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nickvec··on How to Exist
“Even thinking is often a sneaky way of escaping the existence; rumination isn’t so much about trying to solve your problems, as it is about going elsewhere in your mind to escape anxiety and uncertainty.”

Profound insight that really gets to the root of rumination.

nickvec··on ARC-AGI Leaderboard
Why isn’t Fable 5 included on the leaderboard?
nickvec··on NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook
I would imagine it's just a branding/marketing thing so that the product is directly associated by consumers as being within the Gemini ecosystem (and thus Google) from the product name alone. NotebookLM doesn't convey that, but Gemini Notebook does.
nickvec··on AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn
I've managed to get quite a few interviews through LinkedIn jobs, though I'm looking for DevOps roles in particular, which may be an exception to the rule.
nickvec··on A new way to reflect on how you use Claude
Same. Not sure if they are doing a gradual rollout or what's up.
nickvec··on Show HN: InstantVideos.org – short documentaries in ~30 seconds
Fun idea! Hope it doesn't cost you too much to keep up depending on how much traction this thread gets ;)

One small quirk I noticed with the generated short video: for each new slide/photo, there is a very gradual "zoom in" effect that occurs, which causes text to jitter a bit and is a bit disorienting. Not sure if that is specific to the "The Great Molasses Flood of 1919 in Boston" prompt I used or not.

Also, is Claude involved in the video generation itself? I noticed the generated video has "By Claude" in the top left corner, but the logs seem to indicate that only GLM-5.2, Gemini Flash, and GPT-4o are involved (just curious!)

nickvec··on Programmers need to start meditating
As mentioned in the article, Waking Up is a great option if you want to get into meditation. Highly recommend reading Sam Harris’ book “Waking Up” as well.
nickvec··on An American Privacy Emergency
bogwog is saying that your site/product is obviously vibecoded based off of the frontend
nickvec··on Claude-real-video - any LLM can watch a video
Curious as to how many tokens are used per second of video.
nickvec··on Virginia bans sale of geolocation data
Have any other states banned the sale of geolocation data?
nickvec··on Internal Combustion Engine (2021)
I hope Ciechanowski posts some more in the near future. He has some of the best "how does this work" articles I've come across.
nickvec··on Anthropic restoring access to Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 from tomorrow
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48740771
nickvec··on Claude Fable 5 export control lifted
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48740771
nickvec··on OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom
I feel like "the use of OpenAI models to accelerate parts of the design and optimization process" just means that engineers were using ChatGPT to sanity check their designs and suggest potential optimizations, though that's just my take (and I'm quite cynical about AI marketing in general!)
nickvec··on Mistral OCR 4
Naive question: is Claude no good at OCR? Was surprised to see that none of Anthropic's models were included in the benchmark comparisons.
nickvec··on Tacky men with ridiculous glasses want you to wear them too
The glasses David Gilboa is sporting honestly don’t look that bad. I think putting them in the same “ugly” bucket as Snapchat’s SPECS is a bit of a reach.
nickvec··on Jobs and Software Is Fucked
You can do everything right in an interview and still get denied. It is truly a crapshoot in today's job market.
nickvec··on How many of the 170k English words do you know?
Fun idea, I've been wanting to create something similar to track which vocab words I have mastered. Two nits: (1) no need for a "check" button as other commenters have noted and (2) the UI jitters a bit when submitting answers for each question - it's a bit disorienting!
nickvec··on War Crimes Seem to Be Official US Policy Now
Deliberately attacking a purely civilian object violates the principle of distinction, which is bedrock customary law the US has never disputed.

> “better than carpet bombing”

The lawful alternative is attacking military targets, not worse civilian targets.

> “why is it legal for Iran to bomb oil tankers?”

Iran’s conduct being illegal doesn’t legalize this strike. Whataboutism is a scourge.

nickvec··on War Crimes Seem to Be Official US Policy Now
Just guessing, but I assume because it’s arguably off-topic as defined by the HN guidelines. I don’t think it should be flagged, though.

“Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.”

nickvec··on Mornings and nights no longer exist at 47C: A day in the hottest place in India
The OP of this thread is referring to humanity at large, not just India. We are all in the fight against climate change together.
nickvec··on The desperation of NYTimes
Yeah, in short, don’t support the NYT. Their business practices are predatory and unethical. Use archive.ph to get by paywalls.
nickvec··on Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel
I received the same Alya email. This vibe-coded site was linked. https://mydaughteralya.com/
nickvec··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)
Location: San Francisco, CA

Remote: Yes (SF or remote)

Willing to relocate: Maybe

Technologies: Go, Kubernetes (internals, controllers, CRDs, scheduling), distributed systems, Prometheus/M3/Grafana, gRPC/Protobuf, Bazel, Python, SQL, GPU scheduling, capacity planning

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-w_hQEWEmSnf7zSC3DYMgMA2LQU...

Email: nickvecchioni@gmail.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickvecchioni

Infrastructure/platform engineer with 3+ years of experience on Uber's Compute Platform team (though I was sadly laid off in late 2025.) I work on large-scale fleet orchestration and the reliability/observability tooling around it.

Looking for: Series A/B infrastructure or compute teams... AI/GPU infra, developer platforms, or climate/energy/space especially!

nickvec··on 1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices
If you are looking to see the "true" HN frontpage (i.e. most upvoted posts), I'd recommend using https://hckrnews.com
nickvec··on Anyone can build a platform now. Almost nobody can get people to find it
“And that part, as I'm learning the hard way, is the part that actually matters.”

Anyone else’s slop detector go off on this sentence? Or am I losing it?

nickvec··on Corporate America Is Starting to Ration AI as Cost Skyrockets
https://archive.ph/v2dwg
nickvec··on You can just say it
Regarding your last point, I personally find it insulting when I receive an AI response because of the subtle deception involved. When I am talking with another human via Slack/email/etc., I am under the impression that the messages I am receiving are written by the coworker/person in question. When instead I receive an LLM's output, that trust is broken, especially if it is not made transparent that AI was used to generate the message.
nickvec··on Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test
One can be the dominant player in a field and still increase dominance.
nickvec··on SF startup is testing robots in Airbnbs, and trashing them, lawsuit claims
Pretty disgusting behavior. Total lack of respect for others property. The individuals should be named and shamed for participating rather than putting it under the umbrella of the Bot Company.
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