Hacker News: drstewart

New comment by drstewart in "Ask HN: Do you thank your agents when they did a good job?"

drstewart — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:17:52 +0000

Can't relate. ChatGPT is so much more snivelling than Gemini, for example.

New comment by drstewart in "Digital euro clears key hurdle as EU seeks to break free from U.S. credit cards"

drstewart — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 17:17:00 +0000

>It’s fancy instant payments

That's a massive oversimplification, and doesn't even address the OP's point that directly challenges this.

Lot of errors in your post.

Not to mention the fact that you confuse Mastercard and Visa for "credit card rails" further underscores this.

New comment by drstewart in "Steam Machine launches today"

drstewart — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:09:39 +0000

How much are a dozen eggs at your local store? Curious to stress test your theory. I assume they're at least $10/dozen?

New comment by drstewart in "Steam Machine launches today"

drstewart — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:08:56 +0000

>Monopolies or better put the mergers of companies over the last 40 years hasn’t lead to cheaper prices,

Can you explain this chart?

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/historical-cost-of-comput...

New comment by drstewart in "I told them forced consent was unlawful. 5 years later it cost Elkjop €1.8M"

drstewart — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 06:30:50 +0000

Can you cite the especially in the US part? Maybe use Bolivia, Kosovo, and Indonesia as some random global comparisons.

New comment by drstewart in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

drstewart — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:15:41 +0000

Just like the energy industry is killing itself until this idiotic bubble bursts again. Can't wait till oil / solar prices implode and there's a decade of drought where no one users energy for a long time.

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

drstewart — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 10:32:05 +0000

Great, great point. That's why people who say NATO can't be relied on anymore aren't making sense - NATO never elected Trump, so his involvement or opinion on it doesn't matter.

New comment by drstewart in "The computer science degree isn’t dead"

drstewart — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:38:42 +0000

I like how you don't know the answer but then just assume anyway lol

Guess the standards in your country for logic must be really low lol

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

drstewart — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:27:29 +0000

Europe doesn't seem to care so much about erratic and hostile governments when it cozied up to Russian gas for decades, something it still continues to do just hiding behind third party countries.

It's a clear statement that European morals are purely performative

Just like how the EU is hostile towards US companies, but very light to the touch when it comes to corruption with HSBC, FIFA or VW. With such hostile and erratic allies, who needs enemies?

Let's not even get into Orban. You can never trust the EU again since who knows if they're capable of electing someone like that in the future? Trust is broken forever

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

drstewart — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:03:38 +0000

>If this is so dangerous why allow US nationals access to it? Are there no evil people in the US?

How come the EU is making a "digital sovereignty" push? Why are only EU people allowed to compete for EU services? Are there no evil people in the EU?

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

drstewart — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:01:34 +0000

This is signaling to US companies that non-US providers cannot create cutting edge capabilities for their models.

Major alarm bells should be ringing for anyone not using a US-based LLM.

New comment by drstewart in "New privacy frontier: Europe eyes crackdown on smart glasses"

drstewart — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:59:36 +0000

Nothing in the original post mentioned the US.

Germans all think this way. What a German-centric view. Germans tend to think anything they don't do is just America-centric. And get real angry when other countries dont just have the same German views, but have ones that may be closer to America.

New comment by drstewart in "New privacy frontier: Europe eyes crackdown on smart glasses"

drstewart — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:16:42 +0000

And in even even more countries, it's actually perfectly fine to do any of that.

In before your definition of the world is a handful of tiny white countries

New comment by drstewart in "New privacy frontier: Europe eyes crackdown on smart glasses"

drstewart — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:14:13 +0000

I love how Europeans claim they aren't one country but then refuse to specify where they're from.

Anyway that sounds like a very specific view only in your country since it's completely fine in the North American country in which I live.

New comment by drstewart in "Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't"

drstewart — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:32:06 +0000

Ruby on Rails generators could build toy projects in like 3 clicks 15 years ago, a Twitter clone being the famous one.

Software engineers still continued to exist somehow.

New comment by drstewart in "How JPL keeps the 13-year-old Curiosity rover doing science"

drstewart — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:07:22 +0000

Suddenly HN is very pro automating human jobs with machines because it's cheaper

New comment by drstewart in "A €0.01 bank transfer could compromise a banking AI agent"

drstewart — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:21:36 +0000

So? Did they ask me about it? I don't approve of it and I don't think it's secure enough for a bank. Absolute negligence.

New comment by drstewart in "A €0.01 bank transfer could compromise a banking AI agent"

drstewart — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:04:15 +0000

My bank uses XML for their internal tooling without even asking me. How is that even legal?

I can't even imagine all the other tool choices businesses I interact with make without getting my sign off.

New comment by drstewart in "German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews"

drstewart — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 06:26:20 +0000

Exactly, it's like saying Wikipedia shouldn't be liable and immediately shut down for any wrong information shown on it.

New comment by drstewart in "Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US sanctioned territory [pdf]"

drstewart — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 23:00:50 +0000

Why, so they can be forced to enforce content restrictions on any provider that wants an SSL restriction?