Hacker News: kifler

New comment by kifler in "Show HN: I built an app that calls me nightly and writes my journal"

kifler — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:23:57 +0000

Isn't the point of journaling to actually sit, think, and personally record your day upon reflection? I'd be curious to see what benefits this provides, from a mental health standpoint versus the analog. Edit: I should note that I do like the idea nevertheless.

New comment by kifler in "Ask HN: What LLM models are you using and why?"

kifler — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:16:26 +0000

Just curious what constitutes a 'demanding' coding task for you.

New comment by kifler in "Ask HN: What standards or protocols exist for AI Agent permissions"

kifler — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:16:08 +0000

There is GNAP (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9635/) which is predicated on PBAC. Particular for agentic AI, I think it is sort of falling into a sort of RXC model: read/execute (inc. write), and commit. The X portion is a bit wonky but basically comes down to can the agent trigger a function.

New comment by kifler in "Malus – Clean Room as a Service"

kifler — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:51:37 +0000

Too late. Someone's senior executive management has probably already seen it and spinning up a new project to implement it.

New comment by kifler in "OpenAI prepares to launch GPT-5 in August"

kifler — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 19:54:31 +0000

For what it's worth, I had Agent Mode deployed to my account earlier this morning.

New comment by kifler in "Show HN: Peer. – The First Subscription-Based Social Network"

kifler — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 17:53:30 +0000

"Privacy Policy Our Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, and share information about you when you use our Services. By using peer., you consent to the collection and use of information as detailed in our Privacy Policy."

And yet there is no actual policy posted.

New comment by kifler in "Scheduled tasks in ChatGPT"

kifler — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 21:22:27 +0000

Oddly enough, I do not have access to scheduled tasks either on the app or web interfaces and I am a paying customer.

New comment by kifler in "Ask HN: What is useful to know about a company and position before interviewing?"

kifler — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 17:33:31 +0000

Salary, Role and responsibilities, Trajectory for the company, Perks, Culture, Leadership vision, Special projects, Team composition, Ability to do a 'reverse interview' - meet with your new team and interview them.

Just to name a few.

New comment by kifler in "Ask HN: YC rejected twice. Why? How can we improve without knowing the reason?"

kifler — Mon, 24 Apr 2017 20:11:07 +0000

So what's stopping me from checking into r/nyu and asking a multitude people to respond?

Where is the money to be made?

What makes a freshman mentor qualified to actually talk about the breadth of a program or a career when they have little to no exposure of a full 4 year program or job-track?

There are a number of questions that aren't answered succinctly on your site (at least that 'pop-out' at me) or within your post.

New comment by kifler in "Ask HN: YC rejected twice. Why? How can we improve without knowing the reason?"

kifler — Mon, 24 Apr 2017 19:55:54 +0000

Genuine question: What value proposition does your company offer? Can't I get these same questions answered from a variety of different sources?

Additionally, some of the mentor responses lack a certain level of professionalism to be called a mentor. Example: "Question: Hi I am applying to NYU this fall. I have never visited NYU before because I live all the way in California. I was wondering if you could share your experience starting at NYU? Also any background info like where you came from, how was the transition, did you have to move far, etc.? Any extra information you want to add would be rlly helpful. Thanks in advance!

Answer: Absolutely! I'm from Chicago, Originally. (not the actual city, the suburbs. Fucking Suburbia, man.) I hope it makes you feel better to know that I'd never visited NYU before actually ..."

New comment by kifler in "Singapore Is Taking the ‘Smart City’ to a New Level"

kifler — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 11:14:23 +0000

Many are likely to hail this as some sort of ushering in of a new age while simultaneously preach about the FBI cracking an iPhone - interesting to see where this ends up.

New comment by kifler in "Ask HN: How do you teach problem solving skills to software engineers?"

kifler — Wed, 13 Apr 2016 19:08:12 +0000

Ask them to write instructions on how to tie their shoe.

Chances are, someone will say that they just bend over and tie them.

Point out to them that it isn't quite that simple - once they see that a problem can be broken down further to the point that you're telling your hand to put the lace against your index finger's first knuckle and the point of the middle finger, they begin to understand - then introduce your methods which they happily embrace.

New comment by kifler in "F-35 radar system has bug that requires hard reboot in flight"

kifler — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 19:36:48 +0000

Thats why they're fed a cocktail of amphetamines pre-flight for longer sorties.

New comment by kifler in "SF tech bro: ‘I shouldn’t have to see the pain, struggle, despair of homeless’"

kifler — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 16:08:48 +0000

I think most people would argue that they had to pay for their housing but here we have people getting it for free.

New comment by kifler in "I worked at Amazon to see if anything's changed"

kifler — Tue, 29 Dec 2015 16:15:58 +0000

Ditto this experience from Shopify

New comment by kifler in "Mark Zuckerberg's plan for the future of Facebook"

kifler — Tue, 17 Nov 2015 16:11:29 +0000

I think the assertion is that Joe Public doesn't really care about his/her privacy anymore provided they consent to it's initial release.

It seems to me that over a billion people are fine giving their privacy over to Twitter/Facebook/Instagram/ but not necessarily the Government (of any country).

New comment by kifler in "Balsillie fears TPP will cost Canada billions"

kifler — Mon, 09 Nov 2015 17:06:39 +0000

What exactly was wrong with the way negotiations were handled? If by in-secret, that is par for the course for a number of large trade agreements.

New comment by kifler in "Buffett FAQ"

kifler — Wed, 02 Sep 2015 12:33:46 +0000

Very comprehensive but some answers can be very dated.

New comment by kifler in "Ask HN: When compensation includes equity, can I ask proof of valuation?"

kifler — Wed, 26 Aug 2015 20:36:50 +0000

I don't see any way that this could be counted as inappropriate. They're asking you to come on board and they should feel comfortable with you understanding their business.

New comment by kifler in "How Google killed my startup"

kifler — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 14:06:41 +0000

Their product wasn't really revolutionary - it didn't present anything new. By their own accounts, there was nothing stopping Lynda.com from offering the exact same service (along with a multitude of other online course/video services).

Google didn't kill their startup, their own naivity did.