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New comment by boringg in "A greyscale iPhone setup that works in everyday life"

boringg — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 01:48:21 +0000

Why do you think Pokemon makes the cards super bright and shiny :)

New comment by boringg in "Doing nothing at work"

boringg — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:50:51 +0000

Startup vs incumbent

New comment by boringg in "US-Canada border library gets new Quebec-only entrance"

boringg — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:26:29 +0000

Agreed. Rupture is real and permanent, driven by one side.

New comment by boringg in "Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable"

boringg — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:24:55 +0000

I guess the real question at the end of the day -- how dependent are people on Claude to tolerate that kind of behavior? It certainly opens up for the competition to explicitly not do that.

Feels like a big fumble from a strategic business perspective. It feels worse than that though.

New comment by boringg in "US Consumer Price Index up 4.2%"

boringg — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:10:00 +0000

Equities rise and fall. Unless you fully cash out that stuff can materially drop and if you do materially cash out - it can inflate away.

Sorry to be a downer but there is no certainty on the future especially with the level of chaos being sown in the western world as a function of a few key people.

New comment by boringg in "German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews"

boringg — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:05:21 +0000

Were the websites actually held responsible though?

New comment by boringg in "German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews"

boringg — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:17:05 +0000

I mean was google search responsible for surfacing correct answers? I am not a defend of AI but this seems like a weird piece of legislation.

New comment by boringg in "Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor"

boringg — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:15:06 +0000

Their advantage was mechanical engineering. They have historically not done well with electrical systems. So this is a change - hopefully for the better.

New comment by boringg in "Are these enhanced AI images on NYT?"

boringg — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:13:51 +0000

It's paid placement for sure. I does look AI enhanced. I figure they don't care that much in that department.

New comment by boringg in "What it feels like to work with Mythos"

boringg — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:22:08 +0000

The mythos of Mythos is marketing.

New comment by boringg in "Are these enhanced AI images on NYT?"

boringg — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:11:47 +0000

Am I crazy is this placement in NYT have a lot of AI added in people in it (hands and feet). I don't know why I would expect there placed article group to be better but this seems like a company trying to jump the cold-start demand by adding in people.

Are these enhanced AI images on NYT?

boringg — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:11:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/us/tradwife-ballerina-farm-utah.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48466100

Points: 1

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New comment by boringg in "Confidential submission of draft S-1 to the SEC"

boringg — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:29:00 +0000

Well I think those are different.

Most everyone outside of a core believer knew metaverse was a bad investment and total value destruction.

Im not sure that Apple's strategy will pay out -- they may avoid the heavy capex lift but if that strategy is successful they ill have missed the strategic upside. Thats the part the jury is out on.

They've taken a more deliberate approach which might be the winning one ... tbd. We should re-check this in 3-5 years to re-assess.

New comment by boringg in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

boringg — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:15:59 +0000

Apple's incentives don't align to sell private data as their whole thing is privacy. They do that they tank their business. If you have proof that they are doing it -- I'd love to see it. (*3rd party actors from an app re-selling data doesn't count)

Google is 100% doing that because thats their entire incentive for the business. They sell low cost software / subsidized hardware on the grounds that you pay with your sharing data. That's the implied cost.

Show me the incentives - I will show you the outcomes.

New comment by boringg in "Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers"

boringg — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:10:49 +0000

>If you want your project linted/formatted a certain way make it clear to the LLM.

Most people have no clue what that means. Most Devs should know but I would wager that newer devs don't have enough opinion or exposure to do that.

New comment by boringg in "Confidential submission of draft S-1 to the SEC"

boringg — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:25:50 +0000

Jury is out on that one -- will have to see what happens in the next couple of years. I don't think you can say better off with full confidence right now. Very possible you could say that in the future..

New comment by boringg in "Dopamine Fracking"

boringg — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:01:34 +0000

Agreed - even older children shouldn't be exposing themselves to that garbage. Totally garbage in garbage out situation. Youtube can be good if its highly curated -- otherwise its just trash.

New comment by boringg in "Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?"

boringg — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 02:11:42 +0000

I was going to go with money -- the amount of money to put kids through soccer in a competitive program in USA/CANADA is way more than the competitive programs in europe. That immediately drops down the amount of talent that can make it through the system + anyone who is particularly good and has any connections to europe goes there to level up faster by playing more competitive players.

New comment by boringg in "I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling"

boringg — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:40:12 +0000

I'm guessing your past this option but you could try a Montessori classroom -- less structured and allows children to chase their own pursuits. My sense is its stronger for years 1-6 as opposed to later years. Also it doesn't feel like Montessori tries to grind down the children - school/teachers dependent for sure (same could be said for other systems).

New comment by boringg in "New York just passed a one-year temporary ban on data centers"

boringg — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:50:46 +0000

Whats new about this? We've had data centers for 20 years now? Research which impacts?

Only thing new is speed of deployment and scale - which frankly would align with why we can't build in North America.

I would agree that the political system is the place to push if you have real concerns about the our data center / AI build out - and that will be a huge part of this next election. No other way to either accelerate or decelerate outside of macro economic factors outside our countrol.