Hacker News: bradgranath

New comment by bradgranath in "I was wrong about the Midjourney ultra-sound scanner"

bradgranath — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 21:24:50 +0000

Name some other groundbreaking medical equipment that was brought about by VC funding, please.

New comment by bradgranath in "I was wrong about the Midjourney ultra-sound scanner"

bradgranath — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 21:22:44 +0000

Or maybe, because it's not really useful for much.

New comment by bradgranath in "I was wrong about the Midjourney ultra-sound scanner"

bradgranath — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 21:12:54 +0000

It's a Theranos situation.

>>That ambition is very positive to me.

...and this is why people fall for it. Every. Single. Time.

Literally everything they're saying is marketingslop gobbledegook. No studies, no papers, no doctors; just "500k transducers," and "30fps!" Anyone can wire that up. With a little cash, you might even be able to stream, record, and proccess it. Still means absolute diddly squat if you haven't compared it to other imaging or figured out how to train a radiologist to use it effectively or done trials for specific diagnostics or diseases.

They'll figure out if it does anything other than show you an animated cartoon xray of yourself later. After they have your money.

New comment by bradgranath in "I'm So Tired of Ads"

bradgranath — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:35:50 +0000

I actively avoid products that are advertised to me. It’s an easy shortcut to “Tell me your shit sucks without telling me your shit sucks.” I honestly don’t understand the type of advertising that does not seek to inform, but rather annoy you into buying the product. Has never made any sense to me at all.

New comment by bradgranath in "Show HN: I Dedicated 4 Years to Mastering Offline Password Cracking"

bradgranath — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:14:00 +0000

Are you drunk? He’s lucky Google and Amazon haven’t noticed yet. If he wants to keep access to his accounts he should pull them down immediately and distribute via torrent.

New comment by bradgranath in "Ask HN: When did computers stop being fun?"

bradgranath — Mon, 18 May 2026 00:46:58 +0000

https://overthewire.org/wargames/

New comment by bradgranath in "Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?"

bradgranath — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:02:55 +0000

Yes. They are all lobsters.

New comment by bradgranath in "The FCC just saved Netgear from its router ban for no obvious reason"

bradgranath — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:37:24 +0000

The obvious reason is bribes.

New comment by bradgranath in "AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion"

bradgranath — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:08:02 +0000

Qou Bono?

Sure is strangely coincidental that the specific delusion that is induced ends up manifesting as: “Gee, I should start a company that pays OpenAI for the use of their clearly superior software.”

New comment by bradgranath in "Two insider cases we've recently closed"

bradgranath — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 03:33:20 +0000

They found two cases?

Lol.

4 Stars. Go home and tell your mother you're brilliant.

New comment by bradgranath in "The shadowy world of abandoned oil tankers"

bradgranath — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 10:58:51 +0000

This is literally everything wrong with the tech industry in a single comment.

New comment by bradgranath in "Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning"

bradgranath — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 22:41:50 +0000

Really. That is exactly what happened.

New comment by bradgranath in "Proof of Corn"

bradgranath — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 19:36:32 +0000

This is the literal definition of a Reverse Centaur.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/

New comment by bradgranath in "Blender 5.1"

bradgranath — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 18:37:22 +0000

Yet Another Major Release in which the texturing system has remained unchanged since V1 and isolated from the nodes system.

Oh well.

New comment by bradgranath in "Viral 'Free Potatoes' Post Cost This Farmer 150 Tons of Crops"

bradgranath — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 18:02:06 +0000

Not saying it’s not interesting, I’m saying there miiiiight be a malicious reason someone would buy an old domain, wear the skin of its former owner, post “viral” content, and then submit that content to a popular link aggregator.

And no one here seems to have noticed.

New comment by bradgranath in "Viral 'Free Potatoes' Post Cost This Farmer 150 Tons of Crops"

bradgranath — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 17:53:42 +0000

1) what is this doing on hackernews?

2) Vice filed for backruptcy in 2023 and shuttered vice.com in 2024. Who the hell is running this?

3) Whoever it is, is just ripping off rando Polish local news sites?

I have no idea what’s going on here, but maaaaaybe this should not be here.

New comment by bradgranath in "Harnessing America's heat pump moment"

bradgranath — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 18:35:31 +0000

An extra clever system would include every temperature controlled appliance in the house. Heat could be exchanged between the hvac, water heater, refrigerator, and oven.

When the oven is done cooking it can dump heat into the water heater (and or furnace in the winter). The fridge and HVAC could dump heat into the water heater before pumping it outside in the summer.

New comment by bradgranath in "Harnessing America's heat pump moment"

bradgranath — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 18:17:21 +0000

It's not just certification/permitting. The manufacturers often state that the unit must be verified to be installed by a qualified technian or the warranty is void.

Around here anyway, I was getting quotes of 20k for the install & equipment of a central air handler and the outdoor unit.

I'd be dead before the thing paid for itself in electricity cost savings. $20,000 ÷ (~90yrslife - 40yrsold) = $400 / year of neccesary savings to break-even as my casket is lowered into the ground.

New comment by bradgranath in "[dead]"

bradgranath — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 19:48:06 +0000

Could it maybe be because your channel is not about SaaS or Religion, but is actually about "sign up for my class that will teach you to sidehustle/dropship/AI/Bitcoin to unimaginable wealth".

It's all very Biblical I'm sure.

New comment by bradgranath in "Chat-GPT becomes Sex-GPT for verified adults"

bradgranath — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 17:37:03 +0000

The outrage here is that they have been swearing up and down to investors that they are thiiiiiis close to creating God.

Then they show us what they have been working on and it is…

Robot sex chats.

They’d like another 400 billion please. They’re doing the Lord’s work here. They need to burn the planet; the competition would do it if they didn’t! This thing could turn into the antichrist any day now.