Hacker News: Nicook

New comment by Nicook in "New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag"

Nicook — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:29:50 +0000

Never considered that, but mentioning flags that have minimal "history" pushed me in a totally different direction about some modern political transnational movements lol.

New comment by Nicook in "Let's Buy Spirit Air"

Nicook — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:13:11 +0000

Amercian is imo the worst airline out there, and the only one I refuse to fly with. At least the budget airlines are cheaper and honest for horrible service.

New comment by Nicook in "He asked AI to count carbs 27000 times. It couldn't give the same answer twice"

Nicook — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:51:23 +0000

You are severely overestimating the average, or even above average understanding of LLMs.

New comment by Nicook in "Ancient DNA reveals pervasive directional selection across West Eurasia [pdf]"

Nicook — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:42:09 +0000

I enjoy that you are framing this as somethings that "may" happen in the future.

New comment by Nicook in "Claude Opus 4.7 Model Card"

Nicook — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:22:19 +0000

Probably also a bit of liability. After all its been trained on a dataset that includes a long running joke of trying to trick people on the internet to unknowingly create chlorine gas.

New comment by Nicook in "The American Healthcare Conundrum"

Nicook — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:02:08 +0000

Japan is also way thingger than America, which the article points out: > The US spends ~$14,570 per person on healthcare. Japan spends ~$5,790 and has the highest life expectancy in the OECD. That gap is roughly $3 trillion per year.

Need to have people go in for checkups and get shamed for unhealthy habits, not really a money question.

New comment by Nicook in "An autopsy of AI-generated 3D slop"

Nicook — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:35:07 +0000

debt doesn't harm you until the carrying costs become to high v profits. Just have to hit that point (if is exists, maybe growth accelerates forever if you are optimistic).

New comment by Nicook in "The Misuses of the University"

Nicook — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:28:18 +0000

The third worldization of the USA continues at pace. Expensive reasonable enclaves for the rich, nothing for the rest.

New comment by Nicook in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

Nicook — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:39:53 +0000

Scalia wrote some really interesting opinions for sure. Feel like the arguments are only going to get worse :(

New comment by Nicook in "Don't Trust the Salt: AI Summarization, Multilingual Safety, and LLM Guardrails"

Nicook — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:15:41 +0000

Hasn't this already been observed with not too stable individuals? remember some story about kid asking ai if his parents/government etcs were spying on him.

New comment by Nicook in "Warren Buffett dumps $1.7B of Amazon stock"

Nicook — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 20:53:46 +0000

The complete failure of the brand initiative cannot be overstated.

New comment by Nicook in "Warren Buffett dumps $1.7B of Amazon stock"

Nicook — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 20:50:39 +0000

Oh god, was working within seller central when brand registry was being spun up. Id rather not relive some of those experiences (or use them).

New comment by Nicook in "CISA’s acting head uploaded sensitive files into public version of ChatGPT"

Nicook — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 21:54:37 +0000

CTO at a successfull cybersecurity startup I worked at long ago was exempt from critical security updates. She refused to restart her computer out of fear for her Excel state.

New comment by Nicook in "I let ChatGPT analyze a decade of my Apple Watch data, then I called my doctor"

Nicook — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:24:49 +0000

I mean those stats arent good...

New comment by Nicook in "Ireland wants to give its cops spyware, ability to crack encrypted messages"

Nicook — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 16:51:59 +0000

always has been

New comment by Nicook in "FBI raids Washington Post reporter's home"

Nicook — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:50:55 +0000

"Liberal Democracy" is such a charged word.

New comment by Nicook in "FBI raids Washington Post reporter's home"

Nicook — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:37:37 +0000

its pretty clear, even from the journalist's quote, that some of the things they informed her about was not done legally (classified information).

Now is overclassification a problem too, yes but that's bureaucracy.

New comment by Nicook in ""They Saw a Protest": Cognitive Illiberalism and the Speech-Conduct Distinction [pdf] (2012)"

Nicook — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 16:30:50 +0000

population dynamics

New comment by Nicook in "Iran Goes Into IPv6 Blackout"

Nicook — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 20:21:20 +0000

Yeah I am suprised everyone thinks this is necessarily internal. Could equally be related to IL/USA incoming aggression.

I'd at least keep an open mind for a while.

New comment by Nicook in "Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US and “debanked”"

Nicook — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 17:27:40 +0000

Bluffing and theater are not reality and should not be confused for it.