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New comment by intev in "Greg Brockman interview [video]"

intev — Sun, 24 May 2026 15:33:15 +0000

If anyone else doesn't want to listen to the whole thing: https://apecast.app/podcast/the-knowledge-project/episode/op...

New comment by intev in "Show HN: A Claude Code plugin that catch destructive Git and filesystem commands"

intev — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 03:32:10 +0000

They think it's a smart way to say that the o.p. is dumb.

New comment by intev in "Show HN: A Claude Code plugin that catch destructive Git and filesystem commands"

intev — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 03:30:58 +0000

Because there's now a class of programmers who are very anti AI when it comes to coding because they think anybody who relies on it are degenerate vibe coders who have no idea what they are doing. You can see this in pretty much every single HN post w.r.t AI and coding.

New comment by intev in "Show HN: Spikelog – A simple metrics service for scripts, cron jobs, and MVPs"

intev — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 16:48:23 +0000

What appeared as a good faith question, was answered in good faith and of course was later revealed to be a "gotcha" question. It's all so tiring.

"Oh so you drove all the way to my house? You couldn't walk?"

New comment by intev in "Coolify: Open-source and self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative"

intev — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 06:32:20 +0000

Anyone know how this compares to caprover?

New comment by intev in "Open-source is where dreams go to die"

intev — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 12:18:24 +0000

This is a somewhat idealistic/naive view. If your project is even mildly successful and you get motivated to keep contributing to it more and more and form a strong community soon the leechers arrive. They start demanding more and more for literally nothing in return under the pretence that it's in the best interest of the project to add the features they want and to accelerate development.

It soon becomes exhausting to deal with them on a regular basis while still feeling good about contributing. People are faster to demand rather than appreciate and you start wondering what the point of all this is.

So yes, if you end up painting something that's like a high school project, sure, it's easy to leave it on the wall and not care. But if your painting starts getting displayed in galleries and there's a little "demand" for it, everything becomes a headache.

New comment by intev in "Show HN: Crawlee for Python – a web scraping and browser automation library"

intev — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 10:52:16 +0000

How is this different from Scrapy?

New comment by intev in "Spotify is increasing US prices again"

intev — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 16:05:19 +0000

That has definitely not been my experience. The Made For Your section shows me tons of artists I've never heard from. I suppose it could be limited if you listen to a very specific niche where they don't have a large dataset on. I love finding new artists and then suddenly diving into a rabbit hole of discovering their older stuff.

New comment by intev in "Spotify is increasing US prices again"

intev — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 15:54:31 +0000

Unfortunately the spotify music discovery is so good that I can't imagine leaving the platform :/

Ask HN: Is this normal ask from a VC?

intev — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 10:04:03 +0000

To set the right context, this is specifically in India. I know someone currently raising about 100k USD seed round. It's a D2C product that's doing well and just needs cash to expand. I thought he wound't have any issues raising but he keeps running into what I feel are predatory VCs.

A lot of them seem to want advisory shares *on top* of their investment. This makes no sense to me. Aren't the shares provided for the money given enough? To me it seems like they want to get a "discount" by being given more shares. They seem to love using this as a negotiating tactic.

There are also some "syndicate" leads that seem to want advisory shares for just helping raise. Is this normal?

I only have experience in the bay area, and I've never heard of any thing like this. i.e. trying to double dip into advisory shares, and asking for shares just to connect to people. Has the market changed? Is this the new norm?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40130242

Points: 4

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New comment by intev in "Tesla to lay off more than 10% of its staff"

intev — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 12:16:23 +0000

> Did the NYT not do the most basic research on Elon, which would have shown his consistent history of this kind of behavior they are now criticizing him for.

Twitter wasn't as big back then as it is now. Earlier all his thoughts were kept mostly to himself and social media wasn't as big. Twitter amplifies his inner thoughts. People don't seem to like it.

New comment by intev in "Tesla to lay off more than 10% of its staff"

intev — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 12:11:01 +0000

Love the humblebrag. This "investing" method works until once day it doesn't. Don't get me wrong, HN is wrong a lot of times. Those two specific examples are about companies that are monopolies for all intents and purposes. Google and Meta pretty much control their primary markets. Tesla does *not* control their primary market. In fact it looks like their competitors are closing in on them very fast. No one was closing in on Google Search or Instagram/Whatsapp. The numbers never indicated that at any point in time. For tesla on the other hand...

Good Luck :)

New comment by intev in "China uses foreign firms to turbocharge its industry"

intev — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 01:04:12 +0000

India has rampant corruption. Almost all the "winners" in bids are pre selected. There is no real competition, hence the fat profit margin. To be fair, a significant part of the "profits" gets sent up the food chain to ensure more contracts keep coming.

New comment by intev in "For Altman to come back, board must issue statement absolving him of wrongdoing"

intev — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 02:38:48 +0000

This is almost never true unless it's a life saving drug. Xerox literally had the keys to the kingdom for years before multiple people came along and figured out how to get the "tech" to mass market.

New comment by intev in "Microsoft wins FTC fight to buy Activision Blizzard"

intev — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 02:55:26 +0000

And that's the ceiling for how much you can get away with while not paying artists anything.

OpenTTD is a cult classic and has no mass market appeal.

New comment by intev in "Apple Vision"

intev — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 13:33:06 +0000

Other than the watch, all the products you mentioned are before 2002. Anything in the past 20 years that have been huge misses in delivering up to expectation?

Also how is the 1st gen watch a failure? It sold millions immediately, and was a huge commercial success. It pretty much started a gold rush for digital watches again.

I think it's fair to say the new "Apple" (last 15 years or so), has been pretty good with exceeding expectations and breaking through barriers that other companies just couldn't.

New comment by intev in "Apple Vision"

intev — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 13:17:37 +0000

> demos that failed to deliver actual user value

Does Apple have a a history of doing this?

I think that's why people are excited.

New comment by intev in "Fuck Oatly"

intev — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 10:04:23 +0000

For an extremely short period of time so it's pretty meaningless.

Ask HN: Is anyone still using Caprover?

intev — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 06:27:58 +0000

I've been using Caprover for a few years but I only recently noticed that they haven't had a new release in over a year. Normally I'm all for not over complicating products and keeping things simple but this is making me slightly nervous. Have there been no improvements in docker in that time to warrant improvements in Caprover? Have there been no edge case features worth supporting(like brotli compression)? I'm considering moving away earlier rather than later, but just wanted to hear from others who are using it.

If others have moved away, would love to know the reason why you moved away, what you're currently using, and why it's better.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35323501

Points: 2

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New comment by intev in "OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Lex Fridman Podcast [video]"

intev — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 03:55:02 +0000

Thank you for saving me a few hours. Really appreciate it.

I'm starting to listen to fewer and fewer of his podcasts. For me the decline has been has been obvious with some of his recent guests. I thought the Aella one would be very interesting, but as another commenter mentioned, he had an "impress me" vibe the entire time and couldn't even connect a little bit with the guest. Then the Sam Harris one exposed his weaknesses very obviously. If you want to see him being defensive and not say any of substance, that's a good one to listen to. Sam makes a lot of great points and he just goes on and on about the "power of love" and how we are all "human beings" trying to be "understood". After a while it gets irritating because it's like hearing a broken record player. Him unable to either provide a coherent argument to why he aired the Kanye episode or admit it was a mistake was very telling. That episode has more Elon worshipping as well. He tried to get Sam to reconnect with Elon and become friends again. lol.

His postcasts are on average above Joe's quality (don't listen to anymore, but used to years ago), but I think it's primarily because of whom he selects as his guests. At least Joe was significantly more entertaining. Might try going back to that.