Hacker News: admissionsguy

New comment by admissionsguy in "Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test"

admissionsguy — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:48:59 +0000

The modern version is "LLMs produce bad code"

New comment by admissionsguy in "Aliens.gov Live"

admissionsguy — Fri, 29 May 2026 13:47:53 +0000

I’d argue these are a wholly distinct category of thing than the concepts associated with the words UAP/UFO. Surely there exist experimental aircraft, and that may be of interest to specialists in intelligence and military fields and may be worth an entry in some niche osint blog now and then. Other than that, anything that can be seriously said about uap/ufo belongs in psychology journals.

New comment by admissionsguy in "Aliens.gov Live"

admissionsguy — Fri, 29 May 2026 07:27:09 +0000

There is nothing about UAP that can be serious.

New comment by admissionsguy in "Gen Z Resentment Toward AI Grows as Adoption Stagnates and Workplace Fears Mount"

admissionsguy — Sun, 10 May 2026 15:44:28 +0000

Will it need bailing out or will it take everyone’s jobs? The opposition to AI needs to make up their mind.

New comment by admissionsguy in "Gen Z Resentment Toward AI Grows as Adoption Stagnates and Workplace Fears Mount"

admissionsguy — Sun, 10 May 2026 11:40:28 +0000

I think I watched more Italian Brainrot than all other video content combined

New comment by admissionsguy in "Gen Z Resentment Toward AI Grows as Adoption Stagnates and Workplace Fears Mount"

admissionsguy — Sun, 10 May 2026 10:51:34 +0000

I hear that attitude about AI is much more positive in China. So people like him, in aggregate, could potentially be a danger and cause the US to give up the lead for the rest of century. Takes one bad election..

New comment by admissionsguy in "America will come to regret its war on taxes"

admissionsguy — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 19:08:23 +0000

> Most of what people value in public life is supported by taxes

Citation needed. If you value something paid for by taxes you should pay for yourself. Feel free to pool your money with all the other people of value the same thing - should be easy if it's most people.

The tax cuts are fine, the only issue is funding them by deficit spending. The government services/entitlement should be cut instead.

New comment by admissionsguy in "Why E cores make Apple silicon fast"

admissionsguy — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 16:21:00 +0000

for the record, my newish mac shows the display settings fine when i type display

New comment by admissionsguy in "Why E cores make Apple silicon fast"

admissionsguy — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 13:23:41 +0000

TIL there is a search bar triggered by CMD+Space. After 15 long years.

New comment by admissionsguy in "France's homegrown open source online office suite"

admissionsguy — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 15:26:02 +0000

No a bad thing if you desire the corporate power to eventually become the main force shaping the world :)

New comment by admissionsguy in "France's homegrown open source online office suite"

admissionsguy — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 15:01:59 +0000

Hard imagining well designed web app bottlenecked by server-side processing that is not offloaded to database, or done via bindings to libraries written in compiled languages.

New comment by admissionsguy in "France's homegrown open source online office suite"

admissionsguy — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 14:52:10 +0000

> solutions written in dynamic programming languages like PHP and Python are always woefully slow

True as it may be that they are slow, I doubt it's caused by the use of dynamic programming languages.

> The money should be secured immediately that cannot be touched by the upcoming governments. It should increase taxes. Independence has a price. We as Europeans should be ready to pay it.

You do you, but increasing taxes to build products to replace products built by private enterprise sounds like a 180 degree opposite of what Europe needs to prosper.

New comment by admissionsguy in "4k tons of potatoes to be given away for free in Berlin"

admissionsguy — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 17:41:16 +0000

Is this what life in Europe has come to?

New comment by admissionsguy in "Ask HN: What tech purchase did you regret even though reviews were great?"

admissionsguy — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 01:04:29 +0000

Aeron chair - nothing special, could have done with a 10x cheaper ikea chair

New comment by admissionsguy in "Who Watches the Waymos? I do [video]"

admissionsguy — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 07:15:10 +0000

Can't they get out and kill the Ubers already instead of sitting in the lot? (half-serious, but I have been wondering what are the reasons they don't just push the price towards zero during low hours?)

New comment by admissionsguy in "Prototaxites"

admissionsguy — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 07:02:28 +0000

So is it the kind of thing that Voynich manuscript describes?

New comment by admissionsguy in "FTX insider Caroline Ellison has been moved out of prison"

admissionsguy — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 07:58:07 +0000

there are some but they required this amount of processing https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/12/06/business/caroline-ell...

New comment by admissionsguy in "Ask HN: Is it just me or techno-optimism died in the past few years?"

admissionsguy — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 22:04:11 +0000

It's just aging. If you were aware of tech climate in the 2010s, means you are past 30 years old and getting jaded. Young people are very enthusiastic about the AI.

New comment by admissionsguy in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

admissionsguy — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 19:58:09 +0000

Isn't falling for virtue signalling charity donations more of a twattery?

New comment by admissionsguy in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

admissionsguy — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 19:45:04 +0000

Sounds like he is a refreshingly honest person