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New comment by evan_ in "We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit"

evan_ — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:27:41 +0000

ok Zorg https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119116/quotes/?item=qt0544361&...

New comment by evan_ in "Allbirds, Inc. Announces Expansion into AI Compute Infrastructure"

evan_ — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:18:49 +0000

The one that springs to mind is Tiny Speck launching an MMORPG, failing, and then polishing up the in-game chat tool and releasing it as Slack.

Oh, there was a certain pair of Ohio bike shop owners who pivoted to powered flight some time back.

New comment by evan_ in "Allbirds, Inc. Announces Expansion into AI Compute Infrastructure"

evan_ — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:21:27 +0000

This is absolutely doomed but how funny would it be if 50 years from now people share trivia like "Hey did you know that Allbirds started as a shoe company?" the way people talk about Nintendo starting as a playing card company

New comment by evan_ in "Worthington's Law [video]"

evan_ — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:29:49 +0000

More Money = Better Than

Worthington's Law [video]

evan_ — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:29:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vudnMLzZjTg

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47628732

Points: 2

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New comment by evan_ in "NASA’s Artemis II Crew Launches to the Moon"

evan_ — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 22:50:37 +0000

uh I would argue that at the beginning of The Expanse things are middling to bad and at the end things are pretty fucking bad. The epilogue of the final book is the only thing that's unabashedly optimistic.

The main series takes place over about 30 years during which several billion people die system-wide as a result of various wars and terrorist attacks, and uncountably many die in the immediate aftermath of the finale. I love it but it's not really a feel-good story!

New comment by evan_ in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"

evan_ — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 01:22:36 +0000

it's just the client app, so you could make a clone but you'd still have to pay to use their servers.

New comment by evan_ in "Mystery jump in oil trading ahead of Trump post draws scrutiny"

evan_ — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:10:15 +0000

> he was at least willing to operate with humility. He always took the honest route ecen if you disagreed with his views.

eh I'm not really going to agree with you on this. He flinched 1 millimeter away from committing a full coup. That's not really a positive vote, it's just not as negative as it could be.

New comment by evan_ in "Mystery jump in oil trading ahead of Trump post draws scrutiny"

evan_ — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:04:51 +0000

I generally agree, but this time his VP isn't going to defect and he's been building ICE into a republican guard loyal only to him, so I think you can't just completely say "well it failed last time so it'll fail again"

New comment by evan_ in "US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects"

evan_ — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:03:06 +0000

I'm actually less concerned about the continued non-existence of a bunch of windmills, vs the billion-dollar payout to ensure that they continue to not exist.

I've spent my entire life not building any windmills and nobody's paid me a billion dollars for it yet.

New comment by evan_ in "Afroman found not liable in defamation case"

evan_ — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:05:26 +0000

They thought they were going to get a payday at the end. That tells you how d much they actually cared about their privacy/the privacy of their families, they were willing to sell it for a couple hundred thousand dollars.

New comment by evan_ in "Trevor Milton is raising funds for a new jet he claims will transform flying"

evan_ — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 22:15:07 +0000

Post the whole thing.

> I better use some Tic Tacs just in case I start kissing her. You know I'm automatically attracted to beautiful—I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab 'em by the pussy. You can do anything.

New comment by evan_ in "New farm bill would condemn pigs to a lifetime in gestation crates"

evan_ — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:06:16 +0000

Yes, [R-IA-4] means Republican from Iowa's 4th Congressional District.

New comment by evan_ in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

evan_ — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 06:15:24 +0000

I’m working on a 2D top-down Zelda-style adventure MMO game. I’m imagining it as a persistent world with Minecraft-like building and procedurally generated quests. I’d like to focus on co-op adventuring and social rather than pvp. Kind of a D&D experience I suppose, though that’s not really a direct inspiration for me.

I have no illusions that this is actually something in capable of building to an actual release-able state but it’s fun to tinker with.

New comment by evan_ in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"

evan_ — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:37:10 +0000

So on Earth 2 in which everything is the same except these tariffs hadn't been enacted, would today's consumer prices be the same or lower?

New comment by evan_ in "Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store"

evan_ — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 03:31:06 +0000

It’s irritating to me that on iOS at least I can’t be logged in with both my work AND home Claude instances in the native app. I instead have to log in to the app with one and use a desktop shortcut to claude.ai for the other.

New comment by evan_ in "Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store"

evan_ — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 03:28:47 +0000

Most people’s LLM use cases don’t involve autonomous weapons

New comment by evan_ in "A new Polymarket account made over $500k betting on the U.S. strike against Iran"

evan_ — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 23:15:31 +0000

I don't think Trump himself is making the call based on making $500k, but if some dipshit 22-year-old sociopath is weighing in on which attack plan to go with, I think it's entirely possible that he might lobby for the one that most effectively lines his own pockets.

New comment by evan_ in "A new Polymarket account made over $500k betting on the U.S. strike against Iran"

evan_ — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 20:25:53 +0000

Has anyone analyzed the odds on particular days to see if there’s a chance that the timing was influenced by the amount to be made on the betting market and not the other way around?

New comment by evan_ in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

evan_ — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:20:33 +0000

They’re calling it Operation Epstein Fury