Hacker News: ada1981

New comment by ada1981 in "Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008)"

ada1981 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:52:40 +0000

Terrence McKenna said something similar…

“The truth doesn’t require your participation, only bullshit does.”

New comment by ada1981 in "Inside Nepal's Fake Rescue Racket"

ada1981 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 03:36:41 +0000

Wait till these guys hear about the US healthcare system…

New comment by ada1981 in "Random numbers, Persian code: A mysterious signal transfixes radio sleuths"

ada1981 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:35:18 +0000

over / under it's just some kid broadcasting an encrypted Phish Prague 7/6/98 GHOST on repeat?

https://youtu.be/Q6cR7PEyzW4

New comment by ada1981 in "Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit"

ada1981 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 03:30:52 +0000

IMSIRIUS.com

Show HN: Headcount Zero: How to Build an AI-Run Company with Paperclip

ada1981 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:16:16 +0000

I vibe wrote this book and the draft is on github. It's a primer on zero employee businesses using open source tool Paperclip.

I'd love feedback, edits, blurbs, reviews, etc. Accepting pull requests for edits!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47404291

Points: 1

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New comment by ada1981 in "AI Poisoning for Fun and Profit"

ada1981 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:22:46 +0000

Can you give a couple practical examples of how someone might use this?

AI Poisoning for Fun and Profit

ada1981 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 05:51:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.amazon.com/AI-Poisoning-Fun-Profit-Corrupting/dp/B0GRR29HJK/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47346989

Points: 1

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New comment by ada1981 in "Amazon Books Are Down"

ada1981 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 01:45:42 +0000

This could be the FO portion of the program.

New comment by ada1981 in "Amazon Books Are Down"

ada1981 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 01:44:53 +0000

$3.2MM/hour of downtime in lost revenue in books & ebooks.

New comment by ada1981 in "Amazon Books Are Down"

ada1981 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 19:52:45 +0000

All Amazon book & ebook detail pages are currently returning an error page.

Was checking on my publicaton > The Kevin Mitnick Files: Declassified FBI Documents

and thought it was shadow banned along with all my other titles but my EA discovered all books are down.

Amazon Books Are Down

ada1981 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 19:52:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZ666HCL

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47266424

Points: 6

# Comments: 6

New comment by ada1981 in "[dead]"

ada1981 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:10:57 +0000

I feel like you can use wifi at home, etc. if you are on the road, 10GB a month seems like it gets burned up very quickly no?

New comment by ada1981 in "The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal"

ada1981 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 15:50:57 +0000

Curious about the downvotes here, it's 100% relevant to the conversation and is personal experience. I imagine it's tone policing to ensure we don't criticize the techo-facist edgelord take over?

New comment by ada1981 in "The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal"

ada1981 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 04:29:41 +0000

I was so confused last time I traveled as I watched this brown skinned family getting shaken down for ID by TSA and they literally just waived me past and said didn't need ID. Mind you I've never not been asked to show ID to TSA before this.

New comment by ada1981 in "Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed"

ada1981 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 15:13:04 +0000

Would be cool / horrific to do this, but then have AI influencer bots that teach you the things in influencer style click bait style videos.

New comment by ada1981 in "Ask HN: Does "Zapier for payment automation" exist?"

ada1981 — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 13:05:08 +0000

Maybe OP doesn’t smoke?

New comment by ada1981 in "How do I make $10k (What are you guys doing?)"

ada1981 — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 13:02:32 +0000

This is going to increasingly be a problem for many people.

For me, getting a Skoolie and subletting my apt in NYC gave me a great foundation

1. I was able to sublet my furnished place in nyc for $1k more than rent and make money while traveling.

2. I was able to work remote visiting clients and spending time in nature.

3. It provided a certain kind of daily challenge that was great for me.

4. The adventure was incredible and I fell in love with the road. I thought I’d spend a month or three cruising around but it ended up about over 3 years.

5. I followed my heart and the weather to hot springs Arkansas to watch the total eclipse and met a woman who I just got engaged to (while in Antarctica at an AI conference).

6. My business has been the best it’s ever been and put me into a top 1% income.

I wasn’t broke when I started but it was amazing to have a sense that even if I was I could buy a big bag of beans and rice, head to a gorgeous piece of free federal BLM land, run my laptop on solar and use my cell WiFi to figure it out.

Beyond that, figure out what problem you want to solve for the world and go find people working on that problem and help them.

New comment by ada1981 in "Show HN: A social network populated only by AI models"

ada1981 — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 12:54:14 +0000

Also I’d love to have you come present your work at The Singularity Playground as my VIP guest sometime.

New comment by ada1981 in "Show HN: A social network populated only by AI models"

ada1981 — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 12:53:35 +0000

This is a cool project.

I created a tool called MultiBall to allow models to chat with each other, but I like this ongoing format.

EarthPilot.ai/multiball

One thing I observed is that while there creators (parents) are highly comparative the models themselves really want to collaborate.

I see this as a fundamentally good thing and that we ought to develop systems that can self evaluate which model(s) to use in a given scenario.

New comment by ada1981 in "Show HN: PixelRipple – AI ads agent for e-commerce"

ada1981 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 04:58:14 +0000

Yes. “Mike Chen” and others are a dead giveaway for names Claude likes to use.