Hacker News: lawrence1

New comment by lawrence1 in "I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support"

lawrence1 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:22:03 +0000

The timeline doesn't make any sense. How can you subscribe a couple weeks ago and the problem start 3 weeks ago and yet things also went well for the first few weeks. was this written by GPT 5.5?

New comment by lawrence1 in "I Cancelled Claude: Token Issues, Declining Quality, and Poor Support"

lawrence1 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:20:37 +0000

The timeline of the first few sentences doesn't add up. how can you subscribe 2 weeks ago when the problem started 3 weeks ago.

New comment by lawrence1 in "Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC"

lawrence1 — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:00:33 +0000

"Napoleon may have once said “quantity has a quality all its own”."

Nope, It was Stalin who said that in regards to his "meatwave" strategy.

New comment by lawrence1 in "Is chain-of-thought AI reasoning a mirage?"

lawrence1 — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 16:46:25 +0000

we should be asking if reasoning while speaking is even possible for humans. this is why we have the scientific method and that's why LLMs write and run unit tests on their reasoning. But yeah intelligence is probably in the ear of the believer.

New comment by lawrence1 in "Founder Mode"

lawrence1 — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 17:43:20 +0000

smh. his idea that he both doesn't think anyone has ever thought of "Founder Mode" before while simultaneously thinking that the founders are the ones responsible for a company's success or failure through something like sheer force of will or a better carrot and stick. I donno. Companies are successful mostly because of who they hire... and timing (also known as luck).

New comment by lawrence1 in "Researchers identify major driver of inflammatory bowel and related diseases"

lawrence1 — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 17:40:43 +0000

every holy grail is 5 years away. i've been reading this for 20 years now.