Hacker News: losteric

New comment by losteric in "The Silicon Valley Founder Meat Grinder"

losteric — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 22:34:33 +0000

> This is funny to read because I remember hearing someone complain about the exact same thing in the Bay Area, but their dates were shifted by about 10 years before yours.

Another perspective is just that SF's culture has been declining for decades. As someone born in SF, I'd agree.

New comment by losteric in "The AI trade now runs on borrowed money, and the lenders are repricing it"

losteric — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 05:55:49 +0000

I'd guess it depends on the type of business. If it's some genuinely deep technical space, the model would give an edge but even then I think luck would be a significant factor. In a monte carlo of such scenarios, the business with the stronger model might win 6 out of 10 times, but it's no sure thing between the two of us. If we were comparing two businesses building Yet Another Generic CRUD, I would guess it's closer... perhaps even a net-negative to spend money on Fable versus marketing.

New comment by losteric in "Hubble: Open-source notetaking app for you and your agents"

losteric — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 03:00:52 +0000

What are your thoughts on Hubble?

New comment by losteric in "Show HN: Bribes.fyi – Know before you go. New feature added"

losteric — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 19:40:17 +0000

this is just crowd sourced data? Looks vibe coded. And immediately asking for donations for a short Claude job, pretty sus?

New comment by losteric in "Map of the world's great castles and fortresses"

losteric — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:39:37 +0000

it's part of a webring of vibecoded slopsites

New comment by losteric in "Show HN: Explore 6048 YC companies as an interactive galaxy"

losteric — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:21:16 +0000

the post seems to be link farming for the poster's startup that hosts the site

New comment by losteric in "[dead]"

losteric — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:13:39 +0000

AI-written blog post, basically link farming for the associated "Auditable workspaces for AI coding agent" product (that owns the git repo).

I care because: It's not clear what a human learned or found valuable? If a human learned anything at all

New comment by losteric in "[dead]"

losteric — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 15:43:04 +0000

Can you elaborate on the project? Because I just see a vibe coded project with failing builds and no associated interesting development story or example applications.

New comment by losteric in "Xonaly – Canada's Independent Search Engine"

losteric — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:52:44 +0000

I’m also curious how OP came about this? No comments on the post, two comments on HN, most history are submissions that are almost all [dead]

New comment by losteric in "Xonaly – Canada's Independent Search Engine"

losteric — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:50:32 +0000

The Google matches for this name are inconsistent and suspicious. Did the LLM just pick a random name?

New comment by losteric in "NSA lost access to Mythos amid Anthropic dispute"

losteric — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 23:19:55 +0000

It seems like AI is really hurting the people who don't have a hoard of experience - the juniors and early mid-level tech people.

The incumbents with experience are doing amazing. PM's with Mythos aren't replacing the PE with 20 years of experiences lol.

New comment by losteric in "How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s"

losteric — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:19:39 +0000

> Plain headless Chromium is easy to detect by websites with anti-bot measures. Plain headless Chromium avoided getting blocked by websites only 2% of the time, according to our stealth benchmark.

> Our browsers avoid blocks 81% of the time on our stealth benchmark, and 84.8% on Halluminate BrowserBench, the highest of any provider.

Seems very unethical, no? Who uses service providers like this? The whole point of anti-bot measures is to get rid of bots - you are not wanted there.

These kinds of services inevitably make the web more human-hostile and expensive. Websites will continue pushing back on automated usage, meaning more hurdles to access content.

No doubt part of why we see this push for verified ID on the web - not just age gating and "protect the children", but also protect sites from bots, and protect ad revenue (not a statement of support; just seems like an obvious higher order effect)

New comment by losteric in "Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?"

losteric — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:34:45 +0000

How does this

> If this source [0] is true then 65% of audiobooks (in 2022) were non-fiction. Likewise that the audiobook industry has grown by nearly 3x since a2022.

Lead to

> by my math, it's simply that people prefer to listen to self-help books (which matches my own experience).

I'm not sure I see the math there, when most nonfiction is not self-help books (and an increase in the broader genre says nothing about a specific niche)

New comment by losteric in "Mmorpg World of ClaudeCraft, vibe coded with Fable 5"

losteric — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 23:54:27 +0000

I can’t even figure out what to pick from the myriad of streaming services I have. How would I prompt an AI for dopamine fix?

New comment by losteric in "Siri AI"

losteric — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:43:02 +0000

> Why would I pay for services that will be enshiftified when I can build an app that does exactly what I want in an afternoon.

When we talk about “the market”, the customer base, remember it’s a market that typically doesn’t know how to or care to even install an adblocker.

New comment by losteric in "Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent"

losteric — Thu, 14 May 2026 00:15:19 +0000

Right after WW2, trust was way higher. There was a belief in common good and progress and all that.

New comment by losteric in "Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning"

losteric — Sun, 10 May 2026 04:46:06 +0000

Can you share what some of those apps are?

New comment by losteric in "Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters"

losteric — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:40:59 +0000

> using it all day (say 8h) costs between 0.7 and about 14 kg of CO2 in the US,

How do you get to this range? That's quite a spread.

When I last ran the math, my daily usage (efficient and effective productivity, not spamming Gas Town) came to about 0.67 kg of CO2, which is roughly equivalent to my individual emissions from the 1 mile public bus ride home from work.

New comment by losteric in "Integrated by Design"

losteric — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 06:36:48 +0000

“The community” - which community? Where? This is a brand new website, there’s next to no online presence for the name (all seemingly unrelated).

It reads like using LLMs to fake some credibility

New comment by losteric in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

losteric — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:50:43 +0000

The problem with billionaires is they have a vastly disproportionate voice in the political system, which leads to ineffective politicians and policies not aligned with a thriving society.

eg: cutting funding to the IRS and advanced science, both of which have long proven positive dividends… or advancing new wars abroad to directly blow up money.

Plus wbillionaires are nothing special. Right time, right place.

Steve Jobs is a perfect example of someone who was in it for the love of the game. He wouldn’t have been any different if his income was taxed at 90%.