Hacker News: theli0nheart

New comment by theli0nheart in "Nobody gets promoted for simplicity"

theli0nheart — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:47:03 +0000

Most real-world scenarios aren't so arbitrary, and hardly any have a "right answer". If I had a candidate that broke out of the box of our interview to give a good answer, and that's not the answer I "want", I'd be more likely to believe the interview question is the problem, not the candidate.

New comment by theli0nheart in "Dole Kemp 96 Web Site"

theli0nheart — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:05:23 +0000

Someone please make these.

New comment by theli0nheart in "Tao Te Ching – Translated by Ursula K. Le Guin"

theli0nheart — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 20:46:38 +0000

What a crazy coincidence seeing this on HN; I just started reading this today!

New comment by theli0nheart in "Google is dead. Where do we go now?"

theli0nheart — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:13:20 +0000

This is a temporary situation. Think of it like how Napster let you download any song for free for a few years. For a while, all you heard was how the Internet was going to put all musicians out of business. Obviously that didn't happen.

The same will happen here. It's not like OpenAI has built a search engine; every time they need a live search they hit Bing (please correct me if I'm wrong) and get the results from there. No matter how you slice it, search companies who actually supply the data are going to get reimbursed, and since most users don't pay $20 / month, that likely means ads everywhere.

Also, Google's AI overviews are getting very good. Initially it was pretty inaccurate, but now it's basically 95% as good as ChatGPT, and faster. Most normies I talk to think it's good enough.

Go proposal: spec: sum types based on general interfaces

theli0nheart — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 17:28:03 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/57644

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46337813

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by theli0nheart in "Log level 'error' should mean that something needs to be fixed"

theli0nheart — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 16:20:35 +0000

I agree with this.

Not everything that a library considers an error is an application error. If you log an error, something is absolutely wrong and requires attention. If you consider such a log as "possibly wrong", it should be a warning instead.

New comment by theli0nheart in "No more O'Reilly subscriptions for me"

theli0nheart — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 17:37:57 +0000

What are you paying?

New comment by theli0nheart in "Mixpanel Security Breach"

theli0nheart — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 23:12:33 +0000

Yikes, Mixpanel lost a OpenAI as a customer because of this.

> Trust, security, and privacy are foundational to our products, our organization, and our mission. We are committed to transparency, and are notifying all impacted customers and users. We also hold our partners and vendors accountable for the highest bar for security and privacy of their services. After reviewing this incident, OpenAI has terminated its use of Mixpanel.

New comment by theli0nheart in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"

theli0nheart — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 13:01:49 +0000

You can't even turn off caching from Cloudflare because...the Cloudflare dashboard is down.

So everyone who's wrapped their host with Cloudflare is stuck with it.

Growing a Language, by Guy Steele [video]

theli0nheart — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 17:45:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45724088

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by theli0nheart in "A Tower on Billionaires' Row Is Full of Cracks. Who's to Blame?"

theli0nheart — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 16:52:33 +0000

I don't know about anyone else, but simply looking at this building makes me nervous. I can't imagine how it could remain structurally sound in high wind conditions. Those open-air floors just don't seem like they'd be enough to offset the lack of aerodynamics.

New comment by theli0nheart in "AMD signs AI chip-supply deal with OpenAI, gives it option to take a 10% stake"

theli0nheart — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 16:31:58 +0000

Do you recall what “people familiar with finance” did with CDOs and mortgage-backed securities during the financial crisis? That didn’t work out so well either, despite all parties being aware of the risks.

It bears repeating my original question: if the risks are so minor, why is OpenAI simply not issuing bonds and buying AMD stock with the proceeds?

New comment by theli0nheart in "AMD signs AI chip-supply deal with OpenAI, gives it option to take a 10% stake"

theli0nheart — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 14:45:00 +0000

Well, yeah, that's exactly my point. OpenAI is not issuing bonds because these transactions are way riskier than people are willing to admit.

New comment by theli0nheart in "AMD signs AI chip-supply deal with OpenAI, gives it option to take a 10% stake"

theli0nheart — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 14:00:46 +0000

AMD's valuation increased by over 30% this morning, so to say no one has access to more money because of this news is untrue.

I'm not outraged at all, I just think this sort of bizarre financial engineering is not a good sign. If the ROI was so obvious, why not, for example, simply issue bonds and buy AMD stock on the open market?

New comment by theli0nheart in "AMD signs AI chip-supply deal with OpenAI, gives it option to take a 10% stake"

theli0nheart — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 13:14:41 +0000

Backed by what?

New comment by theli0nheart in "AMD signs AI chip-supply deal with OpenAI, gives it option to take a 10% stake"

theli0nheart — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 12:54:19 +0000

> As part of the arrangement, AMD issued a warrant that gives OpenAI the ability to buy up to 160 million shares of AMD for 1 cent each over the course of the chips deal. The warrant vests in tranches based on milestones that the two companies have agreed on.

This is money printing, just in the private sector. We know what happens when governments do it, and it's not good.

New comment by theli0nheart in "The AI bubble is 17 times the size of the dot-com frenzy, analyst says"

theli0nheart — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 19:24:09 +0000

The big difference is that the dot-com bubble coincided with low interest rates, whereas interest rates increased sharply after COVID ended, which was right when AI was taking off.

If we were still in ZIRP things would be insane.

New comment by theli0nheart in "Be Worried"

theli0nheart — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 19:18:10 +0000

I like this take. Unfortunately most people don't have this level of self-control.

New comment by theli0nheart in "Be Worried"

theli0nheart — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 19:16:53 +0000

What's different is the available leverage.

It's fairly trivial to write code that can autogenerate hundreds or even thousands of AI-generated videos using Veo 3 with individual characters to push any narrative you'd like and push to Instagram or TikTok.

That's way scarier to me than a newspaper having a bias, or someone with an audience publishing a controversial blog post.

New comment by theli0nheart in "Be Worried"

theli0nheart — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 19:09:23 +0000

Ok, as the author I have to admit that's a hilarious observation. But no, I wrote this myself.