Hacker News: geepytee

New comment by geepytee in "PCB Edge USB C Connector Library"

geepytee — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 06:34:22 +0000

Very clever packaging of a connector

New comment by geepytee in "Launch YC: Optifye.ai – AI performance monitoring for factory workers"

geepytee — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 04:34:52 +0000

>Why not frame things from the perspective of rewarding good performance?

This guy knows marketing. Agreed it would not have been as controversial

New comment by geepytee in "GPT-4o with scheduled tasks (jawbone) is available in beta"

geepytee — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 23:02:54 +0000

Imagine being an engineer on the Siri team, must be so demoralizing.

New comment by geepytee in "Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server"

geepytee — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 03:58:20 +0000

Never crossed my mind to self host my own music streaming server, great idea!

New comment by geepytee in "Satellite powered estimation of global solar potential"

geepytee — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 22:02:12 +0000

The correct solution is 10.7Pwh. We are often exposed to 'Peta' when dealing with data.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix

Mr. Beast Games: Season 1 is now available on Amazon Prime

geepytee — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 19:17:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.amazon.com/Beast-Games-Season-1/dp/B0CZ7S3N9Y

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42464771

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by geepytee in "Protecting undersea internet cables is a tech nightmare"

geepytee — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 18:51:00 +0000

On the transponders off point, I imagine soon we will have enough satellites such that we can map every object on the surface of the earth (specially something as large as a boat).

Could even see it through clouds using radar.

New comment by geepytee in "Starlink Direct to Cell"

geepytee — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 23:26:15 +0000

Meh lines the pockets of Tim Cook. Hard pass.

New comment by geepytee in "Starlink Direct to Cell"

geepytee — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 23:25:47 +0000

I see a lot of surf cams online, are those usually custom hardware?

New comment by geepytee in "Starlink Direct to Cell"

geepytee — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 23:25:25 +0000

Interesting idea. I can build this and open source it. I imagine there is equivalent hardware over LTE already?

New comment by geepytee in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)"

geepytee — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 03:36:00 +0000

I am teaching myself how to build a robot quadruped (aka 'robot dog') from scratch, including an ML controller to make it move in animated ways.

I'm also documenting every step of the process and uploading it to YouTube, which means I am also teaching myself how to edit videos :)

If anyone wants to check it out: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL55VZ7oDEoRnXKSYTiGlN...

New comment by geepytee in "Ask HN: MagSafe Equivalent for Wall Outlets?"

geepytee — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 21:06:20 +0000

This is an awesome reply, thank you so much for explaining this, and for the links!

Ask HN: MagSafe Equivalent for Wall Outlets?

geepytee — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 19:13:29 +0000

I am looking for a similar experience to Magsafe connectors, but for anything that plugs to my wall outlets. I find constantly connecting and disconnecting devices that share outlets (in my bathroom alone I have an electric toothbrush, a hair blower, and an electric shaver) and I'd really wish it was as easy to disconnect and connect as my Macbook Air's Magsafe adapter.

Now, I looked around and can't find a single product for this other than this one [0] made by a product studio in Oregon which is out of stock (also can't find any reviews online so can't tell if it ever shipped).

The idea feels obvious so I'm surprised no one has done it. I don't think there are any laws of physics that would make this impossible? Is it a case of a patent or regulations blocking this?

I'm sure the Magsafe engineers at Apple have thought of this :)

[0] - https://ilovehandles.com/shop/tug/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41938708

Points: 1

# Comments: 7

New comment by geepytee in "Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]"

geepytee — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 21:08:21 +0000

I just quit my job at a SaaS. What am I doing with my life... The SpaceX team just caught the biggest rocket in history with a giant arm, we all need to dream bigger!

Ask HN: AI is smarter than the average person but feels like nothing's changed?

geepytee — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 23:27:15 +0000

Primarily asking because I'd like to hear different perspectives, perhaps I am missing something.

Arguably, since OpenAI released the o1 models, LLMs are now 'smarter' than the average human when measured by IQ (I'm going by this study [0] which sets o1 at a 120 IQ).

What I am trying to wrap my head around is why has this not changed our entire world much? Sure, if you live on Twitter, a lot of people made a big deal about it. But in my day to day, specially when offline, nothing seems to have changed. In fact, I don't think most people are even aware that a computer is now smarter and cheaper than them and it's widely available via API.

Am I exaggerating things here? It almost feels like the world has not caught up to the latest technology. Does this happen with every new tech? Is this period basically a huge opportunity for early adopters? Perhaps we are missing ways to connect the o1 brain to the real world so it can have real world applications?

For context, I am deep in LLMs stuff daily as it is part of my work. I am keenly aware of the improvements that have been made in coding for example, I just don't believe this is on the same magnitude as 'AI is now smarter than the average human'.

The other side of this argument is that the LLMs are not that good, and they just test high because the questions are part of the training data, and in fact they cannot adapt and learn on the spot the way humans can (which I believe is the point of the ARC prize [1]). Another counter-argument might be that it's just too early?

Would love to hear what you have to say. Tell me how I'm wrong, or tell me how you think AI has already materially changed our world in a big way.

[0] - https://trackingai.org/IQ

[1] - https://arcprize.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41782874

Points: 5

# Comments: 9

New comment by geepytee in "My first game with Carimbo, my homemade engine"

geepytee — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 22:58:09 +0000

I find that this is the best advice for life, not just making your own games. Do what you're most excited to do :)

New comment by geepytee in "Lead drinking-water pipes must be replaced nationwide, EPA says"

geepytee — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 21:56:29 +0000

I think so? I'll check with the city of Redwood City / San Mateo county. Good call!

New comment by geepytee in "Lead drinking-water pipes must be replaced nationwide, EPA says"

geepytee — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 21:26:16 +0000

Just ordered one, wish there was one for microplastics too (and whichever other contaminants that I'm not aware of).

New comment by geepytee in "Lead drinking-water pipes must be replaced nationwide, EPA says"

geepytee — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 20:54:24 +0000

Is there any cheap way to test the quality of my water? I did some Googling around, looks like there are services that will do this for a fee but didn't look particularly affordable.

New comment by geepytee in "McDonald's says Tyson and other suppliers fixed beef prices"

geepytee — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 18:47:01 +0000

Is that a bad thing? They claim that incarcerated workers receive the same pay as their civilian colleagues. IMO seems like a positive.