Hacker News: leptoniscool

New comment by leptoniscool in ""Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers"

leptoniscool — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:52:23 +0000

New comment by leptoniscool in "Tailscale's new macOS home"

leptoniscool — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:06:51 +0000

"Think Different"

New comment by leptoniscool in "OpenCiv1 – open-source rewrite of Civ1"

leptoniscool — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 23:58:54 +0000

Is there a similar project for Masters of Orion?

Microservices Killed Our Startup. Monoliths Would've Saved Us

leptoniscool — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 21:52:36 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/lets-code-future/microservices-killed-our-startup-monoliths-wouldve-saved-us-4ebadf584a6d

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46469845

Points: 51

# Comments: 54

A weird outcome of yesterday's AWS outage: Atlassian's Status Page was down

leptoniscool — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 20:33:19 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1980687044222570847

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45661325

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Anthropic offers Claude to 'all three branches of government' for $1

leptoniscool — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 15:57:00 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/12/anthropic-takes-aim-at-openai-offers-claude-to-all-three-branches-of-government-for-1/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44901991

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

AGI: Probably Not 2027

leptoniscool — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 15:34:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.verysane.ai/p/agi-probably-not-2027

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44901673

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Alaska Airlines grounds all flights after IT outage disrupts systems

leptoniscool — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 05:11:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/alaska-airlines-grounds-all-flights-after-it-outage-disrupts-systems-2025-07-21/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44631966

Points: 19

# Comments: 0

Goldman Sachs doesn't have to hire a $180k software engineer–meet Devin

leptoniscool — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 21:05:57 +0000

Article URL: https://fortune.com/2025/07/14/goldman-sachs-ai-powered-software-engineer-devin-new-employee-increase-productivity-fears-of-job-replacement/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44565291

Points: 12

# Comments: 10

California cities trying to figure out how fake voices were added to crosswalks

leptoniscool — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 07:49:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-mark-zuckerberg-ai-voices-crosswalks-california-hack-2025-4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43690083

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by leptoniscool in "A Multiwavelength Look at Proxima Centauri's Flares"

leptoniscool — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 21:50:05 +0000

> why no radio frequency evidence of other stars

unless the radio beam is aimed directly at us, we may not be able to detect the radio communication of other civilizations.

New comment by leptoniscool in "The software engineers willing to pay $10k to help them land a coding job"

leptoniscool — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 21:45:45 +0000

this is such a large red-flag.. with layers of conflicts of interest

New comment by leptoniscool in "A Man Out to Prove How Dumb AI Still Is"

leptoniscool — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 00:11:39 +0000

I tried it on gpt-4-turbo and it seems to give the right answer:

>Let's calculate:494,547,645,908,151+7,640,745,309,351,279,642=7,641,239,856,997,187,793 >494,547,645,908,151+7,640,745,309,351,279,642=7,641,239,856,997,187,793 >Answer: 7,641,239,856,997,187,793

New comment by leptoniscool in "US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU"

leptoniscool — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 17:08:39 +0000

it's true.. the S&P 500 declined ~57% from Oct 2007 to Mar 2009

New comment by leptoniscool in "US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU"

leptoniscool — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 17:04:29 +0000

A crown on a fool's head does not make him a king.

New comment by leptoniscool in "How far neuroscience is from understanding brains (2023)"

leptoniscool — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 19:29:42 +0000

it looks like we can now actually use brains as computers: https://corticallabs.com/

New comment by leptoniscool in "The Tiny Star Explosions Powering Moore's Law"

leptoniscool — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 02:41:02 +0000

you may be thinking of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Inertial_Fusion_Energy

Here the machine is using tin, which isn't suitable for fusion (no energy is released beyond iron).

New comment by leptoniscool in "Roman Empire's use of lead lowered IQ levels across Europe, study finds"

leptoniscool — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 03:06:56 +0000

I wonder if future historians will see a similar drop after widespread use of plastic

New comment by leptoniscool in "Happy New Year 2025"

leptoniscool — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 02:13:59 +0000

Happy New Year from the West coast!

North America Population Patterns by Density

leptoniscool — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 08:10:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/map-of-north-america-population-patterns/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39588117

Points: 1

# Comments: 0