Hacker News: lurker616

New comment by lurker616 in "Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds"

lurker616 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 04:19:04 +0000

Are there any open source projects like this?

New comment by lurker616 in "Ask HN: How do people around you use AI?"

lurker616 — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 23:20:44 +0000

Tried generating a 6-month plan to upskill in VLSI programming. It was pretty useful and helped lay out a comprehensive roadmap using different sources and projects to try. Also tried generating a 6-month plan to upskill my guitar playing. Wasn't as useful.

New comment by lurker616 in "DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data"

lurker616 — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:24:47 +0000

Musk has basically discovered that you can ignore existing laws, since by the time lawyers sue and courts order injunctions, it'll be too late and too expensive. Especially when lawyers can argue against basic facts like "Musk doesn't head DOGE". It's the same playbook as the twitter layoffs - when you are so rich, you don't need to care about laws.

New comment by lurker616 in "My Life in Weeks"

lurker616 — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 08:06:52 +0000

30000 hours seems like a lot, more than enough time for anything you might want to do. More than that, there might be enough changes in technology and the world that something you learn in the first 100 hours might not matter in the last 100 hours etc. If you start taking all these complexities into account, it might be better to count at a granularity of weeks rather than hours. Or maybe even ignore time, and focus on goals and aims. You can always make more or less time to fit your goals.

New comment by lurker616 in "Updates to H-1B"

lurker616 — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 20:34:42 +0000

Another complication - H1Bs are valid for 6 years. However, the physical paper stamp given on passports is only valid for 3 years at a time. So if I chose to stay in the US (and not travel internationally) I'd be fine to continue working without renewing my physical visa paper stamp. But to get a new physical stamp, I have to re-enter the country every 3 years. How does that make sense?

New comment by lurker616 in "Yes, social media is a cause of the epidemic of teenage mental illness"

lurker616 — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 08:53:05 +0000

How about Discord? Or reddit? Would those be limited to kids as well? You can be sure that even if FB/Instagram were to ban kids, there would be hundreds of companies jumping in to scoop up all that teenage DAU.

New comment by lurker616 in "Yes, social media is a cause of the epidemic of teenage mental illness"

lurker616 — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 08:50:33 +0000

Even if Facebook implements these controls, what guarantee do we have that another social app won't come along without these controls? Do we regulate TikTok, Youtube, Snapchat, GroupMe or whatever the latest flavor of the month is as well? There are probably thousands of startups that would jump at the chance to monetize teenagers even if FB were to step aside.

New comment by lurker616 in "Tell HN: GitHub is blocking search unless you are logged in"

lurker616 — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 09:50:06 +0000

It's especially bad because I don't really remember my passwords, so I always have to reset password when logging in again, and that refreshes the dev keys so my terminal git push also stops works - a complete PITA.

New comment by lurker616 in "Is the emergence of life an expected phase transition in the evolving universe?"

lurker616 — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 22:52:51 +0000

So each of us is basically an AGI for the tiny cells

New comment by lurker616 in "The Internet Is Full of AI Dogshit"

lurker616 — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 06:44:11 +0000

Great phrase!

New comment by lurker616 in "Where Have All the Websites Gone?"

lurker616 — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 09:43:03 +0000

It's like saying, I hope the new pop music trends that all the kids are listening to dies out, and 80s rock becomes cool again. It just isn't gonna happen.

New comment by lurker616 in "[dead]"

lurker616 — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 02:41:44 +0000

Thank you, so many people make this typo sometimes I question myself if 'scrapped' actually makes more sense.

New comment by lurker616 in "Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?"

lurker616 — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 10:49:48 +0000

I just spent 30mins on lalo.li/lsd!

New comment by lurker616 in "Ask HN: What changes to X/Twitter have you noticed in the last year?"

lurker616 — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 06:59:42 +0000

When you click a tweet that is part of a thread and is several tweets down from the top, it goes into that tweet's page. Then when you press the browser back button, it should (and used to) save the scroll position of the tweet you were last at. But now it always resets you back to the top starting of the thread. Super irritating when you want to read replies for specific tweets in a tweetstorm.

New comment by lurker616 in "Illinois prohibits weapons, facial recognition on police drones"

lurker616 — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 19:46:26 +0000

So I guess reddit is still closed.

New comment by lurker616 in "His software sang the words of God, then it went silent"

lurker616 — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 05:56:58 +0000

This could be a great use case for chatGPT/GPT-4 - help understand and maintain open source software in perpetuity.

New comment by lurker616 in "Open RuneScape Classic"

lurker616 — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 02:33:49 +0000

That's a great idea! Take me back to my best life - 10 years old spending my summer vacations playing RS with my cousins.

New comment by lurker616 in "Google to reduce workforce by 12k"

lurker616 — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 13:58:23 +0000

Why not 99% or everything above $300k? Are you saying you couldn't live on less than $2M?

New comment by lurker616 in "Simulate Asteroid Impacts on Earth"

lurker616 — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 09:59:01 +0000

I could kill approx 500 million people in the fireball. Anyone higher?

New comment by lurker616 in "Predict HN: In 10 years, AI partners are the norm"

lurker616 — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 07:53:28 +0000

The first use case I could think of was a AI trained on my team's codebase. So that whenever we face an oncall incident or unexpected crash, we'd have this AI partner (that has been finetuned on all of our code / logs / previous bugs / documentation) that we could ask to help us debug.