Hacker News: scottyah

New comment by scottyah in "Claude Opus 4.7"

scottyah — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:56:09 +0000

OpenAI replaced its founding engineers with Meta PMs. The shift towards consumer engagement metrics and marketing is apparent.

New comment by scottyah in "Claude Opus 4.7"

scottyah — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:05:57 +0000

So many people confuse sycophantic behavior with producing results.

New comment by scottyah in "Claude Opus 4.7"

scottyah — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:04:05 +0000

Attracting talent with huge sums of money just gets you people who optimize for money, and it's usually never a good long-term decision. I think it's what led to Google's downturn.

New comment by scottyah in "Claude Opus 4.7"

scottyah — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:01:35 +0000

Nobody was talking about them betting too much on compute, people were saying that their shady deals on compute with NVIDIA and Oracle were creating a giant bubble in their attempt to get a Too Big To Fail judgement (in their words- taxpayer-backed "backstop").

New comment by scottyah in "Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone"

scottyah — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:47:35 +0000

Did you miss the article?

https://news.unsw.edu.au/en/meet-the-man-who-designed-a-canc...

New comment by scottyah in "Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone"

scottyah — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:55:51 +0000

Random people cure cancer for their dog, every business can vibe code an app to make their operations more efficient, anyone can launch a business with 10% of the effort it used to take.

The AI companies are only capturing like 5% of the value produced with this tech right now.

New comment by scottyah in "Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone"

scottyah — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:52:13 +0000

It's the same as the sad drunk man talking bad about the King at a dirty bar. It makes them feel better to compare or say they're better in some way.

New comment by scottyah in "Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone"

scottyah — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:43:03 +0000

Tell claude what you do and ask it where it can be the most helpful. It is true that the tool has to be learned, and won't help everywhere. If you are doing web dev just to make a tool, it is purely magical. I've found it to be mostly useless in making geed helm charts.

New comment by scottyah in "Claude.ai down"

scottyah — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:48:32 +0000

Faster in what way? All the open models we have access to at work are very noticeably behind the frontier models to the point where it's usually faster to not use them at all.

New comment by scottyah in "We May Be Living Through the Most Consequential Hundred Days in Cyber History"

scottyah — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:45:23 +0000

Well society had to go and get rid of religion, so people needed another opiate.

New comment by scottyah in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"

scottyah — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:23:16 +0000

Oh wow, TIL. Thanks!

New comment by scottyah in "US summons bank bosses over cyber risks from Anthropic's latest AI model"

scottyah — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:12:15 +0000

They obviously meant on an unprecedented scale.

New comment by scottyah in "US summons bank bosses over cyber risks from Anthropic's latest AI model"

scottyah — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:11:06 +0000

At least one of those banks is already in the partnership, and we don't know how many they reached out to.

New comment by scottyah in "US summons bank bosses over cyber risks from Anthropic's latest AI model"

scottyah — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:09:34 +0000

That's probably a contributing factor as to why they already partnered with all the biggest tech companies.

New comment by scottyah in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"

scottyah — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:16:19 +0000

Common missiles go about 900 mph faster...

New comment by scottyah in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"

scottyah — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:40:38 +0000

Can they drive straight to you at 60mph without stopping?

New comment by scottyah in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

scottyah — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:05:52 +0000

Some of my favorite are the perhaps well-meaning but totally misguided log of what files they changed.

New comment by scottyah in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

scottyah — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:04:35 +0000

git blame's are amazing, and rely on good comments.

New comment by scottyah in "Google open-sources experimental agent orchestration testbed Scion"

scottyah — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:18:02 +0000

The same way linux isn't. It's easy to start, all the base modifications/configurations are fairly simple, and if you find yourself deep into custom ways of using it, it's open source and fairly well documented with a large community.

New comment by scottyah in "Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)"

scottyah — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:46:48 +0000

My bathroom is a couple mm of microcement over Schluter Kerdi-Board foam, it's fairly strong. I think it can hold a laptop no problem.