Hacker News: theGnuMe

New comment by theGnuMe in "AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder"

theGnuMe — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 15:42:28 +0000

What language? JavaScript, Objective C, or Swift?

New comment by theGnuMe in "Childhood Friends, Not Moms, Shape Attachment Styles Most"

theGnuMe — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 15:43:33 +0000

Minnesota as well.

New comment by theGnuMe in "McDonald's is losing its low-income customers"

theGnuMe — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 19:42:17 +0000

Those are close to Starbucks prices so I imagine McCafes. You can get a mediocre McD coffee for $1.

New comment by theGnuMe in "Ask HN: How are Markov chains so different from tiny LLMs?"

theGnuMe — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 02:00:36 +0000

You can have small epsilons instead of zeros.

New comment by theGnuMe in "Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division"

theGnuMe — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 19:55:54 +0000

Who needs real friends when you can have Meta-Friends (tm)

New comment by theGnuMe in "AI model trapped in a Raspberry Pi"

theGnuMe — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 22:23:16 +0000

This is cool!

New comment by theGnuMe in "Meta exposé author faces $50k fine per breach of non-disparagement agreement"

theGnuMe — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 16:30:19 +0000

She'd probably have to appeal arbitration but I think this all could be overturned based on California labor laws.

New comment by theGnuMe in "The Ruliology of Lambdas"

theGnuMe — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 17:52:22 +0000

I may be wrong but it appears that he rediscovers the Church-Turing thesis in this work.

New comment by theGnuMe in "Ask HN: How do you fight YouTube addiction and procrastination? I'm struggling"

theGnuMe — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 19:50:51 +0000

Since you are already on youtube.. watch the HealthyGamer.gg videos. Here is one on procrastination: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBifDZwPiI4

New comment by theGnuMe in "Intel CEO Letter to Employees"

theGnuMe — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 15:50:22 +0000

It's a herd mentality for both. AI may be the next big thing. And the old things need realignment.

So the "market" demands sacrifice basically and there is cover when everyone else is doing it. You can be contrarian but your stock may get punished. Intel may not have a good plan anyway. The reason the market demands sacrifice is likely because of predicted unfavorable economic headwinds (etc... so signs of recession or what not). These predictions could be wrong though. Companies do constantly realign though, product initiatives fail etc...

New comment by theGnuMe in "FCC approves Paramount-Skydance merger after Trump settlement, Colbert cancelled"

theGnuMe — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 15:36:38 +0000

I don't think the character makes sense in the current political environment.

New comment by theGnuMe in "Reflections on OpenAI"

theGnuMe — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 01:49:34 +0000

>An unusual part of OpenAI is that everything, and I mean everything, runs on Slack. There is no email. I maybe received ~10 emails in my entire time there. If you aren't organized, you will find this incredibly distracting. If you curate your channels and notifications, you can make it pretty workable.

This is super interesting. I work in a group where everything is on slack and some pieces are/were super hard. So much so that I want an AI assistant that can manage my slack feed etc... I feel like an AI bot/slack integration is a thing that needs to be done well.

New comment by theGnuMe in "AI therapy bots fuel delusions and give dangerous advice, Stanford study finds"

theGnuMe — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 01:20:46 +0000

People are extremely uncomfortable with uncertainty, especially about themselves. So they create explanations... Programmers also don't like uncertainty so they create programming languages. There's also a bit of "not invented here" syndrome.

Languages like Haskell are really applied type theory etc... In some sense, the academics invent languages for different levels of abstraction to ultimately write papers about how useful they are.

In terms of programming languages, personality wise, in the end it's all javascript. Then there is Java and the Jvm which is on a mission to co-opt multiple personalities.

New comment by theGnuMe in "Young graduates are facing an employment crisis"

theGnuMe — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 00:52:14 +0000

This is the correct philosophy.

New comment by theGnuMe in "Young graduates are facing an employment crisis"

theGnuMe — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 00:43:57 +0000

At some point mother is the necessity of invention which is a shift in perspective. You may have to make a market for yourself basically. It's not easy. This being a YC site, I would go through and apply to all of the interesting YC work at a startup places. There is an opportunity right now to understand AI and how to apply it to the digital workplace. Anyway, it is not easy and I wish you the best of luck!

New comment by theGnuMe in "Terence Tao: Game theory, politics and control of information"

theGnuMe — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 18:57:52 +0000

This is another interesting take, E pluribus unum.

New comment by theGnuMe in "Terence Tao: Game theory, politics and control of information"

theGnuMe — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 18:56:31 +0000

epistemic game theory -> mean field games -> Tao's take on NSF funding cuts etc... In this case, the solution in the latter is to pander to the audience (aka Trump). There are multiple ways to do that. I would emphasize US loss of status, China etc... Anyway, it is interesting to see mathematicians think about this. I wonder if there will be formal ways to identify a lynch-pin or to otherwise influence the lynch-pin.

New comment by theGnuMe in "“Reading Rainbow” was created to combat summer reading slumps"

theGnuMe — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 18:31:26 +0000

At least we have the Australian's to give us Bluey and the UK for Peppa pig.

New comment by theGnuMe in "NeuralOS: An operating system powered by neural networks"

theGnuMe — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 01:30:19 +0000

This is super cool. Not sure what it implies/means though..

New comment by theGnuMe in "LIGO detects most massive black hole merger to date"

theGnuMe — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 01:23:53 +0000

Everything is a fluid in the end and at scale right??