Hacker News: Simon_O_Rourke

New comment by Simon_O_Rourke in "Meta Ignores Brazilian Court Order to End Bolsonaro Favoritism"

Simon_O_Rourke — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 12:14:20 +0000

Dirty b@stards the lot of them, it's gone from "well, we better tow the line to protect our market position", to full throated support of outright fascism.

New comment by Simon_O_Rourke in "NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead"

Simon_O_Rourke — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 21:00:53 +0000

Fucking retarded, just take whatever was wasted fighting a losing was for no good reason and spend it on NASA.

New comment by Simon_O_Rourke in "Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives"

Simon_O_Rourke — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:29:09 +0000

> The motorcyclist fell to the ground to the left side of the Waymo, then another car tried to pass the Waymo and struck the motorcyclist, killing them. That other driver fled the scene.

I wonder if they ever caught that guy?

New comment by Simon_O_Rourke in "Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives"

Simon_O_Rourke — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:27:24 +0000

> So would banning alcohol.

As in a full on country wide prohibition? Whatever amount of road deaths that would prevent would be offset by idiots dying via drinking industrial spirits.

New comment by Simon_O_Rourke in "Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives"

Simon_O_Rourke — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:23:11 +0000

Of course they do, an 8 bit PC rigged up to an old Nintendo Duck Hunt sensor would drive more safely than some of the morons in my neighborhood. I've ceased to be annoyed at them, and instead just shrug at the idiocy.

New comment by Simon_O_Rourke in "Mistral raises €3B"

Simon_O_Rourke — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:07:05 +0000

Good for them!

New comment by Simon_O_Rourke in "Decapitating a MacBook (2025)"

Simon_O_Rourke — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 21:16:06 +0000

Has nine children, lives on a halting site. There is a name for folks like that.

New comment by Simon_O_Rourke in "Decapitating a MacBook (2025)"

Simon_O_Rourke — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 21:08:19 +0000

There's a lot of that with this guy... His comment about requiring a low power environment so he discards all laptop power bricks. Dude, unless you're powering things off a hand cranked dynamo a few laptops are not going to melt your fuse board.

My guess is that the "why" is largely just showing off, coupled with oddness.

New comment by Simon_O_Rourke in "GPS glitched across the US by as much as 33 feet"

Simon_O_Rourke — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 10:02:26 +0000

The Russians at it again no doubt. The dastards.

New comment by Simon_O_Rourke in "Where did all the public bathrooms go?"

Simon_O_Rourke — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:50:21 +0000

I think it stopped once public bathrooms became used for things other than taking a whizz

New comment by Simon_O_Rourke in "Biohacker seeking immortality afflicted with incurable 'stomach eating' disease"

Simon_O_Rourke — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:21:07 +0000

Well said, he got what was coming to him too.

New comment by Simon_O_Rourke in "Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes"

Simon_O_Rourke — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:11:20 +0000

Nonsense, it'll end up with merely some public head scratching and shrugs, and a "gee whiz monsieur, it sure is a mystery to us too".

Interesting that whatever they wanted to do backfired in NYC.

New comment by Simon_O_Rourke in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

Simon_O_Rourke — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:53:22 +0000

I would have loved to have had ChatGPT when I had to do a few modules in formal methods, I'd say it would have eaten through the BS I had to wade through

New comment by Simon_O_Rourke in "Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part I: Why They Fight"

Simon_O_Rourke — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 11:20:33 +0000

Another great post by one of the nations best public intellectuals.

New comment by Simon_O_Rourke in "The Kaiser and a "Mediocre Man" Theory of History"

Simon_O_Rourke — Sat, 30 May 2026 15:50:37 +0000

Mediocre sales leaders I've found treat pipeline stagnation as a motivation problem rather than fixing the underlying issues with training, lead qualification, or sales collateral. Previous company had a sales pipeline tanking, and the "brilliant" Sales VP thought bringing forward a sales off-site to get the best performing reps together to motivate them. Net result, pipeline tanks further, VP waits a few months and leaves, and the reps all get upset at missing their targets for a full quarter.

New comment by Simon_O_Rourke in "The Kaiser and a "Mediocre Man" Theory of History"

Simon_O_Rourke — Sat, 30 May 2026 10:49:12 +0000

You could fit in most senior directors, consultants and sales VPs into that bucket comfortably.

New comment by Simon_O_Rourke in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

Simon_O_Rourke — Sat, 16 May 2026 12:44:00 +0000

I'm just waiting for my current company to have a Sev 1 CritSit so I can document the bejesus out of the root cause and expose our non-technical AI evangelist leadership as the sort of goons most of the senior development staff already suspect.

Only by walking us into some revenue or customer impacting failure - through inappropriately having junior devs doing senior level things - will some sense of sanity start to prevail again.

New comment by Simon_O_Rourke in "Porsche will contest Laguna Seca in historic colors of the Apple Computer livery"

Simon_O_Rourke — Sun, 03 May 2026 17:55:22 +0000

This is a nothing burger of a story.

New comment by Simon_O_Rourke in "“Collaboration” is bullshit"

Simon_O_Rourke — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:03:53 +0000

As someone who is being actively "encouraged" to be more collaborative with a few non technical political type managers merely for the appearance of it, this rings true. Collaboration is great if you don't have a clue and can coast on someone's coattails.

New comment by Simon_O_Rourke in "[dead]"

Simon_O_Rourke — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 22:24:14 +0000

Fun times in Caracas. Interested to see what future Mafia film will use this a backdrop.