Hacker News: topheroo

New comment by topheroo in "We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit"

topheroo — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:51:32 +0000

Comment of the week

New comment by topheroo in "Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case"

topheroo — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:54:10 +0000

They were also designed to addict adults, just saying.

New comment by topheroo in "Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language"

topheroo — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:15:01 +0000

If you type in “Hi, how are you?” and go back and forth between English and LinkedIn Speak a few times, it winds up with “I’d like to sell you something.” Pretty accurate.

New comment by topheroo in "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network"

topheroo — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 18:02:13 +0000

> Cope and cognitive dissonance

New comment by topheroo in "OpenClaw is changing my life"

topheroo — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 17:27:29 +0000

To be fair, AI probably wrote the blog post from a short prompt, which would explain the lack of detail.

New comment by topheroo in "Offline.kids – Screen-free activities for kids"

topheroo — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 19:03:34 +0000

I wonder how much of the site was AI-generated. The images definitely are (kids with different numbers of fingers from each other in the same picture lol).

New comment by topheroo in "OnlyFans models are using AI impersonators to keep up with their DMs"

topheroo — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 15:31:58 +0000

Your posts in this thread have said exactly what I was thinking

New comment by topheroo in "How America's universities became debt factories"

topheroo — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 23:31:04 +0000

Same here about distrusting pieces that use AI art. It’s like… a signifier of something hard to describe — values, qualities — that makes me want to listen to someone’s point of view less.

New comment by topheroo in "Artificial womb facility concept for 30k babies per year"

topheroo — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 18:20:27 +0000

This has to be parody, right?

New comment by topheroo in "How to feel engaged at work: a software engineer's guide"

topheroo — Wed, 18 May 2022 22:45:42 +0000

I try to always work on something that’s contributing to something I care about in the world. I find that motivation is less of an issue if there’s intrinsic value to the work I’m doing.

New comment by topheroo in "1Password for Mac Moving to Electron"

topheroo — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 18:59:58 +0000

For me, the "bloat" issue is less significant than the way that Electron apps don't have native macOS controls. They feel like a web app in a window, and attempts to emulate macOS-style controls just feel like facsimiles.

New comment by topheroo in "R 4.0"

topheroo — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 12:38:14 +0000

I thought exactly the same thing! Been a long time coming…

New comment by topheroo in "Ask HN: Have you been laid off?"

topheroo — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 18:17:50 +0000

I was laid off in December… from my job researching the origins of pandemic diseases and developing mitigation methods. ¯\(°_O)/¯