Hacker News: Rooster61

New comment by Rooster61 in "Are AI Labs Pelicanmaxxing?"

Rooster61 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:05:26 +0000

I find it humorous that the animal + plane combo appears to be such an outlier. I assume this is due to the models assuming the user mean plain and misspelled it in the prompt.

New comment by Rooster61 in "FBI Director Kash Patel Planning a Trip to Russia"

Rooster61 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:53:22 +0000

Valid, though the title on the page mentions Politico, and Reuters typically does their own write-up (which I tend to prefer) in short order after posting a stub article such as this.

FBI Director Kash Patel Planning a Trip to Russia

Rooster61 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:38:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi-director-kash-patel-planning-trip-russia-politico-reports-2026-07-20/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48997143

Points: 14

# Comments: 7

New comment by Rooster61 in "CD sales growth outpaced vinyl in the first half of 2026"

Rooster61 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:54:49 +0000

While I'm thrilled that kids are experiencing the thrill of buying physical media, I'm not sure CD's are the best way to go. Most of my CD's from my teenage years are no longer playable (partially due to poor upkeep, but some literally from disc rot). But hey, they'll learn the same lesson in a couple of decades haha.

I've personally been buying vinyl both because of the fact I missed out on the excitement myself growing up, and because I have some records that came out decades before I was born that play like the day they were minted. They've outlasted pretty much all of my CD's.

New comment by Rooster61 in "Snails' Teeth Beats Spider Silk as Nature's Strongest Material (2015)"

Rooster61 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:51:34 +0000

Wait, I can do that? Here I've been using Smoots this whole time (with great difficulty might I add).

New comment by Rooster61 in "Dua Lipa opens library for banned and censored books in Portugal"

Rooster61 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:44:53 +0000

I did not get that implication. I simply thought it was a library that contains books that have been banned from some context that happens to be in Portugal.

New comment by Rooster61 in "Flock Defense "No Expectation of Privacy in Public" Is Wrong"

Rooster61 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 19:43:29 +0000

> no one but the most online ideologue

> Find a better argument

That is just a reversed no-true-scottsman fallacy. If the poster's "hysterics" are a poor argument, please break down why rather than just calling it silly.

It is obvious that many in this community are against wholesale collection of information, public or private, as evidenced by the thousands of posts that state such reservations.

New comment by Rooster61 in "Anthropic updates their terms to verify age or identity"

Rooster61 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:12:45 +0000

[Dupe]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48618455

New comment by Rooster61 in "Trump Suggests GM, Ford to Shift to Missile Production"

Rooster61 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:44:28 +0000

Indeed, wrong link. Thanks for the catch

Trump Suggests GM, Ford to Shift to Missile Production

Rooster61 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:52:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/17/politics/trump-weapons-iran-defense-production-act

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48644204

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by Rooster61 in "Steam Machine launches today"

Rooster61 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:18:01 +0000

$1049 for the base package? Much better than I thought it was going to be. I figured minimum $1200.

New comment by Rooster61 in "Identity verification on Claude"

Rooster61 — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 13:14:01 +0000

I really don't like that headlines have been surfacing about the US government putting pressure on Anthropic, and now a short time later they are requiring ID's (albeit for certain use cases, but that's a slippery slope).

I may very well stop using Claude due to this.

Also, who is providing the verification service? We don't want another Discord situation.

EDIT: Just saw it's Persona. Definitely dropping Claude now.

New comment by Rooster61 in "The founder of Craigslist has given away half a billion dollars"

Rooster61 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:45:51 +0000

They certainly can. And the list of people who have become rich only to have it siphoned away by bean counters is at least as long as the people who are still rich.

New comment by Rooster61 in "The founder of Craigslist has given away half a billion dollars"

Rooster61 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:35:31 +0000

That's a very naive, but common, viewpoint of wealth. "Worth" 1.3 billion does not mean "has 1.3 billion lying around in liquid cash". Net worth is tied up usually in many bank accounts across multiple banks, securities, real estate, trusts, etc. And that's all excluding capital tied up in corporations/orgs. Freeing up and giving away half of a billion dollar net worth is a difficult and time consuming thing, one which requires effort to do.

New comment by Rooster61 in "Migrate from OpenClaw"

Rooster61 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:03:21 +0000

This is specifically for migrating to Hermes from OpenClaw. The title should suggest that.

New comment by Rooster61 in "Taxonomy of the Occlupanida (parasitoids on bread bag tags)"

Rooster61 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:18:06 +0000

The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess, and the insane lament.

New comment by Rooster61 in "Ask HN: At what point does AI regulation lead to confiscation of compute?"

Rooster61 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:05:23 +0000

It's already somewhat de facto happening due to hardware prices. Personal computing is getting priced out pretty hard, and I don't see that changing unless the consolidated AI bubble pops.

New comment by Rooster61 in "Fox Is Buying Roku"

Rooster61 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:08:46 +0000

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48540499

New comment by Rooster61 in "I wrote 5000 lines of assembly because I was angry"

Rooster61 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:30:06 +0000

I didn't get the sense that the prose was AI generated at all. How did you come to that conclusion?

New comment by Rooster61 in "Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't"

Rooster61 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:10:41 +0000

This has very little to do with the actual demand for good software though. People very much still want good software that works. The issue is the group of people in the industry that have learned they can push blasphemously useless crap, charge a premium, and have people be forced to consume it due to poor governance over market practices (monopolies, blatantly anti-consumer features, etc).