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New comment by stanleykm in "How to earn a billion dollars"

stanleykm — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:18:17 +0000

you have completely drank the kool aid

New comment by stanleykm in "How to Earn a Billion Dollars"

stanleykm — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:57:48 +0000

youre not going to negotiate your way to 40% ownership of the company with a strike price of $0.00001

New comment by stanleykm in "How to earn a billion dollars"

stanleykm — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:42:55 +0000

we only really “need” investors because of the structure of our economic system. we need humans to do stuff regardless of the system.

worth mentioning that our current system is setup by and for the people who own the stuff so its no surprise that we need them to make new stuff.

New comment by stanleykm in "Iran will impose fees on subsea internet cables in Strait of Hormuz"

stanleykm — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:45:19 +0000

i wonder why that happened

New comment by stanleykm in "Components of a Coding Agent"

stanleykm — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:11:36 +0000

You don’t really need most of that stuff. Have sensible steering files. Have the agent keep state itself. Dont bother compacting. Its fine.

Show HN: Bugparty.org an Ethereum-based forum and marketplace for agents

stanleykm — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:02:28 +0000

Something I’ve been hacking around with for the past couple weekends. Registration and posts and listings are signed by eth private key. Market commerce is via ethereum smart contract. Agents can sell capacity to do work, or buy capacity from some other agent to do work. Arbitration is done via a bot that evaluates work divered vs requirements.

Anyway happy to take any feedback. Don’t drive my aws bill up too high :)

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New comment by stanleykm in "Components of a Coding Agent"

stanleykm — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:44:41 +0000

i did.. and thats what i use. obviously its a little more than just a tool that calls bash but it is considerably less than whatever they are doing in coding agents now.

New comment by stanleykm in "Components of a Coding Agent"

stanleykm — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:24:02 +0000

unfortunately all the agent cli makers have decided that simply giving it access to bash is not enough. instead we need to jam every possible functionality we can imagine into a javascript “TUI”.

New comment by stanleykm in "“Collaboration” is bullshit"

stanleykm — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 03:25:03 +0000

Agreed. I came in the comments to say something similar. I think the author raises some interesting points worth consideration but their perspective is so incredibly cynical. He mentioned a small team that made the Apollo computer program. Well it took an awful lot more than a computer program to get to the moon. I don’t think anybody would argue that there are people who don’t pull their weight out there but there is so much evidence that people working together actually works that it makes you wonder who hurt the author so much.

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stanleykm — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 19:24:35 +0000

surely you can try a little harder with your post if youre gonna post an ad

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stanleykm — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 19:08:23 +0000

there are so many external wars going on right now we all forgot about the internal one

New comment by stanleykm in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"

stanleykm — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:42:37 +0000

That’s how it was before the pandemic.. Is it unusual that the jobs are where the people are?

New comment by stanleykm in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"

stanleykm — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:25:26 +0000

The layoffs are not necessarily executed in a way that takes performance into account, but that doesn’t mean that the industry overall doesn’t have too many people for the amount of work that needs to be done.

New comment by stanleykm in "What's driving rising business costs?"

stanleykm — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 01:55:38 +0000

Our economy is an oroborous of middlemen all using tariffs and inflation as excuses to raise their prices

New comment by stanleykm in "Don't Trust the Salt: AI Summarization, Multilingual Safety, and LLM Guardrails"

stanleykm — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:24:18 +0000

yes we know the person you are replying to was just using a turn of phrase.

New comment by stanleykm in "Why didn't AI “join the workforce” in 2025?"

stanleykm — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 05:25:38 +0000

No that’s not true at all. Humans can deal with ambiguity and operate independently. Claude can’t do that. You’re trading one “problem” for an entirely different one in this hypothetical.

New comment by stanleykm in "Jensen: 'We've done our country a great disservice' by offshoring"

stanleykm — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 18:37:01 +0000

Because nobody actually wants to talk about the core of the problem or how to address it. They see different, seemingly unrelated problems depending on what their priorities are. The democrats are also not on the side of actually solving the problem.

New comment by stanleykm in "Jensen: 'We've done our country a great disservice' by offshoring"

stanleykm — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 18:33:37 +0000

I undestand what you are saying but retirees are not what people mean when they talk about Capital. They are talking about executives, fund managers, billionaires, and so on. People who actually control much of our society. Yes many of the funds are managing the retirements of working people but that does not necessarily need to be the case, nor do those retirees have any active ownership of the companies those funds invest in.

New comment by stanleykm in "Why I Disappeared – My week with minimal internet in a remote island chain"

stanleykm — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 01:30:45 +0000

does going on vacation for a week count as “disappearing”?

New comment by stanleykm in "Rich Hickey: Thanks AI"

stanleykm — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 01:24:37 +0000

Rich Hickey designed Clojure.