HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

MattDamonSpace

367 karma · joined January 27, 2020

submissionscomments
MattDamonSpace··on Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI
Not to mention “labor they don’t understand” is only possible with specialization and modernity.

Back when everyone was a farmer, yeah sure everyone understood the job

MattDamonSpace··on Marx, Keynes, and AI
Not compelling for the basic reason laid out at the start of the article: this is just a re-phrasing of Marx

The guy was telling a story about capitalist economies in the 1800s. Little, if anything, about the next 100+ years has proven his stories or concerns valid.

MattDamonSpace··on Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance
It did, it’s just a question of “would it have been worth preventing compiler adoption/usage to attempt to preserve assembly knowledge”
MattDamonSpace··on Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence
“People who generate valuable information should be uncompensated”
MattDamonSpace··on Sticky wage norms and the real wage cost of unexpected inflation
Most Americans are shareholders, I’m all for spreading the wealth but don’t ignore why there’s so much to spread. Americans reinvest for profit
MattDamonSpace··on Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months
Free Market doesn’t mean new ram production can “just be stood up”

And given that these are independent actors in the free market, they’ve seen the history of boom/bust cycles in this market

Free market doesn’t mean “everything just magically happens”

MattDamonSpace··on 2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out
Why are “demand and supply driven price increases” considered inflationary?

Isn’t it just… prices?

MattDamonSpace··on Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting
It’s not Slack’s responsibility to do so, but it is their vulnerability if they don’t
MattDamonSpace··on A grumpy screed about AI in software engineering
Hes saying his site is written by hand
MattDamonSpace··on Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters
I maintain that if Humane wasn’t arrogant as hell and had just put a screen on their device, theyd have been PERFECTLY placed to become the open-platform AI Phone

Hell they might’ve been bought by OpenAI for billions instead of… HP lol

MattDamonSpace··on Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters
Agreed Steve would do this

But the iPhone is the most valuable consumer hardware product on the planet, and the accusations here is “conspiracy to steal” essentially.

Is it really that petty? Apple should be okay with theft of valuable secrets?

MattDamonSpace··on Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model
China’s got absolute control over its outputs. For America to have any guarantees around long-term availability of OW models, they need domestic production.

FWIW this is the same logic for China’s need for their own OW models

MattDamonSpace··on You're Not a Better Engineer Because You Type Git Commands by Hand
Never had a git GUI that worked for me either
MattDamonSpace··on You're Not a Better Engineer Because You Type Git Commands by Hand
Yes but you do not have to invoke them directly yourself anymore
MattDamonSpace··on You're Not a Better Engineer Because You Type Git Commands by Hand
“The consumer that maximizes utility of that structure is now an LLM”
MattDamonSpace··on Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt
Is that really a Quine

edit: it’s impressive as all hell but like

MattDamonSpace··on China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes
Yeah but that’s bad right
MattDamonSpace··on Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter
It’s just good etiquette to name the model, it only seems haughty when it’s the new one
MattDamonSpace··on Pros and Cons of Solo Development
“We need to go far, fast”
MattDamonSpace··on Revised Rules of Engineering Leadership
The section with actual examples is fantastic, ty
MattDamonSpace··on Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven't progressed enough
Altman was trying to get $1T of infra investment years ago
MattDamonSpace··on Claude Code is steganographically marking requests
“So the feature mostly punishes the exact people who are easier to fingerprint: normal developers doing weird but legitimate things”

What’s the punishment here exactly?

MattDamonSpace··on A way to exclude sensitive files issue still open for OpenAI Codex
Not sure I agree?

It’s not like gitignore should be independent from git

MattDamonSpace··on The AI Data-Center Boom Is Sparking a Third Wave of Inflation
Is it Inflation when it’s just supply and demand
MattDamonSpace··on Blogging can just be stating the obvious
and then I’m reading you
MattDamonSpace··on Jobs and Software Is Fucked
What law prevents the two-year contract from going further?
MattDamonSpace··on Never Give Them Your Face
Nefarious actors will always attempt to institute these programs via well-meaning stooges

AI coming along is another “great opportunity” to try and force these programs

MattDamonSpace··on Specs Augmented Reality Glasses
Apple II is easy 5 figures today
MattDamonSpace··on Can Europe train a frontier AI model on the compute it owns?
“Human rights” as defined by the continent that brought you both The Enlightenment and The Holocaust

Feels like a reaaaaal roll of the dice

MattDamonSpace··on Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
The driving force behind most presidential votes
← PreviousPage 2 of 6Next →