Hacker News: dylan604

New comment by dylan604 in "Sam Bankman-Fried loses bid to appeal against fraud conviction in FTX case"

dylan604 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:58:03 +0000

Why would they? What would be the return for them?

New comment by dylan604 in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

dylan604 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 05:18:34 +0000

Is that super speed reading human going to then make itself available to instantly-ish answer any and every possible question from anyone with a paid subscription?

This argument is pretty lame.

New comment by dylan604 in "EV demand up 50% in France and Germany since Iran war"

dylan604 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 22:57:01 +0000

There was definitely a build up. Trump was held back from being Trump in the first term. Even with that, there was no recourse for any of the actions that he took. There were also the court decisions that happened in between terms. So this term, he naturally feels no need to hold back. It is unlikely this Trump term would happen had his first not happened.

New comment by dylan604 in "EV demand up 50% in France and Germany since Iran war"

dylan604 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 22:49:29 +0000

Four weeks ago, California received the last of the shipments coming from the Strait. Everyone said CA only has on hand six weeks of supply. There was a bunch of panic baiting posts at the time. I haven't seen any suggesting that the supply is coming to an end, but maybe I've missed stories of resupplies coming in to the west coast??

New comment by dylan604 in "Cosmodial Sky Atlas"

dylan604 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 22:44:00 +0000

I too am really enjoying all of these new apps with less features than already existing apps. /s

New comment by dylan604 in "CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers"

dylan604 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:31:45 +0000

Do we actually spend it, or do we raise that much money while only a fraction of it goes to research?

New comment by dylan604 in "CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers"

dylan604 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:12:53 +0000

So according to your timeline, we're ~10 years from medical research becoming enshitified?

New comment by dylan604 in "Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself"

dylan604 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:03:03 +0000

even when websites provide attribution for images, people don't read them

New comment by dylan604 in "CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers"

dylan604 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:47:16 +0000

So we're waiting for the Apple of the medical world to take a bunch of preexisting things to be applied together in a way that makes the whole much more valuable than the pieces. Or we need all of the individual lions to come together to make the Voltron?

New comment by dylan604 in "A greyscale iPhone setup that works in everyday life"

dylan604 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:04:50 +0000

Looking at the example images, I was actually shocked that the app was so low contrast in B&W to be unusable. At least apps from Apple/Google. I would have expected their usability teams to be all over it, while expecting smaller app devs to need a pass on this.

New comment by dylan604 in "A greyscale iPhone setup that works in everyday life"

dylan604 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 01:57:53 +0000

No need to get specific. Look at any retail packaging. Look at any advertisement. Bright and shiny always gets the attention. You've never read anyone reply "ooh, grayscale". It's always "Ooooh, shiny"

New comment by dylan604 in "Car headlights don't have to be this blinding"

dylan604 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:47:21 +0000

Wouldn't the VW dieselgate show that we can't trust the manufactures? A third party sensor would be more trustworthy to me.

New comment by dylan604 in "Car headlights don't have to be this blinding"

dylan604 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:51:47 +0000

I remember having to take my car in to adjust the aiming of the headlights after it didn't pass inspection. So we used to take things like this seriously. I just had my car inspected last month, I don't even remember them hitting the horn. I'm guessing they pretty much just shove a sensor up the exhaust pipe and call it a day while accepting your payment.

New comment by dylan604 in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

dylan604 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:31:01 +0000

Every language can say that bad developers write bad code with it while good developers write good code with it.

I would like to say the early interweb was just a learning experience, but today's interweb hasn't learned any of the lessons. It's just changed which language the lesson is being relearned

New comment by dylan604 in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

dylan604 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:28:19 +0000

Except places are now offering Chai Latte Coffee so if you don't specifically order Chai Tea Latte, you could get some thing totally different than expected. I learned this the hard way.

New comment by dylan604 in "Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers"

dylan604 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:42:58 +0000

Well, neither myself of the person I replied to used this as a reference. You've missed the point

New comment by dylan604 in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

dylan604 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:36:24 +0000

If Apple is so pro-privacy like they claim, then they'd look for the most strict international privacy laws and abide by them. Then they could feel safe in knowing they could release the product anywhere. The fact they want to make the product available under the "rules" of the least privacy protecting countries first says a lot to me

New comment by dylan604 in "'Sloppenheimer:' Amazon Employees Mock the Company's AI on Slack"

dylan604 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:08:50 +0000

Just because you don't have access doesn't mean that people with access should be disallowed from discussing it. It just means you can't really discuss the article, but that's never stopped anyone from commenting before

New comment by dylan604 in "Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers"

dylan604 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:07:21 +0000

I just finished watching that series, so I can pick up these references. Nothing like being 20 years late to the party

New comment by dylan604 in "Apple bets cheaper AI will woo small developers"

dylan604 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:02:47 +0000

The funniest part of all of this is that, I as a techy dev type person, pay $0 for any LLM account. No, I'm not cheating with a paid by employer account. I just don't use it. So I guess my little group is breaking all of the stereotypes