Hacker News: type4

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

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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.

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

type4 — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 00:45:21 +0000

Camaraderie is an illusion with management or your boss. We're not comrades, we're their subjects. We can have comradeship with our peers, of course, but that's unlikely to provide a safety net where none of us are unionized.

So no, I don't feel safe. I smile and say polite things when they mention how great the company is or how the sales are, or what a great year it will be!(how will any of this benefit me, besides more work) I consider this performative act part of what they pay me for, even if it is very painful. I'm not in a FAANG though, just slumming it.

New comment by type4 in "AI chatbots are not a replacement for search engines"

type4 — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 22:12:31 +0000

It seems the only thing that's missing is some type of fact-checking function. The interaction, from a user perspective, is much nicer than sorting through Google results.But the results can be confidentially wrong and if you're not familiar with the subject matter already, you won't really know that.

That said, I'm basically using it as a replacement for Google for stuff that isn't up-to-date (code, philosophy) then double checking the output to see how it's wrong.

Amazon’s hardware teams first to face axe as tech giant downsizes

type4 — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 21:25:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/6b42fe66-a376-47ac-abec-d9e7abc4a453

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33823018

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Meta employees prepare for mass job cuts

type4 — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 03:58:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/348068b1-24d9-434b-9ae7-6599027bf84f

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33527370

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Amazon shares plummet after dismal sales forecast

type4 — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 20:43:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/21549840-3641-4a36-95c0-efb79b7f0391

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33363755

Points: 19

# Comments: 17