Hacker News: timfsu

New comment by timfsu in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

timfsu — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:52:28 +0000

The question is - if the SOTA model disappear - do these follow-on models have the ability to improve themselves without distillation?

New comment by timfsu in "You don't have to"

timfsu — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 05:45:49 +0000

I for one enjoyed this very long essay. It should've been a lot shorter, but you also didn't have to read it, it says right there in the title :)

New comment by timfsu in "Fresh File Explorer – VS Code extension for navigating recent work"

timfsu — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 19:31:12 +0000

Love this idea. Working with AI assistants, I find it easier to push to GitHub to look at the changes, rather than use my IDE. I wish that wasn’t the case, so this makes a ton of sense.

New comment by timfsu in "Why Is the American Diet So Deadly? (2025)"

timfsu — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:16:28 +0000

Fascinating article. Also extremely confusing (though probably not unexpected) that an important health researcher is named Nestle.

New comment by timfsu in "OpenAI should build Slack"

timfsu — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 21:46:43 +0000

I for one would love this - if it’s done well - except that it would presumably be locked in to OpenAI agents

New comment by timfsu in "New Nick Bostrom Paper: Optimal Timing for Superintelligence [pdf]"

timfsu — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 06:00:59 +0000

These narratives are so strange to me. It's not at all obvious why the arrival of AGI leads to human extinction or increasing our lifespan by thousands of years. Still, I like this line of thinking from this paper better than the doomer take.

New comment by timfsu in "Kairos: AI interns for everyone"

timfsu — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 21:44:56 +0000

I get the appeal, but it seems too early for one AI tool to be able to do "everything". I'm guessing there's some company out there trying to automate each of these tasks and dealing with the attendant complexity that comes with it - it's not clear to me that a single "do everything" AI would be able to do this pre-AGI

New comment by timfsu in "You’re not burnt out, you’re existentially starving"

timfsu — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 01:31:37 +0000

In my opinion, what you need is a person (or three), not a book :)

Someone who relies on you, whatever the context, is some of the greatest motivation out there.

New comment by timfsu in "8-bit Boléro"

timfsu — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 05:59:07 +0000

Possibly best thing ever on Hacker News. There is something quite appealing about the simplicity of Boléro

New comment by timfsu in "Developers can now submit apps to ChatGPT"

timfsu — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 02:45:11 +0000

It's not clear how much ChatGPT is investing in the discovery part of the app store experience, so this seems like mostly a way for users to install apps they're already familiar with and use them from inside a chat. For now, it seems like you have to explicitly @-mention an app to use it.

New comment by timfsu in "Zed is now available on Windows"

timfsu — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 23:17:10 +0000

Unfortunately, I tried to use zed as my daily driver, but the typescript experience was subpar. While the editor itself was snappy, LSP actions like "jump to declaration" were incredibly slow on our codebase compared to VS Code / Cursor.

New comment by timfsu in "Should Banks Do More to Fight 'Pig Butchering'?"

timfsu — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 04:51:49 +0000

Really interesting article, unfortunately it seems quite lucrative to scam seniors, and very hard to prevent, especially when they don’t think they’re being scammed.

New comment by timfsu in "California sent residents' personal health data to LinkedIn"

timfsu — Thu, 15 May 2025 15:22:19 +0000

I understood it to be the reverse - they advertise on LinkedIn, and the trackers determine whether the users convert once they click through. Not great, but at least not as ill intentioned

New comment by timfsu in "Launch HN: mrge.io (YC X25) – Cursor for code review"

timfsu — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 15:05:39 +0000

Happy mrge user here - congrats on the launch! It’s encouraged our team to do more stacked PRs and made every review a bit nicer

New comment by timfsu in "Magic/tragic email links: don't make them the only option"

timfsu — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 21:53:22 +0000

Using a time-based expiration rather than a usage-based expiration should help

New comment by timfsu in "I am rich and have no idea what to do"

timfsu — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 23:19:02 +0000

I appreciate the author’s openness in sharing their experience - it’s really worthwhile to share experiences where money isn’t everything, and that it can be a poor generator of meaning.

Speaking of meaning, I think it’s a task for everyone to find their life’s calling - something you’re uniquely suited to do. Sometimes that pays the bills and sometimes it doesn’t. I’m a bit surprised that “start another saas company” wasn’t really on the list for Vinay, but there’s probably a good reason for that. For me, I found that starting a family completely changed my life, as well as helping me appreciate more the family I already had - but I suppose that’s not something that lasts forever either. Good luck to the author.

New comment by timfsu in "Mise: Dev tools, env vars, task runner"

timfsu — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 23:17:39 +0000

Big fan of mise, moved over from asdf and never looked back! kudos jdx

New comment by timfsu in "Boeing workers vote to strike"

timfsu — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 16:01:07 +0000

This sounds like an incentive to fire/outsource all of your lower-paid employees

New comment by timfsu in "Show HN: iFixit created a new USB-C, repairable soldering system"

timfsu — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 17:22:15 +0000

That's wonderful - I used to solder with a cheap iron until university. A nice iron gets a lot hotter, and it makes everything easier and faster. It may not matter for keyboards, but on a small PCB where everything is a few mm part, the precision of a good tip matters too.

New comment by timfsu in "Tech firms were fighting a war for talent. Now they are waging war on talent"

timfsu — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 20:09:34 +0000

This is quite a pessimistic article with some sweeping generalizations across tech… it may be true in some places but I disagree that software engineering is at its core fungible (yet)