Hacker News: thorncorona

New comment by thorncorona in "Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs"

thorncorona — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:24:56 +0000

Gemini isn't as heavily aligned as OAI / Ant models ..?

New comment by thorncorona in "Show HN: YouTube Guitar Tab Parser"

thorncorona — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:42:37 +0000

> Exactly why I can get behind a scrape here. They are already freely accessable.

I think in most cases it is the effort that is the gate. Ex. you can DDOS most public facing services simply by spamming AI.

New comment by thorncorona in "We Know Simple Fluids Can Flow. Turns Out, Some Can Fracture"

thorncorona — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 05:55:28 +0000

well unless you figure out how to replace plastic..

New comment by thorncorona in "Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected"

thorncorona — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:28:16 +0000

Meta retooled all their internal models to be LEM / LLM based recently.

New comment by thorncorona in "As downtown Seattle offices empty, city facing years of 'zombie' towers"

thorncorona — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 05:27:44 +0000

Crime. Everyone moves from DT Seattle to the eastside when they start a family. It’s normalized at this point, where if you see a potential threat u just walk across the street and go on with your business.

Hostile business environment. Jumpstart, inflationary wage environment, etc.

Living in DT Seattle is just meh. Expensive and the food scene is terrible due to local labor policies.

Inability to get anything done from the local govt. Wilson spent her campaign promising to make it easier to build housing and just gave in to nimby interests again.

Local politics is lunacy. Constant issues with the the unhoused population but it’s ok let’s just keep pushing it to little Saigon / Chinatown! Close your eyes since it doesn’t happen if you’re in Wallingford, QA, or Ballard!

Fewer and fewer major cos investing into the area.

And then there’s 0 transit enforcement or even any attempt at it. We don’t even have fare gates on the link for gods sake.

It’s just completely absurd how mismanaged this city is, despite how much potential there is.

Nowadays more and more offices opening in Bellevue.

New comment by thorncorona in "Where Are All the Data Centers?"

thorncorona — Wed, 13 May 2026 01:45:53 +0000

This is funny to say because EU QOL stays afloat due to cheap imports from China.

New comment by thorncorona in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

thorncorona — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:41:01 +0000

Let's let the California HSR committee do it instead!

New comment by thorncorona in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

thorncorona — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:02:24 +0000

Did you validate anything you have posted?

New comment by thorncorona in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"

thorncorona — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 03:49:39 +0000

for an account 41 days old you participate in a lot of controversial topic threads.

New comment by thorncorona in "Death to Scroll Fade"

thorncorona — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:58:08 +0000

Next phone will be an android at this rate if Apple can’t solve this garbage

New comment by thorncorona in "Death to Scroll Fade"

thorncorona — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:12:08 +0000

My favorite part of the iPhone 17 pro / ios26 combo is that it lags on any and everything that remotely touches the GPU like this website.

New comment by thorncorona in "AirPods Max 2"

thorncorona — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:14:19 +0000

20 hours of listening is surprisingly low --

sony xm6 -- 30h

bose qc ultra -- 24h

would recommend the sony anc headphones, they're quite good.

New comment by thorncorona in "Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)"

thorncorona — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 01:42:16 +0000

The percentage of China in extreme poverty has been decreasing for the last few decades.

New comment by thorncorona in "Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourced"

thorncorona — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 08:00:07 +0000

Or more likely, the commonality is how you're applying your software skills?

In every other field it's helpful to understand the basics. I don't think software is the exception here.

New comment by thorncorona in "Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge"

thorncorona — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 07:27:16 +0000

I previously hand baked everything.

I learned how andible, terraform, and docker approach dev ops and infra.

I would not be able to hand cook anything with these tools but understanding the syntax was a non goal (nor what interests me).

New comment by thorncorona in "Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge"

thorncorona — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 21:50:22 +0000

I pay $20/m for cursor. It allowed me to revamp my home lab in a weekend.

New comment by thorncorona in "Photos capture the breathtaking scale of China's wind and solar buildout"

thorncorona — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 05:20:53 +0000

That is what they say about self driving cars, and there are services which are commercially available right now.

New comment by thorncorona in "Zo: Intelligent Personal Servers for Everyone"

thorncorona — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:29:45 +0000

I like the design of this

New comment by thorncorona in "Jeff Bezos creates A.I. startup where he will be co-chief executive"

thorncorona — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 17:00:27 +0000

> if you're a hyped up billionaire, it's easy mode because you can pay a lot, and people want to work for you

blue origin vs spacex says otherwise..

New comment by thorncorona in "Apple nears $1B Google deal for custom Gemini model to power Siri"

thorncorona — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 22:57:25 +0000

When is this not true?

It is cheaper to buy GPUs than to develop the capabilities to develop GPUs.