Hacker News: bmau5

Ask HN: What are you using OpenClaw or agents for?

bmau5 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:06:38 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47758502

Points: 8

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New comment by bmau5 in "SpaceX files to go public"

bmau5 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 22:08:23 +0000

Valuations are always more of an art than a science but in what world is SpaceX worth more than Meta today? Maybe the $1.75T is to find that world.

New comment by bmau5 in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"

bmau5 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:17:13 +0000

It's easily abused by both sides of the debate because there's no strict widely accepted definition. I find it tiring because it's a largely inconsequential benchmark anyways (outside of Microsoft-OpenAI contract disputes).

New comment by bmau5 in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"

bmau5 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:59:30 +0000

The debate around "AGI" is the thing that gets me. People just moving goalposts and arbitrarily applying their own standards makes for a lot of wheel spinning

Reddit Is Down

bmau5 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:13:16 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47444399

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

New comment by bmau5 in "Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act"

bmau5 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:47:05 +0000

It's also valuable verifiable data for advertisers, in that it verifies real people are being served your ads, and it's going to the desired age range/appropriate audience

Ask HN: Best Practices for Agent Airgapping?

bmau5 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:53:37 +0000

Hi HN - I'm a non-technical looking to experiment with building agents for different tasks in my co. What are some best practices you've seen/made for set-up to avoid security issues while running them? I have a mac mini I'll be using to keep them off my main device, but curious what else I can be doing.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47366831

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Hobbit-Inspired Startup Becomes First New Bank Greenlighted by Trump 2.0

bmau5 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 21:33:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/finance/banking/hobbit-inspired-startup-becomes-first-new-bank-greenlighted-by-trump-2-0-0d6075ef

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46918438

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by bmau5 in "Salivary microbiome diversity is associated with oral health and disease"

bmau5 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 18:43:54 +0000

Latest pre-print from our team at Bristle. Let us know if you have any questions!

Salivary microbiome diversity is associated with oral health and disease

bmau5 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 18:43:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.27.702135v1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46828215

Points: 2

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New comment by bmau5 in "Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B"

bmau5 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 21:55:51 +0000

Feels like a great outcome for Brex. Mercury and Ramp seem to have been chipping away at their leadership position in recent years, so I wonder how their growth trajectory changed over that period.

New comment by bmau5 in "Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B"

bmau5 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 21:55:02 +0000

assume it's the $1.2bn paid back to investors and then some divvying of the remaining amongst investors, founders, and common

New comment by bmau5 in "Colorectal cancer is now the top cause of cancer death in younger people"

bmau5 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 21:04:07 +0000

Which tests did you have run?

Colorectal cancer is now the top cause of cancer death in younger people

bmau5 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 18:25:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/colorectal-cancer-is-now-the-top-cause-of-cancer-death-in-younger-people-02f08587

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46723190

Points: 62

# Comments: 34

Ask HN: Did past "bubbles" have so many people claiming we were in a bubble?

bmau5 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 22:00:22 +0000

I see a new "we're in an AI bubble" post every day, which got me thinking - was this what it was like in past pre-bubble environments?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46698301

Points: 19

# Comments: 18

New comment by bmau5 in "Covid-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality"

bmau5 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:02:57 +0000

As others have mentioned that data is captured in other studies and isn't the point of this paper

New comment by bmau5 in "Samsung makes ads on smart fridges official with upcoming software update"

bmau5 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 19:16:59 +0000

I'd understand if the ads were subsidizing the purchase price significantly, but this still seems to be in line with their highest pricing.

New comment by bmau5 in "Ask HN: Any good books for a layman on history of quantum computing?"

bmau5 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 22:29:13 +0000

Thank you!

New comment by bmau5 in "Ask HN: Any good books for a layman on history of quantum computing?"

bmau5 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 22:29:10 +0000

Thank you!

Ask HN: Any good books for a layman on history of quantum computing?

bmau5 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 16:12:42 +0000

I recently read Genius Makers and very much enjoyed it, and was wondering if there were any similar books to help me better understand where we currently are regarding QC and how we got here

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45671346

Points: 26

# Comments: 6