Hacker News: glimshe

New comment by glimshe in "Dallas Fed: 30% of housing cost increase driven by unauthorized immigration [pdf]"

glimshe — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 22:22:14 +0000

This is a detailed study performed by experts. Do you believe they would overlook such obvious explanation?

I'm sorry, but your argument sounds like the typical HN oversimplification that leads people to say they could build Dropbox in a weekend.

New comment by glimshe in "Americans express unease over SpaceX's influence on retirement savings"

glimshe — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 23:17:24 +0000

This isn't investment advice etc etc but there are many options that can capture large sections of the stock market without being exposed to the tech bubble (assuming there is one).

Many people say you should stay invested in the SP500 anyway and I won't argue against that. But funds like VTV, DGRO, VIG, SCHD etc don't have the same level of exposure to tech, as well as international funds like VEA. Many 401ks allow you to invest in them through brokerage "link" options. Of course, do your research or talk to a pro before considering these.

New comment by glimshe in "Show HN: Music from every single country on Earth, generated in Esperanto"

glimshe — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 22:56:16 +0000

Oh wow, some of these are better than my Spotify recommendations...

New comment by glimshe in "John Jumper to join Anthropic"

glimshe — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 21:33:09 +0000

Google at its peak, as well as Microsoft, had similarly strong teams.

New comment by glimshe in "I Love the Computer"

glimshe — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:37:43 +0000

Working at FAANG made me stop liking computers. As soon as I left, it all came back.

New comment by glimshe in "Even more batteries included with Emacs"

glimshe — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:32:25 +0000

Prediction: Emacs will reach super intelligence before Claude.

Polivoks Designer Vladimir Kuzmin Has Died

glimshe — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:24:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2026/06/13/polivoks-synthesizer-designer-vladimir-kuzmin-has-died/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48540918

Points: 2

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New comment by glimshe in "US and Iran announce deal to end military operations"

glimshe — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:37:44 +0000

Obama's agreement didn't stop enrichment, leading to the current crisis.

New comment by glimshe in "Windows 1.0 and the WinAPI, 40 Years Later"

glimshe — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 13:32:02 +0000

I respect your tastes but, as a human, I like the objectivity in the article. I actually couldn't care less about the backstory and I tend to skip articles that wander around without getting to the point. I prefer to read a book when I want that.

In other words, different people sometimes want different things...

New comment by glimshe in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"

glimshe — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:40:28 +0000

You essentially made the libertarian argument without realizing it. According to this line of thinking, we should leave as little as possible in the hands of government exactly because it's either bad already or it will eventually be bad. We should then apply an exceptionally high bar to government responsibilities. These would be things that would be even worse in private hands (police for a simple example).

New comment by glimshe in "SpaceX's president is floating a Tesla merger as the company begins trading"

glimshe — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:18:53 +0000

I made sure to steer clear of Tesla and now SpaceX across my investments. It's not that Musk is an incompetent leader or the companies are bad, but his reality distortion field creates valuations and schemes designed to extract as much money as possible from investors rather than to enrich them.

New comment by glimshe in "How we made hit video game Prince of Persia"

glimshe — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:58:06 +0000

I once beat it in 27 minutes. I didn't know it was supposed to be hard at the time! I briefly checked speed run records now and that time would have put me in the top 50 "no glitches" ranking!

I'm not that good at games... For some reason PoP leveraged some brain circuitry I have with questionable evolutionary value.

New comment by glimshe in "Britain’s output per person is now only just above that of Mississippi"

glimshe — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:08:08 +0000

Like most of the South, where I proudly live, it's a place where the poor and rich live very different lives. It has pretty bad places (just like the UK), but it has areas with great quality of life and is far from "horrible".

New comment by glimshe in "Netlify CTO Dana Lawson: Writing code is no longer the job"

glimshe — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 14:44:23 +0000

Being a Chief Technology Officer is no longer the job. We now need an end-to-end AI orchestrator for the corporation in the Chief Agentic Officer role. Dana Lawson is now obsolete and must be let go.

New comment by glimshe in "AI didn't break the web. The dotcons did – AI just turned up the volume"

glimshe — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:14:33 +0000

This is a truly poor article that says much but contains little in terms of original and interesting thinking. I regret having read it.

New comment by glimshe in "Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs"

glimshe — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:00:02 +0000

Or maybe he simply made a mistake. Big deal. This doesn't speak negatively of his other achievements.

New comment by glimshe in "There's still no point in gigabit broadband"

glimshe — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:51:22 +0000

If there's any noticeable difference, it'd be due to lower latency and not increased bandwidth. I'd be cool with 5MB/s and extremely low latency if that was an option.

New comment by glimshe in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

glimshe — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 10:05:33 +0000

They don't make decisions like that out of wisdom and restraint. I imagine they got calls from Vanguard and others after index funds themselves got calls from institutional investors.

New comment by glimshe in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"

glimshe — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 22:07:01 +0000

Grok is pretty good. It really excels when the results can be improved by deep online search. It tends to be more aggressive in looking things up than competitors. I use it in certain situations.

New comment by glimshe in "Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years"

glimshe — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:52:47 +0000

Alternatives come and go, SQL stays.

It's not that I like or dislike SQL, it is just that it has such raw power and mature tooling/resources, I wonder what an alternative could even offer me.

It's like C. It does such a great job at being structured assembly that it is hard to displace it for similar reasons.