Hacker News: Rover222

New comment by Rover222 in "US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks"

Rover222 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 02:31:20 +0000

Developers claiming their valuable data was “stolen” to train models is so dramatic.

New comment by Rover222 in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

Rover222 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:24:09 +0000

*jams head in sand angrily

New comment by Rover222 in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

Rover222 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:22:52 +0000

Well the posts here will be rational and well-informed, I'm sure.

New comment by Rover222 in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

Rover222 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:22:31 +0000

Quit posting trashing. This isn't theft.

New comment by Rover222 in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

Rover222 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 17:56:12 +0000

Do you have any idea what actual authoritarianism looks like? What an insult to people who are truly suffering.

New comment by Rover222 in "Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute"

Rover222 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:32:49 +0000

Everything is a conspiracy now.

Of course this is a real deal. Compute is the most valuable resource in the world for these companies at the moment.

New comment by Rover222 in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"

Rover222 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:29:28 +0000

It has nothing to do with Grok, at least not the current iteration. SpaceX is the only company that can concievably launch large scale orbital compute.

New comment by Rover222 in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"

Rover222 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:28:04 +0000

You make it sound like they’ve given up on Grok, which I don’t think is accurate. I think it’s been mentioned the Grok 5 1.5T model is currently training on Colossus 2. And their recent deal with cursor is part of being able to eventually compete with Anthropic for agentic coding.

New comment by Rover222 in "Texas is America Inc's new centre of gravity"

Rover222 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 03:33:24 +0000

California is an incredible example of how to drop the ball when running a powerful state. Texas is of course on the other end of the spectrum in terms of regulation and being business-friendly. Something more in the middle of the two is obviously ideal.

New comment by Rover222 in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

Rover222 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:26:12 +0000

You're using the word corruption without any solid evidence. The decision for the rule change has been clearly explained.

New comment by Rover222 in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

Rover222 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:53:15 +0000

yeah fair. in the end, more competition is great

New comment by Rover222 in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

Rover222 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:23:19 +0000

Why don't you start a company that fixes problems you care about, then?

New comment by Rover222 in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

Rover222 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:21:34 +0000

how dare you come in with rationality in the face of ELON BAD

New comment by Rover222 in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

Rover222 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:33:40 +0000

Imagine thinking the rivalry is about hardware and not software... Same for IOS vs Android.

New comment by Rover222 in "Werner Herzog in conversation with Paul Cronin (2014)"

Rover222 — Sun, 31 May 2026 14:46:52 +0000

I love Werner’s rant on how dumb chickens are. Although when I owned chickens, I was surprised to find there seemed to be a lot more to them than he suggested.

Still my favorite rant.

New comment by Rover222 in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

Rover222 — Fri, 29 May 2026 22:44:48 +0000

oh please, get over it. I supported a local old lady who airbnb'd out her guest house. I shopped at the local grocery store. and I left.

you would drop that buzzword 'colonial', as though Brazil isn't a former European colony, just like the US. And they... gasp... used slaves for much longer.

I was in the southern cone of the country, first world lifestyles there. Brazilians are proud, they'd be insulted by your savior attitude.

New comment by Rover222 in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

Rover222 — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:01:12 +0000

Yeah, I was just living off $1k/month in Brazil just to see if it was possible. It definitely is. And was in a beautiful, safe area.

New comment by Rover222 in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

Rover222 — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:36:56 +0000

there are in fact plenty of ways to earn enough money to get by on a simple lifestyle

New comment by Rover222 in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

Rover222 — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:35:21 +0000

I worked 10 years in commercial fishing before getting into tech.

Although now sometimes I yearn for a solid day of physical labor out on the ocean.

But yeah, grass is definitely greener on this side. I can always go shovel dirt o a saturday.

New comment by Rover222 in "Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test"

Rover222 — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:25:53 +0000

Lots of Americans are only capable of this logic for now: billionaire bad