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New comment by bawana in "The Orange Pi 6 Plus"

bawana — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:43:05 +0000

Zimaboard2 has n150 and is smaller

New comment by bawana in "Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning"

bawana — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:27:52 +0000

Any field with abstraction becomes susceptible to ai disruption. In fact, ai susceptibility is proportional to the amount of abstraction. In this sense, the more abstraction then the more ai will displace people (my observation). This turns the millenia old model upside down. Traditionally more abstraction required more schooling and experience and was rewarded with more financial rewards. Until robots and world models become safe, affordable and ubiquitous, the financial apex of careers will be those that are abstraction resistant (technicians, emts, trades, etc) and those protected by requlation and the requlators(politicians, ceos)

New comment by bawana in "Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning"

bawana — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:59:52 +0000

I think security is the issue-ai is good at circumventing this. For example , ai can read paywalled articles you cannot. Do you really want ai to have ‘free range’.?

New comment by bawana in "Show HN: I built a navigation app that displays weather along the route"

bawana — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:25:26 +0000

St thomas to grenada gives ospm api error

New comment by bawana in "Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?"

bawana — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:23:25 +0000

Maybe we can get israel to pay some of our billion dollars a day military costs. Adelson gave stump 750 million for campaign. There must be a lot of wallets in the us that will open for israel. Maybe a synagogue tax?

New comment by bawana in "Attention Residuals"

bawana — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 11:27:12 +0000

Long, long ago, I remember the first toy I ever got that was made in chiina. It was a wooden cube puzzle. various interlocking differently shaped pieces that when assembled formed a cube. It was so different to all the other toys made in america by hasbro, mattel, tonka, etc. Back then I felt like I was holding a toy made by the ancient Greeks, a puzzle to teach geometry, analysis, pattern recognition. So abstract, so removed from daily life, it transported me into a different world. Like chess, it was an engaging abstraction. But unlike chess, it was not about conflict but rather interrelating pieces to make a greater whole.

So this is what really unsettles me. Not that China graduates more engineers every year than we have entirely employed in the US, but rather, that these individuals are not about delegating work, but actually doing it. Whereas the western credo is to get someone else to do the work (or in the words of PAtton, to get some one else to die for his country), I get the feeling that China will get robots and AI to do the work. I am reminded of the joke about Chinese factories having only 1 security guard and 1 dog. The guard is there to feed the dog.

New comment by bawana in "A proposal to classify happiness as a psychiatric disorder (1992)"

bawana — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:06:24 +0000

Our tax dollars pay for this research? Im all for intellectual discourse, i just dont want to pay for it

New comment by bawana in "The American Healthcare Conundrum"

bawana — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:49:31 +0000

Does anyone here remember how health care was delivered before medicare and medicaid was enacted in 1965? It was not pretty. Prices were low then because it was all private pay and charity. Why do you think so many hospitals are named after saints? The church made a significant contribution to running healthcare. But when the govt got involved in 1965, the MBAs started salivating. Now we have a system that is built around govt style procurement that we cannot afford. As our population ages, as salaries continue to remain flat, we will have hard choices to make.

New comment by bawana in "Layoffs at Block"

bawana — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 12:12:03 +0000

A parallel but not too different situation is happening in the hospital space. Corps fire experienced nurses and hire newbies at half the price. Then they realize the newbies aren't performing so they downsize staff. Then a flu or other seasonal event drives up need for staff so they turn to temp agencies (per diem nurses or 'travelers'). These travelers get 150% to 200% of what staff nurses get. The remaining staff nurses start to leave and become per diem. hospital costs double, quality of care declines.

New comment by bawana in "Ghidra by NSA"

bawana — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 12:33:57 +0000

Do you think they use these tools in China or somethiing elsee?

New comment by bawana in "Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue"

bawana — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 12:22:33 +0000

do you have a github?

New comment by bawana in "My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated"

bawana — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 15:10:44 +0000

Andromeda strain

New comment by bawana in "ChatGPT Health"

bawana — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 01:28:22 +0000

Medical training is designed to produce operators who will add value to corporate health systems - prescribe pills, do procedures, or anything that can generate 'billable hours'. Actually educating patients to be healthy will only reduce corporate health system profits. Why do you think we have been fighting the 'war on cancer' since the 60s? Now 'personalized medicine' and synthetic peptide and complex immunotherapies are the latest twist with costs into 5 figures (orders of magnitude greater than standard therapies)and efficacy only better by a factor of 2 at best. Many treatments promise improved 'partial response rate' increases from 10 % to 50% yet a partial response is not a significant improvement.

AI is a disaster waiting to happen. As it is simply a regurgitation of what has been already said by real scientists, researchers,and physicians, it will be the 'entry drug' to advertise expensive therapies.

Thank goodness our corporations have not stooped to providing healthcare in exchange for blood donation, skin donation, or other organ donation. But I can imagine United HEalthcare merging with Blackstone so that people who need healthcare can get 'health care loans'.

New comment by bawana in "CRISPR fungus: Protein-packed, sustainable, and tastes like meat"

bawana — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 13:10:31 +0000

I cant wait to see the unintended consequences. Imagine eating a food which then digests you from the inside out. Wait, wasnt there a video game like this?..,,,half-life

New comment by bawana in "The collapse of the econ PhD job market"

bawana — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 18:04:55 +0000

This highlights an unspoken danger of AI. People are up in arms about AI taking jobs in Human Resources, customer service, low level coding, etc. But education will take a massive hit. PhD, masters and even BS degrees will be devastated. Unless an individual has documented real benefits to a bottom line of some business, the CV will be window dressing. The only field that will continue to offer steady employment will be crime.

New comment by bawana in "Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image"

bawana — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 07:54:28 +0000

I see an opportunity for someone who can code. Make a website that tabulates search results for common terms. Listing the position of the desired search hit could be the ‘veracity score’ and allow users to assess the distortion field of each search engine

New comment by bawana in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

bawana — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 06:13:43 +0000

Wow. Tech companies must b pissed. After donating millions (even 24k gold apple totems!) the orange man turns around and punches them in the pocket book! At least he didnt put a tax on options vesting

New comment by bawana in "macOS Tahoe is certified Unix 03 [pdf]"

bawana — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 17:42:57 +0000

But isnt that what AI is for? Writing syntactically correct regexes?

New comment by bawana in "Gemini 2.5 Flash Image"

bawana — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 18:17:02 +0000

Google is eating adobe

New comment by bawana in "US Intel"

bawana — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 14:43:19 +0000

How is this ‘equity stake’ different than nationalization? (The thing that soviet socialism did to russian property and business a hundred years ago). After all the government prints the money. So instead of just taking control of a company the govt prints the money to buy it. Isnt it the same thing?

And where is the example of a successful govt run business?

Why dont we encourage businesses here w free trade zones?