Hacker News: jms703

New comment by jms703 in "GPT 5.6 Sol 20% price reduction"

jms703 — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 15:24:39 +0000

Fix headline. Reduction is for 3 months only.

New comment by jms703 in "OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining"

jms703 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:52:14 +0000

There are shareholders to please and money to be made. Of course ethics are out the door.

New comment by jms703 in "OpenAI's super PAC is funding AI-generated news site attacking industry critics"

jms703 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 04:47:33 +0000

This is normal tech company marketing strategy, right?

New comment by jms703 in "Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick"

jms703 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 23:37:25 +0000

You buy garbage, you get garbage. You can no longer depend on resellers or to protect you. They are unphased and unaffected by selling you this garbage. No one else has a financial incentive to protect you. Sorry if this sounds victim blamey. Don't mean it to be. Just trying to convey that we're on our own.

New comment by jms703 in "FDA approves new kind of cholesterol pill"

jms703 — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:51:24 +0000

Lose weight, yes. Exercise, yes. Accept a potentially fatal genetic defect when an option is available? No.

Advise not callously generalizing your opinion on things like this. It's clear that you either spoke without knowing more, which happens, or you really don't seem to care to know more. I hope you're not in the latter.

New comment by jms703 in "LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent"

jms703 — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 19:52:02 +0000

Yeah, I was looking for this comment. Dell/Alienware have been doing this for YEARS. Part of the many reasons I moved from Window to Linux.

New comment by jms703 in "Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign"

jms703 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 05:20:20 +0000

"Ray-Ban Wayfarer used to be a such classic design. By associating them with cameras and Meta, Essilor Luxottica has messed up an iconic name and brand."

Fixed it for you.

New comment by jms703 in "Re: I'm Begging You to Leave Your AI Note-Taker at Home"

jms703 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 20:42:16 +0000

I love having a 3rd person in an interview. If they are taking notes, I can have a conversation with the candidate.

New comment by jms703 in "Car touchscreens are cheap, not good"

jms703 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:46:49 +0000

I hate the way climate controls take over the whole screen, causing me to lose my map screen.

GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks

jms703 — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 17:50:47 +0000

Article URL: https://semgrep.dev/blog/2026/we-have-mythos-at-home-glm-52-beats-claude-in-our-cyber-benchmarks/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48709670

Points: 1113

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New comment by jms703 in "The truth about being a manager"

jms703 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:20:07 +0000

If it scares you off, thats a good thing. A manager who doesn't want to do these things might not be an effective manager. I think its better to go in eyes open to what it really means. I think the author did a good job of that.

I was hoping for more upsides, but, I'm not surprised by the short list either.

New comment by jms703 in "The truth about being a manager"

jms703 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:18:14 +0000

The list of tasks piled on to a human manager are too much for a manager to do well. The role of management feels like a dumping ground for menial tasks, but oh yeah, you need to pass a coding review too, in some roles. LOL

New comment by jms703 in "The truth about being a manager"

jms703 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:16:27 +0000

The author claims the POST is WRITTEN by them. They did not claim the ILLUSTRATIONS were DRAWN by them. Most of us are not artists. Sometimes its hard to find the right illustrations.

But what did you think of the article itself?

New comment by jms703 in "The truth about being a manager"

jms703 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:11:14 +0000

This is very accurate. For me personally, I found the difficulties, friction, and stress, have started to eclipse the pros and decided to move back into an IC role after 15 years as EM/SrEM.

The work life balance was also terrible. You really do ruminate and worry about a lot, much of it outside of your control.

New comment by jms703 in "Want your images back? That'll be $5"

jms703 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 04:42:32 +0000

Nothing is free.

New comment by jms703 in "Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society"

jms703 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:03:56 +0000

> tech companies have proved to be some of the most hostile actors in most American's lives

This. Many of us are cogs in these machines doing the harm...to ourselves and others around us.

The thing is, these companies can't exist without employees. But employees need the companies for money to pay the other companies.

New comment by jms703 in "Leaving Mozilla"

jms703 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:36:05 +0000

Sad to see so much vacation time go unused.

New comment by jms703 in "The Future of Email"

jms703 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:54:20 +0000

Agree. I was waiting for the other foot to drop and then..."email's not going away."

Genuinely curious. Why is it posted and being upvoted here?

New comment by jms703 in "Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC"

jms703 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:14:36 +0000

How do I keep my 401k from investing in AI stocks...

New comment by jms703 in "AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn"

jms703 — Tue, 26 May 2026 13:43:07 +0000

Companies are not loyal to the employees. When choosing people for layoffs, I don’t believe anyone cares about the things this person did or was known for. As long as the site stays up.