Hacker News: mgfist

New comment by mgfist in "I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]"

mgfist — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:45:54 +0000

This is the only way. Gotta gaslight yourself into liking them lol

New comment by mgfist in "I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]"

mgfist — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:45:36 +0000

Lol I actually do see them in the dark. Not as much but still there. I've gotten used to them at this point thankfully

New comment by mgfist in "Quake – 30th Anniversary Update"

mgfist — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:40:49 +0000

ChatGPT was the first place to really do it to this extent

New comment by mgfist in "Discovery Loop"

mgfist — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:16:29 +0000

> The primary goal of a start up is to grow as quickly as possible which is rarely benefits the public.

Why is that so? Fast growth, when achieved honestly, is a result of solving user pain that others haven't. Maybe you think so because users != the public, but I think in totality the public is a collection of users who all have needs they want met.

New comment by mgfist in "Karpathy’s Pelican"

mgfist — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 21:15:13 +0000

That was very fun, thanks for the link

New comment by mgfist in "Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI"

mgfist — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:09:06 +0000

The truth is that using AI well is a skill much like anything else. There's no one single way to use it much like there's no one single way to write a program that serves hackernews.

New comment by mgfist in "We scaled PgBouncer to 4x throughput"

mgfist — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 22:20:46 +0000

uhhhh

New comment by mgfist in "Modern decor may be straining people's brains"

mgfist — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 20:31:45 +0000

> The article doesn't touch much on why modern decor emerged as it did

The theory I subscribe to is a few fold:

1) People like to buy "generic" homes that are easier to renovate/personalize 2) But then they don't end up personalizing, because they're afraid to tank it's market value 3) Thus homes stay boring and generic

New comment by mgfist in "Costco is the anti-Amazon"

mgfist — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 19:34:57 +0000

Both spectrums are hard. Solving last mile is really really hard, but if you do that's a huge moat (aka Amazon). If you avoid last mile, you best deliver value in some other way, which Costco does by giving you more per dollar than anyone else.

New comment by mgfist in "Claude: Elevated errors across many models [resolved]"

mgfist — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:26:24 +0000

I don't think coding is solved in the way they claim, but certainly solved in some way for many people. I don't write code by hand anymore, everything is through claude/codex/pi.

Still requires lots of work to shape the output correctly, but it's still crazy to me that I literally don't write code any more. And in that way, coding is solved for me.

New comment by mgfist in "Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society"

mgfist — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:19:40 +0000

> there are plenty of places where machine learning algorithms make sense, but customer service is not one of them.

I don't care about human vs AI, I just want my issue resolved. Whatever does that the best and fastest. Or even better, for there to not be an issue in the first place.

New comment by mgfist in "Claude: Elevated errors across many models [resolved]"

mgfist — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:07:16 +0000

I have my qualms with Anthropic/Claude but they've also had to scale unfathomably fast and that is just hard to do regardless.

New comment by mgfist in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

mgfist — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:08:02 +0000

> he is emphasizing that they used their own words against them. everyone knows the security threat is a pretext. the message is that he is smart and they are stupid and he won, which is what I call gloating.

In this case, the govt used Anthropic's word in the way Anthropic wanted them to.

Anthropic has publicly stated that AI is too powerful and needs to be regulated. They've done this repeatedly. More recently, they've withheld releasing Mythos claiming that it's not safe.

Sacks isn't using Anthropic's words against them. He's more or less doing what they asked!

New comment by mgfist in "No, everyone is not using AI for everything"

mgfist — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:07:03 +0000

One trick is to ask them that question first to gauge their perspective on it first

New comment by mgfist in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

mgfist — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:48:00 +0000

> This is obviously political and the entire narrative is fabrication.

I agree with this

> David Sacks is publicly gloating about it: https://x.com/DavidSacks/status/2065853007619588171

I do no like David Sacks but how do you say this is gloating about it?

Again, I do believe this is political, but Sacks is saying "you said this is dangerous and wanted regulation, and we believe you. Fix this because it's dangerous and we'll let it out again".

How is this gloating?

New comment by mgfist in "I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA"

mgfist — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:42:58 +0000

That's where competition and creative destruction comes to play.

New comment by mgfist in "Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?"

mgfist — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:11:59 +0000

That's not the argument. No one is asking users to be grateful for OSS. They just want users to not be dicks to the maintainer.

Would you continue volunteering if the beneficiaries spat in your face and cursed you out for it?

New comment by mgfist in "Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?"

mgfist — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:08:40 +0000

You can criticize all you want, but he can also just stop maintaining it if he gets too annoyed by the criticism. Maybe that's a better outcome for you, idk.

New comment by mgfist in "32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building"

mgfist — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:01:45 +0000

Yes but you can't get away from a 5 year timeline, and then you have to project how many other fabs will be opening

New comment by mgfist in "32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building"

mgfist — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:24:44 +0000

A fab for high end memory costs $20B and 5 years to build.

It will happen, but yeah it takes time and money