 2026 22:22:46 +0000

Damn this comment really made the anti-unionists come out of the woodwork. I’ll admit, I’m a bit skeptical and think it’s not a given that the benefits you listed will come to be.

But I’ve been annoyed at the significant shift in tone that software company executives’ have used when communicating with employees lately. For one, we went from being admittedly pampered compared to most other industries to getting threats of mass layoffs unless we do more and demand less.

I wouldn’t mind the idea of using the possibility of unions to have executives back off, but if people are going to pop off at mere suggestion of unions I don’t think we’d get very far.

New comment by fourside in "SQLite is all you need for durable workflows"

fourside — Fri, 29 May 2026 20:26:38 +0000

I read the parents comment as sarcasm and not a serious suggestion.

New comment by fourside in "Hating AI Is Good"

fourside — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:48:02 +0000

> it was born of some arrogance that they were speeding towards the inevitability of AGI

I think it was partly also PR. Google, OpenAI and Anthropic are fighting for mindshare and Dalle-E, Sora, Nano banana, etc generated a lot of media buzz for Google and OpenAI at various points in time.

New comment by fourside in "Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation"

fourside — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:00:11 +0000

He was on stage and had a mic. I don’t know that the students had a lot of options to make their voices heard in the situation. And since folks like Schmidt already have access to channels to spread their opinions and this was the students’ graduation I think they get a pass.

New comment by fourside in "Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off"

fourside — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:49:33 +0000

Sounds like the parent comment probably doesn’t know much about how the auto industry works and should refrain from commenting.

New comment by fourside in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

fourside — Fri, 01 May 2026 15:44:51 +0000

This is a very loaded question. I’m not sure what type of answer you expect to get.

New comment by fourside in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

fourside — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:03:08 +0000

People who reach outlier-level success in a field tend to have strong opinions and an emotional connection to said field. It’s probably a non-trivial part of why they are so successful.

New comment by fourside in "I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support"

fourside — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:51:52 +0000

Maybe for folks who are deep into this, but it’s not exactly accessible. I tried reading up on it a couple of months ago, but parsing through what hardware I needed, the model and how to configure it (model size vs quantization), how I’d get access to the hardware (which for decent results in coding, new hardware runs $4k-$10k last I checked)—it had a non trivial barrier of entry. I was trying to do this over a long weekend and ran out of time. I’ll have to look into it again because having the local option would be great.

Edit: the replies to my comment are great examples of what I’m talking about when I say it’s hard to determine what hardware I’d need :).

New comment by fourside in "Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era"

fourside — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:56:22 +0000

Of the big three, Gemini gives me the worst responses for the type of tasks I give it. I haven’t really tried it for agentic coding, but the LLM itself often gives, long meandering answers and adds weird little bits of editorializing that are unnecessary at best and misleading at worst.

New comment by fourside in "Claude Opus 4.7"

fourside — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:10:20 +0000

Except there are several obvious ways in which LLMs are not indistinguishable from humans.

New comment by fourside in "Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net"

fourside — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:59:29 +0000

I get that credit cards are a barrier of entry but I’m more willing to give providers a break now that AI agents make it much easier to abuse free tiers. It’s also harder for smaller companies to offer free tiers. If we want a more diverse set of service providers we as customers need to be willing to accept some trade-offs.

New comment by fourside in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

fourside — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 10:24:08 +0000

The irony in your comment is that you accuse the OP of interpreting the world based on his own warped view of it rather than what’s actually in front of him, yet you’re doing precisely that. The OP did not call Altman racist and made a point to draw the distinction. He also claims his is not the only example of this and is effectively encouraging an investigative journalist and the rest of HN to look into it and verify for ourselves.

Some degree of skepticism is healthy here. An online comment is not definitive proof, and it’s all too easy to pile accusations as part of a comment thread that’s already critical of someone. But the way you readily armchair psychoanalyze and dismiss the OP tells me you’re not engaging in an honest way.

New comment by fourside in "TSA lines are so out of control that travelers are hiring line-sitters"

fourside — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 14:06:02 +0000

I’ve heard this is very airport dependent

New comment by fourside in "AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice"

fourside — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:11:16 +0000

Low income and liberal is usually code for certain “undesirables” that conservatives tend to dislike. Better watch what LLM your kids use or they might end up speaking Spanish and listening to rap ;).

New comment by fourside in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"

fourside — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:49:10 +0000

I understand the concern but then to make this available for adults you now have to provide proof of age to companies, which opens up another can of privacy worms.

New comment by fourside in "Kagi Small Web"

fourside — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:14:44 +0000

I’m confused by this comment. The original comments talk about Kagi not living up to the hype. You say you’ve had the same experience and wish you could get LLMs to use Kagi for web searches?

New comment by fourside in "Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence"

fourside — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:32:55 +0000

What’s your reasoning for labeling lawyers as low-exposure?