Hacker News: sledgehammers

New comment by sledgehammers in "Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings"

sledgehammers — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:03:10 +0000

It does take tremendous talent and knowledge to build what he built, saying anything else is not just dishonest but weirdly cynical if not hateful. I think you grossly underestimate how difficult it is to build anything good. Not an easy thing to follow up all the expectations set after a massive global hit like that, a classic dilemma of a successful artist.

New comment by sledgehammers in "Some things just take time"

sledgehammers — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:22:55 +0000

Also you know, for programmers, say a 3 day work week is right there up for grabs. Even still employers would see big productivity increases.

New comment by sledgehammers in "OpenWorm – A computational model of C. elegans worm"

sledgehammers — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 07:53:38 +0000

Are you shitting on peoples work just for the sake of shitting on it?

edit. this comment seems unpopular, my intent was to defend the worm against trolls :)

New comment by sledgehammers in "Why Nvidia Keeps Winning"

sledgehammers — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 07:47:38 +0000

I started reading that book (seems great!) and stumbled upon this: "And it’s hardly clear that computer scientists will succeed in creating a convincingly-human artificial intelligence any time soon." Made me smile. Took but 8 years, the book was published in 2015. :)

(BTW. I'm super concerned about all the incredible amount of power nvidia has now and in the future. They get to decide the fate of the human race, I feel. And their incentive is just to make as much money as possible, while all negative externalities including the likes of extinction is left to the society to deal with. Sigh.)

New comment by sledgehammers in "[dead]"

sledgehammers — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 07:18:45 +0000

Massive wealth inequality bubble bursting from the bottom up?

New comment by sledgehammers in "YouTube is blocking videos for users who block ads"

sledgehammers — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 09:29:26 +0000

Almost two decades worth of content now locked behind worsening ad dystopia. I wish they didn't have this amount of immense power over the human race and the information it has access to.

Alphabet Inc needs to be broken with antitrust. Youtube has to be a separate company.

What a massive failure of democracy that this hasn't happened already. Fuck FAANG.

New comment by sledgehammers in "Show HN: Yet another macOS ChatGPT app"

sledgehammers — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 07:11:37 +0000

> it is not certain that allowing this would pass Apple reviews

Release the app outside the store? Fuck apple and their monopoly abuse control system.

New comment by sledgehammers in "YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers"

sledgehammers — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 17:13:58 +0000

_Everything_ is getting more shit day after day.

Internet is burning. The sources of information are getting scarce, it's almost unbelivable.

New comment by sledgehammers in "Let's welcome Meta, not block them"

sledgehammers — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 07:41:58 +0000

How would you design a protocol immune from all the politics? Whatever the implementation, it's just a part of a larger complex system. This is a very hard issue, and trusting Meta or the likes is naive and dangerous with destructive consequences.

https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-netwo...

New comment by sledgehammers in "Open source AI is critical – Hugging Face CEO before US Congress"

sledgehammers — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 06:56:14 +0000

Whatever it is, I really, really, really, really hope it's doesn't fall into the hands of microsoft, google or the rest. (But of course it will and enshittification ensues.)

New comment by sledgehammers in "The 'fuck you' pattern (2021)"

sledgehammers — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 15:29:08 +0000

Except in a restaurant, the chef gets paid. In this platform, value is extracted from the chef, the waiter, the eater, the eaten, and their interaction, while tearing down societies. Not a fair comparison.

New comment by sledgehammers in "Discord monetization: microtransaction stores and paid 'exclusive memes'"

sledgehammers — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 15:13:18 +0000

I wish we could as a species create a social media and communication platform not based on greed, addiction, micro-monetization, walled datagarden hoardism, and so on, but something above all that bullshit.

New comment by sledgehammers in "Google Threatens to Kill Open Source YouTube Front-End Invidious"

sledgehammers — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 09:49:33 +0000

AKA abuse their monopoly.

Kudos to this guy. Disobedience is a requirement for a change in a broken system.

New comment by sledgehammers in "AI Workbooks – A notebook interface for LLMs, image and audio models"

sledgehammers — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 17:18:57 +0000

> I think AI really needs a de-pythoning in general.

Yes, absolutely. The state of the Python ecosystem is what remains after a nuclear apocalypse.

We need more native stuff, ggml.cpp for one is a super important project.

New comment by sledgehammers in "Life before cellphones: The after-work activities of young people in 2002"

sledgehammers — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 11:42:12 +0000

You are welcome to do as you please. As a collective, we need to acknowledge the burnout epidemic. People need to have the honest freedom to be offline, without any social or business pressure. There's more to life than emails and a corporation that is free to fire you at any point.

New comment by sledgehammers in "Apple wants rights to the image of apples in Switzerland"

sledgehammers — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 14:33:34 +0000

We need to break down these tech monopolies.

New comment by sledgehammers in "The end of Reddit? Why the blackout is still going – and what happens next"

sledgehammers — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 15:03:38 +0000

Let's hope we don't repeat the same greedy walled datagarden monopoly and privatization/theft of information -problems with the next generation of social media. Does this shit culture ever change?

New comment by sledgehammers in "In praise of blowing up your life"

sledgehammers — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 10:14:52 +0000

Who gets to define normal though? We have one life in this crazy universe.

New comment by sledgehammers in "In praise of blowing up your life"

sledgehammers — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 09:10:53 +0000

Good point. What's a little quater/midlife crisis in addition to all the other major crises going on the world simultaneously? Haha. :)

New comment by sledgehammers in "In praise of blowing up your life"

sledgehammers — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 08:18:39 +0000

This is just my empirical evidence - let me know if you disagree and have contrary information - but psychological traumas like this are increasing everywhere I look. In my local community, local country, globally, it's the same story basically: burnout, a need for a life blowup. I think it's clearly a growing trend, the old world just isn't working.

Thoughts?