Hacker News: the_black_hand

New comment by the_black_hand in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

the_black_hand — Fri, 15 May 2026 07:07:41 +0000

I'm old. currently in npm dependency hell on my side project. wtf is bun and will switching to it save me?

New comment by the_black_hand in "My son pleasured himself on Gemini Live. Entire family's Google accounts banned"

the_black_hand — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 04:21:42 +0000

yeah this story smells funny. Also, given the popularity of the post, wouldn't their son immediately know it's them? If I truly wanted advice, I would hide the sordid details. I think it's a fantastic piece of creative writing.

New comment by the_black_hand in "OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent"

the_black_hand — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 06:20:14 +0000

It's understandable and even desirable that a new piece of code rapidly evolves as they iterate and fix bugs. I'd only be concerned if they keep this pattern for too long. In the early phases, I like keeping up with all the cutting edge developments. Projects where dev get afraid to ship because of breaking things end up becoming bloated with unnecessary backward compatibility.

New comment by the_black_hand in "2026 tech layoffs reach 45,000 in March"

the_black_hand — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 04:37:00 +0000

Yeah strategy is weird. PyTorch and llama 1-3 were strong successes. Llama 4 was a dud but that happens sometimes. Google fumbles a few times before Gemini too. What I don’t get is why they didn’t prioritize those projects. They weren’t making money, but it was a solid start and a good way to get a foothold in the game. Instead they’ve gone balls deep in slop bullshit.

New comment by the_black_hand in "Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world"

the_black_hand — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 06:47:00 +0000

yes those are bottlenecks that world models don't solve. but the promise of world models is, unlike LLMs, they might be able to learn things about the world that humans haven't written. For example, we still don't fully know how insects fly. A world model could be trained on thousands of videos of insects and make a novel observation about insect trajectories. The premise is that despite being here for millenia, humans have only observed a tiny fraction of the world.

So I do buy his idea. But I disagree that you need world models to get to human level capabilities. IMO there's no fundamental reason why models can't develop human understanding based on the known human observations.

New comment by the_black_hand in "The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling"

the_black_hand — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 03:18:34 +0000

European politicians got a big imagination lol. arent there real actual problems over their they should be fixing?

New comment by the_black_hand in "Building a macOS app to know when my Mac is thermal throttling"

the_black_hand — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 17:04:25 +0000

My 2017 macbook is basically brick. Crazy how just opening chrome sets off fans like a jet engine. How much cpu can checking gmail really use?

Foolish me is considering buying a new macbook this year. I have no choice because Apple and Microsoft will do everything in their power to ship the shittiest personal computing products every year.

New comment by the_black_hand in "Apple to beat Samsung in smartphone shipments for first time in 14 years"

the_black_hand — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 01:33:33 +0000

Why are Samsung so big on the folding phone nonsense?

New comment by the_black_hand in "Ask HN: Do you negotiate salary in this job market?"

the_black_hand — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 06:25:10 +0000

Always negotiate no matter what. If you get an offer, it means the company WANTS you for something. Experience, skillset etc use that as leverage. Yeah, the market is tough but there's no harm in trying.

New comment by the_black_hand in "Tell HN: Azure outage"

the_black_hand — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 06:15:41 +0000

why tf would a supermarket depend on Azure? Payment processing isn't their thing

New comment by the_black_hand in "Tell HN: Azure outage"

the_black_hand — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 06:13:44 +0000

have used both. I prefer Azure. Much easier to use. found GCP unintuitive.

New comment by the_black_hand in "Ask HN: What would an ideal matchmaking platform look like today?"

the_black_hand — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 08:24:33 +0000

I work on social apps. The central issue with dating apps is incentives. The incentives to form long-term relationships go directly against profit. The incentives for the individual go against what's best for the group. There's a lot of prisoners dilema issues.

The only way I think to have a dating app that works is to have it run by non-profit with rational matching algorithms not geared towards profit maximization.

New comment by the_black_hand in "Safe C++ proposal is not being continued"

the_black_hand — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 01:43:43 +0000

"If you want to write like Rust, just write Rust". Exactly. No reason not to. RIP cpp

New comment by the_black_hand in "Denmark to raise retirement age to 70"

the_black_hand — Mon, 26 May 2025 04:41:15 +0000

But generally, work has gotten way less physically demanding so it balances out. Tech allows you to work in via Zoom in the comfort of your home. I hope to be coding literally till the day I die.

New comment by the_black_hand in "Denmark to raise retirement age to 70"

the_black_hand — Mon, 26 May 2025 04:38:05 +0000

I'm going to get downvoted for this, but it makes sense. People live much longer than in the past. Advancements in fitness and the decline in birthrates only make it fair for us to work a little longer. Ultimately, what I hope for is AI to take care of most of the heavy work and allow us more leasiurely time, but we are still decades away from getting their.

New comment by the_black_hand in "Bluesky is on the verge of overtaking Threads in all the ways that matter"

the_black_hand — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 00:02:23 +0000

Threads is a good product. My twitter feed is dumpster fire of right wing politics and rage baity post. Threads has been much more balance. Open the app and have a good time.

People have been trying to make Bluesky happen for years. It won't. I believe moderation is fundamental to any social network, otherwise the bad actors always take over. Meta has been content moderation for years and understands the nuances.

People seek "Political discourse", but they will quickly realize our politics are too much of shit-show to have any kind of intellectual conversation. The rage bait and culture wars have taken over. Important discussions of policy, small vs big govt, taxes have taken the backseat. Our "politics" are no longer politics, and won't be for at least the next 4-8 years.

New comment by the_black_hand in "Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada"

the_black_hand — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 02:02:15 +0000

I''m curious. Do you think it makes sense to treat an American company - one of the biggest btw, that pays taxes and creates jobs - the same way as a foreign company?

New comment by the_black_hand in "Eric Schmidt deleted Stanford interview"

the_black_hand — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 07:54:01 +0000

To me startups just inherently have a bigger carrot at the end of the stick. being an early engineer in a successful startup can bring life-changing money. In a 1T company with 100,000 of engineers it just isn't possible to have that incentive. your best work is often a drop in the ocean that some VP will shelve at the fist sign of trouble. Yeah working weekends can get you that promotion quicker and give a salary bump, but it's not the same as watching the company IPO and becoming an engineer overnight.

New comment by the_black_hand in "Eric Schmidt deleted Stanford interview"

the_black_hand — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 02:30:56 +0000

Listened to the first few mins. Did he say anything controversial in the? The part about Google work-life balance isn't that big a deal. It's no secret that startups grind more.

Ask HN: How can recover my equity stock options?

the_black_hand — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 03:22:51 +0000

Recently, left a startup job and so my options 3 month window till expiration kicked in. I took some time off between jobs to be with family/travel. I got back and recently started a new job that pays bi-weekly. My plan was to save some money each paycheck and exercise my options as money came. Unfortunately, all my option grants are on Carta. And Carta sucks so bad! I'm surprised this company is still in business WTF.

I submitted a first request thinking it would take max two to three days to complete the ACH like any normal business (it says 3-5 business days). It didn't. A few weeks pass, I'm getting close to my option expiration date. I get my next paycheck. So I figured let me submit my second batch and exercise my remaining options. The kicker: Carta doesn't allow multiple exercise requests! WTF! I wait and wait for the first exercise to complete. Apparently, the grant needs to be signed by multiple parties before the ACH even begins. It's been close to a month now, and my options expire tomorrow.

Like wtf, you have one job Carta! So I call Carta and ask them to expedite the process. They say my only option is to submit a manual request to my previous company to exercise. So I have to send them a mail/fax like it's the 80s. I'm out of the country on a trip and don't know how I can get the check to them by tomorrow.

Carta sucks kids! I get that cap tables are complex, but surely processing a payment shouldn't take months in 2024. Even if it does, it's inexcusable that they can't handle multiple requests at once.

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