Hacker News: seanclayton

New comment by seanclayton in "We all depend on open source. We will defend it together"

seanclayton — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:29:21 +0000

I yearn for the day I see a headline like "We All Depend on Open Source. We Will Fund It Together"

New comment by seanclayton in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

seanclayton — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:12:17 +0000

They trained their AI on their AI. Anthropic trained their AI on a bunch of copyright-protected works. Sucks to suck, Dario!

New comment by seanclayton in "For most of the world, open-source AI is the only way forward"

seanclayton — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:37:14 +0000

Laptops with Chromebooks. Mobile with Android phones. Game consoles in Steam decks and now Steam Machines. The things linux appears on are growing. The things proprietary OSes appear on are shrinking. Losers and victors in a war are often defined by who loses and who gains the most.

New comment by seanclayton in "Deno Desktop"

seanclayton — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 20:43:09 +0000

> Why would I use Tauri now?

The same set of reasons anyone made desktop apps before Deno desktop launched. Deno desktop is not the reason desktop apps are made. If someone really wanted a desktop app made before, deno desktop isn't going to suddenly make new ones start appearing. It will just be a new choice among the many.

New comment by seanclayton in "Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation"

seanclayton — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:17:14 +0000

Lisps have multiple issues, but syntax is definitely not it. It might take a little bit of time getting used to, if you are coming from another language, but LISPs are some of the most readable languages I've ever worked with.

New comment by seanclayton in "Notes from tired Egyptian whose job is explaining that humans built the pyramids"

seanclayton — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:15:20 +0000

In the half century that has passed since the publishing of that book, plenty of work has been done to say that ancient human thinking wasn't primitive, especially the ones that made the pyramids 4,600 years ago, such as the Red Sea Scrolls: How Ancient Papyri Reveal the Secrets of the Pyramids by Mark Lehner and Pierre Tallet (2022) which alludes to the minds of competent and intelligent humans

New comment by seanclayton in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

seanclayton — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 01:46:54 +0000

Elon's not going to work 24/7 through the upcoming depression

New comment by seanclayton in "Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai speech"

seanclayton — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:15:34 +0000

> it’s hard for me to feel sympathy.

That is a you problem, but the first step to improvement is acknowledgement, so kudos. An improved ability for sympathy is encouraged.

New comment by seanclayton in "Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai speech"

seanclayton — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:13:57 +0000

That is one perspective. Would you accept that there are other, equally valid, perspectives which challenge the one you repeated?

New comment by seanclayton in "Typst 0.15.0"

seanclayton — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:54:04 +0000

Markdown has the same class of issue and resolves it the same way you would with Typst: The escape character \. You instead write saved \$50 million using C\#.

New comment by seanclayton in "Tesla Full Self Driving uses bicycle lane in official Denmark approval video"

seanclayton — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:42:13 +0000

Makes sense to use software modeled on California laws in software made for Denmark's laws for sure.

New comment by seanclayton in "Software Is Made Between Commits"

seanclayton — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:39:51 +0000

> What we're really after is simple: the conversation with the agent becomes the only conversation you need to have.

This benefits those who make the machines you have conversations with and those that invest in them.

New comment by seanclayton in "VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare"

seanclayton — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:14:29 +0000

Vite isn't a product. It's a tool. It will be succeeded if necessary. It happened to Webpack after Microsoft hired the creator, and the JS community pivoted hard. Bundlers and compilers in the JS world happen once a decade it appears.

New comment by seanclayton in "Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language"

seanclayton — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:47:55 +0000

No one I know wears the shoes I like to wear, which is too bad, because that means I can't enjoy them as much now.

New comment by seanclayton in "Three Ways to Get Paid (2018)"

seanclayton — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:33:14 +0000

God forbid you go broke, can't have that

New comment by seanclayton in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

seanclayton — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:21:19 +0000

Your lack of complaining is expected and depended on, but I do encourage your continued enthusiasm in that acceptance! Someone's bottom line depends on it, and they probably make way more money than you so they really need it!

New comment by seanclayton in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

seanclayton — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:19:35 +0000

If it's a tech company it's not "if it's free you're the product" it's just "you're the product" nowadays. I am so happy kids these days no longer trust tech because I'd hate to see how exploited they'd be otherwise.

New comment by seanclayton in "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence"

seanclayton — Fri, 22 May 2026 12:40:03 +0000

Some people live paycheck to paycheck in tech. Where do they walk away to that isn't or won't be impacted by AI? Or are you assuming they have the financial support for such a risky switch?

New comment by seanclayton in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"

seanclayton — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:57:56 +0000

Where are you looking at? Maybe look at other places besides the ones you expose yourself to.

New comment by seanclayton in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"

seanclayton — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:40:50 +0000

Ukraine also gave up its nukes. Look how that worked out for them and Europe.