Hacker News: nickvec

New comment by nickvec in "How to Exist"

nickvec — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 04:29:30 +0000

“Even thinking is often a sneaky way of escaping the existence; rumination isn’t so much about trying to solve your problems, as it is about going elsewhere in your mind to escape anxiety and uncertainty.”

Profound insight that really gets to the root of rumination.

New comment by nickvec in "ARC-AGI Leaderboard"

nickvec — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 14:52:54 +0000

Why isn’t Fable 5 included on the leaderboard?

New comment by nickvec in "NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook"

nickvec — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:12:49 +0000

I would imagine it's just a branding/marketing thing so that the product is directly associated by consumers as being within the Gemini ecosystem (and thus Google) from the product name alone. NotebookLM doesn't convey that, but Gemini Notebook does.

Uber's robotaxi lobbying effort puts it on a collision course with Waymo

nickvec — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:11:59 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/ubers-robotaxi-lobbying-effort-has-put-it-on-a-collision-course-with-waymo/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48910886

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by nickvec in "AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn"

nickvec — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:54:26 +0000

I've managed to get quite a few interviews through LinkedIn jobs, though I'm looking for DevOps roles in particular, which may be an exception to the rule.

New comment by nickvec in "A new way to reflect on how you use Claude"

nickvec — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:45:12 +0000

Same. Not sure if they are doing a gradual rollout or what's up.

New comment by nickvec in "Show HN: InstantVideos.org – short documentaries in ~30 seconds"

nickvec — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:58:11 +0000

Fun idea! Hope it doesn't cost you too much to keep up depending on how much traction this thread gets ;)

One small quirk I noticed with the generated short video: for each new slide/photo, there is a very gradual "zoom in" effect that occurs, which causes text to jitter a bit and is a bit disorienting. Not sure if that is specific to the "The Great Molasses Flood of 1919 in Boston" prompt I used or not.

Also, is Claude involved in the video generation itself? I noticed the generated video has "By Claude" in the top left corner, but the logs seem to indicate that only GLM-5.2, Gemini Flash, and GPT-4o are involved (just curious!)

New comment by nickvec in "Programmers need to start meditating"

nickvec — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 02:17:25 +0000

As mentioned in the article, Waking Up is a great option if you want to get into meditation. Highly recommend reading Sam Harris’ book “Waking Up” as well.

New comment by nickvec in "An American Privacy Emergency"

nickvec — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 01:31:58 +0000

bogwog is saying that your site/product is obviously vibecoded based off of the frontend

New comment by nickvec in "Claude-real-video － any LLM can watch a video"

nickvec — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:55:07 +0000

Curious as to how many tokens are used per second of video.

New comment by nickvec in "Virginia bans sale of geolocation data"

nickvec — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 23:11:23 +0000

Have any other states banned the sale of geolocation data?

New comment by nickvec in "Internal Combustion Engine (2021)"

nickvec — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 19:43:06 +0000

I hope Ciechanowski posts some more in the near future. He has some of the best "how does this work" articles I've come across.

New comment by nickvec in "Anthropic restoring access to Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 from tomorrow"

nickvec — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:49:41 +0000

Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48740771

New comment by nickvec in "Claude Fable 5 export control lifted"

nickvec — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:49:25 +0000

Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48740771

New comment by nickvec in "OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom"

nickvec — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:22:07 +0000

I feel like "the use of OpenAI models to accelerate parts of the design and optimization process" just means that engineers were using ChatGPT to sanity check their designs and suggest potential optimizations, though that's just my take (and I'm quite cynical about AI marketing in general!)

New comment by nickvec in "Mistral OCR 4"

nickvec — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:27:32 +0000

Naive question: is Claude no good at OCR? Was surprised to see that none of Anthropic's models were included in the benchmark comparisons.

Shareholders sue Uber's board over sexual assaults, other incidents

nickvec — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:08:09 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/22/shareholders-sue-ubers-board-over-sexual-assaults-other-incidents/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48648902

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by nickvec in "Tacky men with ridiculous glasses want you to wear them too"

nickvec — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 01:28:12 +0000

The glasses David Gilboa is sporting honestly don’t look that bad. I think putting them in the same “ugly” bucket as Snapchat’s SPECS is a bit of a reach.

New comment by nickvec in "Jobs and Software Is Fucked"

nickvec — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:08:40 +0000

You can do everything right in an interview and still get denied. It is truly a crapshoot in today's job market.

New comment by nickvec in "How many of the 170k English words do you know?"

nickvec — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:32:51 +0000

Fun idea, I've been wanting to create something similar to track which vocab words I have mastered. Two nits: (1) no need for a "check" button as other commenters have noted and (2) the UI jitters a bit when submitting answers for each question - it's a bit disorienting!