Hacker News: strtok

New comment by strtok in "Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models"

strtok — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 22:50:21 +0000

Unless weights are being manipulated to make the model respond in a way that favors the owners.

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

strtok — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:27:55 +0000

And yet, the vast majority of startups fail. This essay about exponential growth is clearly not the whole story.

How does your startup avoid failing? By skirting local laws? Exploiting employees? Destroying the environment? Replacing jobs in a way that makes the standard of living better for the few but worse for the many? Making weapons or systems that coordinate weapons? Submitting to and therefore tacitly supporting oppressive governments?

Sure, there are examples of startups that don’t do these things. But looking at billionaire-class startups (there’s not that many of those to analyze!), there are far more of them in the other category.

New comment by strtok in "Meta is using the Linux scheduler designed for Valve's Steam Deck on its servers"

strtok — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 01:05:35 +0000

I prefer it. Linux desktop feels a lot more laggy to me on the same hardware.

Of course that is minus all the recent AI/ad stuff on Windows…

New comment by strtok in "“This telegram must be closely paraphrased before being communicated to anyone”"

strtok — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:36:22 +0000

ChatGPT was able to decrypt this in about 12 seconds with no context, which I found interesting.

New comment by strtok in "Do the simplest thing that could possibly work"

strtok — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 10:12:32 +0000

I was about to say the same. One of the best software talks of all time.

New comment by strtok in "Claude Code is all you need"

strtok — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 08:50:06 +0000

1000%. It’s all about limiting those round trips to the database…

New comment by strtok in "My experience with Claude Code after two weeks of adventures"

strtok — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 11:13:16 +0000

Unlike a junior engineer, its feelings don’t get hurt when you ask for a redo

New comment by strtok in "Drones will realize the promise of suicide terrorism"

strtok — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 18:37:04 +0000

Find an outdoor wall socket?