George Hotz

geohot.github.io

Popular posts: 23
Total points: 6,889
HN comments: 5,731
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Are we the baddies?

2025718 points523 comments Society, Policy & Culture details

I signed up for Hinge. Holy shit with the boosts.

The Demoralization is just Beginning

2025496 points783 comments Society, Policy & Culture details

This is a map of primary trading partners, US vs China, and how it has evolved over the last 20 years. Think about it, and realize this probably reflects your experience.

The Eternal Sloptember

2026490 points378 comments AI & Machine Learning details

I’m calling it now, the adoption of AI agents into software development will be one of the most costly mistakes in the field’s history. Agents cannot program, and it’s taking longer and longer to realize that they can’t. They are a highly sophisticated statistical model designed to mimic the distribution of…

AI 2040 and the cult of intelligence

2026231 points263 comments AI & Machine Learning details

I used to be one of these people. I read Yudkowsky and was like, OMG recursive self improvement hard takeoff AI is coming. Then I joined the real world and actually tried to do things. At comma, we ship a hardware product of similar complexity to a cell phone, and it’s really hard. Reality has lots of finicky details…

Punk, or why I don't stream anymore

2026207 points241 comments Life, Learning & Writing details

If you’re the sun, I’m a black hole – The Stephen Hawking, Say Anything

Lobbying

2026190 points68 comments Society, Policy & Culture details

Have you tried to explain lobbying to a non American unfamiliar with the concept?

Last gasps of the rent seeking class?

2026171 points165 comments Tech Industry & Business details

Over the past fifty years, the U.S. economy built a giant rent-extraction layer on top of human limitations: things take time, patience runs out, brand familiarity substitutes for diligence, and most people are willing to accept a bad price to avoid more clicks. Trillions of dollars of enterprise value depended on…