Hacker News: Molitor5901

Draft executive order would set deadlines for quantum encryption

Molitor5901 — Fri, 22 May 2026 21:34:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2026/05/draft-executive-order-would-set-deadlines-digital-signature-and-key-quantum-encryption/413668/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48241962

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by Molitor5901 in "Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video]"

Molitor5901 — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:48:05 +0000

That's a really good idea. I only worry about invalidating a warranty. As soon as the dealer finds out..

New comment by Molitor5901 in "Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video]"

Molitor5901 — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:17:39 +0000

My experience with hybrids have been.... mostly positive, good mileage, Toyota's drive very well, but.. I would not buy one for one pedantic, silly reason: I hate the government mandated banshee howling sound. Many ICE vehicles are just as quiet as an EV without the fake noise, and while I am not discounting that quiet vehicles can pose a hazard to pedestrians, the howling is just.. utterly obnoxious.

New comment by Molitor5901 in "NYC to open municipal grocery store in 2027"

Molitor5901 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:59:49 +0000

If you're interested in grocery store economics, I strongly recommend:

The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket by Benjamin Lorr, and

Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America by Michael Ruhlman

Extremely insightful about how much it cost to run a grocery store, where profits go, who the food suppliers really are, etc. Very eyeopening.

New comment by Molitor5901 in "81yo Dodgers fan can no longer get tickets because he doesn't have a smartphone"

Molitor5901 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:45:22 +0000

This is a really good point. I'm surprised the box office cannot print it for him for a fee at Will Call, which might be the solution here.

New comment by Molitor5901 in "Pharmaceuticals face 100% tariffs in US – unless firms strike a deal"

Molitor5901 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:29:48 +0000

Interesting point from the article.

"The importance of the move may be largely symbolic at this point, as it does not apply to generic medicines - the most commonly used medicines in the US."

New comment by Molitor5901 in "CEO of largest public hospital says he's ready to replace radiologists with AI"

Molitor5901 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:22:42 +0000

Fellow panelist David Lubarsky, MD, MBA, president and CEO of the Westchester Medical Center Health Network, said his system is already seeing great success in deploying such technology. The AI Westchester uses misses very few breast cancers and is “actually better than human beings,” he told the audience.

“For women who aren’t considered high risk, if the test comes back negative, it’s wrong only about 3 times out of 10,000,” Lubarsky said.

Sounds like 3 wrongs are an acceptable level of risk for this CEO. It would be interesting to put radiologists up against AI to see which have better results, but I would still rather a human read my chart and then have AI give the second opinion, rather than the other way around.

New comment by Molitor5901 in "Age verification now required for DNS resolution"

Molitor5901 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:17:18 +0000

Too close for comfort.. I could believe this was true just about any other time..

New comment by Molitor5901 in "Rank the 50 best Apple products"

Molitor5901 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:21:24 +0000

QuickTime and FaceTime are useful but I never thought of them as especially innovative. HyperCard, OSX, the phones, those really moved things forward independently of the rest of the industry. Perhaps I don't appreciate the software side enough.

Rapper Afroman's trial over using raid footage in music video enters second day

Molitor5901 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:51:10 +0000

Article URL: https://abc7chicago.com/post/afroman-lemon-pound-cake-rapper-trial-using-adam-county-sheriffs-raid-music-video-enters-second-day-ohio/18729198/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47426520

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by Molitor5901 in "'Pokémon Go' players unknowingly trained delivery robots with 30B images"

Molitor5901 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:07:32 +0000

Does anyone remember Ingress? I always wondered what it was we were training by playing that game.

New comment by Molitor5901 in "Why I may ‘hire’ AI instead of a graduate student"

Molitor5901 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:56:26 +0000

My experience at a research university, albeit 12 years ago, was that many of my professors loathed teaching. Some openly expressed disdain for the time they wasted teaching when they could be researching. I think a better framework in the future would be to have researchers, and lecturers/teaching professors separate. One is to teach, the other is to research.

New comment by Molitor5901 in "X is selling existing users' handles"

Molitor5901 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:05:29 +0000

I think that dormant accounts, where someone has not logged in for, say, 2 years, does not post, does not engage, should be repurposed - with given notice. It's kind of the equivalent of cybersquatting. Also, technically, a platform is within its right to do this. I think the better course of action is to utilize the account. Gmail has made this clear that if you don't log into an account after some time they will repurpose it.

New comment by Molitor5901 in "Uber rolls out women-only option in the US"

Molitor5901 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 20:56:41 +0000

Previously discussed. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47312775

New comment by Molitor5901 in "Don't make me talk to your chatbot"

Molitor5901 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 23:06:25 +0000

For me it was a Maryland contracting company, FH Furr, that does electrical, plumbing, etc.

New comment by Molitor5901 in "Don't make me talk to your chatbot"

Molitor5901 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 22:47:27 +0000

Related: Please don't make me talk to your AI pretend-human complete with Asian accent and background call center sounds. That's even more insulting that a chat bot.

Facebook Appears to Be Down

Molitor5901 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 22:01:59 +0000

Tried to log in and checked with others across our corporate footprint and we all get the same message:

Account Temporarily Unavailable. Your account is currently unavailable due to a site issue. We expect this to be resolved shortly. Please try again in a few minutes.

Can others please confirm? Thank you.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47239686

Points: 13

# Comments: 16

New comment by Molitor5901 in "Kim Jong Un chooses teen daughter as heir"

Molitor5901 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:20:29 +0000

I am very surprised it was not his sister, given her prominent role in recent years on diplomacy, and the Olympics.

New comment by Molitor5901 in "AI Doesn't Reduce Work–It Intensifies It"

Molitor5901 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:47:41 +0000

I'm not sure I would agree in totem. Freeing the minutia allows for a higher cognitive load on the bigger picture. I use AI primarily for research gathering, and refining of what I have, which has freed up a lot of time to focus on the bigger issues, and specifically in my case, zeroing in on the diamond in the rough.

New comment by Molitor5901 in "Apple, What Have You Done?"

Molitor5901 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 17:31:21 +0000

I agree, Tim Cook is a businessman, Steve was someone who constantly put himself in the customers shoes. Apple needs a visionary like that, a dictator to demand a specific user engagement, and a design team able to carry it out. IMHO Tim Cook has never filled this role, and needs to step aside.