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New comment by shishy in "2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident"

shishy — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 11:17:40 +0000

i used to watch this on repeat when i was a kid. it makes for a great christmas movie these days :)

The Possessed Machines: Dostoevsky's Demons and the Coming AGI Catastrophe

shishy — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 21:08:24 +0000

Article URL: https://possessedmachines.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46758253

Points: 27

# Comments: 3

New comment by shishy in "This is not the future"

shishy — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 17:17:54 +0000

Hi - the opportunity space page is meant to be broad; a more specific and targeted programme thesis within that is going to come out in the coming months. I should mention that it's not just a call for technical solutions because, as you note, a lot of this is deeply rooted in social systems and requires design solutions (i.e. it's not just building more tech). But that is good feedback!

New comment by shishy in "This is not the future"

shishy — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 15:16:23 +0000

The idea that the future is architected by our choices (or lack of it) is the crux of one of the opportunity spaces at the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) in the UK.

Worth getting on your radar if this stuff is of interesting: https://aria.org.uk/opportunity-spaces/collective-flourishin...

(full disclosure: I'm working with the programme director on helping define the funding programme, so if you're working on related problems, by all means share your thoughts on the site or by reaching out!)

New comment by shishy in "Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?"

shishy — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:15:48 +0000

People are probably copy pasting already without that disclosure :(

New comment by shishy in "Flunking my Anthropic interview again"

shishy — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 19:48:20 +0000

> It was easy to swallow that failure. I made an honest mistake; I expect companies to reject candidates who make honest mistakes during interviews.

what a ridiculous statement

New comment by shishy in "AI Bubble 2027"

shishy — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 16:05:49 +0000

Yes well bubbles are a core part of the innovation process (new tech being useful doesn't imply a lack of bubbles), see e.g."Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital" by Carlota Perez https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_Revolutions_and_...

The Bazaar of Scientific Knowledge

shishy — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 12:30:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.shishyko.com/essays/bazaar-of-scientific-knowledge.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44355109

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by shishy in "'It is a better programmer than me': The reality of being laid off due to AI"

shishy — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 17:14:15 +0000

I agree with you but there's something ironic about seeing that comment here, especially considering how many jobs tech has replaced in the last few decades without people having the time to retrain.

New comment by shishy in "Startup Equity 101"

shishy — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 21:36:11 +0000

They probably meant a "once in a generation" startup like a unicorn

A New Scientific Operating System

shishy — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 17:04:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.shishyko.com/essays/scientific-operating-system.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44210919

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by shishy in "Starting July 1, academic publishers can't paywall NIH-funded research"

shishy — Thu, 01 May 2025 19:44:44 +0000

Yes, it depends on what you're doing; for general paper discovery / search tasks, title abstract can be enough (which is also why Springer and Elsevier have been pulling even their abstracts from sources like OpenAlex).

But for something like that you need full texts to look into results sections. I'm very curious how you're dealing with information contained in tables, or if you're dealing with snippets of text from the full-text alone. Have you poked around Elicit yet?

New comment by shishy in "Starting July 1, academic publishers can't paywall NIH-funded research"

shishy — Thu, 01 May 2025 19:42:42 +0000

grobid is a wonderful resource, patrice did an awesome job (I used it at my previous job at scite.ai)

New comment by shishy in ""Poetry City": Iowa City, Iowa"

shishy — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 00:33:04 +0000

I always say that Iowa City is the Paris of the Midwest ;). Except when there's a home game.

The art culture is incredible. Two of our favorite artists spent a considerable amount of time there, so we made a few trips when researching trying to find pieces.

New comment by shishy in "The hidden cost of AI coding"

shishy — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 15:02:24 +0000

There is craft in business, in product, and in engineering.

A lot of these discussions focus on craft in engineering and there's lots of merit there regarding AI tools and how they change that process, but I've found that folks who enjoy both the product side of things and the engineering side of things are thriving while those who were very engineering focused understandably feel apprehensive.

I will say, in my day job, which is often at startups, I have to focus more on the business / product side just given the phase of the company. So, I get joy from engineering craft in side projects or other things I work on in my own time to scratch the itch.

New comment by shishy in "Dear Lewis, my CEO wants AI to do it all. How do I argue for humans?"

shishy — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 17:42:32 +0000

You think it's a two way door, but the one behind you will close shut and you'll realize it was a one way door once someone says: "but 48 hours wasn't enough to evaluate it" ;)

New comment by shishy in "American Disruption"

shishy — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 16:58:30 +0000

> If there's a structural ratchet mechanism, where outsourcing a particular kind of manufacturing work means the US can never do it effectively again, doesn't every tick of the ratchet pose significant risks?

Yes, and in an earlier post Ben made that argument and said that the broader conversation on tariffs has been straw manning and wasn't trying to understand where they were coming from. He did more or less agree that the post-ww2 and post-nixon economic setup created this and articulated why it's problematic.

His thesis is just that this approach is wrong, and that it's hard to unpack the reasons because you don't know what to trust: is what the admin says a PR problem, a bad argument, directional or literal, etc.

Here's the older post (the one I shared in this thread was a continuation): https://stratechery.com/2025/trade-tariffs-and-tech/

American Disruption

shishy — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 12:24:36 +0000

Article URL: https://stratechery.com/2025/american-disruption/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43631276

Points: 239

# Comments: 200

New comment by shishy in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2025)"

shishy — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 20:18:55 +0000

Thanks all for reaching out; we found someone! I love HN.

If you see this way later and are interested, of course feel free to write me a note. You never know :)

New comment by shishy in "What Vivian Maier saw in color (2018)"

shishy — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 13:20:55 +0000

Yep. It was a little shocking when I learned that about HCB a while ago. Totally agree.