Hacker News: baobabKoodaa

New comment by baobabKoodaa in "Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine"

baobabKoodaa — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 22:40:56 +0000

Fine. Thiel will just fund a Hulk Hogan lawsuit against the Swiss magazine, then.

New comment by baobabKoodaa in "Surprise, pay $1000"

baobabKoodaa — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 04:03:01 +0000

Personally I do care if I get hacked or if my clients get hacked. If you don't care, you don't care, I guess. For you it's enough that the "paying customer experience" (???) is good, whatever that is. Okay buddy.

New comment by baobabKoodaa in "Claude Fable 5"

baobabKoodaa — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:40:28 +0000

The purpose of gendering into female gender like this is to signal to other leftists that you are part of their tribe.

New comment by baobabKoodaa in "Surprise, pay $1000"

baobabKoodaa — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:13:05 +0000

Awful, but true.

New comment by baobabKoodaa in "Surprise, pay $1000"

baobabKoodaa — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:39:52 +0000

The main issue is that you deceptively communicated what happens at the end of the free trial. You decided to use the wording "disruption", which implies that workloads will be stopped, which is the opposite of what happened. This is deceptive and predatory. I will never use your software and after this happened I am AMAZED that anybody else (particularly OP, but also anybody who read this post) will continue to trust you with their workloads. The way I look at this is: if you're willing to do deceptive and predatory billing, why wouldn't you be also willing to sell access to intelligence agencies or some other "grey area" party who wants to do supply chain hacks?

New comment by baobabKoodaa in "Surprise, pay $1000"

baobabKoodaa — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:34:35 +0000

OpenAI used to do billing like this too.

New comment by baobabKoodaa in "Age verification tech could put children at greater risk, says think tank"

baobabKoodaa — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:47:50 +0000

I don't agree with you wrt "the alternative". Things like scheduling a doctor's visit could be done without authentication. If some authentication is needed, it could be a traditional username/password setup (no MFA). Blocking part of the population from accessing basic services is just inhumane.

New comment by baobabKoodaa in "OneDrive data now has an expiry date"

baobabKoodaa — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:00:18 +0000

ToS are not laws and can not override laws. If you are in any civilized jurisdiction, such as EU, you can sue.

New comment by baobabKoodaa in "Age verification tech could put children at greater risk, says think tank"

baobabKoodaa — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:37:33 +0000

This is already reality in Finland. Want to schedule a doctor's appointment? Bank ID. Want to pay your taxes? Ban ID. Want to check your pension? Bank ID. The worst part of it is that a significant swathe of the population does not have access to bank ID, so they can't access these services anymore. It's a kafkaesque dystopia that is going places that I never thought would be possible.

New comment by baobabKoodaa in "Italy's Bending Spoons, owner of AOL and Vimeo, files for Nasdaq IPO"

baobabKoodaa — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:29:32 +0000

So first they fire all the staff and then they "care and improve the products"? Who? Who does that? They fired the staff, so who improves the product?

New comment by baobabKoodaa in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

baobabKoodaa — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 19:57:31 +0000

The link that you gave does not show this 70% number anywhere? Also, the link is from 20 years ago. I don't believe the real number is anywhere near 70%. Maybe 10% or something.

New comment by baobabKoodaa in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

baobabKoodaa — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 16:47:47 +0000

Did you pull this 70% out of your ass or from some other place? It's quite obviously not reality.

New comment by baobabKoodaa in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"

baobabKoodaa — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 20:49:20 +0000

There's a difference between "will go 10x in the next 10 years" vs "is 10x undervalued right now".

New comment by baobabKoodaa in "Let's celebrate work that is 100% human-made"

baobabKoodaa — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 22:19:33 +0000

Lucky for you, the website answers these questions in the very few sentences of text that it contains, so you can just read those sentences if you actually want your questions answered.

New comment by baobabKoodaa in "Let's celebrate work that is 100% human-made"

baobabKoodaa — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 22:18:10 +0000

Yes.

New comment by baobabKoodaa in "Let's celebrate work that is 100% human-made"

baobabKoodaa — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 22:17:30 +0000

You start from a rock and build your own CPU.

New comment by baobabKoodaa in "Let's celebrate work that is 100% human-made"

baobabKoodaa — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 22:17:05 +0000

You're implying compilers now utilize generative AI somehow? I doubt that very much.

New comment by baobabKoodaa in "SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P"

baobabKoodaa — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:37:58 +0000

Crime pays. But when you go that far, why stop at investing in scams? Surely you can make money faster by robbing old ladies at knifepoint?

New comment by baobabKoodaa in "SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P"

baobabKoodaa — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:36:27 +0000

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New comment by baobabKoodaa in "SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P"

baobabKoodaa — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:34:25 +0000

Yes, Matt Levine said that, but he also argued the other side's point of view, as he regularly does.