Hacker News: Gagarin1917

New comment by Gagarin1917 in "Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai speech"

Gagarin1917 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 01:16:17 +0000

I wish I’d skipped my graduation ceremony as well. What a complete waste of time.

New comment by Gagarin1917 in "SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket"

Gagarin1917 — Sat, 23 May 2026 20:25:23 +0000

Landing on two engines was the plan.

V3 Raptors are too powerful, they no longer need three engines to land. They are only going with two from here on out.

So I think it’s unlikely that they altered any aspect of the landing test due to lighting only two engines… as they was the plan anyway.

New comment by Gagarin1917 in "News outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism"

Gagarin1917 — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:31:15 +0000

Not surprising, sites like Reddit use it to get around their paywalls.

Redditors then had the gall to pretend like it wasn’t their number one use case.

New comment by Gagarin1917 in "Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets"

Gagarin1917 — Wed, 20 May 2026 05:24:50 +0000

Wanting to control the non-violent actions of others is also a social ill. Just one most haven’t woken up to yet.

New comment by Gagarin1917 in "Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged"

Gagarin1917 — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:06:56 +0000

>We see the fundamental forces of capitalism at work: To justify valuation, Google needs to grow.

You’re confusing markets with capitalism.

Market Socialism (the only reasonable kind) would have these same issues. If Google was owned by the workers instead of capitalists, it would still have incentive to grow. The worker owners would have the exact same incentives as current owners. The only difference would be who the owners are.

Capitalism is not actually “the final boss” that internet leftists make it out to be. Socialism is not the panacea that leftists make it out to be. Surveillance is not a “capitalist only” thing.

New comment by Gagarin1917 in "Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX"

Gagarin1917 — Wed, 06 May 2026 22:47:49 +0000

Which is apparently manageable. Scott Manley isn’t an industry veteran, but he does know a lot about space engineering and science. Here’s his breakdown of the feasibility, and heat management is not really a major issue:

https://youtu.be/DCto6UkBJoI

New comment by Gagarin1917 in "“Kitten Space Agency”, a Spiritual Successor to “Kerbal Space Program” (2025)"

Gagarin1917 — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:52:45 +0000

I was surprised how much backlash there is over using kittens.

It turned out that people are worried they’ll get too attached to the kittens to be able to enjoy them becoming engulfed in massive explosions.

New comment by Gagarin1917 in "The More Young People Use AI, the More They Hate It"

Gagarin1917 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:03:05 +0000

Good for your daughter but doesn’t that example tell us the opposite of what this article is trying to argue? If the majority of a group of young people choose to use AI for their project, that doesn’t indicate that the majority hate it. That would indicate that they like and trust it.

New comment by Gagarin1917 in "US Supreme Court reviews police use of cell location data"

Gagarin1917 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:58:38 +0000

But sealed letters ARE protected under the 4th Amendment. A warrant is necessary to open all sealed mail.

New comment by Gagarin1917 in "US Supreme Court reviews police use of cell location data"

Gagarin1917 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:37:14 +0000

Correspondence between a person and a business should be considered “papers.”

New comment by Gagarin1917 in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

Gagarin1917 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:29:45 +0000

> No, it's much more than that.

Okay then this AI stuff isn’t an example of that even under your definition.

New comment by Gagarin1917 in "US Supreme Court reviews police use of cell location data"

Gagarin1917 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:27:36 +0000

Why the hell are bank records less protected in the first place? Banks should be able to always ask for a warrant.

New comment by Gagarin1917 in "US Supreme Court reviews police use of cell location data"

Gagarin1917 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:21:16 +0000

People are to busy labeling them and the rest of tech as Far Right to care.

New comment by Gagarin1917 in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

Gagarin1917 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:30:47 +0000

I keep hearing that Codex is the best bang for your buck now.

New comment by Gagarin1917 in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

Gagarin1917 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:29:22 +0000

“Enshitification” is just when unsustainable subsidies end?

Another reason to hate that word.

From a different perspective, you were granted an incredible gift from the companies who let you use their product on their dime. Hopefully you made the most of it when you had the opportunity.

New comment by Gagarin1917 in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

Gagarin1917 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:02:57 +0000

Tim must have wanted to enjoy 4/20 without worrying about company drug testing.

New comment by Gagarin1917 in "The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: New Jobs"

Gagarin1917 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:01:24 +0000

I think the more likely reason would be that legally someone needs to be in charge of the business.

New comment by Gagarin1917 in "OpenAI's $852B valuation faces investor scrutiny amid strategy shift, FT reports"

Gagarin1917 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:18:45 +0000

It’s the second killer app. The first was AI Chat. It was genuinely game changing and still is.

New comment by Gagarin1917 in "OpenAI's $852B valuation faces investor scrutiny amid strategy shift, FT reports"

Gagarin1917 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:11:18 +0000

Most people don’t have good enough hardware to run a decent model. I’m not even sure if any local models can handle image input (but I’m by no means an expert in local models).

So if you’re going to need the data center to process it, then you run into the same issue Microsoft did when they announced the OS feature where they took screenshots of your desktop all the time for advanced search or whatever. People consider it to be a privacy issue.

New comment by Gagarin1917 in "YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney"

Gagarin1917 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:04:09 +0000

In a normal world people just scroll past the things they aren’t looking for without even processing the stuff they don’t want.

It’s extremely easy to never click on a Short. I don’t understand the emotional response to these things at all. I’m sure there’s tons of normal videos you don’t want to watch that’s you simply scroll past that don’t elicit emotion whatsoever.