Hacker News: redhed

New comment by redhed in "Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with the Feb updates"

redhed — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:04:01 +0000

It seems likely to me they are moving compute power to the new models they are creating,

New comment by redhed in "How Much Money Jeff Bezos Made Since You Started Reading This Page"

redhed — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:03:29 +0000

Yeah this is a crazy comment to me. I know multiple people who had entry level Wall Street and NYC/SF SWE offers back in 2022-2023 and I feel like $120k was really good for even an entry level position, let alone an intern. I guess maybe inflation in the past few years might have changed this.

New comment by redhed in "Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence"

redhed — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:56:05 +0000

What language/engine did you try it with for gamedev? Just curious if it was weak in a popular engine.

New comment by redhed in "Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence"

redhed — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:46:06 +0000

I have been having a lot of success with Cursor. I like being able to switch between Anthropic and OpenAI models. Claude Code does gives way more tokens/$ than Cursor right now though.

New comment by redhed in "When AI writes the software, who verifies it?"

redhed — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 18:33:34 +0000

I actually agree with good time to start a company. Lot of available software engineers that can actually understand code, AI at a level that can actually speed up development, and so many startups focusing on AI wrapper slop that you can actually make a useful product and separate yourself from the herd.

Or you can be a grifter and make some AI wrapper yourself and cash out with some VC investment. So good time for a new company either way.

New comment by redhed in "The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline"

redhed — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 20:08:39 +0000

Yeah that helps it make more sense. I was reading it as Bancroft comparing woman to land, instead of it being Bancroft showing there are men who treat women as land. I'll definitely give the book a read.

New comment by redhed in "The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline"

redhed — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:36:58 +0000

I understand the majority of the story, and through some personal experience really feel for women who have a controlling and abusive man. I find the story a bit strange though. It begins describing how boys inherit the idea of some beautiful woman that they are owed instead of it being something that requires constant work and effort. I agree/understand this part. But then it describes him trying to limit public access, how he has no document showing ownership, etc and this is where I get lost. To me that is what marriage is, giving up freedom for a partnership. To turn my husband self into a park, I feel like it is completely understandable my wife wants some space that is "public" and other that is "private". The key is healthy boundaries, ones set by compromise and understanding through honest communication. That's what separates healthy and abusive relationships, not the boundaries in the first place.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding the story and if I am let me know, I just feel like it describes the ideal situation as one's partner entirety is open to the "public", and where setting boundaries itself is abusive, which I feel like is not really how most people feel nor what they want in a relationship.

New comment by redhed in "Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants"

redhed — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 19:13:09 +0000

It can also be at non-toxic levels but still cause arterial calcification.

New comment by redhed in "Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?"

redhed — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:08:02 +0000

Yeah there's countries who have faced actual existential threat (South Korea, Finland, Israel, etc) and national service is still extremely unpopular.

New comment by redhed in "Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage"

redhed — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:27:51 +0000

There's some intersection point between long term decreasing in China's ability (demographic collapse) and long term increase in China's ability (their current build up of military hardware in air, land, and sea that is currently outpacing America's). Maybe somewhere in 10-20 years where their regional military power is much higher than America can project across the Atlantic but they still have a lot of military aged men.

New comment by redhed in "The unreasonable effectiveness of the Fourier transform"

redhed — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 20:39:47 +0000

It is pretty funny to flippantly call an influential paper by someone who received a Nobel Prize in Physics 'asinine'.

New comment by redhed in "GPT-5.2"

redhed — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 23:11:24 +0000

I was thinking more people would be annoyed by it bringing up unrelated conversations, thinking more I'd say you're probably right that more people are expecting it to remember everything they say.

New comment by redhed in "GPT-5.2"

redhed — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 22:20:33 +0000

This is also the default in Gemini pretty sure, at least I remember turning it off. Make's no sense to me why this is the default.

New comment by redhed in "Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban"

redhed — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:53:04 +0000

Yeah this is usually how it happens. Whether its ancient Rome, modern Russia, Venezuela, etc all the dressings of the old Republic stay but become subverted by an autocrat.

New comment by redhed in "Google boss says AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality'"

redhed — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:43:14 +0000

I assume the idea is more money could've been invested into bringing the bottom rungs of American society up and created a more skilled and educated workforce in the process.

New comment by redhed in "Some people can't see mental images"

redhed — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 18:47:31 +0000

I have the same thing, I can "walk" through my childhood home. I see how the living room was set up, I can walk from there to my bedroom and "see" everything. Honestly if I had good art skills I feel like I could draw it out pretty well. However I would in no way describe it as looking like I'm there at the real thing or looking at photograph, not even close really. It's kinda just a hazy construct in my mind.

I feel like that is where a lot of the miscommunication comes from, people who think others can close there eyes and be transported somewhere else by imagining it. That is unless I actually just have aphantasia.

New comment by redhed in "Say Goodbye"

redhed — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 18:39:54 +0000

There's a lot of companies with IP that can be extracted or systems that can be sabotaged by a bitter employee. There's also the extreme cases of someone who knows they are being fired who can do a shooting/arson/some other extreme scenario.

I'm not saying I agree with the shock approach but there are definitely some generic risks that I don't think paint a bad picture of the company by their existence.

New comment by redhed in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

redhed — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 21:24:37 +0000

Especially when you can zero the scope to 200yds and make it basically point and shoot.

New comment by redhed in "The Death and Life of Prediction Markets at Google"

redhed — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 20:01:30 +0000

Many sports gambling companies do this, weighing the bets of "sharps" (people who are more accurate than the average) heavier than other bets. A good example of this was Mayweather vs McGregor where a lot of sharps were betting on Mayweather whereas the public was betting more on McGregor. Even with about 80% of people betting on McGregor, the house still had Mayweather as a favorite.

New comment by redhed in "Λ-2D: An Exploration of Drawing as Programming Language"

redhed — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 18:20:52 +0000

LabVIEW is still used a lot in Aerospace. Definitely due for a replacement at some point.