Hacker News: saneshark

New comment by saneshark in "Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy"

saneshark — Wed, 06 May 2026 15:17:56 +0000

Yeah, this was one that reached a level of maturity where I quickly lost interest. I like to build. I don’t like to market.

beta.jobwiz.biz

New comment by saneshark in "Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy"

saneshark — Wed, 06 May 2026 05:29:23 +0000

All of the domains are public. Whenever a new model comes out I like to ask a very specific prompt that helps me identify niche markets with high buyer urgency, have the AI rank them across a rubric, pick the one that has the highest degree of automation potential and then have it build me an MVP.

I’m not trying to shamelessly promote here but since you asked one of them is at jobwiz.biz

New comment by saneshark in "Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy"

saneshark — Wed, 06 May 2026 03:55:01 +0000

Claude has been buying domains and deploying to Vercel for me using aws cli, vercel cli, and gh cli since December. Personally I prefer a cli to an MCP server for this type of thing.

New comment by saneshark in "Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use"

saneshark — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 10:02:56 +0000

OpenClaw, NanoClaw, et al all use AgentSDK which will from now on be forbidden.

They are literally alienating a large percentage of OpenClaw, NanoClaw, PicoClaw, customers because those customers will surely not be willing to pay API pricing, which is at least 6-10x Max Plan pricing (for my usage).

This isn’t too surprising to me since they probably have a direct competitor to openclaw et al in the works right now, but until then I am cancelling my subscription and porting my nanoclaw fork with mem0 integration to work with OpenAI instead.

Thats not a “That’ll teach ‘em” statement, it is just my own cost optimization. I am quite fond of Anthropic’s coding models and might still subscribe again at the $20 level, but they just priced me out for personal assistant, research, and 90% of my token use case.

New comment by saneshark in "Why one of the most brilliant AI scientists left the US for China"

saneshark — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 23:33:17 +0000

Fascinating Guardian profile of Song-Chun Zhu, a leading AI scientist who left UCLA for China after nearly three decades in the US. He argues that today’s AI, dominated by large neural nets and benchmark-driven research, has drifted away from the deeper pursuit of intelligence — reasoning, causality, social and physical understanding. Zhu says China offered him resources and freedom to chase these harder, less fashionable questions, while US academia felt increasingly constrained by political pressure, funding structures, and a preference for “safe” incremental work.

Raises two questions: Are we losing diversity of scientific thought by letting scale-driven AI monopolize the field? And what does it mean for global research leadership if the next big paradigm shift in AI comes from outside the US?

New comment by saneshark in "101 BASIC Computer Games"

saneshark — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 05:37:05 +0000

I don’t see gorillas.bas — that was my favorite. I actually found my appreciation for writing code modifying lines of code in that game to make bigger explosions.

New comment by saneshark in "My Favorite Book on AI"

saneshark — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 20:48:08 +0000

I just finished listening to it on audible. It is certainly thought provoking, but full of contradictions as others have mentioned. Namely that this technology cannot be contained, and yet that it must be contained is pretty doom and gloom. The prognostications about artificial intelligence are hardly as scary as the ones made around genetic sequencing — that you can buy a device for 30k that will print pathogens and viruses for you out of your garage. That’s some scary stuff.

New comment by saneshark in "Reverse engineering Wordle"

saneshark — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 15:23:34 +0000

how long before this is ported to IOS and becomes the #1 grossing game? I'm thinking ketchapp is already on it.

New comment by saneshark in "A battery invented 120 years before its time"

saneshark — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 09:24:02 +0000

A few of them in series could increase the voltage.

New comment by saneshark in "“I'm not sure there is an acceptable solution to the problem we are facing”"

saneshark — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 08:56:11 +0000

It's a beautiful thing if it can bring humanity together towards a common aim.

But if it leads to the collapse of monetary systems, the collapse of civil society, looting, rioting, the rise of nationalism, and WWIII that's most certainly going to lead more death and destruction than the virus itself.

New comment by saneshark in "Ask HN: How do I choose the right resource to learn CS fundamentals?"

saneshark — Tue, 31 Dec 2019 08:11:44 +0000

MIT has entire courseware available for free.

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/find-by-topic/#cat=engineering&s...

Introduction to Computer Science followed by Data Structures and Algorithms should give you a healthy start.

Learning these fundamentals is useful, but not necessarily immediately practical. Building and doing is the best way to learn. This is a good start, and the fundamentals will certainly give you an edge against most people graduating from a bootcamp, but after this I'd recommend finding a good tutorial, whatever the language that teaches you step by step how to build XYZ... I learned ruby/rails by doing Michael Hartl's tutorial building a microblogging platform like twitter.

New comment by saneshark in "Programmers Should Plan for Lower Pay?"

saneshark — Sun, 29 Dec 2019 07:41:13 +0000

The best part is, that unlike medical or law you can also do it from virtually anywhere.

I have been doing some semblance of programming since I was 8 years old (now 39). I think it’s one of those things you kind of have to have a passion for or you can easily get burned out.

But I also think it’s one of those things that are more in demand than ever. If I was laid off I’d have to question why I was working for the company in the first place and didn’t see it coming. There are quite literally 7-8 LinkedIn messages from recruiters almost daily. I’m not sure many attorneys or physicians can say that. And when you are in demand like that you’re constantly leveling up your salary every few years.

Finally, I know or very few professions where every 3-5 years you need to completely have learned something new to stay ahead of the game. When I was 8 I was doing q-basic. I’ve had to learn over 12 languages since then.

New comment by saneshark in "I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam on Airbnb"

saneshark — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 02:39:53 +0000

As someone who has lived out of AirBnB for almost 3 years traveling all around the world and never once being scammed, I find the title of this article to be a bit alarmist.

AirBnB has host and guest verification options. If Becky and Andrew don't have their identities verified via drivers license but manage over 90 properties that is your first red flag right there.

Second, if the host can't accommodate you you reach out to AirBnb and put the onus on them to find you an acceptable property that meets your standards. You don't let the host offer up some random place that happens to be available, that's suspicious.

I've had a number of hosts cancel on me at the last minute recently, I didn't immediately jump to the conclusion that it must be a scam. I simply assumed that their property is also listed on VRBO and other sites and someone either beat me to the punch or they got more money, or they didn't realize that they can't list the unit and forgot to take down the listing.

Mistakes happen. Sure, there are scammers out there on every platform, but in my 3 years and over 100 successful stays, I really find this article's title tough to swallow.

New comment by saneshark in "For Fathers of Daughters"

saneshark — Sat, 26 Oct 2019 20:49:06 +0000

I really enjoyed reading this article as a way of reevaluating my approach to gender inequality, but I have a problem with the title and main premise.

Why do you need to have a daughter to support gender equality? Aren't these values equally as important to instill in your sons? Aren't they values we should embrace regardless of whether or not we have children?

New comment by saneshark in "U.S. Air Force has shot down multiple air-launched missiles in a test"

saneshark — Tue, 07 May 2019 07:15:01 +0000

Even taking out a small area in today's modern combat fighters would do serious damage, and travelling at the speed of light there isn't much that maneuverability or current defensive countermeasure can do to deter a laser.

New comment by saneshark in "U.S. Air Force has shot down multiple air-launched missiles in a test"

saneshark — Tue, 07 May 2019 06:36:33 +0000

While this seems promising it seems like it will be a short lived phenomenon. Missles will just become obsolete and then you have to come up with a deterrent for lasers.

Is anyone actively working on laser deflector shields?

New comment by saneshark in "Fifteen-year-old Nigerian builds small scale construction machines [video]"

saneshark — Fri, 03 May 2019 19:31:45 +0000

I hope someone at caterpillar is taking notice and offers a scholarship to Hope. This reminds me of the story of Srinivasa Ramanujuan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan

Could you imagine a future where these massive machines are controlled by remote operators running green, all electric energy sources?

New comment by saneshark in "Cirque du Soleil acquires Blue Man Group"

saneshark — Sat, 08 Jul 2017 14:22:25 +0000

Wow! "I'm afraid I just blue myself."

Efficient and Affordable Supersonic Flight

saneshark — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 19:42:38 +0000

Article URL: http://boomsupersonic.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13161194

Points: 1

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New comment by saneshark in "Ask HN: Have you ever thought of leaving programming for something else?"

saneshark — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 07:16:44 +0000

I work full-time for adhocteam.us, a government contractor. I'm active on vets.gov and we're hiring. Tag me on something you're proud of on Github and I'll take a peak, I'm saneshark on there too.