Hacker News: tracerbulletx

New comment by tracerbulletx in "Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?"

tracerbulletx — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:30:57 +0000

The is probably the most significant reason. The top athletes are pulled into other sports which have higher cultural status and financial rewards.

New comment by tracerbulletx in "The User Doesn't Care – But you should"

tracerbulletx — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:19:34 +0000

Definitely true, but the generous interpretation which is sometimes true, is that some engineers think a lot of things will have second order effects that matter and they won't or they don't even think about the actual effect that's going to have business value and connect it to what they're doing, or are doing so without evidence.

New comment by tracerbulletx in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

tracerbulletx — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 04:42:15 +0000

A lot of things going back to just whisper, and solving translation, but watching frontier models use the browser with playwright to iterate on a complex application with basically no guidance and talk to its self about it feels pretty surreal even still.

New comment by tracerbulletx in "Mornings and nights no longer exist at 47C: A day in the hottest place in India"

tracerbulletx — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:10:59 +0000

Not all people have equal culpability. It's absurd to be like, well you havent successfully waged an eco-terroristic war to overturn the system so you're just as bad as someone actively leading a lobby group to cast doubt on the science, or bribing politicians not to act on it, or even just as someone who votes in favor of people who resist action. In fact it's just another tactic of denialism to say "if you can't personally solve this problem just give up and caring is ineffective so you shouldn't care"

New comment by tracerbulletx in "VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare"

tracerbulletx — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:16:06 +0000

Everyone's trying to build end to end agent -> prod platforms and wants to own the tooling for the dev environment part of that.

New comment by tracerbulletx in "Google employees internally share memes about how its AI sucks"

tracerbulletx — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:07:08 +0000

I can't be the only one who looks at this and doesn't think its that silly that it does that. I mean it's trying to incorporate a fact its being provided. Its insane it can do that at all. You could tune it to prefer pre-existing knowledge and not let the user correct it so easily, and to be more skeptical, but that would have downsides too. I don't think it's some big coup that you can tell it Google is a mushroom and it synthesizes that.

New comment by tracerbulletx in "How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry"

tracerbulletx — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 01:30:19 +0000

Words come from the people who use them. The name for a place is in the context of the language and culture that is using the word to reference it.

New comment by tracerbulletx in "Can't find a job after graduation? Blame WFH, not AI"

tracerbulletx — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:28:22 +0000

Literally can not pay attention to anything on the internet anymore without being bombarded by propaganda both in the media and in the paid or bot comments. Then even the discussion that's not bought is just controlled into being about a topic we shouldn't even be discussing but are being manipulated in to.

New comment by tracerbulletx in "Martin Scorsese Is Embracing A.I"

tracerbulletx — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:21:54 +0000

I HIGHLY doubt that's his POV. Almost all directors, and he has said this himself many times, think of actors as collaborators and their performances as an essential part of the movie.

New comment by tracerbulletx in "Alphabet announces $80B equity capital raise to expand AI infra and compute"

tracerbulletx — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:19:04 +0000

Maybe, but inference costs can come down too with more purpose built hardware and continual optimization and quantization strategies.

New comment by tracerbulletx in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

tracerbulletx — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:30:52 +0000

Or their souls eviscerated by receiving nothing but criticism for any attempt to think or apply their creative passion.

New comment by tracerbulletx in "“The Apple Boogie“ 1987 Mac Promo Album Cassette Tape [video]"

tracerbulletx — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:43:26 +0000

Hard to deny culture has gotten less optimistic when you see stuff like this.

New comment by tracerbulletx in "Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant"

tracerbulletx — Sat, 30 May 2026 22:58:09 +0000

Why? Its not for any other camera and its insane you think it is.

New comment by tracerbulletx in "Hormuz crisis side effect: a sharp rise in container shipping rates"

tracerbulletx — Sat, 30 May 2026 19:39:27 +0000

I mean a move that will get you checkmated in one is bad, but there are a lot less of those than there are moves that will get you checkmated in 4 that are just as bad of an outcome for you.

New comment by tracerbulletx in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

tracerbulletx — Thu, 28 May 2026 01:42:22 +0000

What code quality even means is different now, but also LLMs are capable of producing better quality code at scale in my companies experience. We are able to in fact sort of propagate best practices and structure via the llm to all of the teams even when they're working under time pressure.

New comment by tracerbulletx in "OpenAI and Anthropic dig in against each other on AI jobs apocalypse"

tracerbulletx — Wed, 27 May 2026 21:16:55 +0000

It's automating away the ONLY jobs anyone ever wanted to do. You see game dev companies saying stuff like "oh we're only using it for previz". Oh you mean the one fun creative speculative job in the chain where you make art and ideate about characters and fashion and the look? Wow cool, I can still do tedious details and go to meetings? Oh I don't get to problem solve and make drafts and prototypes and test my skill at a craft, I get to code review generated 10,000 line PRS? Exciting.

New comment by tracerbulletx in "Canada to order military plane fleet from Sweden in shift from US suppliers"

tracerbulletx — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:38:01 +0000

A lot of people are still in denial about Jan 6th. They really tried to overthrow the election like actually in physical effect. Not hypothetically. They were trying to not certify the election and it came down to a hairs width. They're going to try to again.

New comment by tracerbulletx in "The real cost of owning a home"

tracerbulletx — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:18:34 +0000

You can pretty much always finance a repair that size and amortize the expense so that it works out ok.

New comment by tracerbulletx in "Uber president says AI spending is getting 'harder to justify'"

tracerbulletx — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:09:18 +0000

Yeah this is right. Its about taking the throttle off of experimentation hoping some team suddenly starts shipping a years worth of features in a week and responding to strategic customer demands in near real time. Then copying what works out across the org. (and probably downsizing)

New comment by tracerbulletx in "Scientists solve 200-year-old puzzle of how tobacco plants make nicotine"

tracerbulletx — Mon, 25 May 2026 00:01:24 +0000

How exactly would they ask that question 10,000 years ago if they didn't know what molecules were, much less nicotine?