Hacker News: MisterMunchkin

New comment by MisterMunchkin in "Running a law firm on Free software"

MisterMunchkin — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 15:06:03 +0000

Just like how openAI and Anthropic have suddenly started consulting firms, right after obtaining everyone’s IP and secret documents.

New comment by MisterMunchkin in "Ozempic-style drugs now in trials for heart failure, addiction and even aging"

MisterMunchkin — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 10:54:05 +0000

There is an injection for opiods that works for a month at a time. It really annoys me because we’re still giving people methadone every day even though this injection exists.

New comment by MisterMunchkin in "Ozempic-style drugs now in trials for heart failure, addiction and even aging"

MisterMunchkin — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 10:47:41 +0000

And it only lasts minutes.

New comment by MisterMunchkin in "Ozempic-style drugs now in trials for heart failure, addiction and even aging"

MisterMunchkin — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 10:46:28 +0000

Ozempic and wegovy are a much more primitive drug and gave me worse side effects. Mounjaro is significantly better and proven to be more effective. Ozempic is cheaper though.

New comment by MisterMunchkin in "Ozempic-style drugs now in trials for heart failure, addiction and even aging"

MisterMunchkin — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 10:44:33 +0000

Yes, it’s a miracle cure. It makes you realise the almond milkers were just lying to you the whole time. It’s not about willpower, it’s about them not having that condition. Skinny people don’t even feel hunger.

New comment by MisterMunchkin in "Restaurant Delivery Payment-Skimming Campaign"

MisterMunchkin — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 10:06:39 +0000

Try and upvote your own YouTube video and they’ll be on you like a ton of bricks.

Upload a scam ad? No problemo.

New comment by MisterMunchkin in "Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production"

MisterMunchkin — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 09:40:20 +0000

America is the only country where buying private data is legal so this is a flawed idea. Ford would definitely spy on you for those adbucks.

New comment by MisterMunchkin in "GitHub's new Git storage architecture"

MisterMunchkin — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 09:14:01 +0000

Yeah it’s just total slop. If your code is slop anyway, why commit it? Just push it at major milestones. It’s not like it matters if you lose it.

New comment by MisterMunchkin in "A Jev that can ask Opus for help gives Opus accuracy at 4x lower cost"

MisterMunchkin — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 08:18:42 +0000

You also need that for things like merging paper hospital records when you digitise them.

New comment by MisterMunchkin in "Anthropic IPO buyers see valuation as low as $1.1T"

MisterMunchkin — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 20:23:36 +0000

A trillion in debt and no profit. It ain’t worth a trillion. It has no moat and no guarantee of future revenue. It doesn’t own anything.

50b would be a fair valuation.

New comment by MisterMunchkin in "Search for everyone"

MisterMunchkin — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 14:07:11 +0000

It was always a dubious business idea, but now with AI being able to handle search so well, I can’t imagine ever paying.

Maybe if it was a secure instance you could order for your organisation. Like a police force or consulting company, where you don’t want people eavesdropping on your traffic.

New comment by MisterMunchkin in "Cuban: Facebook knowingly runs AI deepfake scam ads; docs say $16B fraud revenue"

MisterMunchkin — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 11:53:31 +0000

If you send a monkey into a house to unlock the door so that you can burgle it, you are held liable for the burglary. It’s no different. You set it to do the task, you are responsible.

New comment by MisterMunchkin in "Awesome repositories are no longer awesome"

MisterMunchkin — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 07:22:58 +0000

I don’t think Linux was very good 6 hours in

New comment by MisterMunchkin in "Awesome repositories are no longer awesome"

MisterMunchkin — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 07:21:37 +0000

Use your own AI to aggressively close all their slop requests.

New comment by MisterMunchkin in "Window Sweaters"

MisterMunchkin — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 07:18:41 +0000

Are you subtly trying to advertise to us with their marketing slogans?

New comment by MisterMunchkin in "I struggle to believe that AI R&D is ingenious"

MisterMunchkin — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 07:15:39 +0000

LLMs are great at doing work quickly and they don’t say something is impossible or discourage you, so you can really tackle problems that previously would have taken years of work.

They aren’t capable of generating truly innovative ideas though. Ask it to come up with a name, it will come up with the same weird slop names over and over. Always gives people the surname Okafor. Because it works by generating probable answers, it can only generate probable names.

New comment by MisterMunchkin in "Pwn.college"

MisterMunchkin — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 07:10:51 +0000

It looks very comprehensive, and I love the fact that they will actually send you a belt if you do all the levels.

New comment by MisterMunchkin in "Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM"

MisterMunchkin — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 20:53:59 +0000

Slint is proprietary though, so that’s a dead end. I’m not going to use something which will inevitably be rug-pulled when you sell to private capital.

New comment by MisterMunchkin in "Nasdaq Sinks 5% as Investors Retreat from AI Trade After Election"

MisterMunchkin — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 19:44:25 +0000

Lmao, they’re just wrappers around ChatGPT. You could replace them in a day.

It takes decades to build the kind of network cloudflare has.

“Please mr bezos, can I connect my new trivial network to yours?” “0.08/GB :)”

New comment by MisterMunchkin in "Nasdaq Sinks 5% as Investors Retreat from AI Trade After Election"

MisterMunchkin — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 19:39:34 +0000

They have good potential for cloud services too. Competing with AWS is much more viable when you have data centres everywhere and a huge network.