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New comment by gricardo99 in "Roku LT Operating System open source distribution"

gricardo99 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 06:21:45 +0000

   you can disable this feature by going to Settings > Privacy > Smart TV Experience.

New comment by gricardo99 in "Leaving the Physical World"

gricardo99 — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:43:16 +0000

An incredible, lucid, and beautiful depiction of the burgeoning, inchoate world of cyberspace at the time — voicing an anxiety that echoes even louder today:

   We humans would be liberated into an Elysian condition of permanent leisure. We’d have nothing to do but hang out in our indestructible miracle-fiber jumpsuits and talk philosophy.
  Only it didn’t happen quite like that. The machines did get many of our physical jobs alright, but no one could quite figure out how to pay us   for all that hanging out.

What would John make of what’s unfolded since? Much as he envisioned and embraced, humanity poured its imagination, creativity, toil, and love into cyberspace — only for the machines to feed on it all and usher in a new, all-encompassing level of human obsolescence.

New comment by gricardo99 in "Production engineering when trading billions of dollars a day [video]"

gricardo99 — Sat, 09 May 2026 21:30:56 +0000

there’s a move now towards 24/7 trading. I guess we’ll see how the rigors of the trading environment mesh with zero down time. I’m sure the rollout will be slow and steady.

New comment by gricardo99 in "I’m joining OpenAI"

gricardo99 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:48:53 +0000

  bad at identifying business trends

I think you’re being unduly harsh on yourself. At least by the Shopify/COVID example. COVID was a black swan event, which may very well have completely changed the fortunes of companies like Shopify when online commerce surged and became vital to the economy. Shortcomings, mismanagement and bad culture can be completely papered over by growth and revenue.

Right place, right time. It’s too bad you missed out on some good fortune, but it’s a helpful reminder of how much of our paths are governed by luck. Thanks for sharing, and wishing you luck in the future.

New comment by gricardo99 in "xAI joins SpaceX"

gricardo99 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 04:03:34 +0000

not to mention that radiation hardening of chips has a big impact on cost and performance

New comment by gricardo99 in "Verizon starts requiring 365 days of paid service before it will unlock phones"

gricardo99 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 05:35:31 +0000

That’s what I thought and did this for years. However, the major carriers do offer promotions and incentives that make the phones cheaper, sometimes significantly. e.g. of recent deal from major US carriers: iPhone 16 deal for $16/month for 36 months ($576 total) versus Apple store $699.

New comment by gricardo99 in "Show HN: Geofenced chat communities anyone can create"

gricardo99 — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 07:46:42 +0000

iOS safari same issue. can’t get passed the terms

New comment by gricardo99 in "The AI Kids Take San Francisco"

gricardo99 — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 03:10:46 +0000

The AI Kids Take San Francisco

gricardo99 — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 03:10:02 +0000

Article URL: https://newyorktoday.net/the-ai-kids-take-san-francisco/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45587702

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by gricardo99 in "Designing a Low Latency 10G Ethernet Core (2023)"

gricardo99 — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 14:30:12 +0000

actually you do need another participant to take the other side of your trade. That’s not a middle man. Market makers, liquidity providers, are a key component of these markets, taking risk with their own capital (no systemic risk, no too big to fail, going to get a government is things go badly), requiring sophistication and specialization to survive in an ultra competitive environment with a high degree of uncertainty and risk exposure.

New comment by gricardo99 in "The AI Kids Take San Francisco"

gricardo99 — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 14:42:12 +0000

archive:

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The AI Kids Take San Francisco

gricardo99 — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 14:40:58 +0000

Article URL: https://newyorktoday.net/the-ai-kids-take-san-francisco/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45463562

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by gricardo99 in "The AI Kids Take San Francisco"

gricardo99 — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:26:41 +0000

The AI Kids Take San Francisco

gricardo99 — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:20:53 +0000

Article URL: https://newyorktoday.net/the-ai-kids-take-san-francisco/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45427479

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by gricardo99 in "Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit"

gricardo99 — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 02:16:55 +0000

he’s clearly commenting on how the “maga gang” is characterizing the murderer. There’s no statement directly about the murderer.

New comment by gricardo99 in "Configuration files are user interfaces"

gricardo99 — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 18:28:33 +0000

With all the code syntax highlighting support as a feature, I feel it will become tempting to put code in configuration files (which some of their examples show). That just feels wrong. Code should go in code files/modules/libraries, not mixed with configuration files. If your configuration starts to become code, maybe you need to rethink your software architecture. Or perhaps KSON proves that principle to be too rigid and inferior, and leads to more intelligible, manageable software. I guess we'll have to see.

New comment by gricardo99 in "Show HN: Engineering.fyi – Search across tech engineering blogs in one place"

gricardo99 — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 14:14:52 +0000

nice concept. fyi, search feature doesn’t seem to work

New comment by gricardo99 in "How I use my terminal"

gricardo99 — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 18:35:53 +0000

The one thing pulling me towards VS code, and away from terminal workflows is Copilot and the Agent workflows. Being able to seamlessly chat with AI models and then see/review its code changes is the biggest change to my workflow and productivity in years.

I’m guessing some people already have these capabilities integrated into terminal workflows and I’d love to see a demo/setup.

New comment by gricardo99 in "Tokasaurus: An LLM inference engine for high-throughput workloads"

gricardo99 — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 05:00:41 +0000

since you work on pytorch, what would you say is the best place to ask questions about general usage, trouble shooting? I’ve been struggling with a, what I would consider, a simple torchrun elastic training example, and haven’t found any good resources online. I’ve been spelunking through pytorch but have a feeling a little back and forth with someone familiar with these features would immensely clear things up.

New comment by gricardo99 in "The Tcl Programming Language: A Comprehensive Guide (2nd Edition)"

gricardo99 — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 23:15:07 +0000

My favorite Tcl story is a little side note about how Tcl could have been the language of the web[1]

  the founding of Netscape   occurred at the same time I was deciding where to go in industry when I left Berkeley in 1994. Jim Clarke and Marc Andreessen approached me about the possibility of my joining Netscape as a founder, but I eventually decided against it (they hadn't yet decided to do Web stuff when I talked with them). This is one of the biggest "what if" moments of my career. If I had gone to Netscape, I think there's a good chance that Tcl would have become the browser language instead of JavaScript and the world would be a different place! However, in retrospect I'm not sure that Tcl would actually be a better language for the Web than JavaScript, so maybe the right thing happened.

Too humble Dr. Ousterhout! It would have been a far better language.

1 - https://pldb.io/blog/JohnOusterhout.html