Hacker News: seanclayton

New comment by seanclayton in "Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production"

seanclayton — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 14:10:18 +0000

a loss of 7 million dollars in a 49 million dollar account is tiny, TIL

New comment by seanclayton in "GPT-6 Astra covertly underperforms on safety research"

seanclayton — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 15:48:18 +0000

> Maybe we should train them to be evil

"jarvis, learn to be evil. no side effects. no unintentional behavior."

New comment by seanclayton in "Show HN: Rustable is an open source database client built in Rust"

seanclayton — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 12:45:45 +0000

Language changes.

New comment by seanclayton in "Show HN: Rustable is an open source database client built in Rust"

seanclayton — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 12:44:20 +0000

Meanwhile macos prompts users to not run signed software?

New comment by seanclayton in "Alleged Mythos Class Anthropic Checkpoint Leak"

seanclayton — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 12:43:05 +0000

That seems to be reality, and reality is as realistic as it gets

New comment by seanclayton in "DoorDash to acquire Instacart"

seanclayton — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 15:14:34 +0000

Profit? Who cares about profit today in tech? It's tomorrow's profit that matters. Whenever that is.

New comment by seanclayton in "DoorDash to Acquire Instacart"

seanclayton — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 15:13:11 +0000

A resounding victory for workers and customers, right?

Right?

New comment by seanclayton in "Kentucky man becomes the first humanist granted religious exemption from AI"

seanclayton — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 14:02:26 +0000

Exactly. The person or people above him who wanted AI to be used against his will will ultimately achieve their goals---no matter what his beliefs are. At the end of the day, his views of humanism are futile against the force of those in favor of AI acceptance.

New comment by seanclayton in "Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to a quarter of its workforce"

seanclayton — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 23:33:27 +0000

What's bad about the Luddites, in your opinion?

New comment by seanclayton in "Writing Is Closer to Thought Than Code"

seanclayton — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 14:22:15 +0000

Code being highest priority is the last line of defense against human intent being misunderstood. If it isn't given the highest priority, the last line of defense for human intent is done during the spec creation. Am I getting that wrong?

I'd rather have a car built by people who made sure the code was highest priority and the code driving the assembly line robots was up to spec, versus having a car built by people who made sure the spec was highest priority, and the code driving the assembly line was not.

New comment by seanclayton in "Imagine an AI future where being banned means you are now economically useless"

seanclayton — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 15:52:03 +0000

> It only makes Google look unprofessional and paranoid

Yet, the stock ticker kept on rising after the incident.

New comment by seanclayton in "Danish Government silently drops plan to dump MS Office"

seanclayton — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 20:01:05 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines

New comment by seanclayton in "Steam Client is now faster than Epic's new vibe coded launcher"

seanclayton — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:33:07 +0000

> Steam hasn't meaningfully changed in a decade

They completely rewrote their UI? Do you not remember the old library? The old downloads page? The old big picture mode? You may be suffering from selective memory

New comment by seanclayton in "Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome"

seanclayton — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 01:46:43 +0000

But why would I ditch Firefox?

New comment by seanclayton in "Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city"

seanclayton — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:16:31 +0000

As someone swimming in debt and on the verge of homelessness, I wish I could afford that life of complete luxury.

New comment by seanclayton in "Heat May Kill 451,000 People in First 9 Months of Super El Niño"

seanclayton — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 22:27:56 +0000

A small price to pay, but the stock market is doing great.

New comment by seanclayton in "Xbox continues its “reset” with dramatic restructuring"

seanclayton — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 22:18:22 +0000

343? Do you mean Activision?

New comment by seanclayton in "I think I hate the internet"

seanclayton — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 11:48:02 +0000

What seems more likely: There are literally zero people working on a web alternative, or all existing alternatives and forks are so unpopular that you have never heard of any of them?

New comment by seanclayton in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"

seanclayton — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:00:30 +0000

What hardware player other than Apple would you give that same trust to?

New comment by seanclayton in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"

seanclayton — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 11:55:38 +0000

Businesses trust brand names, not efficiency.