Hacker News: WheatMillington

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

WheatMillington — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:24:58 +0000

Why do you think it's a space company? SpaceX didn't even define ITSELF as a space company in its IPO filing.

New comment by WheatMillington in "Sagrada Família Lego set"

WheatMillington — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:33:58 +0000

Weird perspective. When I was a kid (I'm 41) we were given sets - pirate ship, submarine, police sets. They were designed as a kit... and once we built the kid we'd pull it apart and use the parts for all sorts of things. Now my kids do they very same thing with modern kits. I'm not sure why you think today's lego is different?

New comment by WheatMillington in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

WheatMillington — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:53:08 +0000

How can you know that without even hearing it?

New comment by WheatMillington in "EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products"

WheatMillington — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:52:32 +0000

A major retailer in my country had to recall thousands of units of kids kinetic sand because it contained asbestos. Are you saying we'd be better off had they not been made to recall these? Or that we'd be worse off had there been more regulation preventing kids from inhaling asbestos in the first place?

New comment by WheatMillington in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

WheatMillington — Thu, 28 May 2026 04:31:05 +0000

Like the music being described literally in the thread you're responding to.

New comment by WheatMillington in "Europe has "maybe 6 weeks of jet fuel left""

WheatMillington — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 19:17:41 +0000

If only there were a recent global event that shut down supply chains from which we could have drawn these lessons.

New comment by WheatMillington in "Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model"

WheatMillington — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:13:53 +0000

>2. Originality matters more than ever. By design, these tools can only copy and mix things that already exist. But they aren't alive, they don't live in the world and have experiences, and they can't create something truly new.

How can you say this? These models can trivially create things that have never existed, and you can easily test this yourself.

New comment by WheatMillington in "Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter"

WheatMillington — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:39:41 +0000

As opposed to VC owners, who are famously satisfied with slow growth. Right?

New comment by WheatMillington in "Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation"

WheatMillington — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 02:30:36 +0000

I don't see why any AI company would ever be "too big to fail". I can't see why any government would be motivated to take the political hit of bailing them out.

New comment by WheatMillington in "Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation"

WheatMillington — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 02:19:20 +0000

At $14b revenue Anthropic is likely running a HUGE loss on their P&L.

New comment by WheatMillington in "Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation"

WheatMillington — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 02:15:00 +0000

Interesting that you consider the most cutting edge technology in the category to be "the easiest layups".

New comment by WheatMillington in ""Hate brings views": Confessions of a London fake news TikToker"

WheatMillington — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:58:28 +0000

Surely you don't believe that, given a random sample of 20 people, 19 of them will be amoral, selfish, and have no values? Surely this doesn't align with your real life experience - what are your colleagues, friends, family, neighbours and acquaintances like? Do they meet this ratio?

New comment by WheatMillington in ""Hate brings views": Confessions of a London fake news TikToker"

WheatMillington — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:56:36 +0000

When someone has a complete lack of values like this, it always makes me wonder what their upbringing was like.

New comment by WheatMillington in "I made 20 GDPR deletion requests. 12 were ignored"

WheatMillington — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 18:48:25 +0000

All you have to do is respect the law and respect your customers. Absolutely the most basic thing we can ask of a new business.

New comment by WheatMillington in "Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app"

WheatMillington — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 20:56:17 +0000

... but Google doesn't levy these charges.

New comment by WheatMillington in "Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica"

WheatMillington — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 18:41:58 +0000

I dont think Waymo is interested in using a video of their car striking a child as marketing.

New comment by WheatMillington in "Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica"

WheatMillington — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 18:41:10 +0000

I think you're missing something though, which I've observed from reading these comments - HN commenters aren't ordinary humans, they're super-humans with cosmic powers of awareness, visibility, reactions and judgement.

New comment by WheatMillington in "Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica"

WheatMillington — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 18:39:11 +0000

You seem to be implying that there are no circumstances in which a vehicle can hit a pedestrian and the driver not be at fault... which is absurd.

New comment by WheatMillington in "Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app"

WheatMillington — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 18:32:53 +0000

There is no monopoly here though. Android makes up a pretty substantial proportion of users. That users continue to use Apple devices despite this kind of greed (and that people on HN cheered when Apple defeated Epic in court) shows that users don't care, which is unfortunate.

New comment by WheatMillington in "Amazon cuts 16k jobs"

WheatMillington — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 22:32:43 +0000

Only off by a factor of 100.