Hacker News: selestify

New comment by selestify in "TSMC to make advanced AI semiconductors in Japan"

selestify — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 09:43:55 +0000

Ok, well I guess if Europe is fine with a continued slide in global economic relevance, they can keep their status quo.

But something tells me that's not what Europeans generally want...

New comment by selestify in "Don't fall into the anti-AI hype"

selestify — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 06:47:27 +0000

> I can't resist trying to correct them and tell them how absurdly wrong they are.

Oh god I thought I was the only one. Do you find yourself getting mad at them too?

New comment by selestify in "Datadog, thank you for blocking us"

selestify — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 03:11:58 +0000

Why do you say that? It didn’t come across that way to me at all, perhaps because I don’t spend much time on LinkedIn. But even granting that, the content presented was interesting and useful.

New comment by selestify in "Graphite is joining Cursor"

selestify — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 12:13:45 +0000

How is Microsoft mismanaging things?

New comment by selestify in "Show HN: Autism Simulator"

selestify — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 09:04:55 +0000

What did you end up doing for your ADHD post-diagnosis? Has it fixed your concentration problems?

New comment by selestify in "We got hit by an alarmingly well-prepared phish spammer"

selestify — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 14:57:42 +0000

What are these scammers looking for? Presumably not to just get a refund on their vacation or package delivery.

New comment by selestify in "Why I Chose Common Lisp"

selestify — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 05:30:14 +0000

How do you get started on learning all that? I’ve never come close to getting such productivity out of Emacs.

New comment by selestify in "Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess"

selestify — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 12:33:57 +0000

How do you define thinking?

New comment by selestify in "Why wordfreq will not be updated"

selestify — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 05:57:05 +0000

Wow, you’re not kidding. The “return policy” info box officially links to https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/dozens-hezbollah-m...

New comment by selestify in "Nevada’s public employee pension fund invests passively and beats peers (2016)"

selestify — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 04:25:37 +0000

How does that explain Warren Buffet’s spectacular success?

New comment by selestify in "Open-Sora does pretty good video generation on consumer GPUs"

selestify — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 12:20:33 +0000

We should find new ways to fund essential services like journalism and the arts, rather than artificially crimping the possibilities of new technology in order to get a half-assed solution under the current paradigm.

New comment by selestify in "Testing Generative AI for Circuit Board Design"

selestify — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 06:51:38 +0000

IMO it’s not wrong to want the next improvement (“…but without making up dangerous nonsense”), but it is disingenuous to pretend as if there hasn’t already been a huge leap in capabilities. It’s like being unimpressed with the Wright brothers’ flight because nobody has figured out commercial air travel yet.

New comment by selestify in "Testing Generative AI for Circuit Board Design"

selestify — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 01:03:57 +0000

Are there any write ups of the newly evil Google experience I can read about? When did things shift for you in the 2016 - 2023 timeframe?

New comment by selestify in "Testing Generative AI for Circuit Board Design"

selestify — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 00:59:38 +0000

This is a great example of goalposts shifting. Even having a model that can engage in coherent conversation and synthesize new information on the fly is revolutionary compared to just a few years ago. Now the bar has moved up to creativity without human intervention.

New comment by selestify in "Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publishers' court win"

selestify — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 00:54:12 +0000

If society wanted to, it could most certainly choose to allow for the copying of any bits you are in possession of, while also forcing you to distribute additional bits in certain circumstances.

New comment by selestify in "Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publishers' court win"

selestify — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 00:45:41 +0000

Do you have any data to back that up? Wouldn’t something being highly pirated indicate that there’s a lot of interest in a reprint?

New comment by selestify in "Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publishers' court win"

selestify — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 00:43:09 +0000

Why is it a fundamental freedom of the author to restrict who gets the freedom to share their enjoyment of the author’s works with others?

New comment by selestify in "Silicon Valley's best kept secret: Founder liquidity"

selestify — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 05:38:56 +0000

Why the disparity? Especially with Canada - no language barrier and no time zone differences. Why doesn’t the free market equalize Canadian dev wages with American ones?

New comment by selestify in "A ‘plague’ comes before the fall: lessons from Roman history"

selestify — Thu, 16 May 2024 02:01:40 +0000

So what ended the western part, and why didn’t the same thing end the eastern part?

New comment by selestify in "GPT-4o"

selestify — Mon, 13 May 2024 23:29:49 +0000

Do you remember where you read that comic? Sounds like a fun read