Hacker News: QuantumFunnel

New comment by QuantumFunnel in "Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs"

QuantumFunnel — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:58:49 +0000

Great, let's keep expanding privacy-destroying products and hyper-surveillance in the name of corporate profits!

New comment by QuantumFunnel in "Three ways people respond to a problem (other than solving it)"

QuantumFunnel — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:37:13 +0000

Have unpopular solution or mitigation strategy, hire consultants, execute, blame the consultants

New comment by QuantumFunnel in "My car’s OTA update broke Android Auto"

QuantumFunnel — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:11 +0000

Geohot should focus his attention on jailbreaking cars now

New comment by QuantumFunnel in "New York becomes the first state to impose a data center moratorium"

QuantumFunnel — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:01:13 +0000

The entities that own the data centers (the mag7) famously do not pay much in taxes due to their extensive use of tax havens and loopholes

New comment by QuantumFunnel in "GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]"

QuantumFunnel — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:05:40 +0000

As with all things, the answer is always "it depends" based on what is being optimized

New comment by QuantumFunnel in "I used sound waves to make espresso"

QuantumFunnel — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 08:18:45 +0000

Manual lever machines like the Flair use even less energy. This is silly.

New comment by QuantumFunnel in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

QuantumFunnel — Mon, 25 May 2026 15:46:03 +0000

What's your point? Yandex is quite a competent search engine

New comment by QuantumFunnel in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

QuantumFunnel — Thu, 14 May 2026 20:01:38 +0000

Being amazed at how that's allowed displays a naiveté only one could have if they've never been in the process. What you describe is exactly what being in academia is all about for the last couple generations. Being a grad student sounds prestigious to an outsider, but the system is literally built to exploit their labor.

New comment by QuantumFunnel in "French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data"

QuantumFunnel — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:47:51 +0000

So that if you ever step out of line with regards to what the government deems "worthy" behavior (whatever the hell that means at any given moment) you can be de-banked and effectively excluded from participating in society

New comment by QuantumFunnel in "If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?"

QuantumFunnel — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:35:54 +0000

A net worth millionaire nowadays is just a person who bought a single family home at least 10 years ago. A million bucks is not what it used to be.

New comment by QuantumFunnel in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

QuantumFunnel — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:39:44 +0000

Maybe it's time the economy shifts from having to prioritize the investors for everything

New comment by QuantumFunnel in "We accepted surveillance as default"

QuantumFunnel — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:30:17 +0000

Many of them in this very forum

New comment by QuantumFunnel in "Live Nation illegally monopolized ticketing market, jury finds"

QuantumFunnel — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:23:35 +0000

None of the big artists people want to see ever play at those venues

New comment by QuantumFunnel in "Hong Kong police can now demand phone passwords under new security rules"

QuantumFunnel — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:47:35 +0000

https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/select-communications-off...

How convenient that the government doesn't make the numbers public and then have to issue statements like this when journalists do some digging on the matter

New comment by QuantumFunnel in "You are not your job"

QuantumFunnel — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:21:04 +0000

That's a very privileged thing to say about a career where the tools to replace developers did not exist

New comment by QuantumFunnel in "OpenRocket"

QuantumFunnel — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:48:46 +0000

Helps to have terrain around your country that makes it one giant fort

New comment by QuantumFunnel in "Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act"

QuantumFunnel — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:42:21 +0000

https://www.forbes.com/sites/steveforbes/2025/09/09/people-a...

New comment by QuantumFunnel in "Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act"

QuantumFunnel — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:37:42 +0000

Who needs rockets when you have autonomous mini drones

New comment by QuantumFunnel in "The Waymo World Model"

QuantumFunnel — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 01:19:01 +0000

Also known as a monopoly. This should terrify us all.

New comment by QuantumFunnel in "Heathrow scraps liquid container limit"

QuantumFunnel — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:54:56 +0000

TSA has always been security theater