Hacker News: gigatree

New comment by gigatree in "Berkshirehathaway.com – The Perfect Minimalist Website"

gigatree — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:21:35 +0000

The message from Warren Buffett is also an ad for Geico lol

New comment by gigatree in "DaVinci Resolve 21"

gigatree — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:22:08 +0000

“WE WANT TO DO THINGS THE HARD WAY AND WE WON’T BUDGE”

New comment by gigatree in "Ask HN: Does Claude Code remove the need for so many front-end frameworks?"

gigatree — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:00:13 +0000

Like Rich Harris said in a Svelte talk once: “frameworks are for organizing your mind”. As far as I can tell, the same is true for LLMs

New comment by gigatree in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"

gigatree — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:01:44 +0000

IMO the only solution is to just upvote things if they’re interesting or useful and downvote them if they’re not

New comment by gigatree in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"

gigatree — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:59:07 +0000

Board finally realized people can just do this themselves with FTP/SVN/rsync and curlftpfs

New comment by gigatree in "Why Japanese companies do so many different things"

gigatree — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:57:04 +0000

Disagree. Many less interesting things than a large functioning modern collective get millions of views.

New comment by gigatree in "Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?"

gigatree — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:37:53 +0000

Different products can target different segments of the market. The question is just whether this one is large enough to support something like the AVP

New comment by gigatree in "Show HN: Fungible – A local personal finance app in the terminal"

gigatree — Tue, 26 May 2026 01:12:49 +0000

This deserves a lot more attention, imo. It seems like most/everything is moving to the terminal natively (maybe w a visual layer on top) so you can use the same local agent and local files for everything (ie claude code being able to access everything about your life, but also being easily swapped out for or used alongside codex). I’ve been avoiding diving into my finances so I’m gonna try this out, thanks!

New comment by gigatree in "Why Japanese companies do so many different things"

gigatree — Fri, 22 May 2026 17:27:12 +0000

The most recent video I could find about this was from like 7 years ago, very weird

New comment by gigatree in "Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE"

gigatree — Thu, 21 May 2026 00:24:32 +0000

You should look up how the rest of Britain’s colonies got independence :)

New comment by gigatree in "Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE"

gigatree — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:32:59 +0000

Shhh if you say too much you’re gonna rattle their “the government will save us if we vote hard enough” worldview

New comment by gigatree in "Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Arabia and the UAE"

gigatree — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:29:25 +0000

What is this “just world” of which you speak?

New comment by gigatree in "Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian"

gigatree — Mon, 18 May 2026 15:42:19 +0000

Big fan of the note up front about how long they’ve been working on it, feel like we’ll be seeing a lot more of that as an anti-slop signal

New comment by gigatree in "Mike: open-source legal AI"

gigatree — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:17:07 +0000

Besides the Suits connection?

New comment by gigatree in "Google and Pentagon reportedly agree on deal for 'any lawful' use of AI"

gigatree — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:37:55 +0000

You’d need some shared ethical/moral framework to make that claim, which doesn’t really seem to exist anymore

New comment by gigatree in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

gigatree — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 01:45:46 +0000

I just mean that the argument that words like “instructions”, “think”, “confess” are inaccurate when used in reference to a machine assumes that those words can only refer to humans/conscious beings, when really they can refer to more than that if used widely enough in those ways (in this case - text prediction following a human input). So it’s not “anthropomorphizing” because when people use those words they don’t [typically] actually believe the machine can think or reason, it’s just the word that most closely matches the concept, it’s convenient. You’re extending the definition of the words to apply to non-conscious entities too, not applying consciousness to the entities.

It’s the same reason we call the handheld device we carry around to do everything a “phone” without a second thought. We don’t call it a phone because it’s primary purpose is calling, we call it a phone because the definition of the word “phone” has grown to include “navigates, entertains, takes pictures, etc”.

New comment by gigatree in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

gigatree — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:04:25 +0000

That’s not how language works, just how engineers think it works

New comment by gigatree in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

gigatree — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:51:36 +0000

The point of the post was to warn other people building with agents, especially using Cursor or Railway, not a public reflection

New comment by gigatree in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

gigatree — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:48:14 +0000

He’s not necessarily anthropomorphizing it, he’s showing that it went against every instruction he gave it. Sure concepts like “confession” technically require a conscious mind, but I think at this point we all know what someone means when they use them to describe LLM behavior (see also “think”, “say”, “lie” etc)

New comment by gigatree in "Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything"

gigatree — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 02:44:00 +0000

That is really really cool

And I think you’re right that AI will give a lot of people the push they’ve needed to get back to real life, even if at the same time it pulls a majority of people further into the matrix