Hacker News: nateburke

New comment by nateburke in "If you started a company two years ago, many assumptions are no longer true"

nateburke — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:09:32 +0000

Add on the compounding effect that "QA" or "test" in someone's job description was viewed as a synonym for "less-highly compensated" over the past few decades, and you have an entire generation of mid career devs with poorly adapted instincts regarding what is valuable in the process of shipping working product.

The bottleneck was never coding...

New comment by nateburke in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

nateburke — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:36:52 +0000

I did this at my last job, it's nice.

New comment by nateburke in "Ask HN: What is it like being in a CS major program these days?"

nateburke — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 11:03:30 +0000

Interesting that the algorithmic finance firms are still recruiting. Perhaps they still need a pipeline of rigorous thinkers, or are unwilling to cede significant influence over P+L to llms.

New comment by nateburke in "Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters"

nateburke — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:13:34 +0000

It feels like xAI is perpetually playing catch-up.

They haven't quite committed enough to a novel direction relative to anthropic or OAI, what's described in the OP seems symptomatic of a lack of differentiation.

If you spend all your time judging yourself relative to the incumbents, there will be no time left over to innovate.

The leash is too tight!

New comment by nateburke in "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network"

nateburke — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 11:46:48 +0000

from the tweet above: "Maybe even more importantly: Anthropic wants to control what people do with AI—they block companies they don't like from using their coding product (including us), they want to write the rules themselves for what people can and can't use AI for, and now they also want to tell other companies what their business models can be."

New comment by nateburke in "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network"

nateburke — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 11:45:50 +0000

I think it's plausible, given the effort he seemed to put into his initial response to the ads: https://x.com/sama/status/2019139174339928189

New comment by nateburke in "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network"

nateburke — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 11:16:24 +0000

Plain and simple this is revenge for the Anthropic super bowl ads, which were epic burns against openAI's primary future revenue stream.

New comment by nateburke in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"

nateburke — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 01:14:29 +0000

Glad there are no hard feelings after those Superbowl ads

New comment by nateburke in "Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport"

nateburke — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 13:40:37 +0000

NTS was 60-80 mi away from Las Vegas.

yes there might be safer locations for an underground nuclear test, but how many of them offer the same "F U" PR capacity relative to Mexico/Juarez/cartels, etc.

New comment by nateburke in "Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport"

nateburke — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 13:15:16 +0000

My guess is nuclear test.

Airport circle to secure the transport of the device to the ground adjacent to the test site.

Trapezoid is the test site, wider on the side that is less controllable (border-facing).

Disconnected because two separate teams executed in parallel without informed oversight.

New comment by nateburke in "AI Tribalism"

nateburke — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 21:53:32 +0000

where are the productivity gains in GDP?

where are the websites that are lightning fast, where speed and features and ads have been magically optimized by ai, and things feel fast like 2001 google.com fast

why does customer service still SUCK?

New comment by nateburke in "Ski map artist James Niehues, the 'Monet of the mountains' (2021)"

nateburke — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:10:30 +0000

Love everything he's ever done. Phones and skiing don't mix. Dropping a paper trail map off the lift won't ruin your run. Dropping your phone will. Why spend time thinking about wireless, bars of service etc. when you can look at ART to plan your next downhill ADVENTURE???

New comment by nateburke in "Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden"

nateburke — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:00:33 +0000

Horses never figured out how to get government bailouts.

New comment by nateburke in "The programmers who live in Flatland"

nateburke — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 00:21:01 +0000

I really enjoyed the preemptive comments at the end of one of his other blog posts:

https://blog.redplanetlabs.com/2025/06/17/make-worse-softwar...

New comment by nateburke in "Don't push AI down our throats"

nateburke — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:39:13 +0000

Did you follow through with the full repair? How long did it take? What was the materials cost?

New comment by nateburke in "Nvidia-backed CoreWeave's shares fall. Delay hits annual revenue forecast"

nateburke — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 22:41:18 +0000

Curious if it's possible to back into which hyperscaler customers were impacted?

New comment by nateburke in "OpenAI’s promise to stay in California helped clear the path for its IPO"

nateburke — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 23:31:44 +0000

Cali could have called his bluff, he's not moving to Texas any time soon, and neither are his employees.

New comment by nateburke in "Vijaye Raji to become CTO of Applications with acquisition of Statsig"

nateburke — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 01:56:53 +0000

This is it. Does OpenAI have consumer DNA or enterprise DNA? It is very difficult to have both.

New comment by nateburke in "Avi Loeb: Is 3I/Atlas Our Turing Test by a Superior Alien Intelligence?"

nateburke — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 02:10:23 +0000

Frequency can be perceived in any unit of time

New comment by nateburke in "Avi Loeb: Is 3I/Atlas Our Turing Test by a Superior Alien Intelligence?"

nateburke — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 01:55:26 +0000

Interesting idea. The only response short of SENDING IT BACK I can think of would be to measure its velocity, divide by our best estimate of its diameter, and broadcast the resulting frequency over radio in all directions.