Hacker News: fullshark

New comment by fullshark in "Global warming will exceed 1.5-degree limit, UN says"

fullshark — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 14:42:15 +0000

Technology is more feasible than politically driven "degrowth" or any of the other proposals.

New comment by fullshark in "AI doesn't suck, people do"

fullshark — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 13:53:40 +0000

It's made of incentives that promote low calorie information and outright falsehoods.

New comment by fullshark in "AI doesn't suck, people do"

fullshark — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 13:29:40 +0000

More like social media sucks

New comment by fullshark in "CIA Has a Gen Z Problem – Young Spies Are Just Not 'Feeling It'"

fullshark — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 19:29:37 +0000

This article was terrible, one data point contradicting the headline, then 4 quotes devoid of meaning.

New comment by fullshark in "Tim Curry has died"

fullshark — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:20:45 +0000

RIP His soul is escaping to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Sq1Nr58hM

New comment by fullshark in "The turbulent AI era is here"

fullshark — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:35:13 +0000

Not useful as soldiers even, and that includes those on the enemy side.

New comment by fullshark in "Anthropic tells staff to work from home due to possible security team strike"

fullshark — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 16:56:11 +0000

Pay them with chocolate rations or higher status bunk beds.

New comment by fullshark in "Technology Is Over"

fullshark — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 18:54:07 +0000

"The Internet is over" - Prince in 2010.

A quote that we all laughed at but I think he maybe was right.

New comment by fullshark in "Why Sal Khan't: On Learning by Making but Teaching by Telling"

fullshark — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 17:42:30 +0000

I don't agree and the hype surrounding his efforts was something much greater than what KahnAcademy actually is (a very useful resource).

He sold his vision in "The One World Schoolhouse" which was essentially global learning via all the best videos (and one unified curriculum) you can make and teachers effectively being technicians/teaching assistants. It was the vision that utopian minded technologists craved in the early aughts.

New comment by fullshark in "The Art and Beauty of Blade Runner (2015)"

fullshark — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 12:40:27 +0000

Genuine craft and human ingenuity can be a wonderful thing. Technology is a force multiplier and it's not always going to lead to better results in lesser hands.

In general there's also a problem that cinematography has gone to hell in filmmaking, because they want to be able to incorporate CGI more (cost) effectively and that means things like proper lighting and color grading is no longer utilized.

New comment by fullshark in "The Art and Beauty of Blade Runner (2015)"

fullshark — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 12:35:18 +0000

Absolutely, having Deckard be a "weak" replicant makes no narrative sense, and it also makes no sense thematically. It's about a human hunting machines and finding the humanity in the machines and discovering what humanity is lacking in himself. It's important that the line is blurred, but it's also important that he's not actually a replicant.

New comment by fullshark in "OpenAI: We're dropping API and credit pricing of GPT-5.6 Sol by over 20%"

fullshark — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 20:00:35 +0000

Almost all tweets are ads/PR

New comment by fullshark in "We are living in a version of the future out of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson"

fullshark — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:28:39 +0000

Yeah it's really amazing how prescient these books are given when they were written. I wish I enjoyed them more, I'm reading Mona Lisa Overdrive now and other than intellectual admiration of it all I mostly find the Sprawl trilogy a chore to get through. I don't enjoy the prose, and how dense it is I guess cause I am not a careful reader.

New comment by fullshark in "Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise"

fullshark — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 15:02:11 +0000

They'll have no problem hiring, maybe one or two employees who deliver 10x will get demoralized and quit but this will not change a thing realistically re: their work force.

New comment by fullshark in "Nvidia's $750B in Deals Reignite Circular AI Fears"

fullshark — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:15:16 +0000

Just need a larger emergency fund to mitigate the risk, especially if you work in tech and you feel the crash would heavily impact your labor earnings (including possibly extended unemployment)

New comment by fullshark in "Nvidia's $750B in Deals Reignite Circular AI Fears"

fullshark — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:03:35 +0000

I'd kill my political career for the private sector rewards sure to follow.

New comment by fullshark in "Ask HN: Why are Meta products so bad?"

fullshark — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 14:38:11 +0000

The need for telemetry data for advertising/tracking, bloat in both software + their organization, having a monopoly and not having to worry about turning off users due to buggy software.

New comment by fullshark in "Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs"

fullshark — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:39:00 +0000

Their strategy to let Siri stagnate for 15 years and let everyone else take that market? Their strategy to put a bunch of not ready for consumer use AI features on their devices and then roll them back?

They just have such a strong hardware + os ecosystem that they can sit on the sidelines. They'll be able to negotiate with some LLM provider at a good discount when the time is right and put harnesses around it for actual useful features.

New comment by fullshark in "The US grocery slowdown is real"

fullshark — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 22:44:44 +0000

The analysis mentions this, says it's a factor and links to:

https://www.bain.com/insights/weight-loss-drug-users-spend-l...

New comment by fullshark in "42% of adults rely on their parents for financial support"

fullshark — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:23:34 +0000

The post WW2 boom in America was an exceptional time. This is the status quo for humanity.