Hacker News: matt_daemon

New comment by matt_daemon in "Not everyone is using AI for everything"

matt_daemon — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 22:14:43 +0000

It baffles me that Hard Fork is so popular when they regularly have such uninformed takes

New comment by matt_daemon in "If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know"

matt_daemon — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:46:04 +0000

NIMBYism

New comment by matt_daemon in "Disney erased FiveThirtyEight"

matt_daemon — Wed, 20 May 2026 07:20:32 +0000

It kind of ended up being a funny dance between 538, the NYT and The Athletic. The original sale to The Athletic probably would've made the most sense for 538 (in hindsight). Then the NYT obviously realised what they'd lost with 538 departing, and end up buying The Athletic a few years later.

New comment by matt_daemon in "Show HN: Built a daily game where you sort historical events chronologically"

matt_daemon — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:53:20 +0000

NYT has a weekly version of this for those interested

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/04/17/upshot/flashb...

New comment by matt_daemon in "Artemis II safely splashes down"

matt_daemon — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:55:17 +0000

I had this in the back of my mind today https://idlewords.com/2026/03/artemis_ii_is_not_safe_to_fly....

Glad they got home safe and sound!

New comment by matt_daemon in "Music for Programming"

matt_daemon — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:06:19 +0000

It would be impossible for me to not sing along to ABBA

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

matt_daemon — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:18:53 +0000

I really thought this was going to be an Apple acquires Tailscale post

New comment by matt_daemon in "We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do"

matt_daemon — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 21:30:39 +0000

Same in Australia and only recently (that is, in the last year) has there been any restrictions on showing gambling ads during live sports events.

It’s difficult to compare how normalised it is here versus what the US is currently going through.

As for sportspeople throwing games, well that’s been happening for as long as betting has been around as well, see countless examples from football (soccer) and cricket.

New comment by matt_daemon in "Apple Business"

matt_daemon — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:57:31 +0000

Apple's cloud software has been buggy as hell for a long time, at least for me.

I'm in a family iCloud group with my parents... one day I just woke up and had all my podcasts and music replaced with my Mum's :/

Would not want this anywhere near a "business" experience

New comment by matt_daemon in "I built an AI receptionist for a mechanic shop"

matt_daemon — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:38:21 +0000

> Finally, I’d like to note that this sort of dev work goes beyond hubris. It’s dangerous. The more we assume we know without verifying, the greater the risk. In this case, the dev is risking someone else’s livelihood.

I think this is a bit of an overstatement. The dev states it’s her brother’s business, and one can assume he’s asked her to help him out.

Getting the service to be 100% perfect is of course a near impossible challenge, but that’s most likely not the business owner’s concern — they simply want a way to avoid totally losing business. If the service can convert even 10% of customers with a rough quote and timeline it’s most likely useful.

New comment by matt_daemon in "Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line"

matt_daemon — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 04:25:31 +0000

Curious if this has anything to do with Silicon Valley types getting into carnivore diets (though it's been happening for years so maybe not)

New comment by matt_daemon in "On The Need For Understanding"

matt_daemon — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:49:34 +0000

There are a few emotional trigger points that LLMs seem to cause in programmers and this is a common one -- the need for deep, first-principles understanding that LLMs make obsolete.

One thing that gets me in a lot of pieces like this is they kind of assume people have no agency, that now that these tools exist we won't be able to help ourselves but use them despite our better judgement.

The broader topic which I don't see discussed so much are values. If you value deep understanding, well you should continue programming and learning in such a way. In some cases you may just want to use a language model to spin up a quick tool or PoC. And there is an entire grey area in between. It's a value judgement to decide what you use LLMs for, as much as what you don't.

New comment by matt_daemon in "What Is a Tort?"

matt_daemon — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:24:08 +0000

A torte is (according the Wikipedia):

> a rich, usually multilayered, cake that is filled with whipped cream, buttercreams, mousses, jams, or fruit

So you could be excused

New comment by matt_daemon in "Mark Zuckerberg creating new Applied AI engineering company, reorganises teams"

matt_daemon — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:49:01 +0000

Hard to not delight in the schadenfreude

New comment by matt_daemon in "Larry Page has moved to Florida"

matt_daemon — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 01:01:36 +0000

HN rage bait

New comment by matt_daemon in "Why I Joined OpenAI"

matt_daemon — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 03:12:55 +0000

> Mia the hairstylist got to work, and casually asked what I do for a living. "I'm an Intel fellow, I work on datacenter performance." Silence.

How could she not know?

New comment by matt_daemon in "I'm just having fun"

matt_daemon — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 22:11:05 +0000

Finally some practical daily affirmations for computer

New comment by matt_daemon in "Agentic AI Foundation"

matt_daemon — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 22:17:12 +0000

Spot the odd one out

New comment by matt_daemon in "Using LLMs at Oxide"

matt_daemon — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 02:00:43 +0000

I believe Bryan is a well known em dash addict

New comment by matt_daemon in "How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019)"

matt_daemon — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 12:29:20 +0000

This is an insanely cool blog