Hacker News: drstewart

New comment by drstewart in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"

drstewart — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:39:13 +0000

Who's selling user data? Do you think Facebook is out there selling it? How do I buy it if so?

New comment by drstewart in "We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations and it scaled"

drstewart — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 17:23:37 +0000

>if it's not AI it's bad writing

Is this post AI generated?

New comment by drstewart in "Japanese Govt Asks US Govt to Stop Using Mario, Pokemono, Naruto Meme Postings"

drstewart — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 06:46:45 +0000

I wonder if you know that Europe is pretty constantly mocked in the US by news outlets like Fox News. I'm sure you're not gullible enough to fan the flames and deny it's validity though and you agree it's measured and respectful of those very serious news outlets.

New comment by drstewart in "Japanese Govt Asks US Govt to Stop Using Mario, Pokemono, Naruto Meme Postings"

drstewart — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 21:04:09 +0000

So your press spends more time trying to be part time comedy shows than reporting real news? Ouch, I'm sorry.

New comment by drstewart in "I'll be stepping back from leading product for X"

drstewart — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 23:03:00 +0000

>It has also collapsed

>There are rumors

Interesting methodology you use to make concrete assertions.

New comment by drstewart in "I'll be stepping back from leading product for X"

drstewart — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 22:56:48 +0000

Now read the rest of those guidelines and then other comments in this thread.

New comment by drstewart in "Everything that happens in a US airport is under duress"

drstewart — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:46:18 +0000

>Whenever you think something is unique, it is quite likely that you will be wrong.

Can you tell that to ask the Europeans that constantly cry "only in America" about every little thing?

New comment by drstewart in "IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center"

drstewart — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:22:53 +0000

>What do you think the end result of making regions unstable such as by unprovoked attacks on Iran is?

You're right, Mexicans feel so strongly about the war in Iran in 2026 that they... flooded into the US in the 90s and 2000s?

New comment by drstewart in "OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future"

drstewart — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:57:49 +0000

>But how much of a CEO’s job requires 1:1 human interaction?

Basically all of it

> If I as a software developer am to be told I can do fine without human meetings to discuss product requirements, why can’t CEOs?

Because your job is different than a CEO (and it's also not true for your job)

New comment by drstewart in "The World's 2,400 Castles"

drstewart — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:09:41 +0000

Tangential, but many of these aren't what people traditionally would think of as castles. Is there any consensus on what the "castliest of castles" is? Presumably something in the UK or Ireland or thereabouts considering that's where the popular media conception of them comes from.

New comment by drstewart in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

drstewart — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:16:03 +0000

It will never stop being funny to me that China does the exact same shit American corps have been doing since the 70's but because it's glorious China it's suddenly not a problem.

I thought it was evil late-stage capitalism? Suddenly it's a friendly panda bear that just wants to spread love and technology?

New comment by drstewart in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

drstewart — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:10:23 +0000

The Chinese strategy is to fool naive westerners into thinking that's their strategy (looks like its working), until they can buy time to do the American strategy.

Hence, buying up and closing up foreign competition then whining about it when it's blocked: https://www.dw.com/en/china-firm-seeks-damages-over-state-co...

New comment by drstewart in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

drstewart — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:07:27 +0000

Wow, Chinese companies would never do such a thing!

https://www.dw.com/en/china-firm-seeks-damages-over-state-co...

New comment by drstewart in "The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel"

drstewart — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:51:14 +0000

You missed a fourth option: renounce your European citizenship

New comment by drstewart in "Airbus Takes Flight from AWS"

drstewart — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:26:55 +0000

>I haven't found a competent supplier who doesn't want to know who you are.

Thank you! Say this louder for all the people saying VPN providers shouldn't have your government issued ID on file to use them.

As you point out, Mullvad VPN and the like are NOT competent suppliers and should NOT be trusted, as you correctly point out.

New comment by drstewart in "Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (2025)"

drstewart — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 11:53:39 +0000

Why'd Bill Gates name his company after his thing?

New comment by drstewart in "Sony Deletes a Bunch More Movies from the Accounts of People Who 'Bought' Them"

drstewart — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:48:59 +0000

Boom! Big and tough enforcement, I like it.

Similarly, we should put in a law to force consumers who post bad reviews to prove they actually transacted with the business. If they can't, they have to go to every person who saw the review and personally retract it.

Can't figure out who saw it? Tough. It's up to you to figure out, or else it's illegal and they get 5000 years in prison for every view it got.

New comment by drstewart in "I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets"

drstewart — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 08:02:35 +0000

Anti-social engineering

New comment by drstewart in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

drstewart — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 07:44:36 +0000

>Not every progress is good progress

And you're the judge of this based on your likes and hobbies?

Anyway, I agree. Just ask the people blocking the HS2 or CaHSR about how sad the train plowing through their communities makes them feel. We need to tear down all trains, not every progress is good progress

New comment by drstewart in "Grok 4.5"

drstewart — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:24:26 +0000

HR is usually drilled to fire people who can generate bad publicity, and that's why they are acting in OP's situation.

Free speech preserved!