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ge96

2,574 karma · joined September 16, 2016

96 is not reflecting my age, I'm in my early 30s

I'm an SWE primarily web side, though I do work in mobile too and I dabble in hardware on my spare time

Currently working in an innovation team as a hardware person but lately we've been developing agentic stuff

I'm also trying to find enjoyment in life again

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ge96··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
Nothing still trying to get interest back in making things.
ge96··on Almost no skill required to cook a steak
hehe I always turn mine grey but I have mini bella mushrooms on top
ge96··on What happens if you put work into the second dimension?
What if... imagine stacked skewed windows and you scrolled through them like a rolladex
ge96··on I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy
Neuralink to Neuralink users
ge96··on What happens if you put work into the second dimension?
SimulaVR is interesting (VR Desktop) but I was writing code in the middle of the salt lake flats super weird
ge96··on Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking
Can anybody explain what the visual is, what are the dots moving/getting blown around by something
ge96··on Dubious research tied to Red Bull has shaped energy drink policy
long live 4 loco
ge96··on Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots
Paint it yellow and ask why it is hiding a nuclear battery
ge96··on Show HN: CheapFoodMap – A map of good meals under $10
Succulent... Chi... Meal?
ge96··on Hunter-gatherers introduced fish to a mountain lake 7000 years ago
The fish equivalent of https://soundcloud.com/noisykeyboard/last-kauai-oo-extinct or my weekends
ge96··on It's getting harder to focus every day
Kind of hard if you work 9-5 need to know what's gonna happen before you pull up to the office. Do I have a meeting at 9 AM kind of thing.
ge96··on DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16
Planes might be easier, large empty space in the sky
ge96··on I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation
There was a funny video I saw recently someone's running Red Star OS on their computer and a scammer is trying to scam them thinking it's Windows

Unrelated to this git pre commit hook attack but yeah

ge96··on LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps
Funny some you can't say no, so I'm like alright guess I'm not going in
ge96··on Making
oh yeah I definitely have some flavor of ADHD, I'm not medicated so I just use music (looping a song or album over and over). Thankfully I have a chill job now where I don't have to get much work done, kind of coasting lately.

Currently trying to figure out the right kind of caffeine intake, seems hot chocolate might be my jam vs. coffee. I'm lucky we have a gym at work so I work out first 30 minutes of the day helps and do walks.

I have to grind on the side though to get out as I have $100K in debt. That six fig day job still means I'm check to check.

ge96··on Making
I'm trying to get it back. I went through a period of 2 months or so where I didn't want to do anything not even watch TV except drink. So I've been sober for a couple weeks now, think I'm starting to get it back. But I'm still lazy af right now. I miss making hardware, I design/make my own cameras and little self navigating robots. I did finally fix my camera after it rolled across the floor of my car during a tight turn and something inside it broke/wouldn't turn on. Idk... I bought so many old vintage c-mount lenses and would take each one out, produce a video, and then I lost interest doing that... so now I have a bin of random vintage c-mount lenses and a desk trinket (camera). The positive though is I got two SWE jobs out of these hardware projects. But yeah hope I get it back.

I usually do instantly lose respect when I hear some project is vibe coded... I get that's how it is now but yeah. To me when you say "I made this" but it's actually claude code that shat out the code well... ultimately though it's about money and freedom. You can do whatever you want to do, I need to get my own freedom then do what I enjoy.

ge96··on Why I am not going to buy a computer
Skimmed "write by hand or typewriter" yeah I'm not like that, I am rote based though so have to type into a computer to remember notes

Who wants to f around with a typewriter anyway I guess this guy in particular does

How you gonna blog with a typewriter

ge96··on Why I am not going to buy a computer
I like buying old flagships since I couldn't afford them like 5-10 years ago.

Still a few on my list would be neat to try like Specter 360, eventually I want one of the current newest XPS-13s

I recently got a Pixelbook for $80 running Ubuntu on that, great little device as far as thinness

Also like buying/trying out weird computers or old, like the ASUS Eee PCs or Librettos

ge96··on It's a shame what's happened to radio
I remember I had a data entry job and we were only allowed to bring in old tech like a CD player or radio. So I was listening to a local radio station and they posed the question "would you go back in time and kill Hitler" which I was like "shit I gotta call in and say my opinion".
ge96··on Show HN: Explore 6048 YC companies as an interactive galaxy
Is the z/y axis flipped, maybe that's personal preference
ge96··on Arduino Launches Plug-and-Play Modules for Long-Range Sensor Projects
long range as in the wire is long vs. sensing long distance right?
ge96··on Running Doom on Our Custom CPU and Going Viral
When you say "can upload any model to it" are you talking LLM models? Surely there is a limit eg. parameters
ge96··on Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?
Only reason I'd choose them over Insta360 for example is that weird manual phone app permissions to activate the camera Insta does. I don't know if go pro doesn't do that, haven't bought a modern go pro in a bit.

I will say the Insta 360 Go 3S is an amazing camera physically it's so small and convenient. They could improve the algo when you pan over a pavement that conglomerate pattern looks sickening when you pan.

ge96··on $100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol
Some tells, the face, reflections on faces, multiple legs, no sense of gravity
ge96··on After wearing the Pebble Time 2 for two weeks, I'll never buy another smartwatch
I wish I could get into wearing watches, PineTime Pro is in development could be fun to work on that.
ge96··on SPCX is now Wall Street's most shorted new stock
I just hope this doesn't destroy the company that would suck lose their edge and then China comes in
ge96··on The Act and the Outcome of Creation
It is a great feeling when you're in the flow and just jamming making something for fun, no tests, just build it/make it. This is in the context of a personal hobby but yeah.

I lost it for a couple months (probably anhedonia from drinking) but I'm starting to get it back.

ge96··on Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign
The concept of constantly taking images and storing metadata so you can remember where your keys are seems nuts but at the same time I could see it being normal.
ge96··on When A.I. is a member of the family
Futurama Lucy Bot
ge96··on SpaceX bond worth 10% less than issue price – heading for junk bond status
I think the fact that China is copying SpaceX's tech is a testament to SpaceX's success

There's also the bit about people talking shit about other people they're not even close to, to feel like they matter. Ahh well

Hey guys Elon Musk sucks haha high fives all around, great

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