Hacker News: gordon_freeman

New comment by gordon_freeman in "Apple WWDC 2026"

gordon_freeman — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:29:08 +0000

I thought this is happening for me because I have an old iPhone 11 with degrading battery, screen etc. Did not realize that this is so widespread problem across devices. Really annoying when that happens! Almost unusable phone.

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

gordon_freeman — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 20:18:02 +0000

In a similar situation: I basically have just 2 funds in my retirement portfolio: SnP500 index fund (75%) AND Berkshire Hathaway B shares (25%)

from my research I know that in years where SnP500 drops too much (recessionary periods), BRK-B would soften the blow as Value stocks tend to do well in such times. And usually that works for me.

New comment by gordon_freeman in "Google I/O"

gordon_freeman — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:01:47 +0000

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The Netflix Effect

gordon_freeman — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:27:04 +0000

Article URL: https://thenetflixeffect.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48113198

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by gordon_freeman in "Days without GitHub incidents"

gordon_freeman — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:16:36 +0000

they are not the non-profit. they make money of it and devs expect certain kind of service in return. GH failed to deliver on the service expectation.

New comment by gordon_freeman in "Southwest Headquarters Tour"

gordon_freeman — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:59:56 +0000

I had one such tour at Toyota's TMMK (Georgetown, Kentucky) manufacturing plant and witnessing the efficiency with which they were making cars blew my mind!

New comment by gordon_freeman in "Let's Buy Spirit Air"

gordon_freeman — Mon, 04 May 2026 01:50:51 +0000

> "Flights don't make money. Airlines actually make all of their money through loyalty programs and credit card payments."

If that's the case then how RyanAir survived and is thriving?

New comment by gordon_freeman in "Claude.ai is unavailable"

gordon_freeman — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:26:04 +0000

I am getting an error that selected model (I selected Opus 4.6 and 4.7 later) is unavailable but when I tried Sonnet it worked for me.

New comment by gordon_freeman in "Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day"

gordon_freeman — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 17:11:37 +0000

sometimes if you have downloaded an app on Mac it automatically tries to install itself on iPhone due to some settings somewhere. Not saying that's the case with your app but I've noticed that with apps being installed on my iPhone when I install some apps on my Mac.

New comment by gordon_freeman in "Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training"

gordon_freeman — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 05:10:12 +0000

If anyone still has not watched Severance, it is good time to start watching that show!

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

# Comments: 0

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.