Hacker News: gigatree

New comment by gigatree in "Many African families spend fortunes burying their dead"

gigatree — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:42:28 +0000

The good thing is you can have a big wedding without going into debt (assuming you’re rich or don’t mind public parks)

New comment by gigatree in "The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future"

gigatree — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:35:41 +0000

Uh oh

New comment by gigatree in "Ask HN: Why People Support Anthropic?"

gigatree — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 18:13:15 +0000

I’m sure you have good intentions, but that view works against the very thing you’re arguing for. Anthropic is leaving a ton of capital on the table, maybe for moral reasons, probably for PR reasons, but whichever it is they’ll have no incentive to scale back the unethical if doing so doesn’t earn them any goodwill because “oh look they stole books they’re just as bad as the AI companies creating tech to bomb civilians”.

The world is a dark place, better to reward any sliver of good than write it off for being tainted.

New comment by gigatree in "1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March"

gigatree — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 02:11:28 +0000

Still way under the actual rate of inflation

New comment by gigatree in "So Claude's stealing our business secrets, right?"

gigatree — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:52:36 +0000

Is that allowed in their ToS?

New comment by gigatree in "Personal Statement of a CIA Analyst"

gigatree — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 03:08:57 +0000

The few people I’ve asked who’ve been hypnotized said it was true and had no reason to lie or trick me, and it seems true. But if the lens is “we already figured out all biology and physics so we can ignore the possibility of actual hypnosis (putting someone in a trance stage) being possible” then it’s hard to see things that there’s actually immense evidence for (eg the telepathy tapes).

New comment by gigatree in "Claims of disability are highest at elite universities"

gigatree — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 22:36:41 +0000

I imagine most people are secretly turned off by the victim card (for the same reason you’d avoid someone who always has a “woe is me” story) but who knows how that affects the job market when virtue signaling is so powerful.

New comment by gigatree in "Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence"

gigatree — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 23:08:01 +0000

*Extremely unpopular in DC, fwiw

New comment by gigatree in "Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max"

gigatree — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 20:29:52 +0000

It seems pretty clear the moat is built at the application layer, how enjoyable/easy the actual application is to use, but these applications seem to be getting worse over time even as the models get better. Is it really that hard to do both? Isn’t the point of agentic coding to do more better (not just more)?

New comment by gigatree in "Jeff Bezos creates A.I. startup where he will be co-chief executive"

gigatree — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:34:16 +0000

You know can bubbles grow, right?

New comment by gigatree in "Ask HN: Engineers working AI tools. Are you working more or less?"

gigatree — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 13:19:12 +0000

Always the case

New comment by gigatree in "Open-source Zig book"

gigatree — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 21:58:34 +0000

inb4 people start putting a standardized “not AI generated” symbol in website headers

New comment by gigatree in "The end of naked locker rooms"

gigatree — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 19:00:02 +0000

At a greater reported rate than men, and even if true it doesn’t take away from the fact that men are still very much victims of rape.

So, no, they’re not just worried about it because of “insecurity of their masculinity”.

New comment by gigatree in "The end of naked locker rooms"

gigatree — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 16:56:09 +0000

Would you say the same thing about women’s fear of being ogled in an enclosed space while naked?

New comment by gigatree in "GPT-5.1 for Developers"

gigatree — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 16:48:47 +0000

The iOS app has also gotten pretty buggy. Not a great sign for the future of software, in terms of stability.

New comment by gigatree in "Marko – A declarative, HTML‑based language"

gigatree — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 01:40:59 +0000

RippleJS is doing the same sort of thing, but better IMO

New comment by gigatree in "Direct File won't happen in 2026, IRS tells states"

gigatree — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 05:42:44 +0000

Ah yes, the free market

New comment by gigatree in "We Saved $500k per Year by Rolling Our Own S3"

gigatree — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 03:44:57 +0000

I wonder if there’s a point at which AWS decides it would be more financially responsible to make lower margins in order to keep more customers.

New comment by gigatree in "Show HN: Nostr Web – decentralized website hosting on Nostr"

gigatree — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 21:17:34 +0000

Only because those who make everything political take it as an offense. See also “silence is violence”.

New comment by gigatree in "Tinnitus Neuromodulator"

gigatree — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 23:21:51 +0000

My condolences. At least you’re jacked.