Hacker News: RagnarD

New comment by RagnarD in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

RagnarD — Sun, 31 May 2026 18:53:23 +0000

I hope somebody follows up to ensure that the kid isn't being punished for a completely unpredictable event involving a commercial device.

New comment by RagnarD in "The Eternal Sloptember"

RagnarD — Mon, 25 May 2026 08:37:53 +0000

I think the irony is that the perception of being called a tool as an insult, is exactly your meaning of it.

New comment by RagnarD in "Enough with the AI FOMO, go slow-mo, says Domo CDO"

RagnarD — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:33:43 +0000

Doh.

New comment by RagnarD in "NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code from the 70s era"

RagnarD — Mon, 18 May 2026 11:36:38 +0000

It's mind boggling that they didn't digitize every last scrap of paper around the project years ago, for starters.

New comment by RagnarD in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

RagnarD — Tue, 12 May 2026 11:23:36 +0000

Really glad to see someone asking this question. After building a fairly significant AI tool using Python tools, I really wish AI/ML tools would all be rewritten to use an actually performant language - say, Rust - without transitive dependency hell on all the package versions.

New comment by RagnarD in "1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'"

RagnarD — Tue, 05 May 2026 10:12:01 +0000

Well, when there's a software created accident, possibly horrendous, I'm sure Tesla will be relieved that it's one case where they can point to it being a completely unauthorized system for which they reject responsibility.

New comment by RagnarD in "Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold"

RagnarD — Tue, 05 May 2026 06:27:07 +0000

Where does it get the realtime data for this?

New comment by RagnarD in "Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?"

RagnarD — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 07:10:33 +0000

Because of almost certainly fraudulent science. See https://www.science.org/content/article/potential-fabricatio.... Research was misled for decades down the path of assuming that Amyloid plaques are causative of Alzheimers, a now disproven theory (there's an association, but that's not the same as causative.)

Scientist Ruth Itzhaki spent years studying a far more promising theory of Alzheimer's: that it's caused by viral infection in the brain, particularly HSV-1, best known for causing cold sores. Most have it, so there are clearly other factors at work, likely related to susceptibility in particular individuals to to the virus infecting the brain and spreading over time. See https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34205498/

The implication is that anti-viral treatments are likely to inhibit and potentially cure Alzheimer's. There is already unintended evidence along these lines, both via antiviral drugs and vaccines.

New comment by RagnarD in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

RagnarD — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:27:11 +0000

No.

New comment by RagnarD in "Show HN: 30u30.fyi – Is your startup founder on Forbes' most fraudulent list?"

RagnarD — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:59:41 +0000

Including "Dropout" as some significant metric is truly idiotic. Meekly going through a university degree isn't indicative of being a paragon of virtue or success, and it's a safe bet that most higher end convicted fraudsters had a degree, probably an advanced one (i.e. the large majority of politicians in that group.)

New comment by RagnarD in "Roulette Computers: Hidden Devices That Predict Spins"

RagnarD — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:57:33 +0000

There's a classic book from 1985 about an early, successful attempt to make one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eudaemonic_Pie

New comment by RagnarD in "Police used AI facial recognition to wrongly arrest TN woman for crimes in ND"

RagnarD — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 08:44:54 +0000

She should sue the city controlling that police department, into oblivion. Or at least to the absolute max she can get.

New comment by RagnarD in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"

RagnarD — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:39:02 +0000

Drop in the bucket for them. Giving Zuck some jail time would be the more appropriate message - there's no doubt he knows and approves of the kind of evil activity the New Mexico law enforcement dug up.

New comment by RagnarD in "Why craft-lovers are losing their craft"

RagnarD — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 03:07:13 +0000

I didn't say they were. I feel it too.

New comment by RagnarD in "OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent"

RagnarD — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 02:10:13 +0000

I said better, not faster. Primarily, it writes better code, works more smoothly, is better at describing what it's doing and what it's done.

New comment by RagnarD in "Why craft-lovers are losing their craft"

RagnarD — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 02:03:20 +0000

One solution: do NOT just program for work. If it's not work related - where management can dictate how you work - you can whatever you want, and if what you want is to keep writing software and not outsource your brain to an AI, absolutely do so.

New comment by RagnarD in "OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent"

RagnarD — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 10:04:44 +0000

Totally agree. I'm baffled by those who don't clearly see that Codex works better than C.C. in many ways.

New comment by RagnarD in "Rack-mount hydroponics"

RagnarD — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 06:11:43 +0000

All lower case, instant won't read.

New comment by RagnarD in "Can I run AI locally?"

RagnarD — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:08:30 +0000

I have an RTX 6000 Pro Max-Q, which has 96GB VRAM. It identified the hardware correctly but incorrectly thought it had 4GB, at least if I interpret the RAM dropdown correctly.

Then it shows the full resolution models, which are completely unnecessary to run quality inference. Quantized models are routine for local inference and it should realize that.

Needs work.

New comment by RagnarD in "Executing programs inside transformers with exponentially faster inference"

RagnarD — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:05:25 +0000

This is really important work.