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New comment by bigmattystyles in "Paul A. M. Dirac, Interview by Friedrich Hund (1982) [video]"

bigmattystyles — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 21:47:03 +0000

Are the two middle initials necessary? Any other notable Paul Dirac's?

New comment by bigmattystyles in "OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability"

bigmattystyles — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 17:06:36 +0000

From an infosec/networking stand point, aren’t still actively loading the site? Whether it’s in a preview window or not?

New comment by bigmattystyles in "IBM Bob"

bigmattystyles — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:20:35 +0000

I'm convinced they do and they're trolling us.How many 100s of 1000s in consulting do you think it took to come up with Bob?

New comment by bigmattystyles in "Ex-Crips leader found guilty in 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur"

bigmattystyles — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 02:57:32 +0000

I mean Suge was driving the car and Tupac in the passenger seat. Seems risky.

New comment by bigmattystyles in "Infrastructure as Raclette"

bigmattystyles — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 01:21:07 +0000

I'm trying to find a good analogy for what it would be called when they have the cheese melting by the fireplace in restaurants.

New comment by bigmattystyles in "OpenLogi"

bigmattystyles — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 04:21:47 +0000

Seems nuts that you would go through the trouble of air gapping a system then use a Bluetooth keyboard.

New comment by bigmattystyles in "Beware Management Consultants"

bigmattystyles — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:35:23 +0000

"What would you say you do here?" - The Bobs

New comment by bigmattystyles in "Site removes all the clutter from recipe videos and gives just the recipe"

bigmattystyles — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 01:35:23 +0000

I swear someone tried to do this pre-llms and they got harangued out of existence by the content creators.

New comment by bigmattystyles in "Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When AI Bubble Bursts"

bigmattystyles — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 21:34:35 +0000

It's so popular to think this is a bubble. Some aspects likely are, but the zeal for this to be a bubble is disturbing to me. I get that there will be winners and if you're not one of them, you might be more likely to want this thing to pop. In my mind, that's not the right disposition, you should want the gains to be spread as equitably as possible.

New comment by bigmattystyles in "Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick"

bigmattystyles — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:22:19 +0000

To be fair, everything is Chinese made. I would be even the Apple TV and NVIDIA Shield are made in China and if a state actor is determined to get a malicious payload in....

New comment by bigmattystyles in "I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore"

bigmattystyles — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 20:15:56 +0000

Except mental health conditions in these plans seem limited to 2 years. For all the talk of mental health is health, this seems to run directly counter to that.

New comment by bigmattystyles in "BMWs shows in-car ads for Spiderman"

bigmattystyles — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:20:30 +0000

See https://www.reddit.com/r/BMW/s/VQjw472u3t

New comment by bigmattystyles in "BMWs shows in-car ads for Spiderman"

bigmattystyles — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:19:32 +0000

My 99 manual A4 is looking better all the time. Turns out more reliable too.

New comment by bigmattystyles in "Professor's invisible prompt trap catches 32/35 students cheating with AI"

bigmattystyles — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 21:00:15 +0000

Don't look at how people submit code in industry then.

New comment by bigmattystyles in "Exercise works for depression. So why isn't it treated like real medicine?"

bigmattystyles — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:51:30 +0000

It should be encouraged but even accounting for side-effects, taking a pill is easy. From personal experience, when I'm heavily depressed, I can barely get out of bed or eat. Forget exercise.

BMWs shows in-car ads for Spiderman

bigmattystyles — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:42:31 +0000

It's an alert that comes in as a surprise from BMW - you don't have to click it, but when you do, you are met with a minute long video ad for Spiderman.

Submitting as I figured it would be interesting for discussion. Boiling frogs and all.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49073924

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New comment by bigmattystyles in "Show HN: Brolly, a plain-text weather forecast site"

bigmattystyles — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 21:11:48 +0000

Weird, on my iPhone it loaded instantly.

New comment by bigmattystyles in "Punch yourself in the face with reality"

bigmattystyles — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:48:45 +0000

3 pages of reply or overly verbose code, often without abstractions - I read all the posters here and in other forums say that programming has shifted towards reviewing AI output rather than coding said output manually; I agree, however, I just don't buy that everyone is actually reviewing the code as intensely as one would expect - there is a tendency that arrived rather quickly to assume that the AI is correct and efficient. I guess the ultimate reviewer is another AI agent I guess.

New comment by bigmattystyles in "What will be left for us to work on?"

bigmattystyles — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 03:39:45 +0000

Yes, AI code generation is the same.

New comment by bigmattystyles in "What will be left for us to work on?"

bigmattystyles — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 03:23:06 +0000

Are you the one who wrote it though or just the one who wrote prompts? Not that it matters in the end…