Hacker News: sampton

New comment by sampton in "ElementaryUI – Swift, in the Browser"

sampton — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 23:49:38 +0000

I paid $20 for their interface builder and never got it.

New comment by sampton in "Solar power is becoming bigger than nuclear"

sampton — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 17:32:14 +0000

Technically solar is fusion.

New comment by sampton in "Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat"

sampton — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:47:58 +0000

Kids have done rogue. Stop the trainings!!

New comment by sampton in "Why Book Corners won't sync contributions back to OpenStreetMap"

sampton — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 01:25:43 +0000

OSM needs a way to ingest "signals" instead of edits.

New comment by sampton in "Karpathy’s Pelican"

sampton — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:10:31 +0000

Pelican maxxing.

New comment by sampton in "SwiftUI After 7 Years"

sampton — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 19:49:12 +0000

SwiftUI is gold compared to SwiftData.

New comment by sampton in "U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio reaches 123%"

sampton — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:01:33 +0000

I wonder what the exit plan is. One time conversion of social security into Trump accounts and call it a day?

New comment by sampton in "Qwen 3.8"

sampton — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 18:06:58 +0000

This is reminiscent of the operating system wars and browser wars. In the end there will only be 2 models that can survive. 1: give it away for free or 2: locked in with top notch hardware.

New comment by sampton in "Kode Dot Programmable pocket device for makers, pentesters and geeks"

sampton — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:25:50 +0000

It's nice but should be half as much.

New comment by sampton in "Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone"

sampton — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:43:14 +0000

MDM is just parental control for adults.

New comment by sampton in "GPT‑Live"

sampton — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:36:00 +0000

I want this in my ear when I'm talking to people, so I can carry a real conversation.

New comment by sampton in "Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk"

sampton — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:37:58 +0000

Pour one out for the original A.I. (Actual Indians).

New comment by sampton in "Launch HN: Manufact (YC S25) – MCP Cloud"

sampton — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:29:50 +0000

MCP is a deadend. CLI use is the future.

New comment by sampton in "Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics"

sampton — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:05:03 +0000

Why do you need software when FPGA can solve everything.

New comment by sampton in "Techno-libertarians are flocking to the Caribbean"

sampton — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:56:40 +0000

Without a proper supply chain 50m is just a fart in the wind.

New comment by sampton in "EV demand up 50% in France and Germany since Iran war"

sampton — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 22:52:52 +0000

What is there to not understand. Given large enough population there's always someone ready to update.

New comment by sampton in "BYD overtakes Tesla and Kia as the best-selling EV brand in key overseas markets"

sampton — Wed, 06 May 2026 18:57:33 +0000

Doesn't Tesla have a factory in China?

New comment by sampton in "Iran war sparks renewables boom as Europeans rush to buy solar, heat pumps, EVs"

sampton — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:15:41 +0000

Similar to how Hitler ushered in a whole generation of liberal demacracy and human rights protection across the world.

New comment by sampton in "GPT-5.4"

sampton — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:52:40 +0000

That's been my experience as well switching from Opus to Codex. Reasoning takes longer but answers are precise. Claude is sloppy in comparison.

New comment by sampton in "Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI"

sampton — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:41:52 +0000

I started using Codex 5.3. Compare to Opus 4.6, it's more precise in pinning down bugs and more concise with code. Opus can be best described as distracted and easily agreeable. Codex actually digs deeper for root causes and push back when I'm wrong.