Hacker News: gcampos

New comment by gcampos in "Running Gemma 4 locally with LM Studio's new headless CLI and Claude Code"

gcampos — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:43:58 +0000

You need to increase the context window size or the tool calling feature wont work

New comment by gcampos in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

gcampos — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 10:01:01 +0000

Ha! I think Ozempic is a better comparison :)

New comment by gcampos in "Show HN: Dull – Instagram Without Reels, YouTube Without Shorts"

gcampos — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:33:10 +0000

I have been working on a different solution (https://vinewallapp.com) for this problem, but it based on network throttling

New comment by gcampos in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

gcampos — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 02:17:30 +0000

I’m working on VineWall (https://vinewallapp.com), a network tunnel that helps you fight doomscrolling by making your internet slower when it detects you spent too much time scrolling.

At this moment I’m working on improving the logic that decides when/how much to throttle the network.

New comment by gcampos in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

gcampos — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 23:29:55 +0000

What I like it most is how "unoriginal" the result is. It is mostly the current trends, but in the future, rather than a blend of that + unknown future.

New comment by gcampos in "Unity's stock sheds 15% after disappointing earnings"

gcampos — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 04:04:48 +0000

Unity was never profitable and was always dependent on vc money.

For sure it's a great product, but the truth is that it was subsidized by vc capital and is not a sustainable business

New comment by gcampos in "California suspends Cruise's autonomous vehicle deployment"

gcampos — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 19:58:20 +0000

That is actually an interesting question. We track how many accidents the automated cars cause, but I'm not sure how many accidents they prevent are tracked.

New comment by gcampos in "Trucking startup Convoy closes operations with no buyer"

gcampos — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 19:24:03 +0000

To think that 1 year ago they were aggressively spamming me for an engineering position there.

How you go from "hyper growth mode" (according to the recruiter email) to closed operations within 13 months?

New comment by gcampos in "Show HN: Algora – Open source coding bounties"

gcampos — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 20:14:51 +0000

It's an interesting system but the reward of the bounties, specially when thinking of $/hour, makes me wonder what is the quality of the work.

New comment by gcampos in "Amazon acquires Fig"

gcampos — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 00:58:16 +0000

I had some exploratory conversations with them last year.

The product was nice, but their business plan made zero sense to me, so I decided to not continue the process.

New comment by gcampos in "Jazz² Resurrection: Open-source Jazz Jackrabbit 2 reimplementation"

gcampos — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 22:14:43 +0000

Technically you were right, the game is Epic ;)

New comment by gcampos in "Valve is not willing to publish games with AI generated content anymore?"

gcampos — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 16:58:03 +0000

> we cannot ship your game while it contains these AI-generated assets, unless you can affirmatively confirm that you own the rights to all of the IP used in the data set that trained the AI to create the assets in your game.

Yep, you are absolutely right.

New comment by gcampos in "Dumb phones are on the rise in the U.S. as Gen Z looks to limit screen time"

gcampos — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 19:43:21 +0000

I tried to go to a dumb phone in the past, but I quickly realized that modern life is way too dependent on a smartphone.

Between using your phone gps to drive around, ordering food, unlocking doors, and check-in out kids from daycare, while not impossible, it would be very inconvenient to not have a smartphone

New comment by gcampos in "My new hobby: finding public domain images that Getty sells for $500"

gcampos — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 23:07:48 +0000

I don't mind them selling something that is free for $500.

The problem is when they sue people for using public domain images, claiming that they own the picture.

New comment by gcampos in "Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell"

gcampos — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 22:58:57 +0000

How many users do you have right now?

Last year I created a prototype of something very similar, the key difference was that the idea was to auto pre screen recruiters instead of ask for pay.

New comment by gcampos in "Ask HN: What to do with old computer books?"

gcampos — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 00:15:36 +0000

I gave them to the staff. They seem happy with the donation and even asked if I wanted to receipt to use for taxes purposes, which I declined.

New comment by gcampos in "Ask HN: What to do with old computer books?"

gcampos — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 23:22:15 +0000

I used to donate them to my local library because I thought they would know best what is worth to keep and what to throw away.

New comment by gcampos in "Ask HN: NDA for Interview"

gcampos — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 22:53:11 +0000

Around 7-8 months ago I was interviewing with many startups and no one asked me for a NDA.

The only exception was a company that asked me to sign a NDA just for an informal chat. Normally I don't mind a simple NDA, but this company NDA was VERY draconic, it was pretty much full non compete rather than the typical "dont leak your interview questions, dont spy on us". Obviously I refused to sign the NDA and stopped my conversations with this company.

New comment by gcampos in "H1B rejected – builds unicorn back home"

gcampos — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 03:43:13 +0000

It was because (at least 2009) there was more position that people applying. That is how I got my H1B.

New comment by gcampos in "Marc Andreessen says he’s for new housing, but records tell a different story"

gcampos — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 04:55:54 +0000

It's Time to Build (somewhere else)