Hacker News: Flatcircle

New comment by Flatcircle in "Ask ChatGPT to pick a number from 1-10000, it generally selects from 7200-7500"

Flatcircle — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 06:29:53 +0000

I just did it, it was 7443

New comment by Flatcircle in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

Flatcircle — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:51:26 +0000

Nearly every media journalist in Hollywood considers this to be the worst outcome for Hollywood.

New comment by Flatcircle in "Warner Bros Begins Exclusive Deal Talks With Netflix"

Flatcircle — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 07:17:33 +0000

Anyone that thinks Netflix buying WB would be better than the Ellisons knows nothing about the media business. Look at what James Cameron said about it last week, everyone prefers the Ellisons over Netflix because Netflix actively wants to kill the theatrical and physical media businesses

New comment by Flatcircle in "How to lower America's soaring health-care costs"

Flatcircle — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 16:28:48 +0000

Startups have been slowly whittling away at every business operating behind licenses and regulation for the last 2 decades.

The last 3 industry that will succumb, (imho) will be finance, legal, then healthcare in that order.

New comment by Flatcircle in "How to lower America's soaring health-care costs"

Flatcircle — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 14:23:24 +0000

They should put certain things under nurse care without a doctor. And Lower the cost of a medical degree. The gatekeeping and regulation of medical licenses has created businesses maximizing profits behind the cloak of government regulation.

And like colleges, there’s too much back end administration adding to the costs, have to do something about that too

New comment by Flatcircle in "Warren Buffett's final shareholder letter [pdf]"

Flatcircle — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 22:21:37 +0000

Not a bigmaist,

Had a wife, they split up, but didn't get divorced because he had no prenup and he was one of the wealthiest people in the country.

After she died he married again.

New comment by Flatcircle in "Warren Buffett's final shareholder letter [pdf]"

Flatcircle — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 01:06:32 +0000

classy to the end

New comment by Flatcircle in "43% of Gen Z Prefer YouTube and TikTok to Traditional TV and Streaming"

Flatcircle — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 18:36:45 +0000

sounds about right, soon enough those things are gonna be nearly indistinguishable from traditional tv and streaming

New comment by Flatcircle in "Otto Nemenz, Supplier and Designer of Cameras and Lenses for Hollywood, Dies"

Flatcircle — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 04:50:44 +0000

Legend

New comment by Flatcircle in "An Unexpected Benefit from Quitting Coffee – 10 Months In"

Flatcircle — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 18:55:41 +0000

Coffee without food really fucks up my stomach. people rarely bring that up. But after years of coffee without food, it can sorta kill your stomach

New comment by Flatcircle in "Jeff Bezos says AI is in a bubble but society will get 'gigantic' benefits"

Flatcircle — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 15:11:24 +0000

If you listen to the speech it's a bit more nuanced than that headline.

New comment by Flatcircle in "Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image"

Flatcircle — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 14:56:07 +0000

Google searches days are numbered. But the older generation will probably use it for the rest of their lives.

New comment by Flatcircle in "I'm a Stanford student. A Chinese agent tried to recruit me as a spy"

Flatcircle — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 15:05:24 +0000

I'm surprised this sort of thing didn't come out earlier, they've been doing this for years.

New comment by Flatcircle in "Glass bottles found to contain more microplastics than plastic bottles"

Flatcircle — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 23:59:28 +0000

Was this written by a plastic bottle?

New comment by Flatcircle in "Apple announces American Manufacturing Program"

Flatcircle — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 04:46:37 +0000

Wish everyone in America could read this even keeled comment. Great stuff from Apple

New comment by Flatcircle in "Ex-Google exec: The idea that AI will create new jobs is '100% crap'"

Flatcircle — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 22:14:45 +0000

heard someone say that touching a computer paid more than it should for nearly 30 years and now it's going to pay much less. Because everyone can do it, even computers.

New comment by Flatcircle in "World’s ‘oldest baby’ born from embryo frozen in 1994"

Flatcircle — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 18:44:09 +0000

with so many embryos being frozen today, this will probably become more common. It's fascinating

New comment by Flatcircle in "OpenAI's CEO says he's scared of GPT-5"

Flatcircle — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 17:52:15 +0000

AI as humanity killer is investment hype. GPT-4 can't even consistently halve a recipe correctly

New comment by Flatcircle in "Ozzy Osbourne has died"

Flatcircle — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 18:43:40 +0000

Sang at his farewell concert, raised $190 million for childrens charity. Traveled to Switzerland and offed himself before parkinsons ravaged him.

An aristocratic death

New comment by Flatcircle in "[dead]"

Flatcircle — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 18:42:07 +0000

Sang at his farewell concert, raised $190 million for childrens charity. Traveled to Switzerland and offed himself before parkinsons ravaged him.

An aristocratic death