Hacker News: gghffguhvc

New comment by gghffguhvc in "Why I Joined OpenAI"

gghffguhvc — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 03:40:26 +0000

I believe him. I don’t know him personally but his blog posts pop up here from time to time and this feels genuine to me.

New comment by gghffguhvc in "TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again on Tahoe"

gghffguhvc — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 20:18:30 +0000

Time Machine is for the everyday person. The everyday person doesn’t have a few thousand dollars to buy a second machine just to properly test a full restore backup periodically.

New comment by gghffguhvc in "Ask HN: Weird archive.today behavior?"

gghffguhvc — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 09:25:21 +0000

Wild idea: Could be a symbolic dead man switch.

Reports of FBI going hard after archive.today around the time the HN account was setup and they post an archive.today competitor. Pings on the investigative article then a post to HN saying “3 days ago” which could indicate when FBI succeeded.

The only comment by the poster on this article is a sharp clarification of what doxxing is and isn’t.

Perhaps this is just an unusual way of slowly stepping out from behind the curtain on your own quirky terms after a fantastically long tenure.

New comment by gghffguhvc in "Karpathy on Programming: “I've never felt this much behind”"

gghffguhvc — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 20:38:36 +0000

My company takes between Christmas and New Years off. I took a week before that off too. I have not used AI in that time. The slower pace of life is amazing. But when I get back to coding it will be back to running at 180%. It’s the new norm. However I’ve decided to take longer “no computer” breaks in my day. I have to adapt but I need to defend my “take it slow” times and find some analogue hobbies. The shift is real and you can’t wind it back.

New comment by gghffguhvc in "Android introduces $2-4 install fee and 10–20% cut for US external content links"

gghffguhvc — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 08:06:02 +0000

I have healthcare apps. The review process for me consists of some reviewer deciding what set of healthcare features I should have picked from their list and rejecting on that basis. But subsequent reviewers have different opinions. In one app version release I got rejected 5 times for picking the wrong set of healthcare features as either the reviewer changed their mind or I got different reviewers. The app has been on Google play for 13 years.

New comment by gghffguhvc in "The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video]"

gghffguhvc — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 23:51:09 +0000

I poorly worded it. Rafales allegedly shot down. After that happened, perhaps the pilots wanting them over F35s might have a different opinion. F35s might be harder to get a lock on at that distance and might have better situational awareness capabilities.

New comment by gghffguhvc in "The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video]"

gghffguhvc — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 08:12:08 +0000

The pilots might have reassessed after Pakistan seemed to have shot three of them down from over 200km range. Intel failure blamed but likely many factors of which some presumably may be attributed to the planes.

New comment by gghffguhvc in "Using LLMs at Oxide"

gghffguhvc — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 01:51:26 +0000

For the same quality and quantity output, if the cost of using LLMs + the cost of careful oversight is less than the cost of not using LLMs then the rational choice is to use them.

Naturally this doesn’t factor in things like human obsolescence, motivation and self-worth.

New comment by gghffguhvc in "Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3"

gghffguhvc — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 12:04:48 +0000

I just whack-a-mole these things in AGENTS.md for a while until it codes more like me.

New comment by gghffguhvc in "Fran Sans – font inspired by San Francisco light rail displays"

gghffguhvc — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:27:42 +0000

When I lived in SF I walked past this street art a couple of times a week and got a smile.

https://www.sfstairways.com/stairways/eugenia-avenue-prospec...

New comment by gghffguhvc in "Evaluating the impact of AI on the labor market: Current state of affairs"

gghffguhvc — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 22:00:23 +0000

Slowed the rate of hiring devs.

Normally as we add enterprise customers we have to dedicate more dev resource keeping them happy. But since Claude code and now codex we have not felt that feeling of not being on top of the work. Thus not feeling the need to hire more devs.

New comment by gghffguhvc in "Evaluating the impact of AI on the labor market: Current state of affairs"

gghffguhvc — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 21:49:15 +0000

We’ve been in business 15 years. These aren’t POCs. Even at say 20% productivity boost I feel way ahead to give devs 9 day fortnights and soon hopefully 4 day weeks.

New comment by gghffguhvc in "Evaluating the impact of AI on the labor market: Current state of affairs"

gghffguhvc — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 21:35:37 +0000

As a co-founder and dev at a bootstrapped company I’d say AI has and will slow developer hiring rate. We’re just more productive and on top of things more.

We’ve also reduced the hours we work per week. We care about getting things done not time behind a screen.

New comment by gghffguhvc in "Do YC after you graduate: Early decision for students"

gghffguhvc — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 12:21:04 +0000

The number of people we are talking about as a percentage of CS like graduates is tiny. They aren’t kids either. It seems like a low risk experiment on both sides.

New comment by gghffguhvc in "Not paying with cash"

gghffguhvc — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 02:38:21 +0000

Paying tax isn’t a big company vs small company thing. A single company not paying tax isn’t that bad directly but it can be infectious. “They don’t pay neither should I” attitude is a problem.

New comment by gghffguhvc in "Tour de France confronts a new threat: Are cyclists using tiny motors?"

gghffguhvc — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 00:36:30 +0000

https://youtu.be/Wv5F5N6mFf0?si=uE9fqMC_LdViYJWu. Nice review of how they work and what they feel like.

New comment by gghffguhvc in "Self-taught engineers often outperform (2024)"

gghffguhvc — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 02:57:06 +0000

From my experience, the high performance developers can’t be identified from how they learnt to build software. But I do feel there is some correlation with how much they enjoy solving problems.

New comment by gghffguhvc in "Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer"

gghffguhvc — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 09:14:32 +0000

Likely. But also could have been some thugs with a wrench in a basement and the sys admin giving up the ssh keys and 2fa etc.

New comment by gghffguhvc in "Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge"

gghffguhvc — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 21:16:05 +0000

Or the music. It was originally made as a one off for a film festival. Movie industry defended the lawsuit over the music.

New comment by gghffguhvc in "I scanned all of GitHub's "oops commits" for leaked secrets"

gghffguhvc — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 07:31:18 +0000

The person who leaked it and the person/team that can rotate it might be in different silos or timezones etc. Rewriting the history is prudent but not sufficient.