Hacker News: icepush

New comment by icepush in "Incident with Github.com"

icepush — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:36:40 +0000

Being down for a few hours 2-3 times a month is obviously garbage from a reliability standpoint, but I think they will keep it going at just the level necessary to barely hold on to these customers.

New comment by icepush in "Incident with Github.com [resolved]"

icepush — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:18:23 +0000

I think that, exactly how 95% of the people that left Twitter eventually returned, we will see a similar outflux of people from Github and the vast majority of them will quietly be back in a few months.

New comment by icepush in "AI agents lie, cheat and steal. That is putting off users"

icepush — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:06:17 +0000

You could defensibly have this position three years ago.

Today you just sound like a politician throwing a snowball to prove that the climate is not changing.

New comment by icepush in "The Dunning-Kruger effect may just be a data artefact (2020)"

icepush — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 03:40:39 +0000

We are the answer.

New comment by icepush in "Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI"

icepush — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:59:55 +0000

The reality of the current situation is that we have dozens of families of different model; each of which is differentiated further into various revision numbers and power levels, and depending on which one you use and what the nature of the tasks is, you very much need a different usage style that can only be discerned after multiple (Sometimes very many) sessions of using that individual model for that category of task. It is not one size fits all, and trying to pretend that it is will lead to failure.

New comment by icepush in "Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots"

icepush — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 21:47:39 +0000

For the robot to function without teleoperation, sota is for it to be using a model that runs on chips about 5-10x the cost of what is being discussed here. How do you propose for that without transmission of data out of your house ?

New comment by icepush in "Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots"

icepush — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 21:25:12 +0000

Don't worry, after ten years of research a few employees will quit and form their own company, and release a robot arm, which will spur Google to release their own version 3 months later. (As is tradition)

New comment by icepush in "The Cold Email"

icepush — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 05:37:09 +0000

A long time ago my mother sent a short hate mail to Mark Cuban after seeing him in a TV interview. He actually responded. Then he signed her up for the Mark Cuban newsletter. She could not figure out how to unsubscribe from it. It was honestly pretty hilarious.

New comment by icepush in "Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise"

icepush — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 02:01:08 +0000

It's fine if people feel like discussing certain details of their personal lives. What the gp specifically urged people to discuss (In particular - disability and religion) are topics that have been considered not good ideas for the office for a very long time. Apparently some people want to change that - as I said, don't want this.

New comment by icepush in "Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise"

icepush — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 07:37:37 +0000

Why are there people that want this in the office? Don't want this.

New comment by icepush in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

icepush — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:14:51 +0000

Learn to write with both hands. When one becomes fatigued switch to the other one.

New comment by icepush in "Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture"

icepush — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 05:07:19 +0000

It dropped 10% ... but then it got better

New comment by icepush in "Americans hate AI so much that politicians are losing their jobs over it"

icepush — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 03:48:08 +0000

Is this an actual, real example, or is the robot being operated by an off-screen human being ?

New comment by icepush in "Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture"

icepush — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:22:52 +0000

I think the real tragedy is that they are good at writing, just by default are tuned to have a kind of bland corporate tone. If you give the LLM a few pages of writing you like and tell it "Continue, but using this style" it will do a pretty good job of it. Most people just .... don't bother to do that.

New comment by icepush in "At least 105 past YC founders have worked at OpenAI and Anthropic"

icepush — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 02:59:02 +0000

Creation of a singleton seems at odds with point (3) you listed.

New comment by icepush in "How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016)"

icepush — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 04:07:26 +0000

You could use the word "important"

New comment by icepush in "No leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2026"

icepush — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:12:15 +0000

We can change that!

New comment by icepush in "Grok 4.5"

icepush — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 04:33:59 +0000

You only get to become one if the idea of spending 60 hours a week typing code into a computer during the late 90's/early 2000's is palatable to you. This causes a dweeb selection funnel.

New comment by icepush in "GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, will launch publicly this Thursday"

icepush — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 06:25:56 +0000

It's very possible that would be the best strategy over the last 12-18 months and now that this is released it is no longer the best strategy.

New comment by icepush in "GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex"

icepush — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 07:07:05 +0000

AGI means that eventually there is just one profitable company left; but it is not clear at this point which one it will be. Also it's worth noting that the current market capitalization for the technology industry just in the US is around a third of a hundred trillion dollars (Which would be explained by the possibility of AGI emerging from another country/continent)