Hacker News: guptadagger

New comment by guptadagger in "Claude Fable 5 Promotional Access"

guptadagger — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 21:21:40 +0000

i think they've got everyone by the balls with how addicted they are to their products

New comment by guptadagger in "How employment changes when firms adopt generative AI"

guptadagger — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 05:22:35 +0000

is that more or less than regular headcount growth?

New comment by guptadagger in "The labor share of income in the US is at its lowest post-war level"

guptadagger — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:27:29 +0000

>the amount of labor being generated per person has not really changed

im not really understanding what you mean. i dont get how labor is generated, in particular. do you mean to say the amount of total hours dedicated to labor per person or something else?

New comment by guptadagger in "Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD"

guptadagger — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 02:34:38 +0000

> long cylindrical tube. with a half sphere at one end, capping it. at the other end align a sphere next to the tube such that the vector from center of the sphere to the face of the end of the tube is perpendicular to the axis. then attach another sphere 180 degrees from that first sphere, with the same vector to plane of face of end of tube.

perfect

New comment by guptadagger in "Iowa City made its buses free. Traffic cleared, and so did the air"

guptadagger — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 02:33:41 +0000

I dont' know how you reached the "didn't work out well" conclusion, both metrics you mentioned were commensurate with systemwide metrics, meaning fare-free didn't have much of an impact on these routes. Ultimately, ridership increased

New comment by guptadagger in "Tell HN: Azure outage"

guptadagger — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 01:56:57 +0000

i understood that to be a different third party that provided a CDN and was different than afd. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/frontdoor/migrate-cd...

New comment by guptadagger in "Azure API vulnerability and roles misconfiguration compromise corporate networks"

guptadagger — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 00:11:56 +0000

Backdoora private network how? Or do you just mean that an NSG wont apply like you might have expected?

New comment by guptadagger in "Carefully but Purposefully Oxidising Ubuntu"

guptadagger — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 01:53:25 +0000

Its always surprising to hear that people use this tool

New comment by guptadagger in "Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic"

guptadagger — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 22:27:26 +0000

Speaking of ChatGPT getting worse over time, it would be interesting to see ChatGPT be benchmarked continuously to see how it performs over time (and the results published somewhere publically).

Even local variations would be interesting

New comment by guptadagger in "Lev Landau's “Theoretical Minimum”"

guptadagger — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 22:20:59 +0000

I think this 100% true, you don't read those books for any pleasure, its simply a necessary part of an education in theoretical physics. rigorous and challenging

New comment by guptadagger in "How to Escape Tutorial Hell and Start Building Your Own Projects"

guptadagger — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 03:19:52 +0000

being cheeky, but isn't this just another tutorial

New comment by guptadagger in "California spent $17B on homelessness – it’s not working"

guptadagger — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 02:02:54 +0000

> the homeless will go to some other place where they can live a better drugs and camping lifestyle

They should just drive in their cars to those cheaper places, true