Hacker News: gandalfgeek

New comment by gandalfgeek in "Mag 7 starting to underperform [pdf]"

gandalfgeek — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 14:55:56 +0000

6 months ago when Mag7 was overperforming everyone was worried about it being too high a fraction of the S&P500.

New comment by gandalfgeek in "Google employees internally share memes about how its AI sucks"

gandalfgeek — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:36:19 +0000

(ex-Googler, spent 18 yrs there)

Memegen is a key part of the culture. Its default mode is over-the-top mocking, of course, with a grain of truth. Nobody and nothing is spared. C-level execs, products, the perf process.

So this by itself is not quite the scoop 404 media thinks it is. You could take the front page of memegen on any given day and construct twenty scandalous headlines of it.

Harness Engineering Course

gandalfgeek — Sat, 30 May 2026 19:41:27 +0000

Article URL: https://harnesscourse.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48339887

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

The tension between local and cloud agents

gandalfgeek — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:50:50 +0000

Article URL: https://vivekhaldar.com/articles/local-vs-cloud-agents/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48338270

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

From Emacs to Agents

gandalfgeek — Fri, 22 May 2026 03:15:31 +0000

Article URL: https://vivekhaldar.com/articles/from-emacs-to-agents/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48231562

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

A Tale of Two Job Markets

gandalfgeek — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:13:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugzw5I3Vako

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48009730

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Surprising a Model

gandalfgeek — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 05:37:32 +0000

Article URL: https://vivekhaldar.com/articles/surprising-a-model/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47409048

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Agent Kitchen

gandalfgeek — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:24:46 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/vivekhaldar/agent-kitchen

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47402793

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

MCP Knife: A CLI Swiss Army Knife for MCP Servers

gandalfgeek — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 05:53:45 +0000

Article URL: https://vivekhaldar.com/articles/mcp-knife-cli-swiss-army-knife-for-mcp-servers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46955876

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Mcpblox: CLI for transforming and composing MCP servers

gandalfgeek — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 21:26:42 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/vivekhaldar/mcpblox

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46877529

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

The Three Abstractions That Make AI Agents Real

gandalfgeek — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 23:41:45 +0000

Article URL: https://vivekhaldar.com/articles/the-three-abstractions-that-make-ai-agents-real/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46842082

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Confessions of an AI Hype-Bro

gandalfgeek — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:15:29 +0000

Article URL: https://vivekhaldar.com/articles/confessions-of-an-ai-hype-bro/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46800182

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Subagents, Commands and Skills Are Converging

gandalfgeek — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 03:54:06 +0000

Article URL: https://vivekhaldar.com/articles/claude-code-subagents-commands-skills-converging/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46572576

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by gandalfgeek in "Nvidia just paid $20B for a company that missed its revenue target by 75%"

gandalfgeek — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 17:56:20 +0000

> About a year ago, Groq announced a $1.5 billion infrastructure investment deal with Saudi Arabia. They also secured a $750 million Series D funding round.... Then in maybe one of the best rug pulls of all time, in July they quietly changed their revenue projections to $500 million. A 75% cut in four months. I’ve never seen anything like that since the 2008 financial crisis.

Not following the core argument here. Author seems to be comparing valuation in funding rounds to revenue projections. Revenue projection was revised downward, valuation was not.

Good point about not running the proprietary models, but that doesn't preclude strategic fit with Nvidia.

The Birth of a New Platform

gandalfgeek — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 17:58:08 +0000

Article URL: https://vivekhaldar.com/articles/birth-of-a-new-platform/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46385959

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Unix Was a Love Letter to Agents

gandalfgeek — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 21:40:50 +0000

Article URL: https://vivekhaldar.com/articles/unix-love-letter-to-agents/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46339884

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Coding Agents Are Outliers

gandalfgeek — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 22:36:55 +0000

Article URL: https://vivekhaldar.com/articles/coding-agents-are-outliers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46211687

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by gandalfgeek in "The Undermining of the CDC"

gandalfgeek — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 15:48:32 +0000

> Government agencies in general are largely insulated from politics.

This was obviously false during the pandemic when these “health” agencies did what the White House wanted, from the actual “science” to the messaging.

Coding Agents Are Outliers

gandalfgeek — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 18:46:29 +0000

Article URL: https://vivekhaldar.com/articles/coding-agents-are-outliers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45814498

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Claude Skills will eat (most) agents

gandalfgeek — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 14:19:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy07zXpwfJ8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45656161

Points: 1

# Comments: 0