Hacker News: shon

New comment by shon in "The Soul of an Old Machine"

shon — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 01:25:11 +0000

Stop reading HN and read the book now. You’re welcome. ;)

New comment by shon in "Hackers (1995) Animated Experience"

shon — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 15:59:39 +0000

Hmm I had an ST. I think I vaguely remember this. Was it a PD game or commercial?

New comment by shon in "Hackers (1995) Animated Experience"

shon — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 15:57:25 +0000

Thanks! working on multiplayer now...

New comment by shon in "Hackers (1995) Animated Experience"

shon — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 15:36:34 +0000

The Gibson! Very cool. did you make this?

I made a Tron lightcycle game: https://new.af/tron

Now that AI accelerates dev so much, I suspect we'll get to see a lot of cool throwbacks.

New comment by shon in "Hackers (1995) Animated Experience"

shon — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 15:21:30 +0000

+1 for explorers

New comment by shon in "ManusAI Joins Meta"

shon — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 02:32:06 +0000

Manus has been the best agent for turning text into work --useable slides, code, extracting data from websites, etc. that I've seen. There are better tools for specific cases like coding, but for one tool that could handle agentic workflows with minimal oversight and configuration, it's the best.

Hope Meta doesn't hose it.

New comment by shon in "ManusAI Joins Meta"

shon — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 23:08:47 +0000

Bummer. Manus was the best actual agent for my money. I literally have it working for me right now so I can goof off on HN… no joke.

New comment by shon in "Space Truckin' – The Nostromo (2012)"

shon — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:27:47 +0000

I just bought this vintage magazine on eBay. It’s too good not to.

There are a few more out there if you want to thumb-through the deal thing

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

shon — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 15:20:54 +0000

I honestly think that if you were to show the tech we have today, to someone at OpenAI back in 2015, they would say “we did it!!”

Outside of robotics / embodied AI, SOTA models have already achieved Sci-Fi level capability.

New comment by shon in "The Soul of an Old Machine: Revisiting the Timeless von Neumann Architecture"

shon — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 16:35:51 +0000

Such a great book… should be required reading for anyone managing engineers.

New comment by shon in "ChatGPT Search"

shon — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 06:29:05 +0000

Interesting, I hadn’t see the Knowledge Navigator before. I would argue that we’re very close to the capabilities shown in that video.

Isn’t this already that? A new business model? Something like OpenAI’s search or Perplexity can run on its own index and not be influenced by Google’s ranking, ads, etc.

In areas where there is a simple objective truth, like finding the offset for the wheels on a 2008 BMW M3, we have had this capability for some time with Perplexity. The LLMs successfully cuts through the sea of SEO/SEM and forum nonsense and delivers the answer.

In areas where the truth is more subjective, like what is the best biscuit restaurant in downtown Nashville, the system could easily learn your preferences and deliver info suited to your biases.

In areas where “the science” is debated, the LLM can show both sides.

I think this is the beginning of the new model.

New comment by shon in "Winamp deletes entire GitHub source code repo after a rocky few weeks"

shon — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 16:59:28 +0000

Complete with milkdrop and skins.. love it

New comment by shon in "Comma.ai: Refactoring for Growth"

shon — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 04:33:36 +0000

> Everything sounds like it's just a bunch of hackers

It is! This is run by George Hotz, aka geohot, aka the kid who cracked the iPhone SIM lock at 17yo, released the 1-click jailbreak for iOS before he was 20, and then went ahead and cracked the PS3 shortly after and released Sony’s private key (used to sign all PS3 software) for all the world to see.

He’s a beast. Now he’s doing Tinygrad and Comma. You won’t be seeing Corpo-speak from this guy or his team lol.

Cool to see him doing well and doing it his own way.

New comment by shon in "'Skeleton Key' attack unlocks the worst of AI, says Microsoft"

shon — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 14:46:17 +0000

The article is short on details. If you want to see the actual jailbreak prompts check out Pliny on X:

https://x.com/elder_plinius/status/1806446304010412227?s=46&...

New comment by shon in "OpenAI departures: Why can’t former employees talk?"

shon — Sat, 18 May 2024 19:13:03 +0000

The article mentions it briefly but Jan Leike, is talking: Reference: https://x.com/janleike/status/1791498174659715494?s=46&t=pO4...

He clearly states why he left. He believes that OpenAI leadership is prioritizing shiny product releases over safety and that this is a mistake.

Even with the best intentions , it’s easy for a strong CEO like Altman to loose sight of more subtly important things like safety and optimize for growth and winning, eventually at all cost. Winning is a super-addictive feedback loop.

New comment by shon in "Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location"

shon — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 21:58:02 +0000

lol.. probably

New comment by shon in "Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location"

shon — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 21:16:18 +0000

No, my argument is that building an employee retention tool is not the same from an ethical perspective as building a weapon system.

One is like a hammer, it was envisioned for and can be used for good, like building free houses for the poor. But it also makes a great bludgeon.

The other is like building a weapon that is used as a weapon.

And then there’s AdTech.. lol

New comment by shon in "Reverse engineering a car key fob signal"

shon — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 19:14:36 +0000

Yeah!

New comment by shon in "Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location"

shon — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 18:40:23 +0000

Yep.. and grocery stores

New comment by shon in "Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location"

shon — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 18:39:50 +0000

Lololol