Hacker News: wj

New comment by wj in "Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?"

wj — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:08:58 +0000

I felt that Amazon had the best chance to step into the ticketing game as they have the platform that can handle the volume spikes (Cyber Monday). But tech infrastructure is only a part of the puzzle.

New comment by wj in "How LLMs work"

wj — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 22:42:48 +0000

I think because so much of an idea is shaped by the language used to convey it, it may be hard to separate the person from the LLM.

I think gp may want to know if a has an interesting idea rather than .

New comment by wj in "Ex-CEO, ex-CFO of bankrupt AI company charged with fraud"

wj — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 01:12:27 +0000

He was a big supporter of the Democratic Party which would not necessarily lead to a pardon with the Republican administration.

New comment by wj in "Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind"

wj — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:04:54 +0000

I swear my hearing got more sensitive with kids. Also, some commercials hit differently.

New comment by wj in "The "Passive Income" trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs"

wj — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:38:21 +0000

You’re right. Books like the Four Hour Workweek and Escape From Cubicle Nation were guides to passive income twenty years ago.

New comment by wj in "Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning"

wj — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:52:45 +0000

I'm not sure I understand your last paragraph? The two sentences seem to contradict?

New comment by wj in "We’re saying goodbye to Sora"

wj — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:28:34 +0000

May be incompatible with OpenAI possibly becoming more PG-13 rated in the future?

I had thought this would be combined with OpenAI launching a set top box where you could talk to an AI avatar. Disney IP could have been skins to sell people for their AIs.

New comment by wj in "Roblox is minting teen millionaires"

wj — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 09:53:48 +0000

I have called them casinos for kids elsewhere due to the bright colors, flashing text, and money counters going up, up, up on the screen.

And also because my kids can spend tens of dollars in minutes on it.

New comment by wj in "Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now"

wj — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 04:06:06 +0000

My thought was that messages need to be untrusted by default and the trusted input should be wrapped (with the UUID generated by the UX or API). And in this untrusted mode, only the trusted prompts would be allowed to ask for tool and file system access.

Wrote a bit more here but that is the gist: https://zero2data.substack.com/p/trusted-prompts

High-end AirPods Pro 3 adding cameras for Apple Intelligence features and more

wj — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 02:47:13 +0000

Article URL: https://9to5mac.com/2026/01/02/another-airpods-pro-3-model-is-coming-with-one-rumored-upgrade/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46472284

Points: 5

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If I Were CEO of OpenAI

wj — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 13:34:54 +0000

Article URL: https://zero2data.substack.com/p/if-i-were-ceo-of-openai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46410991

Points: 1

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New comment by wj in "Ask HN: Resources to get better at outbound sales?"

wj — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 13:34:13 +0000

I wanted to say your insight about a consulting business is spot on.

I also recommend Founding Sales and think it would be worth the OP skimming.

Also, search for Steli Efti (founder of a CRM called Close) who has some great content for outbound sales. I thought he did a session for Y Combinator's Startup School but didn't just find it. But he has lots of great content and a bit of a hustle mentality.

New comment by wj in "Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?"

wj — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 03:00:00 +0000

Napping House and Pokey Little Puppy were two of my favorites to read with my kids along with the Little Blue Truck.

New comment by wj in "Jony Ive's OpenAI Device Barred From Using 'io' Name"

wj — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 00:40:18 +0000

I think it is going to be a set-top device that casts to the TV with built in sensors and a camera to enable you to FaceTime with your AI assistant/friend.

(Wrote a brief note about it here: https://zero2data.substack.com/p/openai-policy-and-privacy)

New comment by wj in "10 years of writing a blog nobody reads"

wj — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 02:27:21 +0000

I saw this Carl Jung quote shared on Substack recently.

"Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you"."

I'm using writing as an outlet for an active mind these days. Thoughts that seem important to me and need to come out even if there is nobody there to read them.

New comment by wj in "Winamp clone in Swift for macOS"

wj — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 02:09:42 +0000

Agreed. I would love Plex (or PlexAmp and then cast) to have some built in visualizations. And I have no idea why some of those streaming EDM channels on YouTube aren't doing music visualizations rather than ten second loops of video.

New comment by wj in "The Hacker’s Manifesto (1986)"

wj — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 12:19:53 +0000

You’re right (as someone a bit older but also with rose-tinted glasses).

There was a feeling of hope on the Internet at the time that this was a communication tool that would bring us all together. I do feel like some of that died around 9/11 but that it was Facebook and the algorithms that really killed it. That is where the Internet transitioned from being about showcasing the best of us to showcasing the worst of us. In the name of engagement.

New comment by wj in "New prompt injection papers: Agents rule of two and the attacker moves second"

wj — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 11:50:05 +0000

Yes, a huge value of LLMs is having all three circles and moving all of that work into the background. (headless)

Boiling down all knowledge work to the following workflow:

Inputs -> Analysis -> Action

There would be value to just be able to put an LLM in a loop ("Go get inputs. Make decision. Take action.").

What I think is going to happen is that the human in the loop is going to end up being an engineer/super user who builds a program/workflow that uses the LLM for the Analysis with the Action step being launched externally from the LLM based on the LLM's response.

Inputs (Workflow calls LLM) -> Analysis (Inputs + Analysis Prompt + Instructions to return payload in specific format) -> Action (Check payload and take action)

It doesn't solve prompt injection but mitigates some of the risk while still leveraging AI to make business move cheaper and faster. (Quality being the factor other than Time and Cost for measuring a task and the factor I am not speaking to.)

New comment by wj in "New prompt injection papers: Agents rule of two and the attacker moves second"

wj — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 10:56:05 +0000

Agree with you from the theoretical POV but, in practice, that means that any CRM that has been used to store an email is untrusted data. Basically, a business's most trusted data source is untrusted in the LLM context. Which feels like a bridge that is going to need to be crosssed as the alternative is to just use new data (with a clearly traced and entirely internal lineage).

New comment by wj in "New prompt injection papers: Agents rule of two and the attacker moves second"

wj — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 02:56:19 +0000

From a practical point of view, what are people thinking about what is considered trustworthy input? Is the data in your CRM trusted?

Keeping the orchestration (and state changes) outside of the LLM is where my thinking is at until I can figure out the answer to that question (among others).