Hacker News: sgustard

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.

New comment by sgustard in "Google is dead. Where do we go now?"

sgustard — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 04:28:37 +0000

I just Googled "kids magic show in Durban" and his ad showed up in the top slot (sorry if this post has swamped your ad bill); and as a bonus, the Gemini AI blurb also touted him: "For kids' magic shows in Durban, look for local entertainers like Big Top Entertainment..."

Doesn't seem like the issue is he's being outbid by international conglomerates with million dollar budgets. Maybe the kids magic show market has cooled in South Africa? Or users have left Google? Curious what we are to conclude here.

Zodiac Z13 Decryption

sgustard — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 03:54:07 +0000

Article URL: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/19p4n1aMyeYte1jC4P3GKflMgD6xuZAvV

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46372264

Points: 5

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New comment by sgustard in "Christmas Tree Exec"

sgustard — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 02:10:29 +0000

I really thought this would be about our company CFO who appears once every winter season, gets all lit up at the holiday party and then disappears until next year.

New comment by sgustard in "The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership"

sgustard — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 15:42:24 +0000

SAE automation levels are the industry standard, not FSD (which is a brand name), and FSD is clearly Level 2 (driver is always responsible and must be engaged, at least in consumer teslas, I don't know about robotaxis). The question is if "AGI" is as well defined as "Level 5" as an independent standard.

New comment by sgustard in "California invests in battery energy storage, leaving rolling blackouts behind"

sgustard — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 00:42:36 +0000

CAISO's own documents quote battery capacity in MW. So I don't think you can just blame journalists.

"Battery storage capacity grew from about 500 MW in 2020 to 13,000 MW in December 2024"

https://www.caiso.com/documents/2024-special-report-on-batte...

As another commenter notes, utilities are interested in "capacity on call" i.e. instant power generation.

New comment by sgustard in "California invests in battery energy storage, leaving rolling blackouts behind"

sgustard — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 00:36:27 +0000

Well the faster you get off the grid, the cheaper it'll be for the rest of us. All PGE's problems are caused by running powerlines for you through fire-prone kindling wilderness.

New comment by sgustard in "California invests in battery energy storage, leaving rolling blackouts behind"

sgustard — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 00:28:38 +0000

Quebec has them both beat. Hydro rules!

https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/CA-QC/5y/yearly

(To be transparent, there's controversy around calling hydroelectric renewable.)

New comment by sgustard in "South Africa's one million invisible children without birth certificates"

sgustard — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 16:00:13 +0000

On the other hand, people born in Guam, Puerto Rico, NMI or AVI are US citizens.

https://ballotpedia.org/Citizenship_status_in_territories_of...

New comment by sgustard in "Solution to CIA’s Kryptos sculpture is found in Smithsonian vault"

sgustard — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 23:06:30 +0000

Can we even determine if what they found is the key, or just the plaintext? The article mentions they recognized bits of plaintext (Berlin clock) in the archives.