Hacker News: excalibur

New comment by excalibur in "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?"

excalibur — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:56:37 +0000

Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft Flight Simulator

New comment by excalibur in "Pharmaceuticals face 100% tariffs in US – unless firms strike a deal"

excalibur — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:57:39 +0000

Mafia Don shaking everyone down for their lunch money as usual. We used to be better than this.

New comment by excalibur in "The bridge to wealth is being pulled up with AI"

excalibur — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:43:13 +0000

> Sure, it might cure cancer, but… that’s just uncertain. Sure, we’ll go to space, but… we sure have many problems at home.

We're not going to space. We're filling our own orbit with ever-increasing quantities of space junk and speeding toward a tipping point where space launch will no longer be possible due to near-certainty of collision. Mister "Let's all go to Mars" Elon Musk is the single greatest contributor to this problem.

New comment by excalibur in "Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?"

excalibur — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:39:34 +0000

Well done, but kind of annoying that winning and losing the game both lead to the same clip.

New comment by excalibur in "Chuck Norris has died"

excalibur — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:14:41 +0000

You must be fun at parties.

New comment by excalibur in "Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology (2019)"

excalibur — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:38:32 +0000

When you're walking around with your finger over your face all day, you should extend your thumb as well, so everyone can tell you're a Legend.

New comment by excalibur in "Israel is running critically low on interceptors, US officials say"

excalibur — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 01:08:25 +0000

Let's send them thousands of tiny violins.

New comment by excalibur in "Workers who love 'synergizing paradigms' might be bad at their jobs"

excalibur — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:32:31 +0000

> Employees who are impressed by vague corporate-speak like “synergistic leadership,” or “growth-hacking paradigms” may struggle with practical decision-making, a new Cornell study reveals.

Hey, I find that type of lingo nauseating, and I still struggle with practical decision-making.

New comment by excalibur in "BMW Group to deploy humanoid robots in production in Germany for the first time"

excalibur — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 01:39:52 +0000

The robots featured in the embedded promotional video appear to be mostly useless. This is the opposite of impressive.

New comment by excalibur in "Self-improving software won't produce Skynet"

excalibur — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 05:55:02 +0000

Poorly reasoned. Offers assertions with nothing to back them up, because "that's not what we designed it to do". Yudkowsky & Soares tore all of these arguments to shreds last year.

New comment by excalibur in "Shatner is making an album with 35 metal icons"

excalibur — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 02:03:21 +0000

If you haven't heard his Bohemian Rhapsody cover, it's something else. He flat out admitted that he had never heard the song before recording it. Which... Number one, how? And number two, who let him do that?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul6S84qF_TU

New comment by excalibur in "There is unequivocal evidence that Earth is warming (2024)"

excalibur — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:27:56 +0000

I think the smart money is still on nuclear war, but the competition is getting fierce these days.

New comment by excalibur in "The political effects of X's feed algorithm"

excalibur — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:02:34 +0000

I don't know what changes have been made more recently, but I know there was a definite change to the Twitter algorithm a few months ago that filled the feeds of conservatives with posts from liberals and vice versa. It seemed to be specifically engineered to provoke conflict.

New comment by excalibur in "AI didn't break copyright law, it just exposed how broken it was"

excalibur — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 17:53:54 +0000

Copyright law has always been excessively restrictive, and is long overdue for reform. The informal practices that people have been following (i.e. free creation and distribution but no monetization and no confusion with official releases) are pretty close to what a reasonable law would state.

New comment by excalibur in "What an unprocessed photo looks like"

excalibur — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 06:37:06 +0000

Surprised that nobody else commented on this, it is a very sad tree.

New comment by excalibur in "Most parked domains now serving malicious content"

excalibur — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 13:24:14 +0000

The bit about the gmai.com mailserver is disturbing. One would imagine there are many other typo squatters with a similar setup.

New comment by excalibur in "Adobe Brings Photoshop, Express and Acrobat Features to ChatGPT"

excalibur — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 14:47:58 +0000

> Also is “doubling down” the new “deep dive”?

Similar, but I think it might actually be dumber. When you take a deep dive you're jumping headfirst into things you don't understand, with the outcome largely unknown to you. When you double down on something you're already aware that it isn't working, but you persist anyway under the delusion that doing the same thing more aggressively will make your bad plan succeed.

New comment by excalibur in "Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices"

excalibur — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 22:08:37 +0000

That's a good point. Private Equity is a fairly broad umbrella term that encompasses a variety of investment strategies and business models.

The type of Private Equity that most here are referring to is the type that buys up existing businesses, squeezes as much money as possible out of them, and throws their desecrated corpses in the gutter. These "investors" are a blight on society, this activity should be criminalized, they should be in prison.

But there are a lot of well-meaning investors who do great things for society that also get stuck with the same label.

New comment by excalibur in "Russia Bans Roblox"

excalibur — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 05:28:59 +0000

The unsafe and extremist content is coming from INSIDE the Kremlin.

New comment by excalibur in "Everyone in Seattle hates AI"

excalibur — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 21:22:05 +0000

Always amazed to see people who don't hate AI.