<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: hgoel</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=hgoel</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 03:35:52 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=hgoel" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hgoel in "Intelligent people are better judges of the intelligence of others"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You're the only person here invoking "special circuitry". All intelligence is a mix of both learned and biological factors.<p>Plus one of the big ways we evaluate the intelligence of other species is trying to see if they have theory of mind, which is intrinsically linked to social intelligence.<p>Edit: Ah, the person you replied to also invoked special circuitry.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:38:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47666720</link><dc:creator>hgoel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47666720</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47666720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hgoel in "Drop, formerly Massdrop, ends most collaborations and rebrands under Corsair"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, that's a good point too, I never ended up buying any of my audiophile stuff from Drop because the stuff I was interested in was usually available with faster shipping from Amazon for either the same price or only a slight price increase.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:52:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47663473</link><dc:creator>hgoel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47663473</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47663473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hgoel in "Claude Code Down"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>IIRC threads that are just "yup, seeing this too" are not seen as being valuable here. There isn't (or at least wasn't) much discussion happening.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:33:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47663172</link><dc:creator>hgoel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47663172</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47663172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hgoel in "Claude Code Down"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Here's hoping they can get it sorted quick. Hopefully these are just growing pains and not indicative of a GitHub style inability to achieve stability.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:44:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662408</link><dc:creator>hgoel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662408</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hgoel in "Drop, formerly Massdrop, ends most collaborations and rebrands under Corsair"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Drop/Massdrop had been on the way out for many years, I don't get the impression that they ever truly recovered from the transition away from the "group buy for anything" model. They were probably just barely kept afloat by the audiophile gear and keyboards.</p>
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<p>The claim also just doesn't make a lot of sense. So, a king or doctor decided women in France should be made to give birth on their backs a couple hundred years ago. Even if we accept that this would've been enough for a complete shift in how women give birth within France, how does that spread across the world?<p>I'd be interested in if these claims fit with places where "traditional" births/care systems are more common, i.e. places where births are primarily supported by the elder women of the community rather than formally educated medical professionals. Though, such places are also less likely to be reached by researchers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:13:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47659897</link><dc:creator>hgoel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47659897</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47659897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hgoel in "Peter Thiel's big bet on solar-powered cow collars"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's perhaps a fair angle, but not the direction I was leaning in.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:12:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655751</link><dc:creator>hgoel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655751</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hgoel in "OpenAI's fall from grace as investors race to Anthropic"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wonder how much of this is associated with Scam Altman's personal negative PR and Anthropic's recent PR wins.<p>I'm inclined to think there isn't much of an association becauss investors don't seem very concerned with morality, but I know ~dozen developers that either switched to, or started using Claude in the past month or so, while not knowing anyone that uses Codex.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:03:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655695</link><dc:creator>hgoel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655695</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hgoel in "Peter Thiel's big bet on solar-powered cow collars"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thiel's involvement only makes think that this'll turn out to be yet another attempt at evil.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:58:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655665</link><dc:creator>hgoel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655665</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hgoel in "When legal sports betting surges, so do Americans' financial problems"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's interesting to be arguing that gambling doesn't put others at risk in the comments to a post about a broad trend of collective harm associated with loosened controls on gambling. Do you think these people exist in a vacuum?<p>On top of that, sports betting inevitably leads into match fixing, threatening of players etc.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:03:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47642811</link><dc:creator>hgoel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47642811</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47642811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hgoel in "Polymarket apologizes for allowing wagers on fate of U.S. pilots downed in Iran"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That supposes that the events are decoupled from the bets, when we've already had several cases of people possibly betting on things they either have control over, or have insider info on.<p>Plus, all of the reports of people being bet on receiving threats.<p>It's like we've forgotten all about why gambling is so heavily regulated in most of the world. It always metastizes into a cancer upon society unless very carefully and strictly confined away.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:45:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47642612</link><dc:creator>hgoel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47642612</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47642612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hgoel in "When legal sports betting surges, so do Americans' financial problems"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I guess you also think we need to stop policing drunk driving? Because the reasons for regulating gambling are similar.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:37:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47642548</link><dc:creator>hgoel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47642548</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47642548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hgoel in "Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They said eGPU</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:50:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47642032</link><dc:creator>hgoel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47642032</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47642032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hgoel in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This seems like a reasonable move even putting aside the reasoning about breaking the assumptions that make a subscription model cheaper than a pay-per-use model.<p>Why would they actively subsidize the ticking timebomb? When OpenClaw has an especially large security incident, Anthropic will probably be affected just for the association.<p>Like, right alongside this post on the front page, we have a post about a relatively serious privilege escalation vulnerability in OpenClaw.</p>
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<p>I think even experts like Eric are now being conservative on Starship because the program is genuinely in a tough spot.<p>For most satellites/space stations, you need a proper payload deployment mechanism. The pez dispenser mechanism was chosen because opening the entire payload bay and closing it back up for reentry is a tough problem. For now it has been put aside to focus on the goals for Artemis, but that also means not being able to launch stuff other than Starlink.<p>Starship is currently still stuck in development hell, Musk is already backing off from his Mars plans, SpaceX is moving to distractions and going public (something they previously claimed would not be done).<p>To me, these moves do not suggest confidence in Starship's ability to live up to its advertised capabilities.</p>
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<p>Agreed, this is the aspect of the AI criticism I find strange too. We should want to be targeted in how we use it, just as how a practical fusion reactor wouldn't replace solar in every situation. Not reject it outright.<p>We should be using these capabilities to allow ourselves to work on harder problems. In science, there are a lot of tasks that require a low, but non-zero amount of intelligence and aren't really the most interesting part of science. Many of these tasks limit how much work can actually be done. Automate them, and you can dramatically increase your capabilities and focus on the actual science work.</p>
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<p>I feel like part of it is the obsession with AI assistants a la Jarvis from Iron Man, but most people do not have the skills or need for an AI agent to support technical work, so they just end up trying to do mundane things that have already been largely streamlined by smartphones, while the primary advantages of these kind of agentic workflows are in technical work.</p>
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<p>Just dealt with this last night with Claude repeatedly risking a full system crash by failing to ensure that the previous training run of a model ended before starting the next one.<p>It's a pretty strange issue, makes me feel like the 1M context model was actually a downgrade, but it's probably something weird about the state of its memory document. I wasn't even very deep into the context.</p>
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<p>This is fascinating to me because I just recently built something similar (as a test), not for improving AI, instead it's for tuning hyperparameters for a physics simulation.<p>We've managed to optimize execution of the simulation enough that brute-force search is a viable option, but giving an agent some background on how we tune those parameters on intuition and some physical reasoning, and a means to run tests and retrieve resulting statstics, works surprisingly well.<p>I see it as essentially a hyperparameter search that is more capable of finding and exploiting implicit constraints in a system.</p>
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<p>Being able to run dx12 in a virtualized environment that's still under Windows (and thus not actually changing anything vs just developing only for windows) is going to lure undecided game developers how?</p>
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