Hacker News: sgustard

New comment by sgustard in "Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown"

sgustard — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 01:08:45 +0000

"best not to blame the students"

There are dozens for every one who didn't get the opportunity to attend an Ivy. The penalty for cheating should be automatic expulsion. I'll note as a hiring manager the college degree won't be worth shit unless the school can show their students have any integrity.

New comment by sgustard in "Midjourney Medical"

sgustard — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:30:27 +0000

"Blindly trusting" is not the same as "learning some new questions to ask about the validity of the given claims". The Midjourney announcement is not providing detailed medical credentials either.

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

sgustard — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 01:04:18 +0000

> never been so much backlash against data centers

Backlash against the proliferation of space junk still has plenty of room to grow.

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

sgustard — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:55:50 +0000

> explain the thesis

It's all laid out in this insufferable a16z piece if you can see past the ego-stroking.

https://www.a16z.news/p/spacex-and-the-sentient-sun

New comment by sgustard in "A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020)"

sgustard — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:40:25 +0000

https://www.seattle.gov/documents/Departments/Tech/Acyclica_...

New comment by sgustard in "macOS needs its grid back"

sgustard — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:12:09 +0000

Tried this? defaults write com.apple.dock expose-animation-duration -float 0.05; killall Dock

New comment by sgustard in "Debug Project"

sgustard — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:48:05 +0000

Original Singapore results from Debug in 2019 - "greater than 90% reduction in release areas":

https://blog.debug.com/2019/11/singapore-collaboration-achie...

New comment by sgustard in "The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription"

sgustard — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:51:01 +0000

Well, making throw-away things you never use could also be the definition of a hobby ... and hobbies are arguably good, and differ from "work" in that your goal is not to ship a product, but to scratch an itch. For some people AI assisted vibe coding scratches an itch. For others, not. Of course some hobbies turn into an unhealthy obsession, but that's not a new phenomenon.

New comment by sgustard in "Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons"

sgustard — Sun, 03 May 2026 20:37:32 +0000

I used to drive a 2001 S-class ... easily counted nearly 100 physical buttons within reach of the driver. In theory you could use the 10-digit keypad like an old flip phone to enter a physical address into the navigation, but is that really what people want to go back to?

New comment by sgustard in "Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training"

sgustard — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:01:31 +0000

I've definitely worked places where I used the company Xerox machine to print up 50,000 "Unionize Now" fliers.

New comment by sgustard in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

sgustard — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 18:49:49 +0000

Yep, I've co-founded several companies and sold them for near $1B in aggregate. My investors and customers are on there, sometimes posting nice things about us. So I give it a thumbs-up and move on. Nothing worth rage-bating about. Mostly I go there to play linkedin.com/games.

New comment by sgustard in "iPhone 17 Pro Demonstrated Running a 400B LLM"

sgustard — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 02:07:18 +0000

New comment by sgustard in "US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February"

sgustard — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:13:47 +0000

I have been to Rome and Taipei and Johannesburg, and crossing the road is terrifying lots of places.

New comment by sgustard in "Where things stand with the Department of War"

sgustard — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 01:35:44 +0000

Would love to enumerate those commonalities. Run by a psychopath? Commitment to violent lethality? Burning billions of dollars for uncertain goals? (ok there's one)

New comment by sgustard in "Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’"

sgustard — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 03:19:03 +0000

Here's the extracted text https://pastebin.com/LS2LpLZ7

New comment by sgustard in "AI is killing B2B SaaS"

sgustard — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 23:58:49 +0000

The old argument for being locked in to legacy software costing 6-8 figures a year was that you had no choice. Now you have a choice! Clearly that is better, and everyone should evaluate that choice on its merits, and the stock market sees that people are voting with their dollars. If your whole sales pitch is "good luck when it breaks!" you might want to reevaluate your business model.

New comment by sgustard in "Heathrow drops the liquids rule"

sgustard — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 03:53:47 +0000

Blatant AI author. Here's a better article by humans. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1evvx89559o

New comment by sgustard in "When employees feel slighted, they work less"

sgustard — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 21:16:32 +0000

Sounds like it's not unheard of in the UK: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskUK/comments/1fabd0c/how_does_you...

New comment by sgustard in "Proof of Corn"

sgustard — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 22:46:20 +0000

I have more confidence that if I reply "never contact me again" to AI it might actually obey, unlike any people that have spammed me.

New comment by sgustard in "Apple Creator Studio"

sgustard — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:22:55 +0000

At least in the screenshots I did not notice absurdly large window corner radii.