Hacker News: snapcaster

New comment by snapcaster in "Notes from Tired Egyptian Whose Job Is Explaining That Humans Built the Pyramids"

snapcaster — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:26:57 +0000

So it's a sci-fi short story? what reason would anyone have to believe this stuff?

New comment by snapcaster in "'Ghost jobs' could soon be illegal in New York"

snapcaster — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:22:23 +0000

I meant this idea that you can quickly iterate on laws. At least in america that's just unrealistic outside of very narrow instances

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

snapcaster — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:21:37 +0000

what's your point here considering you were wrong? in the last 16 years they've been one of the most profitable companies in the history of the earth

New comment by snapcaster in "'Ghost jobs' could soon be illegal in New York"

snapcaster — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:11:20 +0000

you're not engaging with all the political and game theory issues that make that difficult to do in practice. Let alone the uncertainty that impacts businesses (even ones that are acting in good faith)

New comment by snapcaster in "Take Action: LAPD Removed Crime Location Data. Here's Why It Matters"

snapcaster — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:25:58 +0000

You're not modeling this adversarially and that's your fundamental error here. If you look at your "knowledge supplier" as an entity actively trying to deceive you and give you an incorrect world model you'll realize i'm right and you're living in a fantasy theory world

New comment by snapcaster in "Take Action: LAPD Removed Crime Location Data. Here's Why It Matters"

snapcaster — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:25:49 +0000

New comment by snapcaster in "Take Action: LAPD Removed Crime Location Data. Here's Why It Matters"

snapcaster — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:05:01 +0000

"knowledge is good" is such a naive take. Trivial example: You only have knowledge of crimes committed by immigrants but zero knowledge of crimes committed by citizens. How is that good?

New comment by snapcaster in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

snapcaster — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:41:48 +0000

It's still extremely corrupt, and done to benefit a very small group of people. Dismissing the criticism like this is directly against the rules and spirit of hackernews to assume good faith

New comment by snapcaster in "What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?"

snapcaster — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:08:06 +0000

i'm imagining this, and don't see how it has any relation to the discussion

New comment by snapcaster in "LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb"

snapcaster — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:37:10 +0000

Bro thinks he's on the team

New comment by snapcaster in "Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2"

snapcaster — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:35:47 +0000

I wish people (nerds like us) would use better language. It's not overpriced, because a product is more than a pile of chips and tech specs. Do you realize you're implicitly assuming CPU speed == product quality and how untrue that is?

It provides incredible value for its price (hours of fun per $) when compared to basically any other form of entertainment

New comment by snapcaster in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

snapcaster — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:00:34 +0000

The span of control for the CEO of my company is more or less 1000 people. His number of direct reports is 5

New comment by snapcaster in "I want to live like Costco people"

snapcaster — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:28:13 +0000

superficial maybe, "toxic" is your own personal idealogy

New comment by snapcaster in "AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields"

snapcaster — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:20:18 +0000

Do you realize you're fighting a strawman or do you actually think this is a compelling argument?

New comment by snapcaster in "LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb"

snapcaster — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:04:58 +0000

This is 100% going to be the boot lickiest comment I read all day

New comment by snapcaster in "BYD overtakes Tesla and Kia as the best-selling EV brand in key overseas markets"

snapcaster — Thu, 07 May 2026 12:54:40 +0000

maybe engage with it because we're all humans with feelings and they're incredibly powerful computational shortcuts? thinking it's virtuous to be an emotionless automaton is ideology (kinda like feelings!)

New comment by snapcaster in "BYD overtakes Tesla and Kia as the best-selling EV brand in key overseas markets"

snapcaster — Wed, 06 May 2026 19:08:19 +0000

As an american i feel it. have you ever visited China? it's sad man, in more and more industries america is only able to compete by banning china from even contesting the market

Not just on dumping or price, actual product quality, innovation and value. It's impossible to visit a Huawei store in Beijing and not feel it in your bones

New comment by snapcaster in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

snapcaster — Wed, 06 May 2026 14:39:50 +0000

It wasn't, and the fact that you think market makers are "abusing positions" is so fundamentally wrong it's hard to even argue with you

I'm sorry but your brain has been fried by ape memes and you need a full reset on your understanding of finance

New comment by snapcaster in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

snapcaster — Wed, 06 May 2026 14:38:43 +0000

You're successfully beating the shit out of the strawman you've created. People are using LLMs to see massive productivity benefits and ship production code right now.

If you aren't, it's a skill issue on your part

New comment by snapcaster in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

snapcaster — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:54:08 +0000

So nothing about the last 3 years has caused you to update your beliefs on this stuff? feels like bitter cope