Hacker News: shruggedatlas

New comment by shruggedatlas in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

shruggedatlas — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:19:51 +0000

Your brain is performing "compute-intensive brute-force attacks on the problem/solution space" as you read this very sentence. You trained patterns on English syntax, structure, and semantics since you were a child and it is supporting you now with inference (or interpretation). And, for compute efficiency, you probably have evolution to thank.

New comment by shruggedatlas in "This time is different"

shruggedatlas — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:01:46 +0000

What is your position on AI?

New comment by shruggedatlas in "Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company"

shruggedatlas — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 02:04:15 +0000

I wanted you to know that, due to this comment, I "lost" approximately 45 minutes watching George Carlin's best jokes

New comment by shruggedatlas in "The Enterprise Experience"

shruggedatlas — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 11:47:35 +0000

That was an eye-opening insight into enterprise software requirements. Thank you for sharing.

New comment by shruggedatlas in "GPT-5"

shruggedatlas — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 00:56:52 +0000

Is this a specific example from their demo? I just tried it and Opus 4.1 is able to solve it.

New comment by shruggedatlas in "GPT-5"

shruggedatlas — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 00:51:31 +0000

> lower-to-middle of the middle class

The comparison was clearly between the rich and the poor. We can take the 99.99th wealth percentile, where billionaires reside, and contrast that to a narrow range on the opposite side of the spectrum. But, in my opinion, the argument would still hold even if it were the top 10% vs bottom 10% (or equivalent by normalised population).

New comment by shruggedatlas in "Try the Mosquito Bucket of Death"

shruggedatlas — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 14:32:28 +0000

I've never attempted it so I don't have any first-hand judgements of its effectiveness. However, the logic in the article seems reasonable. A backyard which already has a high population of mosquitoes implies the area has existing spots with standing water where the eggs are being hatched. Adding controlled spots of water would concentrate those eggs there and kill them off before they have a chance to hatch more eggs and add to the population. Then, the existing adults die off naturally within weeks, and you should be left with a "mosquito free yard"

New comment by shruggedatlas in "How to Network as an Introvert"

shruggedatlas — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 12:26:19 +0000

You sound like you have your own issues to resolve if you are this exhausted by work, which doesn't mean the article is a parody just because you are not its exact intended recipient. There are a handful of tips in there that can help engineer more comfortable situations for people who are less confident networking. That's only if someone is willing to engage with the advice and wishes to better themselves with it, instead of just blaming... capitalism?

New comment by shruggedatlas in "The fastest way to detect a vowel in a string"

shruggedatlas — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 23:07:38 +0000

This comment seems needlessly unkind

New comment by shruggedatlas in "Bruteforcing the phone number of any Google user"

shruggedatlas — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 15:48:04 +0000

What can be done to protect oneself from a SIM swap attack?

New comment by shruggedatlas in "What if we made advertising illegal?"

shruggedatlas — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 21:28:32 +0000

Outdoor billboards, product placement, sponsor logos on sports uniforms - yes

Content marketing, public relations, mailing lists - no

"we don't have to destroy all advertising at once to make a positive difference"

New comment by shruggedatlas in "How the U.K. broke its own economy"

shruggedatlas — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 00:52:56 +0000

The source report is a much better read. The article barely adds anything of value to it, outside of quoting it a dozen times.

New comment by shruggedatlas in "Who died and left the US $7B?"

shruggedatlas — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 00:00:13 +0000

It seems awkward because removing the parenthical expression between the commas leaves a broken sentence:

"The data wasn't erroneous|who are legally forbidden to discuss tax filings."

The best correction would be something like:

"Treasury officials, who are legally forbidden to discuss tax filings, found the data wasn't erroneous."

New comment by shruggedatlas in "Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable"

shruggedatlas — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 11:27:57 +0000

What leverage would they have in those negotiations?

New comment by shruggedatlas in "Resistance Against Git Merge Hell (2015)"

shruggedatlas — Wed, 01 May 2024 11:35:36 +0000

This wouldn't affect what the reviewer sees because the squash commit only happens after the PR is complete and is being merged to master

New comment by shruggedatlas in "Devin: AI Software Engineer"

shruggedatlas — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 20:31:26 +0000

> So many people talking about GPT-4 here, or even 3.5 when the SOTA has moved way along.

So what is the SOTA, in your opinion?

New comment by shruggedatlas in "Cousins are disappearing. Is this reshaping the experience of childhood?"

shruggedatlas — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 13:47:00 +0000

You fit the exact profile of someone who shouldn't bring children into this world. So, congratulations on making the right decision for you and your mental state right now. However, I would caution against extrapolating your one-dimensional opinions about the world into universal facts.

New comment by shruggedatlas in "OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman"

shruggedatlas — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 23:11:10 +0000

This is too brilliant to be tucked away in the depths of a HN thread

New comment by shruggedatlas in "I only lost 10 minutes of data, thanks to ZFS"

shruggedatlas — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 02:07:29 +0000

How could I backup using incremental atomic snapshots on Windows?

New comment by shruggedatlas in "Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?"

shruggedatlas — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 21:57:20 +0000

How frequently does it ping the target site?