Hacker News: heuristhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=heuristHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 20 May 2026 10:16:30 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by heurist in "Claude Opus 4.7"]]>Claude Opus 4.7 responds with walk for me with and without adaptive thinking, but neither the basic model used when you Google search or GPT 5.4 do.

]]>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:28:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47798295heuristhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47798295https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47798295<![CDATA[New comment by heurist in "Claude Opus 4.7"]]>I work with some 'legends of programming' and they're all excited about it. I am too, though I am not a legend. It really is changing the game as a valid new technology, and it's not just a 'slot machine'. Anthropic is burning their goodwill though with their lack of QA or intentional silent degradation.

]]>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:24:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47798241heuristhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47798241https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47798241<![CDATA[New comment by heurist in "Peptides: where to begin?"]]>You should not be downvoted for expressing your concerns.

]]>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:54:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47680539heuristhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47680539https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47680539<![CDATA[New comment by heurist in "Peptides: where to begin?"]]>I'm not inclined to be a guinea pig for these. I suspect maybe later in my child's life they will have been proven long-term safe (or not). I'll be old or dead at that point. I'm really wary of putting anything not known to be standard food or medicine into my body.

]]>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 06:27:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47671400heuristhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47671400https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47671400<![CDATA[New comment by heurist in "Meta acquires Moltbook"]]>Good god

Meta couldn't vibecode a competitor themselves? WTF are yall doing over there?

]]>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 23:49:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47330243heuristhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47330243https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47330243<![CDATA[New comment by heurist in "Oxide raises $200M Series C"]]>Hiring is incredibly complicated when done well. If 'limited fuzzy Boolean windows' over 'complex interpersonal dynamics' is vibes, then we will need to accept vibes.

]]>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:47:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46968089heuristhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46968089https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46968089<![CDATA[New comment by heurist in "FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE"]]>They should have had an open convention. I said this on reddit before the elections and was heavily downvoted for whatever reason. People don't want to face reality. Trump's election this time around was much easier to explain and both parties have now lost the trust of the people.

]]>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 20:12:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46800895heuristhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46800895https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46800895<![CDATA[New comment by heurist in "FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE"]]>It's confusing and messy, like most of American history.

]]>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 06:19:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46791730heuristhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46791730https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46791730<![CDATA[New comment by heurist in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"]]>Have been using Gitlab happily for a decade, though I have never had to directly worry about the cost for larger teams.

]]>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 02:24:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46297500heuristhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46297500https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46297500<![CDATA[New comment by heurist in "Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros"]]>Didn't that anti-corruption agency end up being corrupt too? Hard to follow all this stuff.

]]>Mon, 08 Dec 2025 23:43:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46199276heuristhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46199276https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46199276<![CDATA[New comment by heurist in "Everyone in Seattle hates AI"]]>We get around this a bit when using it to write code since we have unit tests and can verify that it's making correct changes and adhering to an architecture. It has truly become much more capable in the last year. This technology is so flexible that it can be used in ways no eval will ever touch and still perform well. You can't just rely on what the labs say about it, you have to USE it.

]]>Thu, 04 Dec 2025 05:21:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46144063heuristhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46144063https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46144063<![CDATA[New comment by heurist in "Show HN: Autism Simulator"]]>I haven't run a business in a while but when I did I found I was actually more comfortable because the interactions are typically more scriptable and the dynamics are clearer than when you're dealing with peer employees. When you're dealing with customers, you're interfacing on behalf of the business and can adopt a 'business' persona while speaking about things you are expert in. Often you deal with people in bursts and don't need to interact with any given individual too often; with peers it's a lot more vague and confusing, and you're with them basically all the time for years so it's much more exhausting.

]]>Wed, 01 Oct 2025 21:35:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45443831heuristhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45443831https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45443831<![CDATA[New comment by heurist in "I should have loved biology too"]]>I was lucky to have a great AP Biology teacher in high school. I ended up minoring in the field and it has shaped my career. Now my child is a little biologist. It is a fascinating subject and so core to everything we are and everything we do.

]]>Tue, 22 Apr 2025 18:02:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43764737heuristhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43764737https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43764737<![CDATA[New comment by heurist in "Trump's Tariffs Wipe Out over $6T on Wall Street in Epic Two-Day Rout"]]>That's the most charitable possible reading of this strategy. There are many others.

]]>Sat, 05 Apr 2025 01:25:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43589556heuristhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43589556https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43589556<![CDATA[New comment by heurist in "AI 2027"]]>Give AI its own virtual world to live in where the problems it solves are encodings of the higher order problems we present and you shouldn't have to worry about this stuff.

]]>Fri, 04 Apr 2025 03:37:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43578090heuristhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43578090https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43578090<![CDATA[New comment by heurist in "Larry Ellison's half-billion-dollar quest to change farming"]]>All the companies in this space go out of business. Who in the Midwest is doing well?

]]>Wed, 26 Feb 2025 06:15:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43181183heuristhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43181183https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43181183<![CDATA[New comment by heurist in "The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE"]]>Hah. I'm a pretty good coder and have been accelerated with AI, but it's definitely not ready to make me capable of redesigning the US federal government.

]]>Tue, 04 Feb 2025 05:50:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42928541heuristhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42928541https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42928541<![CDATA[New comment by heurist in "El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender"]]>Bitcoin's utility is that you can both hold it in your hands and send it across the world in 10 minutes with no intermediaries. Can't do that with gold.

]]>Tue, 04 Feb 2025 04:31:48 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42927982heuristhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42927982https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42927982<![CDATA[New comment by heurist in "El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender"]]>There are early bitcoin holders who are now billionaires continuing to hold their highly liquid bitcoin.

]]>Tue, 04 Feb 2025 04:02:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42927751heuristhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42927751https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42927751<![CDATA[New comment by heurist in "Ask HN: Are YC startups *actually* hiring?"]]>I'm in a mission driven organization so I pay more attention to that than other companies might. Regardless, a little authenticity and enthusiasm can go a long way. The bar is low.

]]>Wed, 29 Jan 2025 03:36:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42861222heuristhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42861222https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42861222