<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: jpadkins</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jpadkins</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 08:05:16 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=jpadkins" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jpadkins in "Show HN: Jacquard, a programming language for AI-written, human-reviewed code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>it pales in comparison to all the brain cells burned chasing dumb ideas.  Don't sweat it, and keep burning tokens in an effort to discover something great.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 22:02:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48899508</link><dc:creator>jpadkins</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48899508</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48899508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jpadkins in "You can't unit test for taste"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think another important question is can you distill taste? (another comment uses the phrase "externalize", which might mean something similar).<p>I think people have been trying for the written word, with some degree of success (anti-slop skills).  I have been trying for visuals, and it's pretty meh.  It's easy to get a multimodal LLM to follow a style guide, but a style guide doesn't capture everything that accounts for taste. And anything that is dynamic (not a screenshot test) seems really hard or really expensive.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:27:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48673961</link><dc:creator>jpadkins</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48673961</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48673961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jpadkins in "There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>also this post was a reply to Sandy on X.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:51:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48662604</link><dc:creator>jpadkins</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48662604</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48662604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jpadkins in "The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hah. Poe's law.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:48:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571315</link><dc:creator>jpadkins</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571315</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jpadkins in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why not N+1 planets?  Too many extinction level possibilities outside of our control.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:05:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48570756</link><dc:creator>jpadkins</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48570756</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48570756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jpadkins in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>money is just an idea that spreads (a meme).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:53:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48556225</link><dc:creator>jpadkins</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48556225</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48556225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jpadkins in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What you are describing applies to all forms of money.  It has value because people believe other people will use it as money.  If that belief drops, the value drops.<p>People comment on gold and Bitcoin, but don't realize the same principles apply to US dollars and bonds.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:52:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48556190</link><dc:creator>jpadkins</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48556190</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48556190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jpadkins in "Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai speech"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Brin did not come out of retirement or steer the ship :-)<p>He probably came out of retirement because LLMs were showing promise to a life long dream.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:53:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48546195</link><dc:creator>jpadkins</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48546195</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48546195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jpadkins in "Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai speech"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>okay, but that is not the world that you live in.  Many countries are religious and use religion to decide immigration.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:50:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48546160</link><dc:creator>jpadkins</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48546160</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48546160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jpadkins in "I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't have any questions for you.  Just wanted to thank you for writing Lean Startup, it was very influential to me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:06:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48480274</link><dc:creator>jpadkins</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48480274</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48480274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jpadkins in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>why only a few thousand? serious question.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:21:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48415562</link><dc:creator>jpadkins</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48415562</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48415562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jpadkins in "Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>local models still need information retrieval.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:33:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48391053</link><dc:creator>jpadkins</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48391053</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48391053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jpadkins in "Claude Opus 4.8"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I find this site useful 
<a href="https://artificialanalysis.ai/leaderboards/models" rel="nofollow">https://artificialanalysis.ai/leaderboards/models</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 17:55:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48312799</link><dc:creator>jpadkins</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48312799</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48312799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jpadkins in "Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That is the beauty of the Resolution part of prediction markets.  If evil DDT Corp bets money to skew the market, then they lose even more money on the Resolution (assuming the resolution is deterministic of harm and has not been manipulated).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 16:22:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48311180</link><dc:creator>jpadkins</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48311180</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48311180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jpadkins in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>who uses SAT scores as "potential succeed"??</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 14:43:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48309673</link><dc:creator>jpadkins</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48309673</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48309673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jpadkins in "Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nice try to make a law sound moral.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 14:24:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48309381</link><dc:creator>jpadkins</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48309381</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48309381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jpadkins in "Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The other question you could be asking: Why does Google want to keep this secret for a period of time?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 14:22:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48309350</link><dc:creator>jpadkins</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48309350</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48309350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jpadkins in "Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>yes it is good in many scenarios.<p>Imagine bad (incorrect and potentially harmful) information is public knowledge.  Examples are "X cures cancer" or "Is Y dangerous to consume".<p>A prediction market will be seeded by public knowledge (of course it cures cancer or its safe to consume), which you describe "suckers".  History is filled with many examples of bad public knowledge that turned out to be false (e.g. DDT is safe pesticide).<p>An insider (someone who knows the drug trial results, or works at the Corp creating the harmful substance) is incentivized to trade on that knowledge, which creates a better informed public (via people who pay attention to prediction markets).<p>Why does secret(insider) knowledge exist? To the benefit of the organization that wants to keep the knowledge secret. Insider trading laws purpose is to keep Corp and gov orgs in power.  They prevent the dissemination of true information (for private power).  Prediction markets incentivize the dissemination of true information, a public good.</p>
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<p>So because Quebec ancestors killed all the people who opposed the conquest of that land, it's okay for Quebec to secede? 
But because another set of Canadians didn't kill off all the natives that still claimed Alberta's land, they can't secede legally?
Is that the logic?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 15:47:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237464</link><dc:creator>jpadkins</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237464</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jpadkins in "The Companies Cutting Headcount for AI Will Lose to the Ones Who Didn't"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What's great about this article is it's a falsifiable hypothesis.  Is anyone keeping a list of companies in different sectors not firing due to AI?  We can revisit this in 2 years and see how we did.</p>
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