Hacker News: skizm

New comment by skizm in "The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve"

skizm — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:07:33 +0000

Where can I find more of these incredibly clever engineering solutions explained so simply? Love reading about this sort of stuff.

New comment by skizm in "Everyone should slow down AI development except for me"

skizm — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 01:51:11 +0000

You know how I feel about catgirls, Carl.

New comment by skizm in "Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived"

skizm — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 19:56:51 +0000

Died at 2 of dysentery. What is this, the Oregon trail?

New comment by skizm in "Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO"

skizm — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 01:41:03 +0000

Isn’t the idea that over time chrome will limit what ubo lite blocks? It will phase out all of its own ad networks so they’re not blocked first, but it’s possible they also start allowing third party ads through for a price.

New comment by skizm in "Stopping the smart TV from being used against you"

skizm — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 21:00:40 +0000

It sucks being in an apartment complex because there are always a bunch of unsecured networks floating around that the TV, or whatever, can connect to even if you don't manually do it.

New comment by skizm in "Meta reaches $16.68B settlement over social media harms to children"

skizm — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:18:47 +0000

The other big tech companies were able to keep their settlement amounts private, since they settled before this case went to court. I wonder how their settlements compare. I bet they were much smaller given Meta took an actual L in court, they probably had less leverage when negotiating this number.

New comment by skizm in "Punk, or why I don't stream anymore"

skizm — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:06:31 +0000

Totally fair! I think it is more of a reminder that making impact at large companies can be hard even for competent people.

New comment by skizm in "Punk, or why I don't stream anymore"

skizm — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:29:33 +0000

The only thing I will now remember this guy for is when he volunteered to work for Twitter/X after Elon took over. He failed to get twitter code building locally for about 4 weeks when attempting to change some placeholder text in the twitter search bar. He ultimately couldn't figure it out and then immediately quit lol. He even ran a poll on his twitter asking if he should quit, most people voted "NO" then he quit anyway.

New comment by skizm in "Meta caps internal AI token spending"

skizm — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 01:47:08 +0000

It wasn't leadership doing this though. Any meta IC can generate internal apps and dashboards. This was unofficial and unsupported. Some random IC just made it for fun. Management is usually pretty lax with stuff like this (plenty of games and joke internal apps) so they left it up until it became a problem.

New comment by skizm in "Americans express unease over SpaceX's influence on retirement savings"

skizm — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:11:20 +0000

To the same point I also don't want the index itself picking and choosing which companies to apply which rules to.

New comment by skizm in "Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?"

skizm — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:25:43 +0000

Their advertising revenue grew 33% YoY last earnings call. They're literally making so much money they don't know what to do with it so they plow it into each new fad as to not miss out if this one happens to be a new billion user business. This is in addition to returning capital to shareholders via buybacks and dividends.

New comment by skizm in "Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses"

skizm — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:01:16 +0000

What if these existed, but Facebook sold them?

New comment by skizm in "The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen"

skizm — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:30:28 +0000

At a bare bare minimum accounts over a certain size of follower count should be excluded from this flow. They should basically have account managers anyway.

New comment by skizm in "Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup"

skizm — Sat, 30 May 2026 15:34:16 +0000

I mean paying for deepseek is sending money to China, and any company in China is pretty much an extension of the CCP (or can become one at the snap of their fingers). I don't think this is much better or worse than the American AI companies.

New comment by skizm in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

skizm — Tue, 05 May 2026 14:09:28 +0000

NYC was the complete opposite. Our company did a scavenger hunt and people were so annoyed at us for interacting with them when they realized we needed more than just directions. If others overheard they’d start edging away or making themselves busy. I’ll be totally honest, I’m the same way, which is why I fit in here I guess lol.

New comment by skizm in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"

skizm — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 23:19:27 +0000

Weren't there reports of Anthropic's stock trading on secondary markets at $1T valuation recently? Now Google invests at a $350B valuation. I get valuations are often times just smoke and mirrors, but this seems like a pretty big disconnect. What's going on there?

New comment by skizm in "Nobody Got Fired for Uber's $8M Ledger Mistake?"

skizm — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:01:22 +0000

In general is there any practical way to fix the issue of "Every rewrite was someone's promotion project"? There doesn't seem to be any incentive for employees to care about projects long term. Keeping something running smoothly is never rewarded the same as launching something new or fixing something broken.

New comment by skizm in "The looming college-enrollment death spiral"

skizm — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:31:32 +0000

If college is considered a glorified high school diploma, then not having one is like not having a high school diploma.

New comment by skizm in "Google has the same AI adoption curve as John Deere"

skizm — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:25:45 +0000

> How is it that a handful of companies are taking off like a spaceship, and the rest, including Google, are mired in inaction?

Which companies? Not counting companies directly benefiting from selling AI.

New comment by skizm in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

skizm — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:28:33 +0000

I always thought the comparison to real life falls a bit flat. In the movie there’s a scene where Camacho has a town hall and the audience yells something about everything bad. Camacho fires his gun in the air for silence and acknowledges things are bad and says he’s going to ask the smartest person in the world to help.

So in this scenario the people are allowed to voice real concerns directly to the president without fear of retribution. The president acknowledges things are bad. He describes a plan, with real actionable steps, to help the situation. And to wrap it all up follows through with it and is genuinely interested in making the country / world a better place. None of these things apply to America’s current situation.

At the core of it, in the movie everyone is dumb but well meaning, while in real life most of the idiots are also malicious. They keep voting for the same thing because it hurts their perceived enemies, not because they think their vote will make the country better.