Hacker News: flerchin

New comment by flerchin in "I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories"

flerchin — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:49:30 +0000

> You want changes? Go ask your agent or something. I’m told that’s what you’re supposed to do now. I’m out.

Totally fair. The source code is open. Thanks for all the fish.

New comment by flerchin in "AI lab offers free plumbing and HVAC repairs across three cities to train robots"

flerchin — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:25:09 +0000

> AI lab offers free plumbing and HVAC repairs across three cities

Cool! VC capital at work for the common people.

> to train AI robots

LOL total bullshit.

New comment by flerchin in "Tesla's Robotaxis Blow Through School Zones, NHTSA Petition Alleges"

flerchin — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:06:25 +0000

This is the justification you make to yourself. People drive the speed limit. I do, never had a speeding ticket. It has never been dangerous.

New comment by flerchin in "Amazon pushes up prices across the Internet"

flerchin — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:31:48 +0000

It just shows up in the box. Their inventory is comingled.

New comment by flerchin in "Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours"

flerchin — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 18:34:46 +0000

I also would not want those in my neighborhood.

New comment by flerchin in "Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours"

flerchin — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 16:45:33 +0000

A new reason to not want a DC in my neighborhood.

New comment by flerchin in "All the numbers: Amazon Prime Day 2026 powered by AWS"

flerchin — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:35:02 +0000

Naively I would have thought $500 for 20TB was a good deal.

New comment by flerchin in "[dead]"

flerchin — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 16:59:00 +0000

Sure seems to be hosed.

New comment by flerchin in "After bankruptcy, he was banned from betting sites. Then he discovered Kalshi"

flerchin — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:46:34 +0000

Polymarket is only popular since they went legal and started taking US dollars. If they were illegal and crypto-only, it would crush them.

New comment by flerchin in "After bankruptcy, he was banned from betting sites. Then he discovered Kalshi"

flerchin — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:30:10 +0000

Nope, we're talking about online gambling and prediction markets. It should be illegal in the US.

New comment by flerchin in "After bankruptcy, he was banned from betting sites. Then he discovered Kalshi"

flerchin — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 20:36:40 +0000

In no way is it better now that we have online gambling. The entire industry should be illegal and barred from participation in the traditional banking system.

New comment by flerchin in "US closely monitoring case of lab worker who possibly died of plague in Siberia"

flerchin — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 18:39:12 +0000

Pretty unfounded wrt Ukraine.

New comment by flerchin in "When did Google get so weird?"

flerchin — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:01:50 +0000

Yes but they didn't make $112B in profit last quarter by Goodhart-ing their way through it. Google of course cares about the stock price, but search makes them money, and chat therapy does not.

New comment by flerchin in "When did Google get so weird?"

flerchin — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 23:10:25 +0000

I don't get how it makes google more money to play therapist in the search engine. It surely costs a boatload more to generate that kind of response, so where's the payoff?

New comment by flerchin in "Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave"

flerchin — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 16:11:13 +0000

Yeah if they know they can't succeed, then imo they have a fiduciary duty to not try. Which only leaves resigning.

New comment by flerchin in "Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave"

flerchin — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 16:14:14 +0000

It says he has 84% of the voting shares. Is there any possible way that the board could have been successful? Regardless of Mullenberg, (and I know he's controversial) a coup that is pre-ordained to fail seems like value destroying negligence.

New comment by flerchin in "I don't like passkeys"

flerchin — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 21:08:01 +0000

I think the point with a passkey is that those very loose backup methods are required, since just knowing the password is not a thing. Everyone gets a new phone and is at risk of the previous one being unavailable. So passkeys mean that there's no way to deal with that reality, and also be truly secure.

New comment by flerchin in "Border agents can search cellphones without a warrant or reasonable suspicion"

flerchin — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 19:40:49 +0000

It's frankly insane that y'all have to do that, and yes Americans cross the border, perhaps haplessly.

New comment by flerchin in "Border agents can search cellphones without a warrant or reasonable suspicion"

flerchin — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 19:37:40 +0000

Yeah the plain language is unambiguous. That there is an historical border search exception simply doesn't matter to me. We fought a war for this, and it's bullshit.

New comment by flerchin in "I don't like passkeys"

flerchin — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:22:50 +0000

I don't get it. I recover an account at ticketmaster by receiving an email. I recover an account at google by???