Hacker News: topherjaynes

New comment by topherjaynes in "Cursor Camp"

topherjaynes — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:34:26 +0000

Well, lads, 10 laps, been a day, going to sleep.

New comment by topherjaynes in "Show HN: An interactive map of Tolkien's Middle-earth"

topherjaynes — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:57:08 +0000

One doesn't simply vibe code into Mordor!(but seriously love this)

10 Claude Code Principles

topherjaynes — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:04:36 +0000

Article URL: https://jdforsythe.github.io/10-principles/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47665332

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by topherjaynes in "Why The Jetsons still matters (2012)"

topherjaynes — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:51:02 +0000

Reminds me of a Rosenfeld book "Make It So: Interaction Design Lessons from Science Fiction." Sci-fi is able to push interface design because they're unconstrained... It's been a while, so I need to dust off.

New comment by topherjaynes in "Ask HN: Who do you follow via RSS feed?"

topherjaynes — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 23:42:03 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/rss

New comment by topherjaynes in "Ask HN: Who do you follow via RSS feed?"

topherjaynes — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 23:41:33 +0000

SwissMiss https://feeds2.feedburner.com/Swissmiss

New comment by topherjaynes in "Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?"

topherjaynes — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 16:50:57 +0000

I still check https://www.swiss-miss.com/ to this day, more of this please!

New comment by topherjaynes in "Hosting a website on a disposable vape"

topherjaynes — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 14:18:13 +0000

It let out one last valiant puff of smoke after it succumbed to load.

Ask HN: Gemini WebUI no longer analyzes video?

topherjaynes — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 13:27:35 +0000

Did Gemini remove video as a file type you can leverage in your conversation? I've tried all models, uploading directly, trying to access in drive, and then even uploading to YouTube

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43411669

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by topherjaynes in "The Internals of PostgreSQL"

topherjaynes — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 15:26:13 +0000

Check out the CMU history of the DB class, Andy Pavlo is an amazing teacher and you really get a feel for DBs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWS8LEQAUVc&ab_channel=CMUDa... same class from 5 years ago is great because he's like well I can't get in my hotel room so I'll just record from the street https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdW5RKUboKc&t=797s&ab_channe.... Tons of good videos to go through on their youtube channel.

New comment by topherjaynes in "Stone Soup AI (2024)"

topherjaynes — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 21:55:58 +0000

Gopnik is a great writer, and this is a very good take. She has a great sense of how to bring psychology to tech. Also fun fact: She's married to Alvy Ray Smith for all the computer graphics/pixar fans out there. I'd love to here them debate tech takes!

New comment by topherjaynes in "Anthropic, thinking like a model by closing your eyes"

topherjaynes — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 14:06:20 +0000

There was a very interesting comment at 4:30 from Barry Zhang where they didn't know how the model was making a decision so they would close their eyes for a min and blink for a min and think what would I do with this information. I was blown away by this idea but really simple concept to think about the information. Is there more to read about looking through the lens of the model itself? Is this just a different way to think about Prompt Engineering?

Anthropic, thinking like a model by closing your eyes

topherjaynes — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 14:06:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LP5OCa20Zpg

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43058569

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by topherjaynes in "Elon Musk's Team Now Has Full Access to Treasury's Payments System"

topherjaynes — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 22:52:02 +0000

Thanks

Elon Musk's Team Now Has Full Access to Treasury's Payments System

topherjaynes — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 22:12:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/us/politics/elon-musk-doge-federal-payments-system.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42902941

Points: 46

# Comments: 3

New comment by topherjaynes in "Note on the Relationship Between Artificial Intelligence and Human Intelligence"

topherjaynes — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 16:22:10 +0000

I get your point, but also 1) It helps me focus on the themes first, like scanning a good non-fiction book to know what I am diving into 2) I'm not catholic, but would love some context going in on it. 3) It's a lot of individual blocks and I'd like to know does that mean they're leary, pro, what are the guidelines so helping find the themes or key topics like is there a benefit to AI and maybe using it to summarize and getting to this parapgrah quickly: 0. In light of the foregoing discussion, the differences between human intelligence and current AI systems become evident. While AI is an extraordinary technological achievement capable of imitating certain outputs associated with human intelligence, it operates by performing tasks, achieving goals, or making decisions based on quantitative data and computational logic. For example, with its analytical power, AI excels at integrating data from a variety of fields, modeling complex systems, and fostering interdisciplinary connections. In this way, it can help experts collaborate in solving complex problems that “cannot be dealt with from a single perspective or from a single set of interests.”[64]

New comment by topherjaynes in "Antiqua et Nova: Note on the relationship between AI and human intelligence"

topherjaynes — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 14:21:17 +0000

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New comment by topherjaynes in "Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs"

topherjaynes — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 14:48:43 +0000

That's my worry too, I'd like one or two, but 1) will either never be in line for them 2) or can only find via secondary market at 3 or 4x the price...

AI North Star Playbook

topherjaynes — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 12:10:58 +0000

Article URL: https://playbook.stealthx.co/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42407848

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by topherjaynes in "Sora is here"

topherjaynes — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 18:41:47 +0000

yea just that that too. Did anyone get in or did they get overwhelemed?