Hacker News: AtheistOfFailhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=AtheistOfFailHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 29 May 2026 18:23:22 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by AtheistOfFail in "My son pleasured himself on Gemini Live. Entire family's Google accounts banned"]]>This Summer: Bad Wank, from the people who brought you Bad Blood.

]]>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 03:19:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47596385AtheistOfFailhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47596385https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47596385<![CDATA[New comment by AtheistOfFail in "OpenAI resets spending expectations, from $1.4T to $600B"]]>Nvidia gives money to OpenAI so they can buy GPUs that don't exist yet with memory that doesn't exist yet so they can plug them into their datacenters that don't exist yet powered by infrastructure that doesn't exist yet so they can all make profit that is mathematically impossible at this point - Stolen from someone else.

]]>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:41:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47141754AtheistOfFailhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47141754https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47141754<![CDATA[New comment by AtheistOfFail in "OpenAI resets spending expectations, from $1.4T to $600B"]]>> Its a circular economy

Garbage in, garbage out, same as before.

]]>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:40:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47141740AtheistOfFailhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47141740https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47141740<![CDATA[New comment by AtheistOfFail in "IRS lost 40% of IT staff, 80% of tech leaders in 'efficiency' shakeup"]]>An LLM may take the interesting parts of my job but the parts that suck (dealing with people) will never be taken over by an LLM.

]]>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 19:40:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47078142AtheistOfFailhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47078142https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47078142<![CDATA[New comment by AtheistOfFail in "Oneplus phone update introduces hardware anti-rollback"]]>2005 Toyota Corolla.

]]>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:54:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46760440AtheistOfFailhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46760440https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46760440<![CDATA[New comment by AtheistOfFail in "The behavioral cost of personalized pricing"]]>The day I learned of ghost Facebook profiles, I realized fighting back was impossible.

]]>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:46:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46760379AtheistOfFailhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46760379https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46760379<![CDATA[New comment by AtheistOfFail in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)"]]>Support for Youtube playlists please... having to lookup the watch ID on Google after a song is removed to guess what the track was is a highly sucky part of using Youtube for music.

]]>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 20:58:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46579990AtheistOfFailhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46579990https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46579990<![CDATA[New comment by AtheistOfFail in "My payment agent is named George, not stripe-agent"]]>> I "just want to talk" to this CTO who named US East region 2 as "eu2".

How? Logically I don't get it.

]]>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 01:19:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46307882AtheistOfFailhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46307882https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46307882<![CDATA[New comment by AtheistOfFail in "Replacing a cache service with a database"]]>I disagree. For large search pages where you're building payloads from multiple records that don't change often, it could be beneficial to use a cache. Your cache ends up helping the most common results to be fetched less often and return data faster.

]]>Sun, 31 Aug 2025 16:31:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45084451AtheistOfFailhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45084451https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45084451<![CDATA[New comment by AtheistOfFail in "T-Mobile claimed selling location data without consent is legal–judges disagree"]]>Samsung. Remember we made an exploding phone?

]]>Mon, 18 Aug 2025 22:00:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44945773AtheistOfFailhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44945773https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44945773<![CDATA[New comment by AtheistOfFail in "Tokens are getting more expensive"]]>> The worst thing is they worked out you can blend costs in using AWS marketplace without having to raise due diligence on a new vendor or PO. So up it goes even more.

Not a bug, a feature.

]]>Sun, 03 Aug 2025 21:06:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44779817AtheistOfFailhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44779817https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44779817<![CDATA[New comment by AtheistOfFail in "Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it's a slippery slope"]]>It was such a masterpiece right up there with The Last Of Us.

]]>Fri, 25 Jul 2025 18:26:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44686516AtheistOfFailhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44686516https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44686516<![CDATA[New comment by AtheistOfFail in "Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code without telling users"]]>The model is "outspend others until they're bankrupt".

Known as the Uber model or Amazon vs Diapers.com

]]>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 23:18:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44599392AtheistOfFailhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44599392https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44599392<![CDATA[New comment by AtheistOfFail in "Build and Host AI-Powered Apps with Claude – No Deployment Needed"]]>Noone in cloud wants spend limits, everyone wants limitless billing.

]]>Wed, 25 Jun 2025 20:18:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44381450AtheistOfFailhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44381450https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44381450<![CDATA[New comment by AtheistOfFail in "GPU Price Tracker"]]>It's a .ai domain.... they're selling "Wrapped LLM"

]]>Sun, 27 Apr 2025 14:00:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43811989AtheistOfFailhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43811989https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43811989<![CDATA[New comment by AtheistOfFail in "Are people bad at their jobs or are the jobs just bad?"]]>Yep, that would be my own personal hell.

]]>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 23:12:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43562871AtheistOfFailhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43562871https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43562871<![CDATA[New comment by AtheistOfFail in "Show HN: Spawn – Build iOS Apps with English"]]>It's the fact that iOS use iOS-specific APIs when generating projects using XCode.

]]>Thu, 08 Aug 2024 23:11:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41197383AtheistOfFailhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41197383https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41197383<![CDATA[New comment by AtheistOfFail in "The Engineering of Duct Tape [video]"]]>Years ago, I texted the engineer guy telling him his videos were good and he took time out of his busy day to reply to good old college kid me. It's still a vivid memory to this day and I'm super happy he's back on Youtube again.

]]>Tue, 21 May 2024 14:24:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40428873AtheistOfFailhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40428873https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40428873<![CDATA[New comment by AtheistOfFail in "AMD funded a drop-in CUDA implementation built on ROCm: It's now open-source"]]>> After two years of development and some deliberation, AMD decided that there is no business case for running CUDA applications on AMD GPUs.

Oof x2

]]>Mon, 12 Feb 2024 15:20:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39345753AtheistOfFailhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39345753https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39345753<![CDATA[New comment by AtheistOfFail in "HP raising Instant Ink subscription pricing significantly"]]>> New brother lasers printers check tonner drm

Source, because I am surprised by this.

]]>Thu, 21 Dec 2023 04:34:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38717051AtheistOfFailhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38717051https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38717051