Hacker News: yeeetz

New comment by yeeetz in "LaGuardia pilots raised safety alarms months before deadly runway crash"

yeeetz — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:08:23 +0000

yours included buddy

New comment by yeeetz in "OpenClaw is changing my life"

yeeetz — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 19:14:47 +0000

i like the aspect of engineering that's building useful or interesting or fun things for people, and i'll always experiment with new tech that facilitates that

New comment by yeeetz in "Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky "Helicopter" music video"

yeeetz — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:17:35 +0000

don't be a square

New comment by yeeetz in "Ÿnsect, a French insect farming startup, has been been placed into liquidation"

yeeetz — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 22:28:00 +0000

if u saw what goes into commercial animal feed u might feel different about trying to figure out better ways to do it...

New comment by yeeetz in "Flounder Mode – Kevin Kelly on a different way to do great work"

yeeetz — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 23:04:34 +0000

Many successful American tech founders and entrepreneurs have strong religious or spiritual beliefs — I believe it's part of the unique competitive advantage and edge in this industry

New comment by yeeetz in "Jane Street's Figgie card game"

yeeetz — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 19:25:04 +0000

hows quantitative finance more morally bankrupt than being an engineer in oil/gas, defense industry, etc.

New comment by yeeetz in "Parents of OpenAI Whistleblower Don't Believe He Died by Suicide, Order Autopsy"

yeeetz — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 23:24:30 +0000

I'd be more surprised if they haven't.

New comment by yeeetz in "Caltech, long a bastion of male students, enrolls first class of majority women"

yeeetz — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 16:19:51 +0000

at least it makes dating easier for guys at schools like caltech now which is a non-trivial plus

New comment by yeeetz in "At Japan’s first winery, the country’s oldest grape lives on"

yeeetz — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 15:15:28 +0000

NA and EU have plenty of local artisanal products. It just doesn't have the some appeal as Japan, which tends to occupy a hallowed spot in the minds of educated/nerdy guys on the internet.

New comment by yeeetz in "How the new Threads app is made"

yeeetz — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 06:07:56 +0000

Yeah, IMO Musk seriously overestimated the average person's tolerance for toxic and hateful political content.

New comment by yeeetz in "How the new Threads app is made"

yeeetz — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 23:55:35 +0000

Yeah, Twitter is super big in Japan for mainstream teen and young adult users in the 18-25 city student/young professional demographic. Same with Instagram. Mastodon adjacent stuff like Misskey, Pawoo, and Mstdn got the reputation for being for hosting weird, niche, or pretty much illegal content, and nobody really understands the point of Fediverse.

New comment by yeeetz in "How the new Threads app is made"

yeeetz — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 23:17:24 +0000

Honestly I don't fuck with social media that much besides my private Instagram, but there's more to it than just viral marketing. It's a pretty smooth app that appeals to people like my 18-25-ish age that feels like Twitter has gotten super weird and toxic. The honeymoon effect won't last forever, but it has something that a lot of social media users are looking for.

New comment by yeeetz in "How the new Threads app is made"

yeeetz — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 23:12:57 +0000

This is the most Hacker News comment I've read today.

New comment by yeeetz in "Meta could become even more dominant in social media with Threads"

yeeetz — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 23:06:08 +0000

I gotta say removing political/controversial topics isn't necessarily a bad thing. Just depends on your use case and stuff. Not every platform needs to be a free speech zone—right now it feels like a pretty chill space to share food pics and talk about inconsequential topics with friends.

New comment by yeeetz in "Meta could become even more dominant in social media with Threads"

yeeetz — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 23:03:42 +0000

Why's it gotta be about money? Sometimes it's interesting to follow what other people in the field are doing. I used to follow a ton of ML and compiler researchers on Twitter. Was a ton of interesting conversations around 2013-2015.

New comment by yeeetz in "Meta could become even more dominant in social media with Threads"

yeeetz — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 19:50:16 +0000

Ye you're probably right. I'm not against ads on principle, I just hope they do it in a way that isn't super obtrusive. I feel like they got a good thing going on with the initial hype cycle. This is like the first time Meta/Facebook has been seen as cool in like ten years.

New comment by yeeetz in "Meta could become even more dominant in social media with Threads"

yeeetz — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 18:25:10 +0000

Threads is pretty chill and has a couple things going for it: my Insta followers/friends are automatically imported, no ads so far, recommendation algorithm works reasonably well (although it keeps pushing up Shaq for some reason), and there are some nice posi meme-y vibes. People talking about cooking and travel and music—no weird politics or crypto scammer stuff on every comment. Hopefully it stays that way for longer.

New comment by yeeetz in "I’m an ER doctor. Here’s how I’m already using ChatGPT to help treat patients"

yeeetz — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 17:32:57 +0000

It is funny that you mention that. I've been feeling increasingly self-conscious about my own writing on the internet now because that's how I naturally write and talk, so I wonder how many people in the future are going to think it's just another AI comment written by ChatGPT.

New comment by yeeetz in "Bovine meat and milk protein in tumor‐free mucosa of colorectal cancer patients"

yeeetz — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 19:06:13 +0000

While late diagnosis of Stage III/IV CRC in young adults is tragic, both incidence and death rate of colon cancer has fallen in recent years in the U.S. as early detection (more colonoscopies) and proactive removal of pre-cancerous polyps has increased.

New comment by yeeetz in "CEO Jack Altman’s email to Lattice employees"

yeeetz — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 18:34:23 +0000

It's the CEO/leader's job to make these decisions and to course correct when he's made a mistake. Publicly admonishing himself is, at best, a pointless display of virtue signaling. He could write 10 pages groveling for forgiveness from his employees and the public, but people would complain about that too.

I suspect the overall CEO compensation package for a company the size and structure of Lattice is trivial compared to other expenses.