Hacker News: daft_pink

New comment by daft_pink in "OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS"

daft_pink — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:20:10 +0000

And the giant ai circle continues

New comment by daft_pink in "Microsoft degrades functionality of perpetually-licensed offline products"

daft_pink — Sun, 31 May 2026 03:24:52 +0000

I also don’t love how if you have a microsoft account, it will immediatley convert your perpetually licensed products into office 365 products and force you to reinstall.

New comment by daft_pink in "Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'"

daft_pink — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:54:16 +0000

Apparently, the index funds are based on free float and since the number of free floating shares is limited, the total exposure to the index will be very small.

New comment by daft_pink in "Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'"

daft_pink — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:53:16 +0000

LEAPS are very expensive.

New comment by daft_pink in "The dead economy theory"

daft_pink — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:45:26 +0000

I think when these companies IPO later this year, we’re going to see the reality of the PNL numbers and whether they are sustainable etc as all the financials will become public.

Rumor mill suggests that Anthropic might be profitable (but at what magnitude), OpenAI is not profitable, Google is mostly vertically integrated and has a low cost structure as they are have pre-existing data center buildouts, their own silicon and experience that suggests they will be able to operate at a very low cost, but they still have to justify their spend.

I think having to report numbers publically on a quarterly basis will bring the whole thing into reality.

New comment by daft_pink in "How long until AI automates all cognitive labor?"

daft_pink — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:43:39 +0000

Any chance there is a prediction market for this that we can use, since research has shown they tend to be more accurate than experts?

New comment by daft_pink in "Why the smart home bubble popped"

daft_pink — Tue, 26 May 2026 15:18:00 +0000

Personally, I find the biggest problem is the lack of a neutral wire in most older homes. It forces me to use hue bulbs plus a Lutron aurora in the 80 percent of locations where that actually works but I have to find a really expensive electrician for every other location.

Plus most people who use hue aren’t even aware of the Lutron aurora.

New comment by daft_pink in "Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes"

daft_pink — Tue, 26 May 2026 15:15:03 +0000

Why would Amazon pay out on scam affiliate links? That’s the thing I don’t really understand from the honey scam.

New comment by daft_pink in "Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore"

daft_pink — Tue, 26 May 2026 02:06:42 +0000

I do feel that programming is more accessible than ever though.

New comment by daft_pink in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

daft_pink — Tue, 26 May 2026 01:58:47 +0000

Just not very practical on iOS or iPad

New comment by daft_pink in "If you let AI do your writing, I will come to your house and kill you"

daft_pink — Mon, 25 May 2026 13:53:41 +0000

The problem is that you are good at writing and I’m not good at writing.

New comment by daft_pink in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

daft_pink — Mon, 25 May 2026 13:51:16 +0000

I know right. It’s simple. Google pays them over a billion dollars and Kagi doesn’t.

New comment by daft_pink in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

daft_pink — Mon, 25 May 2026 13:50:12 +0000

I’ve tried them all and found that Kagi is the only one that my subconscious feels is equal to or better than google.

New comment by daft_pink in "FreeBSD Foundation executive director tries daily driving FreeBSD on laptop"

daft_pink — Mon, 25 May 2026 02:11:48 +0000

Can Linux get the Mac level of close the shell and the battery doesn’t deplete on a laptop if you order a framework?

New comment by daft_pink in "Childhood Computing"

daft_pink — Sun, 24 May 2026 19:56:28 +0000

I too started using computers at a young age and loved them and even got my own Nintendo when I was young. I feel very conflicted about the current anti screen fad. My son is very young and my wife doesn’t want him to use screens at all.

I don’t want him to use tik tok or facebook but maybe I will buy an apple 2 or setup a rpi emulator and play little old school games that weren’t available online.

New comment by daft_pink in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

daft_pink — Sun, 24 May 2026 11:12:17 +0000

Do tourists stay in the country for a year?

New comment by daft_pink in "USCIS Will Grant 'Adjustment of Status' Only in Extraordinary Circumstances"

daft_pink — Fri, 22 May 2026 21:35:07 +0000

No. Before you could enter on a tourist visa and there was an automatic presumption of fraud if you got married, etc within the first 90 days, but you could get married after 90 days, but before 6 months of maximum tourist stay and they may investigate a little bit, but it was generally not difficult.

The IR-1/CR-1 that you describe is how a spouse would apply from outside the country.

New comment by daft_pink in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

daft_pink — Fri, 22 May 2026 20:13:08 +0000

I think if you enter on a B1/B2 tourist visa, you should not be allowed to adjust status to a green card except in extraordinary circumstances. I’m not so sure about other non-immigrant visas.

K1 will obviously be an exception as substantial steps are generally taken at a home consulate.

New comment by daft_pink in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

daft_pink — Fri, 22 May 2026 20:11:09 +0000

I think in specific visa circumstances, an i485 will still be required such as K1 visa which is granted outside the country and then by nature of a K1 visa, adjustment to green card must happen within the United States.

New comment by daft_pink in "Flipper One – we need your help"

daft_pink — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:55:01 +0000

I hope they let you disable the 6ghz wifi easily as Wifi 6E without the band steering of wifi 7 just gives you low range 6ghz which is a waste on a device that probably doesn’t need a high speed connection.

Love my flipper zero!