Hacker News: diab0lic

New comment by diab0lic in "Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)"

diab0lic — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 19:13:42 +0000

It’s the “ Copy data into extra large capacity micro sdcard” step that gets you caught. Nobody is stopping you from leaving with an SD card or USB stick at Google.

New comment by diab0lic in "Nano Banana 2 Lite"

diab0lic — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:47:37 +0000

I can’t tell through text if you’re being sarcastic or not. So I’ll add some context for fun. Ran into this a few weeks ago apartment shopping with a friend. AI images of multiple apartments had:

- Relocated the sink from the back counter to the kitchen island.

- Added outlets that didn’t exist.

- Displayed furniture layouts that were not possible in the actual space. That couch looks great in that spot, except when you explore further you realize it’s sitting right up against the master bedroom’s door.

To that last point, no stager would lay it out that way because anyone viewing the apartment would take them to task for you know… having to drag a couch out of the way to open their bedroom door. Staging layouts have always been more pretty than practical but AI staging regularly puts functionally DOA layouts on display.

As far as I’m concerned it’s disingenuous at best, and deception realistically. The process is broken while this slop is in there.

New comment by diab0lic in "Don't trust large context windows"

diab0lic — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 11:55:36 +0000

For what it’s worth, as a third party I read your and qsera’s comments as saying the same thing.

New comment by diab0lic in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

diab0lic — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:17:40 +0000

“OpenAI's CEO says he's scared of GPT-5”

https://www.techradar.com/ai-platforms-assistants/chatgpt/op...

Marketing or actual fear? We’ve got 5 and 5.5 out now… he compared 5 to the Manhattan project. AI may one day be an economic Manhattan project but GPT 5 wasn’t it.

It’s a meme because they overdo it.

New comment by diab0lic in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

diab0lic — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:26:36 +0000

I’m not sure why I used inflation instead of the risk free rate. I guess I’m rusty!

It has earned ever so slightly more than the risk free rate since 2000. On an absolute basis it is a terrible investment. On a relative basis it is also a terrible investment. On a risk adjusted basis? Abysmal.

New comment by diab0lic in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

diab0lic — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:47:35 +0000

It peaked at $18B market cap in 2000. Adjusted for inflation this is 18x1.93=34.74B.

Today’s market cap is 45.35B.

It isn’t down, but it isn’t up much since 2000.

New comment by diab0lic in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

diab0lic — Sun, 31 May 2026 18:40:29 +0000

I completely agree from a logical perspective. However if the plane blew up and it came out that some passengers had posted online that there was a “bomb” blue tooth device and they didn’t turn around… the court of public opinion would be pretty harsh. This was more or less their only choice from a liability perspective.

New comment by diab0lic in "White House staff told not to place bets on prediction markets"

diab0lic — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:28:36 +0000

I realize yours is the hip and edgy take but plenty of people have made a lot of money in the stock market without using material non public information.

New comment by diab0lic in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me"

diab0lic — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:51:27 +0000

You might want to do yourself a favor and add that context to the PR to distance yourself from the slanderous ai agent.

New comment by diab0lic in "Raising money fucked me up"

diab0lic — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 23:27:56 +0000

I think the metaphor is pretty extensible to handle the things you point out.

> you could do everything right and still fail

Sometimes even a high probability draw doesn't get there on the river.

> while someone else (like a nepo hire) can do everything wrong and still succeed

Some people always start with pairs, Axs, or suited connectors.

New comment by diab0lic in "East Germany balloon escape"

diab0lic — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 11:47:14 +0000

While the difference between the two may still be wide, it is a lot more narrow than it was a year ago. Some people find this concerning.

New comment by diab0lic in "Nvidia Reportedly Ends GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Production, RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB Next"

diab0lic — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 15:07:23 +0000

Haha. I read that the same way the first time I read it. The commenter means 3 years of renting GPU from nvidia via cloud services.

New comment by diab0lic in "Rich Hickey: Thanks AI"

diab0lic — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 04:10:49 +0000

Ironically it may only be able to do this because it has been trained on Hickey’s creation. This was one of his criticisms.

New comment by diab0lic in "Fathers’ choices may be packaged and passed down in sperm RNA"

diab0lic — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 03:38:05 +0000

The comment you’re replying to suggests “lived experience” is too broad, not too narrow. The issue isn’t that it fails to include your example. It fails to exclude other things. Part of my lived experience today was seeing a manatee. It is unlikely this will be passed on.

New comment by diab0lic in "Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices"

diab0lic — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 02:22:35 +0000

Sodexo or Aramark I assume? Unfortunately standard practice on University campuses across Canada and the USA.

New comment by diab0lic in "No more O'Reilly subscriptions for me"

diab0lic — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 02:34:32 +0000

I’m similar to you. I recently went as far as to buy a pdf for an out of print book and then paid to have it printed and bound.

I suppose a remarkable would be another route but… they are pricey.

New comment by diab0lic in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

diab0lic — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:44:03 +0000

The causality might be backwards there. Blu ray and other disk players are likely becoming scarce because people are using them less rather than people using them less because the devices are scarce.

What happened to Netflix DVD by mail was that Redbox ate its lunch, which ultimately was also a failing business model.

New comment by diab0lic in "Ask HN: Good resources to learn financial systems engineering?"

diab0lic — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 18:23:58 +0000

There might be some gems for you in this old thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22573204

Book recommendations for learning financial systems.

New comment by diab0lic in "My private information is worth $30"

diab0lic — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 14:03:45 +0000

My mistake for sure. Thanks for giving me a chance to realize it. :)

New comment by diab0lic in "My private information is worth $30"

diab0lic — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 13:52:57 +0000

Ah! I think I missed your point because I read your comment through the lens of the root comment. My apologies!

We’re actually largely in agreement, especially about content creators deserving compensation and the fact that distribution is vacuuming up most of it.