Hacker News: sfmz

New comment by sfmz in "Ask HN: Paid ambient/background noise for focus?"

sfmz — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:44:53 +0000

Make a yt playlist of lo-fi, there's a lot of it, then u can dl it with yt-dlp.

Mexican lo-fi is a nice sub-genre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4XHt0iVfRU

New comment by sfmz in "AI can cost more than human workers now"

sfmz — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 11:49:35 +0000

Inference cost is dropping 30x this year (see GTC keynote) So imo this is a meaningless blip.

New comment by sfmz in "Ask HN: Am I getting old, or is working with AI juniors becoming a nightmare?"

sfmz — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:58:50 +0000

Meta/Google/Anthropic report 75%+ of coding is now AI. For every engineer orchestrating AIs -- X will be let go -- but at what ratio 3:1? 5:1? 10:1? Seems like its at least 3.

New comment by sfmz in "Ask HN: So like should I ring people? How do I get the foot in the door?"

sfmz — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 11:25:08 +0000

Chain a few tools together to make demos, give them away, charge for upkeep.

eg. yt: Nano-Banana + Kling + Claude Code = scrolling-exploded-headphones demo in a few minutes.

https://youtu.be/mhIAd5lVMag?t=133

New comment by sfmz in "Ask HN: Is it worth taking a year off?"

sfmz — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:53:34 +0000

If you take a year off to orchestrate some complex-workflows with agents... I expect you'll still be hire-able, but idk.

New comment by sfmz in "XRP Investor Loses $3M After Mistakenly Using Cold Wallet as Hot Wallet"

sfmz — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 19:14:18 +0000

I've never seen a proper defense of XRP, but its been a top 5 coin for like a decade...

New comment by sfmz in "Amazon hopes to replace 600k US workers with robots"

sfmz — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 15:59:40 +0000

In the battle of capital vs labor, the capital wins when the laborers are not needed.

New comment by sfmz in "Ask HN: What level of news do you need and not need?"

sfmz — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 15:21:21 +0000

You probably don't need very much news at all. I like learning interesting second-order effects of current events, but they aren't necessary for my life. Here's a few I found interesting lately:

Gen-Z doesn't go to parties anymore because they are on screens all day and/or have social anxiety

Photoshop tutorial business is cratering because people aren't interested in learning how to manipulate photos when they can just create one via text

Japanese guy called do-nothing-guy gets paid to go to restaurants with pretty women in Japan because apparently they can't get a date or are too shy or something terrible is happening with the social fabric in Japan idk what

Its interesting to think about automating the news, you'd need a news feed from every courthouse, twitter feed, sports arena, press release -- run them through various processes, identify trendlines, etc. no small task

New comment by sfmz in "Fatima for the Non-Religious"

sfmz — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 12:46:55 +0000

The secular papers at the time confirmed the events, so this hot take is low-efefort and low-information and obv wrong.

https://endtimes.video/third-secret-of-fatima/

New comment by sfmz in "Ask HN: Looking for someone to build a useless fun project idea with me"

sfmz — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 12:19:40 +0000

The generic term is AI-headshot, there are dozens of companies doing this

https://www.betterpic.io/blog/best-ai-headshot-generators

New comment by sfmz in "Ask HN: Build Your Own LLM?"

sfmz — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 11:56:57 +0000

Andrej Karpathy: Let's build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCc8FmEb1nY

New comment by sfmz in "AI is not killing jobs, US study finds"

sfmz — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 13:12:47 +0000

AI, robotics, drones, self-driving: all poised to take a lot of jobs.

New comment by sfmz in "Ask HN: If technology is so good for the world, why are we becoming less happy?"

sfmz — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 12:34:25 +0000

Here's my list of things making it worse: cities designed for cars, no third spaces, poorly designed public space, hostile architecture, no social safety net, replacing social relationships with parasocial relationships, filling every moment of idle time with glacing at your phone, smaller families/smaller extended families, low access to nature, needing a second job (or low free time), too much screentime.

New comment by sfmz in "Ask HN: When the AI bubble is going to crash?"

sfmz — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 20:42:58 +0000

The promise of replacing labor costs with bots is too tempting for Wall Street. The money will keep on rolling in.

New comment by sfmz in "Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?"

sfmz — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 19:05:59 +0000

The major LLMs should be able to handle that.

New comment by sfmz in "Have you ever noticed that people dressed better in the past?"

sfmz — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 16:08:15 +0000

Dressing up is a lot more rewarding if you are not obese like 42% of the USA. I think the French still dress nicely is that true?

New comment by sfmz in "Ask HN: Will Grok win as it will eventually train on data from Optimus androids?"

sfmz — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 14:20:57 +0000

"The Limiting Factor" had an interesting take: Elon Musk's ability to deploy resources gives Grok a competitive advantage. YT vid goes over the challenges in getting Colossus up (200k GPU) and their deployment of Colossus 2, a 3-gigawatt facility with one million GPUs.

The Limiting Factor: xAI's Plans to Crush OpenAI, Meta, and Google in the AI Race (32m) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoaMveDtCxI

"Wars are won with logisitics" tweet by Elon Musk

New comment by sfmz in "Ask HN: Built an AI fitness app in a month, but have no users. What should I do?"

sfmz — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 14:43:23 +0000

Marketing seems way off. Its a personal trainer, not an Ai-Powered-fitness-coach (people are sick of hearing the letters A-I). Your value-prop is to replace $70/session personal trainers and give people ideas of workouts they wouldn't ordinarly think of (get them out of the same routine / rut). I'm reminded of FitDeck from SharkTank -- this guy made bodyweight exercise cards you shuffle to change up your workout each time.

New comment by sfmz in "Ask HN: Has anyone figured out how to integrate advertising with LLM replies"

sfmz — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 12:31:41 +0000

The chat log resides at OpenAi/Meta/Goog. Only they could integrate ads, maybe they will eventually.

New comment by sfmz in "Tell HN: I underestimated how lonely building solo can be"

sfmz — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 14:54:37 +0000

Welp, I should have probably told you I'm in a suburb. I'm guessing you are in a cool city. /jealous