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New comment by mrwaffle in "GPT-5.5"

mrwaffle — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 04:22:38 +0000

Meaning that you believe they're not trying their "hardest" to innovate? They must be slacking then.

New comment by mrwaffle in "Please don't say mean things about the AI I just invested a billion dollars in"

mrwaffle — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 02:47:34 +0000

This seems to be a touchy subject for YC people with 500+ karma. Not a repudiation but an 'invisible hand' downvote to avoid a response or exposure of an opinion. My ancestors fought in the revolutionary war and like them, I'll die on this very subtle rolling hill of a question. I loved you all as brothers, this may be the end for mrwaffle.

New comment by mrwaffle in "Please don't say mean things about the AI I just invested a billion dollars in"

mrwaffle — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 01:51:57 +0000

Is this technically a form of retroactive mind rape? If so, at least we have the right oligarchic friends experienced in this running the big show. (Apologies if I just any broke rules here).

New comment by mrwaffle in "Amazon cuts 16k jobs"

mrwaffle — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:52:46 +0000

Sure but the lower hanging fruit is mostly squeezed, so what else is driving the idea of _job replacement_ if the next branch up of the tree is 3-5 years out? I've seen very little to indicate beyond tooling empowering existing employees a major jump in productivity but nothing close to job replacement (for technical roles). Often times it's still accruing various forms of technical debt/other debts or complexities. Unless these are 1% of nontechnical roles it doesn't make much sense other than their own internal projection for this year in terms of the broader economy. Maybe because they have such a larger ship to turn that they need to actually plan 2-3 years out? I don't get it, I still see people hire technical writers on a daily basis, even. So what's getting cut there?

New comment by mrwaffle in "Nearly Half of Americans Read Zero Books in 2025"

mrwaffle — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 22:43:31 +0000

Sweet, I’m a winner. Books are great, let’s try calm & reading sometimes, yeah?!

New comment by mrwaffle in "Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades"

mrwaffle — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 23:42:41 +0000

Mostly true, compared to other billionaires he's a much better flavor and a stronger record of appearing human but still, agree. I'd recommend reading The Snowball for a more complete understanding of him.

New comment by mrwaffle in "Tell HN: Merry Christmas"

mrwaffle — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 12:34:38 +0000

I hope you all have a nice day!

New comment by mrwaffle in "I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude"

mrwaffle — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 03:13:57 +0000

It's funny, the joke that good programmers are lazy, has always held until now.

New comment by mrwaffle in "Frank Gehry has died"

mrwaffle — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 01:01:15 +0000

sad. I love his work.

New comment by mrwaffle in "A secret to never forgetting numbers"

mrwaffle — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 09:29:26 +0000

Personally, it's much easier for me to remember 246 (or any other number up to about 6 digits) than some mapping I pretend to care about.

Apple Store unreachable due to Preordering

mrwaffle — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 08:04:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.apple.com/us/shop/goto/store

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45219850

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by mrwaffle in "Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivity"

mrwaffle — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 19:49:09 +0000

My overall concern has to do with our developer ecosystem from the important points mentioned by simonw and narush. I've been concerned about this for years but AI reliance seems to be pouring jet fuel on the fire. Particularly troubling is the lack of understanding less-experienced devs will have over time. Does anyone have a counter-argument for this they can share on why this is a good thing?

New comment by mrwaffle in "They don't make 'em like that any more: Sony DTC-700 audio DAT player/recorder"

mrwaffle — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 00:28:42 +0000

Huge opportunity missed to not title this "They don't make em like DAT anymore.."

New comment by mrwaffle in "Finding that lead emissions from aircraft engines contribute to air pollution"

mrwaffle — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 17:54:30 +0000

Sorry but please read up on how much lead is dumped over neighborhoods near airports. Children have lead levels near reported Flint levels.

New comment by mrwaffle in "Ketamine for the acute treatment of severe suicidal ideation"

mrwaffle — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 19:02:18 +0000

Absolutely, I have a partner who has had severe PTSD and went through a great month-long program, she's overcome many longstanding fears and triggers and has made huge strides in being able to feel that she is living her life once again.

New comment by mrwaffle in "Farming robot kills 100k weeds per hour with lasers"

mrwaffle — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 14:49:39 +0000

sub /weeds/humans/

New comment by mrwaffle in "Inflammation, but Not Telomere Length, Predicts Ageing at Extreme Old Age"

mrwaffle — Sun, 18 Apr 2021 03:39:46 +0000

this is the ideal reply, original waffle poster was hoping for, thank you!

New comment by mrwaffle in "Inflammation, but Not Telomere Length, Predicts Ageing at Extreme Old Age"

mrwaffle — Sat, 17 Apr 2021 01:09:16 +0000

hi, i'm a just stupid waffle. can someone give me the TLDR of this [nearly] impossible to understand piece of writing?