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New comment by adamm255 in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

adamm255 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 22:07:55 +0000

OMG I love this!

I was at an industry event this week. a CEO of a startup took the big board of vendors who are present, put it through an LLM. It summarised the companies he should be looking at discuss partnership opportunities with and why based on his business. Spot on.

New comment by adamm255 in "Flickr: The first and last great photo platform"

adamm255 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:42:29 +0000

I was trying to think when I stopped browsing and using Flickr. You just reminded me.

New comment by adamm255 in "Show HN: I Built Paul Graham's Intellectual Captcha Idea"

adamm255 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:38:07 +0000

All the references about Data Center water use were from one guy too.

New comment by adamm255 in "Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth"

adamm255 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:08:21 +0000

Oh man. "Rolled with the D5 on my recent trip around the moon, decent performance, very light and easy to hold in zero gravity".

New comment by adamm255 in "15 years, one server, 8GB RAM and 500k users – how Webminal refuses to die"

adamm255 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:23:31 +0000

The way the stack is described reminded me of this masterpiece. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE9W9Ghe4Jk

New comment by adamm255 in "1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6"

adamm255 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:40:50 +0000

That game is AWESOME! The fact that was vibe coded is insane.

New comment by adamm255 in "Password managers less secure than promised"

adamm255 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 23:01:20 +0000

Hard agree, but Average Joes have no idea what any of those words mean let alone the means to do it.

New comment by adamm255 in "UK government launches fuel forecourt price API"

adamm255 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 23:56:15 +0000

Anyone able to use the API? The CSV link is dead and I cant get the API to authenticate. The Beta flag doing a lot of heavy lifting here, but I love the idea!

New comment by adamm255 in "Anthony Bourdain's Lost Li.st's"

adamm255 — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 22:31:17 +0000

WUPHF

New comment by adamm255 in "UK's largest battery storage facility at Tilbury substation"

adamm255 — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 10:53:42 +0000

Time to decouple the UK Electricity price from Gas so we can actually reap the benefits of this as a consumer.

New comment by adamm255 in "Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act"

adamm255 — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 20:19:18 +0000

If the current government reversed it, the 'oh think of the children' angle from the Tories/Reform against them would be relentless. I cant say they have been amazing at messaging as it is.

New comment by adamm255 in "Pa. House passes 'click-to-cancel' subscription bills"

adamm255 — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 21:16:29 +0000

Good faith LOL

New comment by adamm255 in "OAuth's Role in MCP Security"

adamm255 — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 22:13:38 +0000

Totally. Still getting my head around this write up but it goes into a lot of detail. https://aaronparecki.com/2025/04/03/15/oauth-for-model-conte...

New comment by adamm255 in "Why a plane turned around when a passenger lost a phone midflight"

adamm255 — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 23:59:54 +0000

The order of doing things while flying…

Arranging a reroute with ATC, explaining everything, adjusting the autopilot for the new route etc. Assessment time on what to do. Those in the back don’t need to know anything until those decisions are made and executed. It’s not like there’s a negotiation to be had!

New comment by adamm255 in "Amazon now discloses you're buying a license to view Kindle eBooks"

adamm255 — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 21:58:27 +0000

Amazing how quick that story blew over.

New comment by adamm255 in "Five years of Brexit reshaped Britain"

adamm255 — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 13:36:32 +0000

Before Brexit I knew tech companies where they had a UK EMEA HQ, where they would have people looking after all regions, with people living and paying tax in the UK. Post Brexit, so many people started moving home, companies started opening more local offices in region. So the people who would have been on high wages paying high tax here, sending in the UK, are not back in their home country.

Great for their home country, bad for the UK.

New comment by adamm255 in "AI's next leap requires intimate access to your digital life"

adamm255 — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 10:09:40 +0000

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-re...

New comment by adamm255 in "AI's next leap requires intimate access to your digital life"

adamm255 — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 17:33:06 +0000

Imagine trying to perform a “right to forget” request on data that was trained into the AI?

New comment by adamm255 in "AI's next leap requires intimate access to your digital life"

adamm255 — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 17:31:15 +0000

AI Agents, when discussed on podcasts by tech “bros” and execs, seem to forget that most people are price sensitive. When booking a flight, we take into account cost, travel time, whether or not we’re a morning person, a meeting we need to make that’s not in the diary (texted a mate to catch up). If it’s reading that as well. I don’t want an Agent booking me something that on paper looks the best, but is £200 more than it could be with a small trade off.

Plus, these execs all have Executive Assistants that act as the abstraction layer already. This is maybe why it feels like a no brainer to them. They already share their lives with these people, why not share the same with an AI??

New comment by adamm255 in "AI's next leap requires intimate access to your digital life"

adamm255 — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 17:21:05 +0000

Google Street View is a pretty good example of this. And the issues of having someone driving around with a massive WiFi radio and loads of cameras.

https://www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/google-street-view-pu...