Hacker News: yfw

New comment by yfw in "Private equity bought America's essential services"

yfw — Wed, 27 May 2026 22:15:52 +0000

Old rich folks

New comment by yfw in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

yfw — Wed, 27 May 2026 22:13:56 +0000

What? The gains between gpt4->5 seems to be marginal. No phd level discoveries here

New comment by yfw in "The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon"

yfw — Wed, 27 May 2026 09:03:36 +0000

Sean might be a good engineer but economy seems out of his arena of expertise

New comment by yfw in "The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon"

yfw — Wed, 27 May 2026 04:31:43 +0000

Doesnt seem very testable of a hypothesis. As a company thats trying to get things done, doesnt it make sense to have someone help you prioritize by telling you when some decisions have long term costs?

New comment by yfw in "AI tools are only as good as your judgment"

yfw — Wed, 27 May 2026 01:48:17 +0000

The context this discussion seems to miss is the push to do more with less humans. Im not dictating the dev workflows. My bosses are. My judgment is as good as the amount of time i have to spend. Even if Im the best engineer, giving me a 2 min budget to review 10k lines wont go well. But it does not matter to my boss's okrs

New comment by yfw in "Google is its own worst enemy"

yfw — Tue, 26 May 2026 23:37:23 +0000

It shows ads now. And gemini is looking to offer paid options to advertisers on where they want to show

New comment by yfw in "Google is its own worst enemy"

yfw — Tue, 26 May 2026 06:25:56 +0000

Umm old search without ads or ai is obviously the best. Thats why people pay for kagi

New comment by yfw in "AOC displays drinking water contaminated by data center"

yfw — Thu, 21 May 2026 20:10:09 +0000

Rushed construction affecting well water https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8gy7lv448o

New comment by yfw in "Claude for Small Business"

yfw — Thu, 14 May 2026 05:12:55 +0000

Great so how many of you are there to keep these cash incinerators afloat?

New comment by yfw in "Claude for Small Business"

yfw — Thu, 14 May 2026 05:11:57 +0000

Havent removed it yet. What recourse do you have if it does? Can you hold anthropic accountable?

New comment by yfw in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"

yfw — Wed, 13 May 2026 11:10:32 +0000

Wilful ignorance much?

New comment by yfw in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

yfw — Mon, 11 May 2026 00:47:25 +0000

You can if you have enough ram slots?

New comment by yfw in "Bubbles Are Really Evil"

yfw — Thu, 07 May 2026 22:36:48 +0000

Sounds like the metaverse

New comment by yfw in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

yfw — Wed, 06 May 2026 21:42:29 +0000

Have you not seen the principals and seniors being offered the door or buyouts?

New comment by yfw in "OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors"

yfw — Mon, 04 May 2026 23:01:32 +0000

Sensitivity vs specificity

New comment by yfw in "How ChatGPT serves ads"

yfw — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 05:28:54 +0000

Can easily seo the knwlege chain or seo poison the sources

New comment by yfw in "How ChatGPT serves ads"

yfw — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 05:27:20 +0000

So realistically no agi

New comment by yfw in "AI can cost more than human workers now"

yfw — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:39:30 +0000

I guess you could hire people to work it out or ai to hallucinate it

New comment by yfw in "OpenAI Misses Key Revenue, User Targets in High-Stakes Sprint Toward IPO"

yfw — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 06:19:53 +0000

> Most of everything tends to suck. Most projects go nowhere, most companies fail, most scientific papers are garbage.

Umm, whats your point? We arent spending 1.4t on other shitty things that are tipping to fail

New comment by yfw in "AI can cost more than human workers now"

yfw — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:24:02 +0000

Right so lets fire them all especially the ones with domain knowlege