Hacker News: planetpluta

New comment by planetpluta in "Delta’s new AI-powered pricing strategy"

planetpluta — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 22:44:26 +0000

I’d say two big differences are 1) human vs machine (especially when you get to the scale of something like Delta airlines) and 2) you have a lot more power in the negotiations you described! Basing it on 5 years of purchases and historical data isn’t a negotiation—it’s a “my way or the highway”

New comment by planetpluta in "Delta’s new AI-powered pricing strategy"

planetpluta — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 22:40:16 +0000

This is an interesting way to think about it. I would argue that flat pricing wasn’t for efficiency but “fairness”.

And also point out that AI driven price discrimination isn’t anywhere close to negotiated. You’re stuck with the price the machine gives you, with little to no recourse, short of rewriting your entire digital life!

New comment by planetpluta in "Show HN: Workout.cool – Open-source fitness coaching platform"

planetpluta — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 15:30:44 +0000

Curious about the 100 pushups program app — do you have a particular one you like that you can share?

Edit: Followed the github issue and found the link!

New comment by planetpluta in "Show HN: AirAP AirPlay server – AirPlay to an iOS Device"

planetpluta — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 21:59:16 +0000

A lot of apps allow you to AirPlay to multiple devices at once — would be neat to put this on a bunch of iphones to simultaneously play music

New comment by planetpluta in "Show HN: A toy version of Wireshark (student project)"

planetpluta — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 17:07:44 +0000

> I just assumed Vanta (the company) was doing a Show HN today and was confused at first glance

Did the title of the post change? At first glance the Show HN is a toy wireshark program very far from any Trust Management and compliance

New comment by planetpluta in "Google AI Ultra"

planetpluta — Tue, 20 May 2025 20:26:48 +0000

I think the biggest hurdle would be complying with the TOS. Imagine that OpenAI etc would not be a fan of sharing quotas across individuals in this way

New comment by planetpluta in "Are Americans' perceptions of the economy and crime broken?"

planetpluta — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 19:06:40 +0000

Anecdotally, I completely agree that consumption of media has shifted since the pandemic and could reasonable explain this gap

New comment by planetpluta in "Are Americans' perceptions of the economy and crime broken?"

planetpluta — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 19:02:01 +0000

In a sense, the macro trend is irrelevant and mainly used as a talking point by the media.

Individuals experience the world from an individual level — it is easy to go along with any trend that fits your desired narrative because until it is at odds with your individual experience, it doesn’t really matter.

(I’m being a bit reductive and haven’t fully fleshed out this thought, but think the sentiment is accurate)

New comment by planetpluta in "How we made our AI code review bot stop leaving nitpicky comments"

planetpluta — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 12:28:00 +0000

> Essentially we needed to teach LLMs (which are paid by the token) to only generate a small number of high quality comments.

The solution of filtering after the comment is generated doesn’t seem to address the “paid by the token” piece.

New comment by planetpluta in "Were RNNs all we needed?"

planetpluta — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 15:35:25 +0000

Something to consider is that it really could take 20+ years to train like a brain. But once you’ve trained it, you can replicate at ~0 cost, unlike a brain.

New comment by planetpluta in "OpenAI to become for-profit company"

planetpluta — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 02:54:25 +0000

> This is deeply wrong

I can’t tell if Elon is saying that the tweet is misinformed or OpenAI’s behavior is reprehensible

New comment by planetpluta in "Zero-Click Calendar invite vulnerability chain in macOS"

planetpluta — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 20:22:20 +0000

Maybe not “immediate” but withholding rewards results in fewer researchers participating in bounty programs which defeats the purpose.

New comment by planetpluta in "Some of us like "interdiff" code review"

planetpluta — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 14:39:57 +0000

Okay that makes sense. Agreed, wouldn’t quite consider that “supporting” as far as I’m concerned.

New comment by planetpluta in "Some of us like "interdiff" code review"

planetpluta — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 13:30:50 +0000

I’m confused by how pushing to new branches would work on GitHub (or is the point that it doesn’t…)? Are you able to change the branch of a PR from `v1` to `v2` without making a new PR?

New comment by planetpluta in "Jd – JSON Diff and Patch"

planetpluta — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 00:24:53 +0000

This tool looks great! I’ve been using difftastic lately, which does a fairly good job but struggles with big json files.

One feature I’ve yet to see is applying jq query syntax to the jsons before the diff

New comment by planetpluta in "Ilya Sutskever's SSI Inc raises $1B"

planetpluta — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 15:14:40 +0000

We don’t know the counter factual here… maybe if he called it “Unsafe Superintelligence Inc” they would have raised 5x! (though I have doubts about that)

New comment by planetpluta in "Using the moiré effect to show different arrows to each observer (2018)"

planetpluta — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 19:06:02 +0000

I appreciate being able to quickly skim an article rather than watch a video - especially when in public without headphones!

New comment by planetpluta in "Hot take on OpenAI’s new GPT-4o"

planetpluta — Wed, 15 May 2024 11:45:19 +0000

Gary Marcus has been a firm advocate that GPT-5 is failing for a while now, based simply on the fact of them not having released it yet.

If/when OpenAI releases it, looking forward to how he reconciles his views.

New comment by planetpluta in "Tangoing with a Martin Gardner Word Game"

planetpluta — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 11:41:14 +0000

> Take, for example, "Day," which is even, and "Say," which is odd. Since the "-ay" suffix is consistent, it indicates that "S" is the first letter in the target word.

Am I missing something? Given that information, couldn’t the D+a or D+y be correct?

(I understand those cannot be correct because of “May”, but not from the consistent suffix alone)

New comment by planetpluta in "Should the stock market never close?"

planetpluta — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 14:40:17 +0000

> there’s mostly no news after hours

As I understand it, most company earnings are released after hours and many important press releases are held until the market has closed to allow the news to be “digested” offline