Hacker News: smilebot

New comment by smilebot in "Tom Homan confirms ICE to be at airports starting Monday"

smilebot — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:24:57 +0000

Since they will support tsa operations, I’m going to assume they will be at the outbound security checkpoints. Both domestic and international.

New comment by smilebot in "I resigned from OpenAI"

smilebot — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 02:57:02 +0000

It’s not you, it’s me.

New comment by smilebot in "Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor"

smilebot — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:48:54 +0000

And no extra charge to have an adjustable stand! How do they make money?

New comment by smilebot in "Nvidia plans heavy cuts to GPU supply in early 2026"

smilebot — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:02:12 +0000

Why take this personally. They are a business. It’s one thing if they did something unethical, but I don’t think this is grudge worthy.

If anything this shows how small the gaming market really is for them. This opens the playing field for new companies to capture.

I find it admirable that they are able to intensify focus on an area they see the most value.

New comment by smilebot in "Google steers Americans looking for health care into "junk insurance""

smilebot — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 14:30:25 +0000

Choose Kaiser if your only other option is a cheap scan VS seek out Kaiser even if it has a premium.

Seem to be opposite enough.

Maybe if we tried to see the underlying point instead, would make it easier to move the discussion forward.

New comment by smilebot in "Google steers Americans looking for health care into "junk insurance""

smilebot — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 12:58:33 +0000

I found the opposite to be true. Kaiser is worth the premium. Doctors and care has been amazing.

New comment by smilebot in "Mind-reading devices can now predict preconscious thoughts"

smilebot — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 20:18:21 +0000

You don’t need a sinister device. This is essentially how propaganda works.

New comment by smilebot in "Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?"

smilebot — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 19:38:48 +0000

Only when all jobs do this at the same time.

New comment by smilebot in "GPT 4.5 level for 1% of the price"

smilebot — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 15:24:51 +0000

There is already evidence that they do in fact contribute to open source. Maybe replace “hope” with “continue to”

New comment by smilebot in "GPT 4.5 level for 1% of the price"

smilebot — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 15:23:16 +0000

Classic. If doing good makes someone feel good, then they must be selfish! And their doing good is in fact not good! /s

New comment by smilebot in "Apple M3 Ultra"

smilebot — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 03:50:20 +0000

Valve supports games on MacOS

New comment by smilebot in "Dear Student: Yes, AI is here, you're screwed unless you take action"

smilebot — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:49:24 +0000

Pretty soon you’ll see people bridging audio with llm voice responses to their headset.

I’ve had interviews where people have their friend bridging calls and doing the lookups. Some were incredibly stupid that we heard the typing from the next room lol.

Anyway remote interviews are a nightmare already.

New comment by smilebot in "Why is homeschooling becoming fashionable?"

smilebot — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 03:37:48 +0000

> It's difficult to feel optimistic about a society that thinks this way.

Maybe that's not how society thinks? That's one person's opinion.

New comment by smilebot in "How to print your Guild Wars 2 character"

smilebot — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 04:14:37 +0000

oh wow this looks great and thank you for the guide. Haven't played GW2 in over a decade but I do think about my time playing it every now and then. Made a lot of friends and great memories. Will have to login and see if any of them are still playing. Would be cool to print their characters too.

New comment by smilebot in "OpenCoder: Open Cookbook for Top-Tier Code Large Language Models"

smilebot — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 20:57:06 +0000

>Due to the prevalence of forking and copy-pasting within the codebase, nearly 75% of files are completely duplicated.

This is surprisingly high. Does the include imported libraries and packages? Since you are hashing at the file level, I am not fully convinced that this is due to people copying entire files over without modification.

New comment by smilebot in "Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?"

smilebot — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 21:03:20 +0000

Spectacle for window management. Clipy for clipboard history. Flux for managing color temp.

New comment by smilebot in "Sam Altman is showing us who he really is"

smilebot — Wed, 22 May 2024 00:33:28 +0000

I would put this in the "better to ask for forgiveness than ask than permission" bucket. Which is also a typical mentality in SV.

New comment by smilebot in "How I think about debt"

smilebot — Tue, 07 May 2024 21:28:14 +0000

It reminded me of Berkshire Hathaway. Very old fashioned, run by sensible people, and hold a lot of cash (and very little debt%).

New comment by smilebot in "How I think about debt"

smilebot — Tue, 07 May 2024 21:25:49 +0000

It is interesting because the top 5 oldest companies are Japanese https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies. Their points are still valid even though the country has a different story.

New comment by smilebot in "Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger"

smilebot — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 22:43:45 +0000

When in doubt, always invert.