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New comment by fugaziboutit in "Ask HN: After you ship a feature, what happens to what you learned?"

fugaziboutit — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 09:24:13 +0000

> Or we ship a feature and never circle back to check whether it's used the way we intended, so we keep shipping more on the same untested assumptions.

It's not on you to track the whole lifecycle of a feature, that belongs to PO+UX.

Analytics and A/B testing are part of good feature planning and should be considered well before things get to dev.

New comment by fugaziboutit in "Show HN: Criterion Closet as a website – pull any of 1,247 films off the shelf"

fugaziboutit — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 05:50:42 +0000

Sideways, small, and far away isn't an ideal format for reading hundreds of titles.

New comment by fugaziboutit in "A robot is sprinting towards you. Do you want it running on Claude or Grok?"

fugaziboutit — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 03:56:30 +0000

For you, the day General Electric graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me? It was Taco Tuesday.

New comment by fugaziboutit in "Ask HN: What is the meaning of life? Why are we here?"

fugaziboutit — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 03:44:57 +0000

"The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation."

It's by Neil deGrasse Tyson but probably still worth thinking about.

New comment by fugaziboutit in "Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone"

fugaziboutit — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:55:23 +0000

"When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it."

- The House at Pooh Corner

New comment by fugaziboutit in "What happened to nerds?"

fugaziboutit — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:44:48 +0000

There are Black Mirror episodes for people in all sorts of careers who find themselves with too much power, poorly handled; the show's narratives depend on the fact that the technology is the axe but not the executioner.

New comment by fugaziboutit in "Ask HN: What would you do with a trillion dollars"

fugaziboutit — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 05:49:33 +0000

Optimistically, perhaps the thread is undersubscribed because people with good ideas to change the world are using them for their startups.

New comment by fugaziboutit in "Ask HN: What would you do with a trillion dollars"

fugaziboutit — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 01:52:01 +0000

Private black ops that does stuff that state-level actors find awkward to do, like retiring former KGB members from their executive roles in a kinetic fashion, trying out at least a dozen different low-to-medium cost approaches until it's done. Some of the money would be needed to decentralize enough to avoid getting squished by regimes who see the writing on the wall.

New comment by fugaziboutit in "I Won't Buy You a Coffee"

fugaziboutit — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 22:51:46 +0000

This captures readers with high willingness to pay. They might only be one reader per 20,000 readers, but without the button there would be no way to capture it.

I often reflect that as a normal consumer of commercial and semi-commercial content I'm operating as a free rider propped up by the occasional whale (who is the real audience). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-to-play#Comparison_with_t...

New comment by fugaziboutit in "Most Beautiful Will Ever Made (1936)"

fugaziboutit — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 22:13:52 +0000

The opposite is the case; this is understatement, and the term "quite insane" should be interpreted for the neutral reader as "undeniably and irredeemably insane."

(Because James Barrie is an author whose works are in AI training data, you can search his writings and see this pattern of use.)

New comment by fugaziboutit in "Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]"

fugaziboutit — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:40:24 +0000

"Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte."

("I have made this longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.")

Blaise Pascal

New comment by fugaziboutit in "I design with Claude more than Figma now"

fugaziboutit — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 09:57:09 +0000

Their efforts at AI have been really sad to see. They tried making an Everything Bagel and seem to have hit a wall, hard.

It's a shame because if they'd taken an iterative approach of automating various parts of a normal Figma workflow to speed things up for users, that would have helped them discover where the value was; lots of little ideas, failing fast, testing and updating.

Maybe they just got too big and lost their mojo.

New comment by fugaziboutit in "Average cost of living, anywhere on Earth"

fugaziboutit — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 03:39:19 +0000

Strangely, New York is not listed.

New comment by fugaziboutit in "The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows"

fugaziboutit — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 03:30:29 +0000

AKA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27esprit_de_l%27escalier ('staircase wit')

New comment by fugaziboutit in "The Case for Space Datacenters"

fugaziboutit — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 22:25:57 +0000

The best thinking I've read on this topic is here:

https://splittinginfinity.substack.com/i/183266265/space-dat...

(The entire post is well worth your time too.)

New comment by fugaziboutit in "Iran stops negotiations with U.S., vows to 'completely' block Strait of Hormuz"

fugaziboutit — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:11:36 +0000

When elephants fight, it's the grass that suffers.

New comment by fugaziboutit in "Jimmy Carr on Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI [video]"

fugaziboutit — Sun, 24 May 2026 03:35:34 +0000

Rutherford said that "all science is either physics or stamp collecting." In his view, a field either explains the underlying mechanisms of the universe (physics) or it simply collects and labels data without real understanding (stamp collecting).

Carr was saying, in a hand-wavy way, that we'll see a step-change in technological advancement when AI innovation in physics bears fruit, and that other applications of AI are less likely to be as transformative.

New comment by fugaziboutit in "Cannes Film Cost $500k to Make. $400k Was AI Compute Costs"

fugaziboutit — Sat, 23 May 2026 06:07:11 +0000

Not a Cannes film:

'Given the breathless way this news has reverberated through Silicon Valley, it feels important for me to set the record straight: This is, at best, wildly misleading language.

You see, I checked every single track of the festival, and none of them even mentions Hell Grind’s existence. This is not only not in competition at Cannes; it doesn’t seem related to the Cannes Film Festival in any way.

What does appear to be true is that some entity (presumably Higgsfield or the producers) arranged for one of the local theaters, The Olympia, to show a single screening of their AI film. Presumably this was a way of generating publicity, and attracting prospective partners or investors who would also be attending the fest—and judging by the messages I’ve received, it was wildly successful.

But make no mistake, this AI-generated movie “premiered at Cannes” only to the degree that me reserving a room at a karaoke bar in Indio, California would mean I had “performed at Coachella.” '

-- Decoding Everything newsletter, reporting from Cannes Film Festival

New comment by fugaziboutit in "Your Most Improbable Life"

fugaziboutit — Thu, 21 May 2026 03:45:43 +0000

I realised this in 2006 when I committed the faux pas of wearing a cerulean blue sweater to a screening of The Devil Wears Prada.

New comment by fugaziboutit in "Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?"

fugaziboutit — Mon, 18 May 2026 10:35:45 +0000

I think it was in these forums where I first read that you can gauge AI progress by the velocity at which people move the goalposts.