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New comment by seizethecheese in "The AirPods Effect"

seizethecheese — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 15:46:06 +0000

Funny how new technology is unnatural but old technology, (that existed before we were born, like cars, streets, subways) are “natural”.

New comment by seizethecheese in "Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?"

seizethecheese — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 06:01:54 +0000

I’m colorblind but it looks either orange or green, not normal color

New comment by seizethecheese in "Automating my job away"

seizethecheese — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 03:05:52 +0000

I too found the article lacking, however I also feel we should have a new HN guideline to not talk about whether or not something was written by AI. It’s rather tiresome, and in this case probably wrong (AIs hate leaving things incomplete).

New comment by seizethecheese in "Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?"

seizethecheese — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 03:32:04 +0000

Kudos for delivering.

#1 sounds a lot like stoicism.

New comment by seizethecheese in "Waymo Premier"

seizethecheese — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:17:22 +0000

This kind of gender politics is tiresome. You could easily point out that for women public transit is untenable after dark instead of bringing the OP’s identity into it.

New comment by seizethecheese in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

seizethecheese — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:34:40 +0000

Interesting point but even those people’s brains aren’t immutable. The have habit change without memory.

New comment by seizethecheese in "The dead economy theory"

seizethecheese — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:45:24 +0000

We have a word for imagining a society with different sources of happiness: utopian. We generally don’t regard utopian musings as evidence of anything.

New comment by seizethecheese in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"

seizethecheese — Fri, 15 May 2026 16:40:14 +0000

A big pet peeve of mine with Project Gutenberg was the lack of mobile styling. Looks like it’s been fixed! Awesome.

New comment by seizethecheese in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

seizethecheese — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:27:56 +0000

You can’t tinker with someone else’s machine but you can tinker through it.

New comment by seizethecheese in "Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutorial (2004)"

seizethecheese — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:05:40 +0000

Says something interesting about education. Exposure to tools had perhaps as much impact than what the high schools were actually teaching .

New comment by seizethecheese in "Ted Turner has died"

seizethecheese — Wed, 06 May 2026 18:36:31 +0000

If you’re intrigued by the comments here, I highly recommend his memoir Call Me Ted.

New comment by seizethecheese in "Three Inverse Laws of AI"

seizethecheese — Tue, 05 May 2026 19:40:58 +0000

Consider how sailors lovingly refer to their craft as “she”. My vague sense is that society views this as a positive.

New comment by seizethecheese in "AI Product Graveyard"

seizethecheese — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:16:04 +0000

Do you ever upvote links? Upon reflection I realize that I hardly ever do. Perhaps thoughtful participants could redouble our efforts in this regard.

New comment by seizethecheese in "AI Product Graveyard"

seizethecheese — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:13:42 +0000

Probably both, but HN has been floated its own boat since well before AI, so that one is for certain.

New comment by seizethecheese in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

seizethecheese — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:28:36 +0000

I was curious about this, so I searched for the most authoritative study on private equity. Here’s what I got: https://journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/AMBPP.2021.14309abstrac...

This says that private equity effect on employment is neutral and efficiency is positive.

So what gives?

New comment by seizethecheese in "US Supreme Court reviews police use of cell location data"

seizethecheese — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:57:25 +0000

This is an excellent point and I largely agree. I do wonder though: do we have a reasonable expectation of privacy when using Google mobile services?

New comment by seizethecheese in "An update on recent Claude Code quality reports"

seizethecheese — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:40:03 +0000

It's also a bit of a fishy explanation for purging tokens older than an hour. This happens to also be their cache limit. I doubt it is incidental that this change would also dramatically drop their cost.

New comment by seizethecheese in "Brands got worse on purpose"

seizethecheese — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:01:36 +0000

The interesting thing here is that this is about brands being bought out of bankruptcy and licensed. The trademark system in the US exists to prevent consumer confusion, one might think that if a company ceases to exist, the trademark shouldn’t survive.

New comment by seizethecheese in "Claude Design"

seizethecheese — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:27:36 +0000

Just last week, I asked the designer on my team to try working in Codex instead of Figma. It’s just not a great workflow to pass a figma file to a developer to implement. She hasn’t wanted to go back yet…

New comment by seizethecheese in "The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Safety"

seizethecheese — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:54:48 +0000

Yeah, addiction and monopoly.