Hacker News: greenchair

New comment by greenchair in "YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney"

greenchair — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:19:16 +0000

Sure it is Sundar. When I go to youtube i see a few videos in the top half. The bottom half of screen is a row of Shorts that I don't want and have to scroll past. In a normal world there'd be a profile setting that lets you opt-out of Shorts being shown. In a normal world there wouldn't be a fake 'show fewer shorts' button that does absolutely nothing.

New comment by greenchair in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

greenchair — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:54:07 +0000

Speaking of overinclusion, 'wild' is my nominee for 2026 as I'm seeing it all over the place.

New comment by greenchair in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

greenchair — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:58:05 +0000

AI assisted coding makes you dumber full stop. It's obvious as soon as you try it for the first time. Need a regex? No need to engage your brain. AI will do that for you. Is what it produced correct? Well who knows? I didn't actually think about it. As current gen seniors brains atrophy over the next few years the scarier thing is that juniors won't even be learning the fundamentals because it is too easy to let AI handle it.

New comment by greenchair in "Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta"

greenchair — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:57:36 +0000

good observation comrade!

New comment by greenchair in "OpenClaw privilege escalation vulnerability"

greenchair — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:10:05 +0000

nearly spit out my coffee, thank you!

New comment by greenchair in "Delve removed from Y Combinator"

greenchair — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:17:57 +0000

streissand effect in action, surprised this thread was allowed to live.

New comment by greenchair in "OpenAI Acquires TBPN"

greenchair — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 23:00:20 +0000

I know it is hard to see the bias when you are in the bubble along with them.

New comment by greenchair in "The OpenAI graveyard: All the deals and products that haven't happened"

greenchair — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:32:02 +0000

Why the sudden pivot to agents and subagents? One shotting not good enough? Was a tech plateau reached? Or maybe one related to cost?

New comment by greenchair in "The OpenAI graveyard: All the deals and products that haven't happened"

greenchair — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:28:24 +0000

Yes I dont get it either. probably bots, paid posts.

New comment by greenchair in "The OpenAI graveyard: All the deals and products that haven't happened"

greenchair — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:24:57 +0000

yep google ai results are old too.

New comment by greenchair in "I decompiled the White House's new app"

greenchair — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:11:54 +0000

that argument also misses because it is based on old best practices which are no longer relevant.

New comment by greenchair in "Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem"

greenchair — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 11:29:05 +0000

maybe this could be a config setting.

New comment by greenchair in "Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem"

greenchair — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 11:26:28 +0000

IQ also going down due to bot spam.

New comment by greenchair in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

greenchair — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:33:54 +0000

the neobook methinks

New comment by greenchair in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

greenchair — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:44:49 +0000

That's what I would expect too - old and young.

New comment by greenchair in "1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6"

greenchair — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 11:26:02 +0000

How is that Plan strategy not "outsourcing your thinking" because that's exactly what it sounds like. AI does the heavy lifting and you are the editor.

New comment by greenchair in "macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses"

greenchair — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 10:28:05 +0000

their username..

New comment by greenchair in "Something is afoot in the land of Qwen"

greenchair — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 20:58:51 +0000

uptime signals reliability

New comment by greenchair in "Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable"

greenchair — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 11:26:52 +0000

true, they want it for themselves

New comment by greenchair in "Don't become an engineering manager"

greenchair — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 22:26:09 +0000

The manager role is inevitable once scale reaches certain thresholds.