Hacker News: WheatMillington

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.

New comment by WheatMillington in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

WheatMillington — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 21:34:32 +0000

Your experience is very far away from mine. I don't experience any of these issues on a standard 32gb office laptop, or my home gaming machine.

New comment by WheatMillington in "TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues"

WheatMillington — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:01:42 +0000

I see people saying this a lot, but I've also seen videos demonstrating that you can easily post and search for Tiananmen Square content. I don't use Tiktok myself but it seems like this is basically untrue.

New comment by WheatMillington in "Tesla brings Cybertruck to Middle East amid US demand collapse"

WheatMillington — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 03:24:53 +0000

>Tesla chose these markets strategically, both allow the Cybertruck without the significant modifications needed for European compliance.

That's a light-touch way of saying few markets are as lawless as the USA on safety standards, and Tesla will exploit those few as much as possible to attempt to amortise the undoubtedly astronomical costs of developing this ridiculous vehicle.

New comment by WheatMillington in "Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability"

WheatMillington — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 03:08:22 +0000

We don't need to risk having people stalked/tracked just so you can play pretend sheriff.

New comment by WheatMillington in "Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability"

WheatMillington — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 03:04:51 +0000

How would airtags work as theft prevention? Airtags only enter the equation once something has already been stolen.

New comment by WheatMillington in "Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries"

WheatMillington — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 22:56:49 +0000

That it's a garbage data source that could not be relied upon.