Hacker News: type4

New comment by type4 in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

type4 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:11:54 +0000

Great, so when do we lowly code-serfs get access to it?

New comment by type4 in "CS336: Language Modeling from Scratch"

type4 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:49:26 +0000

I would be interested in this. I opened this thread to see if anyone posted about doing the course as a group!

New comment by type4 in "I want to live like Costco people"

type4 — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:19:36 +0000

I have a really mixed feeling about Costco. I hate it, I going there, I hate the crowds, the parking, the people, being hawked a credit card, a cell phone, whatever the vendors are selling. It makes me feel like a pig in a slaughterhouse waiting to get out of the store, I feel like it's the platonic form of consumption. We all go to the nice little consumption center like good piggies to get our sustenance and to get milked further (maybe I should buy some electronics!)

Yet, I keep going. I like the cranberry bread, the cheap chicken, the granola, I like not thinking about what to buy so much. I like that it's of an acceptable quality at an acceptable price. I like that I can return stuff easily without getting shit for it. I like "scoring" deals on stuff that seems like a good value.

Car Dealerships Scam America [video]

type4 — Wed, 06 May 2026 08:57:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GREaEG_0Xcw

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48033925

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

China blocks Meta's $2B purchase of AI group Manus

type4 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:28:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/1e4c269a-5258-406c-a308-e55c3d5d640f

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47924588

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by type4 in "GPT-5.5"

type4 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:16:56 +0000

I have a directory of skills that I symlink to Codex/Claude/pi. I make scripts that correspond with them to do any heavy lifting, I avoid platform specific features like Claude's hooks. I also symlink/share a user AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md

MCPs aren't as smooth, but I just set them up in each environment.

New comment by type4 in "Codex pricing to align with API token usage, instead of per-message"

type4 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:48:33 +0000

I wish the Chinese would release a model comparable with 5.4 and free me from this pain

New comment by type4 in "Pi – A minimal terminal coding harness"

type4 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 01:34:17 +0000

What are people using to cost efficiently use this? I was using a Google Ultra sub which gave enough but that’s gone now.

ChatGPT $20/month is alright but I got locked out for a day after a couple hours. Considering the GitHub pro plus plan.

Meta Permits Its A.I. Models to Be Used for U.S. Military Purposes

type4 — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 02:06:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/04/technology/meta-ai-military.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42048009

Points: 114

# Comments: 106

New comment by type4 in "Ask HN: At what age did you become interested in coding?"

type4 — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 08:51:36 +0000

Maybe when I was 15 or 16, PHP stuff in order to maintain a website. I never really became interested in coding itself, I learned it for practical reasons and I studied it informally (forced myself through some boring books) when I was in my early 20s and wanted to get a real job.

A new galactic superstructure could undo science's theory of the universe

type4 — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 21:56:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/128ea9a2-5544-4e3c-b23b-874d5a9190b0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39034088

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by type4 in "A coder considers the waning days of the craft"

type4 — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 06:19:36 +0000

> But taking a bird’s-eye view of what happened that day? A table got a new header. It’s hard to imagine anything more mundane. For me, the pleasure was entirely in the process, not the product.

I think that's where I differ from a lot of the artful programmers, I've never found pleasure in a perfect, beautiful solution. I get annoyed when I have to dump hours and hours into something that 'should' be simple! I don't want to spend my time fiddling with layouts, CSS, Oauth handshakes, etc. I want to build stuff and get paid for it, that's how I view my job as well. Less logician and more mechanic.

I use ChatGPT as much as I can, to do all I can and then fix the output when it's needed. I view it as a higher level programming language, that spares me from the burden of thinking of low-level details. It's same the reason I code in Python/Javascript rather than C++ or other languages, the goal is to make something of use. That's my goal to stay employed, become one with the language du jour, in the same way I've jumped from PHP to Jquery to React to ...

Amazon Cuts Dozens of House Brands as It Battles Costs, Regulators

type4 — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 17:53:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-cuts-dozens-of-house-brands-as-it-battles-costs-regulators-3f6ad56d

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37079438

Points: 105

# Comments: 87

Google DeepMind CEO says some form of AGI possible in a few years

type4 — Wed, 03 May 2023 00:51:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-deepmind-ceo-says-some-form-of-agi-possible-in-a-few-years-2705f452

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35796333

Points: 190

# Comments: 371

Nearly three-quarters U.S. millennials live paycheck to paycheck, survey shows

type4 — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 18:49:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/millennials-paycheck-to-paycheck-financial-status/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35755854

Points: 5

# Comments: 3

Generative AI set to affect 300M jobs across major economies

type4 — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 07:24:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/7dec4483-ad34-4007-bb3a-7ac925643999

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35337065

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

At Marc Benioff’s Salesforce, It’s One Big Family–Until Trouble Hits

type4 — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 08:20:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/articles/salesforce-layoffs-marc-benioff-ohana-culture-8b3e82c

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34979973

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by type4 in "Ask HN: Jobs with Meaning?"

type4 — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 17:25:26 +0000

Tell us more, what do you mean? If it was a dream job why did you feel such a longing?

Ask HN: Transitioning from a single EC2 instance to something more resiliant?

type4 — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 19:04:17 +0000

My situation is that I have a Django application that gets a decent amount of traffic, a growing amount. There's some backend stuff that happens on requests in addition to hitting the DB. Postgres/Django/Redis/a bunch of cron jobs are all on one instance and I think it's time to split things off to a more resilient architecture, I'd be screwed if for some reason this thing explodes.

It's overwhelming with all the different services and methodologies available, was wondering what people here think the 'best' way to approach this would be.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34615800

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by type4 in "Ask HN: Do you feel psychological safety at your job?"

type4 — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 01:19:25 +0000

Well, could go either way on the healthy/unhealthiness of it. I would argue that it's accurate though. I've had good bosses too! They're not demons, just doing their job. It doesn't change that relation between us though: I'm subject to their whim, for payment. We're not peers, not collaborators, it's a hierarchical relationship of dependence with clear boundaries. I recognize the lines can be more blurred with more layers of management in large corporate structures, when the direct manager is subject to similar pressures that the end-worker is under.