Hacker News: chronc6393

New comment by chronc6393 in "Chrome's AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage"

chronc6393 — Sun, 10 May 2026 17:23:03 +0000

> They're going to want some sort of analysis

And I want $1 billion dollars.

Doesn’t mean someone’s going to give it to me.

New comment by chronc6393 in "Maryland to ban A.I.-driven price increases in grocery stores"

chronc6393 — Sun, 03 May 2026 12:17:31 +0000

> The practice — supported by artificial intelligence and known as dynamic pricing or surveillance pricing — can lead to two consumers paying different amounts for the same item from the same retailer, at roughly the same time.

Is an if-statement considered AI?

So membership discounts should be banned?

New comment by chronc6393 in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

chronc6393 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 05:15:05 +0000

> Scientists who might have come to the US three years ago have little reason to do so now.

Been saying that about EU and China for decades now.

Yet the top European and Chinese still come to the US. Even in April 2026.

New comment by chronc6393 in "DeepSeek v4"

chronc6393 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:56:21 +0000

mic drop

New comment by chronc6393 in "DeepSeek v4"

chronc6393 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:48:07 +0000

> Let's see how long it takes before the big US AI companies start lobbying to outright ban use of Chinese AI, even the open source / local models. For "national security" reasons, of course.

Already do on EVs.

New comment by chronc6393 in "DeepSeek v4"

chronc6393 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:47:11 +0000

> The US supports the genocide in Gaza, it supports the bombing of Lebanon. The US itself has now started (another) war and bombed Iran.

> With Trump they are now openly hostile to European democracies, and ICE and doing their best at repression within the US.

And what is Europe going to do about it?

Boycott ChatGPT and Claude? Ha.

New comment by chronc6393 in "Gold overtakes U.S. Treasuries as the largest foreign reserve asset"

chronc6393 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:48:58 +0000

> People have been convinced of that my entire life, and I'm old now.

People in the UK still think they are the #1 superpower today

New comment by chronc6393 in "Gold overtakes U.S. Treasuries as the largest foreign reserve asset"

chronc6393 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:33:46 +0000

> It has more to do with gold is now worth almost 3x what it was 2 years ago.

And why is it worth 3x?

But S&P500 is not?

New comment by chronc6393 in "Show HN: Travel Hacking Toolkit – Points search and trip planning with AI"

chronc6393 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 05:48:25 +0000

lol you conveniently left out 50% of the ticket fees

New comment by chronc6393 in "Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

chronc6393 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:10:15 +0000

> Better this than slinging Tomahawks at school children.

I’d rather the one be slinging tomahawks, than the one receiving tomahawks because my country decided to reduce military spending.

New comment by chronc6393 in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

chronc6393 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 10:36:25 +0000

> One does not “simply” reduce spending.

Why does stock price go up after mass layoffs?

New comment by chronc6393 in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

chronc6393 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 06:26:09 +0000

> what profits are you talking about to offset the losses?

You don’t need profit to offset the losses.

You can simply reduce spending / expenses.

New comment by chronc6393 in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

chronc6393 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 06:23:36 +0000

> When it becomes a bigger problem, other indices with higher quality controls will out compete the current ones and be used by asset managers seeking safety

Doubt it.

The world does not allow perfect competition.

New comment by chronc6393 in "ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state"

chronc6393 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 07:31:23 +0000

> Hi Nick, your software is a horrendous encroachment on users' privacy and its quality is subpar to those of us who know what we're working with. We don't use your product here.

It’s ok, OpenAI is cooked.

Feel bad for anyone who joined OAI in the past 12 months. Their RSU ain’t going to be worth much later this year. IPO is too late.