Hacker News: btmiller

New comment by btmiller in "Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business"

btmiller — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 21:42:05 +0000

> colincowardly

Appropriate last name. So any institution that lies, cheats, and steals their way to top is absolved of all wrongdoing just because they got to the top?

New comment by btmiller in "Starbase, LA"

btmiller — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 20:01:33 +0000

The Florida coast isn't defined by a huge, meandering river. Take a look at some satellite surveys that showcase how the Mississippi River changes over time. We've of course damned up the shorelines upstream where people live in places like New Orleans so there's no inherent seasonal risk of mass flooding, though of course lose the deposited silt and hence further erode the land we've "saved". Further down south toward the mouth, it's marsh land defined by however the river chooses to meander. I'm not sure where exactly SpaceX is planning to setup in LA, but the entire coastline there is chronically very poor, very unpopulated, and not supported to weather flooding of any kind, especially not hurricanes.

New comment by btmiller in "Starbase, LA"

btmiller — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:53:21 +0000

Discounting challenges to your beliefs by burying your head in the sand is certainly a choice.

New comment by btmiller in "Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion"

btmiller — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:01:01 +0000

It’s like we’re hot-spotting, but across providers rather than across infrastructure!

New comment by btmiller in "Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models"

btmiller — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 23:12:55 +0000

Willful ignorance as an excuse didn’t work out too well post-WW2.

New comment by btmiller in "Adults over 65 will outnumber children by 2029"

btmiller — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:06:37 +0000

What an odd thing to say. Have you traveled internationally much?

New comment by btmiller in "New York passes pied-a-terre tax"

btmiller — Fri, 29 May 2026 05:27:05 +0000

One can find an unending supply of complaints when you simply choke the hose. Consider focusing your feedback on how best to use this new revenue stream such that you’re not left filled with anger and disappointment.

New comment by btmiller in "Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case"

btmiller — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:29:34 +0000

A full sentence answer for you: yes.

New comment by btmiller in "Meta and YouTube Found Negligent in Landmark Social Media Addiction Case"

btmiller — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:25:42 +0000

There’s a big distance between libertarian and liberal societies. The libertarian tendencies of corporations are what tend to cause more harm.

New comment by btmiller in "What's up with all those equals signs anyway?"

btmiller — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 23:39:08 +0000

RFC 2822, for the curious :)

New comment by btmiller in "TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues"

btmiller — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:10:06 +0000

It’s been highly valuable. It taught me about undertones, color temperature, 60/30/10 rules, strengths and weaknesses of various countertop materials, load bearing, space planning, power delivery, millwork, lumber quality and cost, HVAC options, building code requirements, ceiling projections and light planning, fixture restoration, exposure to new vendors … should I go on?

You bookmarked those once, surely you meant to go back to them ;)

New comment by btmiller in "TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues"

btmiller — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:55:55 +0000

Really? I have bookmarked:

- 758 posts on home construction and interior design - 487 posts on cooking - 58 posts on relationship health - 605 posts on leadership - 58 posts on fitness - 19 posts on woodworking

, and countless others on travel and dining.

Would you like to restate your claim with more nuance? I have collected a vast amounts of knowledge through TikTok. Their algorithm is insanely good at capturing whatever it is you’re after. It’s a challenge to put the app down and I think any person that can’t impose their own healthy limits or can’t modulate their topical interests is going to have an even harder time. Let’s remember that amidst the real negative aspects, there is a really great system for learning buried in there.

New comment by btmiller in "Miami, your Waymo ride is ready"

btmiller — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 19:41:44 +0000

Remind me who's owning and operating these driverless cars? A private company?

New comment by btmiller in "Miami, your Waymo ride is ready"

btmiller — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 19:39:27 +0000

Thanks for the reply. The perception of safety in attended ride shares is masking the larger economic constraint. So let's assume for sake of conversation that your safety concerns are warranted. I'd ask you to consider how much money additional money you're willing to spend on ride shares. The urban utopia of autonomous vehicles is often championed, yet fully unconsidered in a capitalist regime. How much additional money do you expect most Americans to spend toward ride shares, to the degree that they abandon vehicle ownership? What degree of broad behavior and spending change do you expect to occur as result of unattended ride shares?

New comment by btmiller in "Miami, your Waymo ride is ready"

btmiller — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 17:35:49 +0000

I’m skeptical. Is the presence of a human driver keeping you from using Uber/Lyft/taxis more than you currently are? Why would you think removing a driver will lead to more ride share trips? Capitalism is going to do its thing, so between the touted benefits of driverless ride shares and capitalist economics, could you please explain how exactly our city landscapes, namely parking lots, will be revolutionized in any way, shape, or form other than zombie lots occupied Waymos endlessly arranging and charging themselves? Forgive my cynicism, it feels like I’ve seen this how this dream turns out many times before.

New comment by btmiller in "When someone says they hate your product"

btmiller — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 20:36:39 +0000

Interesting thought! In moments like these, capturing the innovation can be ignited by asking whether the comment was frustration or feedback, or said slightly differently “was that trying to be helpful or hurtful?”. Tends to get the other party to rethink their words and produce a more productive dialogue. It’s a tool we can all use both at and outside of work :)

New comment by btmiller in "Tell HN: Azure outage"

btmiller — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 21:31:38 +0000

Never let a good disaster go to waste ;)

New comment by btmiller in "DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in Phoenix"

btmiller — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 18:27:25 +0000

Hey, which town do you live in? I want to know where I should be steering clear of Subarus in the winter ;)

New comment by btmiller in "GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (a.k.a. Research Goblin) is good at search"

btmiller — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 02:37:59 +0000

How are we feeling about the usage of the word research to indicate feature sets in LLMs? Is it truly representative of research? How does it compare to the colloquial “do your research” refrain used often during US election years?

New comment by btmiller in "Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors"

btmiller — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 00:53:33 +0000

It’s the sign of a health economy when we respect the creation of content.