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New comment by sfmz in "Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout"

sfmz — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 11:13:55 +0000

> Nike used to be very "male coded" e.g. "Be like Mike"

There are very-few male-coded places left. I think any Mall is like 80% for women and 20% food court. Beside that, there are jewelry stores, nail salons, spas, hair salons. Drive around the 'burbs and the only male-coded place is probably hardware stores and Pizza Hut

New comment by sfmz in "Ask HN: Best sentence corpora with native audio for language learning?"

sfmz — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 14:39:37 +0000

This is sort of adjacent to your request, but take a look at https://morpheem.org/ , I found it very useful and impressive, also its mostly free.

New comment by sfmz in "Snakes and Ladders"

sfmz — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:44:23 +0000

>My children hate losing, and these games have n−1 losers for every n players.

I just stumbled across an answer to this; I bought a foosball table -- since each side has 4 knobs -- you can do 2 v. 1 -- put the children on a team against you. Then I started looking around for other 2 v 1 games -- tennis is one -- but I'm interested in boardgames/videogames that are 2 v 1 - please link if you know any

>>There are also literally zero decisions for the players to make

If OP is reading this, 'Sorry' is a fast-paced game with surprising amount of strategic depth.

New comment by sfmz in "Is the fall of Situational Awareness the first domino?"

sfmz — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:25:00 +0000

On the one hand, replacing software devs with AI is enormously profitable, on the other hand bad-actors can distill these models with industrial attacks and undercut pricing or release an open model... how does it all play out ? idk.

New comment by sfmz in "Im 14 and I want to create AI for students"

sfmz — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:31:14 +0000

The current LLMs can show their work, if you don't understand it, ask to have it explained it in a different way -- idk how you can improve on that experience.

New comment by sfmz in "SpaceX's newest Starmind will make earth data centers obsolete"

sfmz — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:08:49 +0000

They already have space-based compute in terms of Starlink and Starshield. Is it much more difficult than that ?

New comment by sfmz in "Oracle sheds 21,000 roles over the past year"

sfmz — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:23:21 +0000

We need your salary to buy the machines that will do your job. :|

New comment by sfmz in "Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place"

sfmz — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:57:29 +0000

You spin up agents and want them to paid without opening a bank account... or spin-up hundreds of agents... or your country isn't very well integrated with western banking rails. I think there is more to consider.

New comment by sfmz in "Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place"

sfmz — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:34:58 +0000

An emerging use-case is a bank account for AI agents. I read that Coinbase 'Base' Ethereum layer2 is popular for AI banking.

New comment by sfmz in "Ask HN: Is there still value in making apps?"

sfmz — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:11:32 +0000

The unit of work is now a 'prompt'. Imagine recreating different classes of software... there is correlation between complexity (ie # of prompts) and value. Make an app so complex, no one has tried it.

New comment by sfmz in "Ask HN: Show your AI coded games [June 2026]"

sfmz — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:05:15 +0000

Chess on a sphere, its not as fun as it sounds, but it works. Probably was around $100 of prompting.

https://sphere-chess.replit.app/

New comment by sfmz in "Ask HN: Would you tell your kids to learn to code?"

sfmz — Sat, 09 May 2026 14:45:17 +0000

"learn to code" is probably over...

Remember the mean-spirited viral meme of 'learn to code' aimed at BuzzFeed journos in 2019? ... not aging well.

I replit'd a travel-site since yesterday: ~8-ish hours: front-end, back-end, auth, mapping, geo-coding, points-of-interest, planning, image carossels, weather-integration (not sure if the weather thing is working), routing.

None of it by hand, no SQL, no Linux provisioning, no learning Map api calls, no typescript, no javascript / webpack bundling, no trying to figure out why i can't get things to vertically center, no css.

There will be like ~1000x more code w/ 1/100x wages.

There's probably space for people with CS PhDs -- but that's not exactly the same as 'learn to code'

Novel macro signals for AI-related job loss?

sfmz — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:58:28 +0000

Americans get health insurance through work - if many get fired b/c AI - health insurance profit decline would possibly be an interesting signal for true unemployment metrics.

I am looking for/requesting novel signals after seeing a16z basically call ai-job loss doomerism

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48066573

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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.