Hacker News: yifanl

New comment by yifanl in "Chess invariants"

yifanl — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:46:39 +0000

The only action you can ever take in chess is moving.

New comment by yifanl in "US employers spend more than $1.5B a year to fight labor unions, report finds"

yifanl — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:03:36 +0000

Because the equivalence between being signed for the NBA and having apples to eat is nonsensical. We accept some things being unfair, not everything being unfair.

New comment by yifanl in "Magic the Gathering format: Fun 40"

yifanl — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:13:34 +0000

Including Moxen and no hand interaction is certainly a choice. The Battlecruiser to battle all cruisers.

New comment by yifanl in "Sam Altman's Business Dealings Under GOP Scrutiny Ahead of OpenAI's IPO"

yifanl — Thu, 14 May 2026 19:20:10 +0000

If you give me a hundred dollars, I promise I'll come back tomorrow and hand you thirty trillion dollars.

New comment by yifanl in "eBay Rejects GameStop's $56B Takeover as Not Credible"

yifanl — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:21:56 +0000

Okay, but Gamestop has very little of the benefits of physical stores, you're not going to inspect the quality of the games without loading it into your machine, and the major auxiliary purchase available for sale is a bunch of Funko Pops.

New comment by yifanl in "US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Iran war"

yifanl — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:53:15 +0000

Climate activists, as a whole, have not been able to materially affect costs positively or negatively, in any sector other than maybe TED talks and documentaries.

New comment by yifanl in "US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Iran war"

yifanl — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:46:25 +0000

How often do you buy groceries? How are groceries transited over to your local store?

New comment by yifanl in "The OpenAI Deployment Company"

yifanl — Mon, 11 May 2026 16:12:42 +0000

Is the sentiment around OpenAI already so bad that it's even fallen off the front page of Hacker News in two hours?

New comment by yifanl in "AI data center project sucked 29M gallons of water"

yifanl — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:46:27 +0000

Is there a AI data center construction process that doesn't involve these costs?

New comment by yifanl in "The fun has been optimized out of the Internet"

yifanl — Tue, 05 May 2026 17:20:05 +0000

I wasn't joking, just trying to compact my thoughts. The lifestyle and abundance we sold the last generation of university students turned out to be wholly out of reach for all but the luckiest and most well-connected, and that disillusion is why we feel so much like crap, even when we point out we're still objectively far ahead of the global average.

New comment by yifanl in "The fun has been optimized out of the Internet"

yifanl — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:26:17 +0000

Realizing that the average CS graduate can't expect to make 100k on a career of centering divs has been more disruptive to the the American psyche than 9/11.

New comment by yifanl in "Google, Microsoft and xAI Agree to Share Early AI Models with U.S."

yifanl — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:00:20 +0000

How much effort does it take to write up "Please summarize your thoughts on President Donald J. Trump"

New comment by yifanl in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

yifanl — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:01:50 +0000

People will snark him 30% harder for a week.

I dunno what you expect, everyone wants to avoid the negative consequences of their actions, should we be surprised that the rich and powerful can actually do it?

New comment by yifanl in "Tesla admits HW3 owners need upgrades for true 'Full Self-Driving'"

yifanl — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 01:57:20 +0000

Lying is a competitive advantage, yes. Why do you think companies have marketing budgets?

New comment by yifanl in "When legal sports betting surges, so do Americans' financial problems"

yifanl — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 03:11:52 +0000

Of what? It certainly hasn't stopped cigarettes.

If gamblers want to gamble, is not seeing the 30 second video ad the only thing stopping them?

New comment by yifanl in "Treason in the Futures Markets"

yifanl — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 12:08:44 +0000

Is there anyone who isnt Trump4Life who still needs to be convinced theres corruption happening very high up in the government?

We've very little doubt its happening, and it does us no good if there arent actions taken against it.

New comment by yifanl in "Why Sora Failed: $15M/day inference cost vs. $2.1M lifetime revenue"

yifanl — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:11:10 +0000

Disneyworld has lines longer than the park can manage for decades, do you expect it to just be a matter of time until park management finally figures out how to queue people efficiently enough, or do you think the solution will be once again raising costs for the customer.

New comment by yifanl in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

yifanl — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:15:14 +0000

Is the gaming market huge or is it 1/15th as valuable as an alternative for investors? Even if the answer is both, what's the net effect of this?

New comment by yifanl in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

yifanl — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:06:20 +0000

If you think Epic Games is unique in doing layoffs this year, I don't think you're paying particularly close attention to the games industry.

New comment by yifanl in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

yifanl — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:00:56 +0000

They made products that were effectively only targeted at the gaming audience, and when they pivoted, they were rewarded substantially, as the wider market recognizes how small the niche they used to be in was compared to where they are now.