Hacker News: samsolomon

New comment by samsolomon in "The AirPods Effect"

samsolomon — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:12:45 +0000

I've done the exact same. I frequently take walks and walk places and often used that time for an audio book or podcast. A zen revelation has been taking these walks and not bringing my phone. It's my daily meditation.

New comment by samsolomon in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

samsolomon — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:46:32 +0000

Ancient brains, medieval institutions, godlike technology.

Tristan Harris had some sort of comment like that on a podcast about the challenges posed by AI.

High-Agency Strategy

samsolomon — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:00:50 +0000

Article URL: https://mattstromawn.com/writing/high-agency-strategy/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48372000

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Perplexity's New Mac App Brings Personal Computer to Pro Users

samsolomon — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:55:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/05/07/perplexity-mac-app-personal-computer/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48064924

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Iran war has drained U.S. supplies of critical, costly weapons

samsolomon — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:51:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/us/politics/iran-war-cost-military.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47890319

Points: 39

# Comments: 71

New comment by samsolomon in "Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing"

samsolomon — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:54:32 +0000

Honestly, I'm pretty bullish on Apple and AI. I think there move is in local, open source models. These are getting better and better for generic ChatGPT—type tasks. I'm kind of waiting for Apple to ship their own Ollama. And it's going to be a huge win for both them and consumers.

Allbirds shares soar 600% as it pivots from footwear to AI

samsolomon — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:04:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/15/investing/allbirds-pivot-to-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47781969

Points: 27

# Comments: 9

New comment by samsolomon in "A.I. Helped One Man (and His Brother) Build a $1.8B Company"

samsolomon — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:00:04 +0000

Well, this guy isn't training models in his basement—if that's what you're looking for?

I think the point of this article is that AI enables people to do so much more? Much of marketing is creating engaging content and AI allows people to create more than ever.

New comment by samsolomon in "A.I. Helped One Man (and His Brother) Build a $1.8B Company"

samsolomon — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:51:59 +0000

On one hand this is so impressive. On the other it seems like a company selling drugs or medical services using misleading/generated photos and reviews is not great and extremely risky.

This must largely be going into testing and generating marketing content? I am extremely curious about his processes.

Product Design in 2026

samsolomon — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:07:07 +0000

Article URL: https://solomon.io/product-design-2026/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47350714

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Apple's New MacBooks Have a Keyboard Change You Might Have Missed

samsolomon — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:33:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/10/macbook-keyboard-change/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47330534

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Hegseth to meet Anthropic CEO as Pentagon threatens banishment

samsolomon — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:31:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.axios.com/2026/02/23/hegseth-dario-pentagon-meeting-antrhopic-claude

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47131162

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by samsolomon in "Recoverable and Irrecoverable Decisions"

samsolomon — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:07:53 +0000

I've often thought along similar lines. I've found that indecision is almost always worse than a bad one. Very few choices are so decisive that you can't course-correct later.

That mindset has served me well both personally and professionally.

Toledo Derailment Rescue [video]

samsolomon — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 01:31:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPHh5yHxkfU

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46930414

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Zen Hacker News

samsolomon — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 18:16:48 +0000

Article URL: https://solomon.io/zen-hacker-news/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46916186

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

What We Can't Control (2016)

samsolomon — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:19:31 +0000

Article URL: https://solomon.io/what-we-cant-control/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46766692

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Printable Grid Paper

samsolomon — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 20:47:49 +0000

Article URL: https://grid-paper.daverupert.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46758027

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

New comment by samsolomon in "Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms"

samsolomon — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 18:42:06 +0000

Not this community's opinion on agents, but I've found it helpful to check the lmarena leaderboards occasionally. Your comment prompted me to take a look for the first time in a while. Kind of surprising to see models like MiniMax 2.1 above most of the OpenAI GPTs.

https://lmarena.ai/leaderboard/code

Also, I'm not sure if it's exactly the case but I think you can look at throughput of the models on openrouter and get an idea of how fast/expensive they are.

https://openrouter.ai/minimax/minimax-m2.1

Laracasts: I'm Done [video]

samsolomon — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 01:06:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_Bvo0tsD9s

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46740068

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by samsolomon in "RTS for Agents"

samsolomon — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 14:26:39 +0000

Man, I could see the next Total Annihilation / Supreme Commander-like game where rough orders/instructions are given to commanders and they carry out those commands.

The scale of those games was already nuts, but that would 10x things.