Hacker News: lizardking

New comment by lizardking in "AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn"

lizardking — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:54:07 +0000

My LI feed is almost entirely AI slop at this point. I have second-hand embarrassment for all the people who are obliviously broadcasting "thought leadership" that is transparently the work of AI to their entire networks.

New comment by lizardking in "GPT-5.6"

lizardking — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:18:59 +0000

I consistently have better results with Codex for the work that I do. People have been saying that for six months, but until 5.4 the experience was sufficiently slower that it wasn't worth the switch. Making the switch was frictionless. Give it a try

New comment by lizardking in "Grok 4.5"

lizardking — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:11:27 +0000

Literally everybody else is doing that too

New comment by lizardking in "GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, will launch publicly this Thursday"

lizardking — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:01:25 +0000

Sharing names with cryptocurrencies from four-ish years ago, the hype cycle is nearly complete.

New comment by lizardking in "In the age of algorithms and AI, is traditional media democracy's defence?"

lizardking — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:40:01 +0000

We better hope not

New comment by lizardking in "Single Dose of Frog-Derived Gut Bacterium Eradicates 100% of Tumors in Mice"

lizardking — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:29:27 +0000

Never been a better time to be a mouse

New comment by lizardking in "Om Malik has died"

lizardking — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 23:19:52 +0000

I remember him talking about that on This Week In Tech (Twit). RIP Om

New comment by lizardking in "Updated Xbox Console Prices"

lizardking — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:37:08 +0000

Sony and Nintendo, probably.

New comment by lizardking in "I am a person who will look at the Steam Machine and cry"

lizardking — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:48:57 +0000

I predict it sells out

New comment by lizardking in "Anthropic's model naming, extrapolated"

lizardking — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:36:22 +0000

The Chinese models are well written fan fic

New comment by lizardking in "Why are so many young people getting cancer?"

lizardking — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:24:44 +0000

My college roommate died of cancer before 30. Fuck cancer

New comment by lizardking in "Private equity bought America's essential services"

lizardking — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:21:38 +0000

I didn't say there was an alternative

New comment by lizardking in "Private Equity Bought America's Essential Services"

lizardking — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:53:04 +0000

Going the IPO route is not an option for most of the companies being acquired (vets, plumbers, electricians, construction companies, etc.)

New comment by lizardking in "Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)"

lizardking — Tue, 26 May 2026 01:05:56 +0000

Some of the most complex problems I've ever solved were solved when I was mowing my own lawn with a push mower. Just in a trance. Many of the best life decisions I've ever made were when I was on a walk, thinking things through.

New comment by lizardking in "Drone Swarms: Uncomfortably Plausible"

lizardking — Tue, 19 May 2026 21:53:24 +0000

Got em

New comment by lizardking in "IDF struggles to curb endless feed of soldiers posting misdeeds on social media"

lizardking — Tue, 19 May 2026 13:06:06 +0000

Massie's primary in Kentucky today will be quite the test.

New comment by lizardking in "Waymo updates 3,800 robotaxis after they 'drive into standing water'"

lizardking — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:54:34 +0000

Unless the power is out

https://abc7news.com/post/san-francisco-leaders-press-waymo-...

New comment by lizardking in "Kraftwerk's radical 1976 track"

lizardking — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:28:17 +0000

There is a difference between the "smart" thing to do and what's considered to be the right opinion by "smart" people. Lobotomies were endorsed by elite medical opinion (Moniz won a Nobel for it in 1949). Smart-person consensus often doesn't survive contact with reality. Smart people are as susceptible to groupthink, moral panics, and manias as anybody else.

New comment by lizardking in "Rise of the Forward Deployed Engineer"

lizardking — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:45:01 +0000

"It's not {X} it's {Y}!"

I don't think a human being even proof read this before hitting publish

New comment by lizardking in "VibeVoice: Open-source frontier voice AI"

lizardking — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:19:46 +0000

Microsoft continues to be completely incapable of coming up with good names for their products and services