Hacker News: 55555

New comment by 55555 in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

55555 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:06:53 +0000

I grew up playing Warcraft II. Thanks for all of those great times.

New comment by 55555 in "The SpaceX Squeeze"

55555 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:49:23 +0000

This site rarely works anymore, including now, at that link. Are there any good alternatives?

New comment by 55555 in "Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term"

55555 — Thu, 28 May 2026 04:41:44 +0000

It barely makes sense, though? The idea is that it will surface insider information to the public. That happens only because the insider is financially incentivized to place a bet. But they will only bet if they can win money, and they can only win money if someone is taking the other side of their bet, which necessarily means someone without their insider information.

In other words, prediction markets require suckers to lose money to insiders in order for the public to learn new information. In this case, people lost over a million dollars to an insider so the public could learn that "d4vd" was searched a lot.

Is this good?

New comment by 55555 in "Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs"

55555 — Mon, 25 May 2026 12:09:30 +0000

I manufacture/buy electronics in Shenzhen and have visited my factories. They seemed fine to me.

New comment by 55555 in "Greg Brockman interview [video]"

55555 — Mon, 25 May 2026 03:06:05 +0000

Thanks for listing all this out. I took issue with it in theory, but now that I see it written out, I don't find any of it objectionable. People act we though the nonprofit doesn't exist anymore.

New comment by 55555 in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

55555 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:24:38 +0000

The main reason this is an issue is that it's a lemon market. Many sellers claim their sites will require "no time to maintain" and that future returns will likely continue, but it's often a lie and thus you don't get the multiple that is truly justified. Even without lies, no one knows the truth of your business like you do. The unfortunate result of this -- and I've been in a similar position in the past -- is that you are incentivized to lazily run things into the ground slowly rather than find a new owner who may bring new passion.

New comment by 55555 in "If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?"

55555 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:32:50 +0000

No, that study was constantly misreported on. There's a nice correlation all the way up.

New comment by 55555 in "Anker made its own chip to bring AI to all its products"

55555 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:47:57 +0000

Literally had no idea they actually made tech. I thought they just private labelled charging cables and sold them on Amazon.

New comment by 55555 in "Man accidentally gains control of 7k robot vacuums"

55555 — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 15:57:43 +0000

I didn't read the article but based on the title and subheading I assume they say "accidentally" because he was trying to reverse engineer the communication protocol to use his own device and he did not expect to find something as dumb as master credentials that would work on others' devices.

New comment by 55555 in "EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear"

55555 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 13:43:34 +0000

Are you referring to this case? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/17/swedish-queen-... Thanks

New comment by 55555 in "Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD"

55555 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 13:39:28 +0000

What are companies needing all of these hard drives for? I understand their need for memory, and boot. But storing text training data and text conversations isn't that space intensive. There's a few companies doing video models, so I can see how that takes a tremendous amount of space. Is it just that?

New comment by 55555 in "America has a tungsten problem"

55555 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 03:01:44 +0000

Actually, if you follow stock tip accounts on X, investing in Australian commodity miners is like the current hot trend, for a few weeks already.

This is not to assume that the parent commenter invested for this reason.

New comment by 55555 in "Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?"

55555 — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 05:58:32 +0000

If you enjoyed From Barista to Billionaire, you should check out Andrew Wilkinson's newest book, 98% Down.

New comment by 55555 in "Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment"

55555 — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 13:17:31 +0000

Israel is a special case.

Autonomous mosquito-killing drones (YC25)

55555 — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 09:15:34 +0000

Article URL: https://tornyol.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45855354

Points: 4

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New comment by 55555 in "FBI tries to unmask owner of archive.is"

55555 — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 16:29:51 +0000

https://archive.is/XdQRp

New comment by 55555 in "Female spies are waging 'sex warfare' to steal Silicon Valley secrets"

55555 — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 09:51:00 +0000

Actually this stereotype is about Chinese women. Thai women aren't that materialistic, and where it is true, it only applies to poor Thai women, who are attracted to the man because he's probably 1,000X richer than her, which would be attractive to a poor woman from anywhere. If a prince from Lichenstein came to rural USA, he'd have no trouble dating.

This thread is bizarre and confusing. There's only been like 5 posts and already people are conflating rural Chinese, Singaporeans, and Thais.

New comment by 55555 in "Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels"

55555 — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 03:41:35 +0000

Can you break down the costs and subsidies you had? Genuinely curious

New comment by 55555 in "NL Judge: Meta must respect user's choice of recommendation system"

55555 — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 12:39:51 +0000

Please for the love of god make it a legal requirement that messaging must be made available as a separate app without addictive feeds. Or make it such that users can disable the feed in settings. We need to be able to message our friends without seeing a feed without having to convert all of our friends to a new platform.

New comment by 55555 in "Show HN: Sculptor – A UI for Claude Code"

55555 — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 02:11:27 +0000

Just adding that on my iPhone 13 Pro it works fine.