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New comment by wepple in "How to Build Wealth as a Career Person"

wepple — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 18:12:25 +0000

I’m going to go against most of the comments here (negative) and say that there are a ton of wise nuggets in this article.

Specifically pieces about how to be valuable in a pragmatic and honest way.

New comment by wepple in "OpenAI annualised revenues $20B less than previously signalled"

wepple — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 17:51:01 +0000

This is an interesting shift compared to the past where OpenAI would’ve been public a long time ago (due to various regulations) so we would have much more direct insight.

Right now we have a ~$1 trillion company which a ton of the “economy” and valuations are based on, with near zero information on how it’s doing.

New comment by wepple in "Ask HN: What are you reading?"

wepple — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 22:31:19 +0000

Seeing like a state is my next book to read. Weirdly, I cannot recall the chain of interests that led me to it.

New comment by wepple in "OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300M"

wepple — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:30:29 +0000

> but can't do that yet because its not possible.

Huh? Why not?

New comment by wepple in "Substack writers, you need a website"

wepple — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:37:50 +0000

It sounds like you’ve given up on an open web. Possibly the rational thing for you to do in your circumstances, but nonetheless a sad place we are in.

New comment by wepple in "Kimi Work"

wepple — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 11:38:54 +0000

A foreign company can’t steal your IP to build out competing products?

Or use source code to find novel vulnerabilities and deeply compromise your company?

New comment by wepple in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

wepple — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:08:01 +0000

I think that’s the point

New comment by wepple in "Vulnerability reports are not special anymore"

wepple — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 19:16:41 +0000

I don’t participate in bounties at all unless I believe there is a moral obligation or I’m set to make thousands of dollars. In each case, $0.05 is fine.

For a typical commercial entity? $0.05 is not a deterrent; the companies legal team is and has been for a decade.

New comment by wepple in "Vulnerability reports are not special anymore"

wepple — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 05:50:31 +0000

Reminds me of someone (well known in their field) who charged $0.05 for using their “contact me” page. A trivial amount for someone who genuinely wanted to contact them, but just high enough to prevent any kind of scaled abuse

New comment by wepple in "Flipper One – we need your help"

wepple — Thu, 21 May 2026 20:27:47 +0000

It was recently edited. I assume they saw this feedback

New comment by wepple in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

wepple — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:47:50 +0000

I love that the 5.9 lives on

ursa-ag.com For (a little bit) more info

New comment by wepple in "Ask HN: I quit my job over weaponized robots to start my own venture"

wepple — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:29:17 +0000

Spinning it up is not the problem. You want to spend the time to throughly test it (or have your agent swarm test it) so you don’t waste the opportunity of having HN input?

I’d be wary of a founder with such bad NIH

New comment by wepple in "Claude wrote a full FreeBSD remote kernel RCE with root shell"

wepple — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:48:51 +0000

Fixing is now the bottleneck.

Most patches are non-trivial and then each project/maintainer has a preferred coding style, and they’re being inundated with PRs already, and don’t take kindly to slop.

LLMs can find the CVE fully zero interaction, so it scales trivially.

New comment by wepple in "Show HN: Zerobox – Sandbox any command with file, network, credential controls"

wepple — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:08:49 +0000

You should probably add a huge disclaimer that this is an untested, experimental project.

Related, a direct comparison to other sandboxes and what you offer over those would be nice

New comment by wepple in "Tech jobs are getting demolished in ways not seen since 2008"

wepple — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 17:30:12 +0000

Extensive discussion on this recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47278426

(This looks like a BI rehash of that topic)

New comment by wepple in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

wepple — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 01:09:27 +0000

As a parent to two young kids and in more of a leadership position at work, Claude allows me to grind through my backlog of ideas in minutes between other tasks, and see which ones take flight.

New comment by wepple in "The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying"

wepple — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:29:00 +0000

I personally observe AI creation phenomenally good code, much better than I can write. At insane speed, with minimal oversight. And today’s AI is the worst we will ever have.

Progress in AI can easily be measured by the speed at which the goalposts move - from “it can’t count” to “yeah but the entire browser it wrote didnt compile in the CI pipeline”

New comment by wepple in "The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying"

wepple — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:52:29 +0000

Batshit crazy?

3 years ago LLMs couldn’t solve 7x8.

Now they’re building complex applications in one shot, solving previously unsolved math and science problems.

Heck, one company built a (prototype but functional) web browser

And you say it’s crazy that in the future it’ll be able to build a mail app or OS?

New comment by wepple in "The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying"

wepple — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 13:12:36 +0000

> It is there to reduce our agency, to make it easier to fire us, to put us in even more precarious position

Could be. It could also end up freeing us from every commercial dependency we have. Write your own OS, your own mail app, design your own machinery to farm with.

It’s here, so I don’t know where you’re going with “I’m unhappy this is happening and someone should do something”

New comment by wepple in "Google Workspace CLI"

wepple — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 02:04:21 +0000

Don’t hold your breath