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New comment by gordon_freeman in "Apple at 50"

gordon_freeman — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:19:11 +0000

The durability of their products still surprises me. I still own and use iPhone 11 (still it is my first iPhone when I switched from Android). Still getting latest iOS updates and functioning very well and may last for 2 more years. What other phone could do this?

New comment by gordon_freeman in "Apple at 50"

gordon_freeman — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:50:31 +0000

If there is one company I'd say that has made a significant (positive) difference in my life, I'd say it is Apple.

New comment by gordon_freeman in "The Codex App"

gordon_freeman — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 21:11:33 +0000

How does Codex mac app compare with Cursor? If anyone who tried both can explain here?

My experience with Cursor is generally good and I like that it gives me UX of using VS Code and also allows selection of multiple models to choose if one model is stuck on the prompt and does not work.

Ask HN: How is AppLovin valued at $180B

gordon_freeman — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 22:01:08 +0000

Genuinely curious to how a company that has a proprietary Ad model can be valued so high at more than $180 billion market cap? What secret sauce or Moat they have to justify that high of a market cap?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46787603

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by gordon_freeman in "Tell HN: Merry Christmas"

gordon_freeman — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 16:34:37 +0000

Folks who have some extra time this Christmas, do check out the tv show Pluribus on Apple TV. It’s not your typical action packed sci-fi show but is very slow burning, philosophical kind of show which I found very smart.

Turns out my best 2 tv shows of last couple of years are on Apple TV: Severance and Pluribus

New comment by gordon_freeman in "Claude Memory"

gordon_freeman — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 00:53:36 +0000

Walmart therapist?

India's growing lion population cause for celebration, but also a deadly problem

gordon_freeman — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 16:03:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/31/world/india-lion-human-conflict-intl-dst-hnk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45084192

Points: 3

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New comment by gordon_freeman in "From Hackathon to YC"

gordon_freeman — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 06:39:00 +0000

The thing with reading vs speaking to my emails is, it's much quicker and mentally less exhausting for me to just read and quickly reply or move them to folder in just a few seconds than having this kind of long conversation while driving and putting pedestrians and other drivers and myself at risk.

New comment by gordon_freeman in "OpenAI Progress"

gordon_freeman — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 23:17:54 +0000

It seems like the progress from GPT-4 to GPT-5 has plateaued: for most prompts, I actually find GPT-4 more understandable than GPT-5 [1].

[1] Read the answers from GPT-4 and 5 for this math question: "Ugh I hate math, integration by parts doesn't make any sense"

New comment by gordon_freeman in "ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action"

gordon_freeman — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 17:34:05 +0000

This.

Recently I uploaded screenshot of movie show timing at a specific theatre and asked ChatGPT to find the optimal time for me to watch the movie based on my schedule.

It did confidently find the perfect time and even accounted for the factors such as movies in theatre start 20 mins late due to trailers and ads being shown before movie starts. The only problem: it grabbed the times from the screenshot totally incorrectly which messed up all its output and I tried and tried to get it to extract the time accurately but it didn’t and ultimately after getting frustrated I lost the trust in its ability. This keeps happening again and again with LLMs.

New comment by gordon_freeman in "My Family and the Flood"

gordon_freeman — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 01:34:12 +0000

Reading this makes me so sad and reminded me of a book I read years ago: Hiroshima by John Hersey - about the first-person narrative account of survivors who witnessed the impact of atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima that morning.

New comment by gordon_freeman in "Grok3 Launch [video]"

gordon_freeman — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 08:56:10 +0000

Everyone seems to have a different definition for AGI. Is there some kind of standard there?

New comment by gordon_freeman in "Macrodata Refinement"

gordon_freeman — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 19:47:27 +0000

You should give it a try and watch the S1 entirely. Based on your comment, it seems like you are watching it with a different lense. It is not a drama or thriller where you'd look for holes. It is about perspective of someone who is new to this world trying to blend in.

New comment by gordon_freeman in "Macrodata Refinement"

gordon_freeman — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 23:33:48 +0000

Same for me. Severance is probably the best show of last decade. The last time I had such an engrossing experience was while reading 1984.

My other two are:

- Shogun (The depiction of 1600s Japan is so real)

- Resident Alien (Funny and heartwarming to see an Alien getting accustomed to life on Earth dealing with complex human relationships with their flaws)

PS: I am sad to exclude Parks and Recreation which ran from 2009-2015 so probably considered outside of last decade.

New comment by gordon_freeman in "Operator research preview"

gordon_freeman — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 20:34:37 +0000

I also do not like Chat interface. What I meant by above comment was actually talking and having natural conversations with Operator agent while driving car or just going for a walk or whenever and wherever something comes to my mind which requires me to go to browser and fill out forms etc. That would get us closer to using chatGPT as a universal AI agent to get those things done. (This is what Siri was supposed to be one day when Steve Jobs introduced it on that stage but unfortunately that day never arrived.)

New comment by gordon_freeman in "Operator research preview"

gordon_freeman — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 19:58:12 +0000

What is fascinating about this announcement is if you look into future after considerable improvements in product and the model, we will be just chatting with ChatGPT to book dinner tables, flights, buy groceries and do all sort of mundane and hugely boring things we do on the web, just by talking to the agents. I'd definitely love that.

New comment by gordon_freeman in "David Lynch has died"

gordon_freeman — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 20:10:13 +0000

The beauty of Lynch films is that everyone can interpret it in their own way!

New comment by gordon_freeman in "David Lynch has died"

gordon_freeman — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 19:53:42 +0000

David Lynch was a giant in film directing with his unique vision and surreal style and he gave us so many great movies. But more importantly I feel that he inspired so many modern movie directors such as Ari Aster and Yorgos Lanthimos to make movies like that. I put Lynch in the same category of greatness as Kubrick and Tarkovsky. True genius!

New comment by gordon_freeman in "David Lynch has died"

gordon_freeman — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 19:43:53 +0000

Start with "Eraserhead" and then go from there. Surreal is the word I associate with his movies and tv show (Twin Peaks) and I absolutely love watching such movies!

New comment by gordon_freeman in "I have made the decision to disband Hindenburg Research"

gordon_freeman — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 04:44:50 +0000

Like listening to “Lose Yourself” before every major interview. :)