Hacker News: twalla

New comment by twalla in "Claude Corps"

twalla — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:49:53 +0000

What are the odds these nonprofits were chosen due to proximity to communities with contentious datacenter buildouts?

New comment by twalla in "Thi.ng – open-source building blocks for computational design and art"

twalla — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:01:09 +0000

these are lovely my guy

New comment by twalla in "Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'"

twalla — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:44:52 +0000

I'd love to own SpaceX - what I don't want to own is all the unprofitable, toxic dogshit its ketamine-addled CEO folded into it that has nothing to do with putting stuff into orbit or selling Starlink.

New comment by twalla in "The Permanent Upper Crow"

twalla — Thu, 28 May 2026 22:35:42 +0000

James P. Carse - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/189989.Finite_and_Infini...

New comment by twalla in "Anthropic Is Preparing for IPO and We Should Be Worried"

twalla — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:05:05 +0000

There is indirect exposure to Anthropic/OpenAI through all the incestuous partnerships between hyperscalers and NVDA

New comment by twalla in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

twalla — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:49:06 +0000

Hilarious how this guy treats the “confession” as some sort of smoking gun rather than the exact same stochastic slot machine that enabled him to score an own-goal on his prod database.

New comment by twalla in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

twalla — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 05:03:16 +0000

Not to well actually your well actually but they’re all anodized to prevent corrosion and scratches (the oxide layer is harder than the underlying aluminum) - the silver one is just undyed.

New comment by twalla in "Machine Payments Protocol (MPP)"

twalla — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:05:44 +0000

As much as I detest having to look at ads or being "influenced" in any way, shape or form, I think the opportunities for exploitation with what you just described is potentially orders of magnitude more harmful. Sure, let me just hand my wallet to a stochastic black box with god-knows-what RL'd biases and then hook it up to adversarial data sources all vying to extract the most money from me - what could possibly go wrong?

New comment by twalla in "The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)"

twalla — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 02:27:37 +0000

Okay, now _this_ is the cyberpunk future I asked for.

New comment by twalla in "Apple XNU: Clutch Scheduler"

twalla — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:22:32 +0000

For the Java bit at least, this aligns with job descriptions I’ve seen and recruiter outreach I’ve received (long time ago though, maybe 5 years).

New comment by twalla in "New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers"

twalla — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 23:51:05 +0000

You can buy jigs to complete what are called 80% receivers with a drill press (and (optionally a router) - could do it on your kitchen table in an evening for a couple hundred bucks.

New comment by twalla in "GLM-4.7-Flash"

twalla — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 17:10:02 +0000

I hope cerebras figures out a way to be worth the premium - seeing two pages of written content output in the literal blink of an eye is magical.

New comment by twalla in "Scott Adams has died"

twalla — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 18:33:06 +0000

Ignore the numbers - the gist is being good enough at the right two or three things can create similar value for you as being the best at one specific thing.

Everyone (for the sake of my argument) wants to be an engineer at a FAANG but there are tons of folks making more money with more autonomy because they've found a niche that combines their good-enough technical ability with an understanding or interest in an underserved market.

New comment by twalla in "Scott Adams has died"

twalla — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 17:31:42 +0000

"If you want an average successful life, it doesn’t take much planning. Just stay out of trouble, go to school, and apply for jobs you might like. But if you want something extraordinary, you have two paths:

1. Become the best at one specific thing. 2. Become very good (top 25%) at two or more things."

I'm certain at least some small part of my own success can be attributed to my exposure to this idea, and for that I give my respects to Adams. As far as Adam's character (or lack thereof) is concerned, that's already being discussed elsewhere in this thread by others more eloquent than myself, so I'll leave that to them.

New comment by twalla in "Michael Burry a.k.a. "Big Short",discloses $1.1B bet against Nvidia&Palantir"

twalla — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 18:31:46 +0000

Options are just that - an option to transact at a certain price, if you choose not to you're just out the premium you pay. Short selling involves an obligation to return the shares, which has (theoretically) unlimited downside.

New comment by twalla in "When a stadium adds AI to everything, it's worse experience for everyone"

twalla — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 23:59:41 +0000

A small price to pay to make the Not Hotdog app from Silicon Valley a reality.

New comment by twalla in "Show HN: FleetCode – Open-source UI for running multiple coding agents"

twalla — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 00:58:03 +0000

It seems like there are a bunch of tools more or less converging on this sort of workflow - see:

https://github.com/stravu/crystal

https://github.com/imbue-ai/sculptor

https://github.com/omnara-ai/omnara

New comment by twalla in "Show HN: Autism Simulator"

twalla — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 16:09:47 +0000

The back-to-back Robert Caro mention and unskippable ADHD Wikipedia popup hit too close to home.

New comment by twalla in "David Lynch LA House"

twalla — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 13:52:27 +0000

Jackie Treehorn’s place is the Sheats-Goldstein residence. Both the residence and the owner are worth going down the Wikipedia rabbit hole.

https://jamesfgoldstein.com/the-goldstein-residence/

New comment by twalla in "Air Force unit suspends use of Sig Sauer pistol after shooting death of airman"

twalla — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 01:02:17 +0000

Like anything you want to become proficient at, you need consistent practice. How many free throws do you think LeBron has practiced? Now imagine you die if you miss. Also it’s fun to blast stuff.