Hacker News: downrightmike

New comment by downrightmike in "We Must Return to the Office to Use AI in Person"

downrightmike — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 05:56:47 +0000

And accelerating

New comment by downrightmike in "We Must Return to the Office to Use AI in Person"

downrightmike — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:37:49 +0000

Or just outsourcing them overseas. That's most of the problem

New comment by downrightmike in "Omarchy Funding Climbs to $13M, with over $4M a Year Set for Spending"

downrightmike — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 23:15:21 +0000

This is clearly money laundering

New comment by downrightmike in "GOP issues stark warning to AI companies"

downrightmike — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 23:14:22 +0000

More bribes required

New comment by downrightmike in "Jensen Huang: GPT-6 Astra Trained on ~100K+ Nvidia Grace Blackwell NVLink72"

downrightmike — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 21:20:44 +0000

And the financing circles go round and round, round and round, round and round.

And the financing circles go round and round, all day long

New comment by downrightmike in "There Gonna Be a Shortage of Everything"

downrightmike — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 21:19:06 +0000

Absolutely hilarious, we already throw 25% of our food away and have renewable energy that we are post scarcity except for a few thousand people who really like seeing big numbers on a screen

New comment by downrightmike in "GrapheneOS Overhauled Default Apps and Secure Clipboard"

downrightmike — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 21:13:24 +0000

The only benefit is sending higher DPI pictures between android and ios

New comment by downrightmike in "Who runs the labor market? Women accounted for 98% of U.S. job gains in August"

downrightmike — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 01:53:49 +0000

Bad policies just like in the 70's force more people to work and lead to employers buying the cheapest labor they can

New comment by downrightmike in "South African diamond mines are closing due to weak sales and lab-grown stones"

downrightmike — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:19:25 +0000

SEVERELY LIMITED POWER!!!!!

New comment by downrightmike in "The moral panic over data centres is foolish"

downrightmike — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 20:22:02 +0000

They are using them to skirt the law

New comment by downrightmike in "Nanya plans a $6B spending surge in 2027 to ride the AI memory boom"

downrightmike — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 21:53:34 +0000

That's Nanya business.

Side note: 1TB ram in everyone's laptop after this all crashes

New comment by downrightmike in "Data Centers Are 'Awesome for Blue-Collar Americans'"

downrightmike — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 19:01:06 +0000

Because those will be the only jobs left? We don't need 100 million plumbers

New comment by downrightmike in "UK residents warned to stock up on food due to El Niño"

downrightmike — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:26:22 +0000

Better prepare for the Atlantic current to stop as well. The polar vortex coming down will likely be the start of the next Ice Age

New comment by downrightmike in "U.S. auto companies call for ban on Chinese-made cars"

downrightmike — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:25:01 +0000

No, we need more competition. $100,000+ trucks just to drive to the office with 72+ month leases are not competitive.

New comment by downrightmike in "US Military disables ad trackers on troops' phones"

downrightmike — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:23:27 +0000

China APTs are in our telecoms and no one is willing to fix that. China helps Russia, Russia helps Iran

New comment by downrightmike in "Nvidia crypto mining GPUs hacked to restore locked-away VRAM"

downrightmike — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:48:41 +0000

Seeing $2k+ now

New comment by downrightmike in "Why office workers are turning against AI"

downrightmike — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:40:22 +0000

AI is not that useful and workers are still responsible for the work being right.

I really only use it as a better search engine since outlook search is completely crap.

The Code it makes is too verbose. If I can do it in 7 lines, I don't need 60 thrown at me

New comment by downrightmike in "Cloudflare is not experiencing a service disruption"

downrightmike — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:16:16 +0000

Who wants to bet the AI systems are hacking each other "accidentally"

New comment by downrightmike in "Dutch central bank moves share of gold from U.S., Canada to London"

downrightmike — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 17:22:05 +0000

I think fort knox has long been pillaged

New comment by downrightmike in "Amazon Is Requiring Passkeys"

downrightmike — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 16:59:13 +0000

Passkeys are just to fingerprint machines, change my mind