Hacker News: losteric

New comment by losteric in "Artemis II will use laser beams to live-stream 4K moon footage at 260 Mbps"

losteric — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:01:32 +0000

That’s so conspiratorial. They could just stream with a slightly delay to interrupt the feed on disaster. I think it’s way more likely they just didn’t have a good broadcasting team.

New comment by losteric in "[dead]"

losteric — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 01:51:27 +0000

What is this submission??

It's linking a closed issue, with a fairly incendiary title off of one sentence by a now-deleted Github user.

How did you even find that?

New comment by losteric in "Building SQLite with a small swarm"

losteric — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 07:06:57 +0000

This blog post doesn't say anything about your experience.

How well does the resulting code perform? What are the trade-offs/limitations/benefits compared to SQLite? What problems does it solve?

Why did you use this process? this mixture of models? Why is this a good setup?

New comment by losteric in "U.S. had almost no job growth in 2025"

losteric — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 17:27:51 +0000

Money follows ROI. Making those speculative or detrimental industries less profitable is the answer.

Regulations on micro-targeting, data privacy, algorithm transparency, legal liability for content, etc.. all push back against the externalities of ads/social media.

Regulations on energy and land use can make eg data center build outs more expensive, pressuring back against speculative AI trash.

Taxing big tech companies, subsidizing manufacturing education, and judicious import tariffs.. would all create incentives for investing money and labor in hard capabilities

New comment by losteric in "Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT"

losteric — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:26:32 +0000

Advertising always seems like a prisoner’s dilemma. If no one advertised, people would still buy things.

New comment by losteric in "Show HN: ChartGPU – WebGPU-powered charting library (1M points at 60fps)"

losteric — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 01:02:19 +0000

Does Cosmos.gl do what you need? https://cosmos.gl/?path=/docs/welcome-to-cosmos-gl--docs

New comment by losteric in "Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups"

losteric — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 08:56:17 +0000

The ROI is you’re more likely to buy thinking you get a discount, and especially after doing the work to get the discount code.

The trick is it’s priced assuming that discount will be taken off.

New comment by losteric in "ZJIT is now available in Ruby 4.0"

losteric — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 18:48:58 +0000

Was your app converted to use some Rust framework, or just Rust?

New comment by losteric in "Over 40% of deceased drivers in vehicle crashes test positive for THC: Study"

losteric — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 17:36:34 +0000

Wow, pretty much no one I know drives under any influence regardless what they use.

I wonder how many of these people were under the influence of alcohol and other substances.

New comment by losteric in "Show HN: AlgoDrill – Interactive drills to stop forgetting LeetCode patterns"

losteric — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:53:19 +0000

This by itself completely un-sold me. Requiring such rote memorization is a hard pass for me, it seems the user should just be able to self-assess whether they got it “right” (like Anki cards).

New comment by losteric in "Dating: A mysterious constellation of facts"

losteric — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 02:01:10 +0000

If you lived in an area with many restaurants offering the same favorite-cuisine/foods, and you were picking one to eat at indefinitely and exclusively… how would you choose?

That’s where the analysis paralysis would come in to play in dating.

New comment by losteric in "Show HN: Why write code if the LLM can just do the thing? (web app experiment)"

losteric — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 20:57:47 +0000

Code is a hack in the same way that gears and wheels and levers are hacks. People don’t want mechanical components, they just want machines to do stuff for them.

New comment by losteric in "Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout"

losteric — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 02:57:37 +0000

Every good Amazon org has sacrificial bad employees. Managers know a team of all-stars creates risky team dynamics under PIP

New comment by losteric in "Claude Code on the web"

losteric — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 22:13:37 +0000

> I've pumped out a ~15,000 line application heavily utilizing Claude Code over a few days that seems to work, but I don't know how much to trust it.

Can I ask what you built?

New comment by losteric in "Show HN: Semantic search over the National Gallery of Art"

losteric — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:40:56 +0000

> check out the pipeline here

“the pipeline” - seems like this is just a personal hackathon project?

Why these models vs other multimodals? Which “nvidia models”?

New comment by losteric in "The great software quality collapse or, how we normalized catastrophe"

losteric — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 15:58:39 +0000

What in the bad rhetoric is this? The trades did and still do have standards.

Hell there was a whole TikTok cycle where people learned there is a right and wrong way to lay tile/grout. One way looks fine until it breaks, the other lasts lifetimes.

It’s the exact same trend as in software: shitty bad big home builders hire crap trades people to build cheap slop houses for suckers that requires extensive ongoing maintenance. Meanwhile there are good builders and contractors that build durable quality for discerning customers.

The problem is exploitation of information asymmetries in the buyer market.

New comment by losteric in "Photowand – Turn selfies into professional photos with AI"

losteric — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 20:03:29 +0000

> if you were learning photography. would you still?

First of all, photography was never a profession I would have recommended a kid get in to lol.

I think it's likely we'll see fewer photography jobs, but the jobs that do exist will require more networking, higher skill, and come with better pay.

For example, in my area there's a surge of demand for weddings shot on film - durable physical memories of reality. Some folks even do daguerreotypes. Or in the other direction, we see "cinematic" weddings with video production teams.

New comment by losteric in "US government shuts down after Senate fails to pass last-ditch funding plan"

losteric — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 06:14:48 +0000

> In theory it is unpaid, but it is always retroactively paid in practice and everyone knows this.

Why only in theory? Why does it get paid back in practice?

New comment by losteric in "America's top companies keep talking about AI – but can't explain the upsides"

losteric — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 05:10:50 +0000

Doubt the form has anything to do with how "controversial" it is. NANDA is using the paper's popularity to collect marketing data.

New comment by losteric in "OpenAI and Nvidia announce partnership to deploy 10GW of Nvidia systems"

losteric — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 16:47:43 +0000

so nvidia's value supported by the value of AI companies, which nvidia then supports?