Hacker News: IncRnd

New comment by IncRnd in "Every AI Subscription Is a Ticking Time Bomb for Enterprise"

IncRnd — Sun, 17 May 2026 18:04:35 +0000

If you go to https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing, you will see the actual prices, which do not match what you posted:

GPT-4.1 Input: $2.00 / 1M Tokens Output: $8.00 / 1M Tokens

New comment by IncRnd in "Agent Skills"

IncRnd — Tue, 05 May 2026 03:48:33 +0000

Hearsay is a rumor or something that can't be verified.

New comment by IncRnd in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

IncRnd — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:21:53 +0000

It's not that other people are famous. They have a track record in this exact field, where he produced results and made money for investors. His results help to shape how software development gets performed.

New comment by IncRnd in "Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar"

IncRnd — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:26:53 +0000

A signed executable isn't for trusting the app. It's for knowing the provenance of the app. Sure, there are some application checks that happen before listing a store app, but those checks are minimal.

New comment by IncRnd in "Ghostmoon.app – The Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar"

IncRnd — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:23:51 +0000

You can just click to run the app. Gatekeeper doesn't stop you from running apps.

If you really want to ban Gatekeeper you can. sudo spctl --master-disable

As the saying goes about being careful, measure twice and cut once.

New comment by IncRnd in "WolfGuard: WireGuard with FIPS 140-3 cryptography"

IncRnd — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:25:26 +0000

If you're considering whether to use a FIPS 140-3 module for your cryptography, consider that FIPS 140-3 is really only for specific compliance verticals. If you don't know whether you need it, you probably don't need it.

So, along those lines, if you wonder whether a package's cryptography should be FIPS 140-3 compliant, then the real question is whether you are a vertical that needs to be compliant. Again, if you aren't sure, the answer is likely NO.

New comment by IncRnd in "IPv6 is not insecure because it lacks a NAT"

IncRnd — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 11:23:50 +0000

The phone providers oversell bandwidth. They also limit the use of already purchased bandwidth when it gets legitimately used.

Similar to many industries, their business model is selling monthly usage, while simultaneously restricting the actual usage. They are not in the business of being an ISP for people running software on their phones.

New comment by IncRnd in "James Moylan, engineer behind arrow signaling which side to refuel a car, dies"

IncRnd — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 07:51:10 +0000

That's not what I received from ChatGPT. This is:

The fuel filler door is on the left side (driver’s side) of the vehicle. Therefore, the little arrow on the dash fuel gauge should point to the left to indicate that.

(Most Buick Rivieras of that era had the fuel filler on the driver’s side, though official Buick manuals or build sheets from 1978 confirm this location.)

New comment by IncRnd in "Graphite is joining Cursor"

IncRnd — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 20:39:08 +0000

Cursor's cursor-agent can be run interactively from the CLI or headless.

New comment by IncRnd in "A Thermometer for Measuring Quantumness"

IncRnd — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 01:07:07 +0000

I was referencing the Quantumness as a ... pun

New comment by IncRnd in "A Thermometer for Measuring Quantumness"

IncRnd — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 19:14:50 +0000

Are you sure?

New comment by IncRnd in "Should we drain the Everglades?"

IncRnd — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 00:59:21 +0000

Yea, so here's the tl;dr history in the article:

1. The author, who actually cribbed from wikipedia, gets the willies when he sees shallow water infested with tens of thousands of perfectly happy alligators. All he thinks is that amazing commerce will happen when he kills all the kind gators, flushes the state, and runs away before the next time it rains.

2. Everyone throughout history has wanted to Drain The Swamp. Every one of those amazing historical people has seemed perfectly reasonable and without a doubt was an incredibly towering bastion of science who wanted to drain the Everglades. Too bad they were all incompetent.

3. Please leave Florida Man and Gator Lake alone. They separate the Gulf of America on the West from the Sea of Florida on the East.

New comment by IncRnd in "Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search"

IncRnd — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 23:15:26 +0000

Best Site Ever.

I just purchased an Infinity for home, a Quantum Wrench for work, and a Self-Cleaning Nuclear Blast for cooking when I travel.

I can't wait until those arrive! They look even better than the 217 Samsung TVs I purchased to give as bonuses to the maids at a couple of my properties.

Why travel the world, when I can travel all of reality-writ-large?!?

New comment by IncRnd in "Doorbell prankster that tormented residents of apartments turns out to be a slug"

IncRnd — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 01:42:38 +0000

There should be those sorts of houses everywhere, or the feral children would roam in street gangs, steal pies from window sills, and ring doorbells.

New comment by IncRnd in "Building a DOOM-like multiplayer shooter in pure SQL"

IncRnd — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 19:48:31 +0000

This is pretty neat. I was expecting a WAD file to get loaded, but this was still pretty neat, even better than Windows XP in JS.

New comment by IncRnd in "Source code for the X recommendation algorithm"

IncRnd — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 19:27:42 +0000

The very first question that the article writer said they posed to Grok 3 and Grok 4, "What is currently the biggest threat to Western civilization and how would you mitigate it?", didn't return anything like the simplistic answers in that article. Apparently, the article was politically driven.

When I asked Grok 4, two pages worth of answers were returned, including a table with columns for Threat, Reasoning, and Severity. The article is just plain wrong and fails the very fact-checking that it purported to do.

New comment by IncRnd in "US Visa Applications Must Be Submitted from Country of Residence or Nationality"

IncRnd — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 17:25:30 +0000

Canadians don't need a visa to visit the United States for tourism or temporary business travel purposes.

New comment by IncRnd in "All of our lives overlap in the Network Of Time"

IncRnd — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 21:09:31 +0000

Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon or Bacon's Law is a parlor game where players challenge each other to choose an actor whom they connect to another actor via a film in which both actors appeared: this is repeated to try to find the shortest path that leads to prolific American actor Kevin Bacon. It rests on the assumption that anyone involved in the Hollywood film industry can be linked through their film roles to Bacon within six steps. The game's name is a reference to "six degrees of separation", a concept that posits that any two people on Earth are six or fewer acquaintance links apart.

~~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon%27s_law

New comment by IncRnd in "Six months into tariffs, businesses have no idea how to price anything"

IncRnd — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 23:10:02 +0000

Everybody logs-in with the same username into the only app. It's a kiosk computer without a surviving vendor to support it.

New comment by IncRnd in "Six months into tariffs, businesses have no idea how to price anything"

IncRnd — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 23:08:35 +0000

I think you're correct. They probably use it as the password "format" and haven't updated the post-it in order to trick anyone trying to steal the password! What could go wrong?