Hacker News: frankzinger

New comment by frankzinger in "Tesla Roadster"

frankzinger — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 14:14:06 +0000

> No, it wasn’t a Nazi salute (unless Biden, and Hillary and Obama are all Nazis too having made the same motion)

Yeah just like this car's motion is the same as that of an aeroplane.

New comment by frankzinger in "Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem Pillay"

frankzinger — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 06:51:39 +0000

I only checked the Guardian article but there's nothing in there that shows she ran cover for anything.

New comment by frankzinger in "SpaceX bond worth 10% less than issue price – heading for junk bond status"

frankzinger — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 03:51:13 +0000

But not in the Shining City on the Hill

New comment by frankzinger in "Grok 4.5"

frankzinger — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 05:33:44 +0000

So you're saying MAGA has "normal" empathy then? God help us.

New comment by frankzinger in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"

frankzinger — Tue, 19 May 2026 05:21:03 +0000

> The fact that this outcome is surprising represents a very loud and public failure on the administration's part.

True but unfortunately there are enough dumb people in the US to vote them in again so it doesn't matter.

New comment by frankzinger in "This year’s insane timeline of hacks"

frankzinger — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 05:16:48 +0000

   "Mythos5, make a presentation about X,Y,Z with nice and meaningful transitions"

The only way this could possibly produce acceptable output is if nobody was going to care or pay attention to your presentation in the first place.

New comment by frankzinger in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

frankzinger — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:40:51 +0000

In this context good faith means not saying you're here to negotiate only to stall for time while you're secretly planning to invade the other country in the background, which is exactly what the US did. So Iran has no reason to take US "negotiations" seriously ever again.

New comment by frankzinger in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

frankzinger — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 04:30:36 +0000

Not sure why this is being downvoted. That comment was clearly implying Indians ruined MS.

New comment by frankzinger in "Enhancing gut-brain communication reversed cognitive decline in aging mice"

frankzinger — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 05:58:57 +0000

Pretty sure this is correct. You only notice it when it comes right out of the top. Other days it may be 25%, 50%, or 75% of the way up. And that's still bad for your oesophagus over the long term. My dad got cancer right at the bottom and one potential cause was chronic acid reflux (GERD leading to Barrett's eosophagus).

New comment by frankzinger in "Layoffs at Block"

frankzinger — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 13:43:32 +0000

But there were no organisational problems according to Jack. Also do you really believe Block has reached peak productivity? Does any company ever reach it?

New comment by frankzinger in "Layoffs at Block"

frankzinger — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 13:30:07 +0000

The quantity of devs is not changing though. If AI really makes the existing devs more productive then the plateau should become higher.

New comment by frankzinger in "Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6%"

frankzinger — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 04:18:01 +0000

You may have a good point but this shows how badly America's reputation has been damaged: it's now viewed as much worse than China.

New comment by frankzinger in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

frankzinger — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 14:11:35 +0000

Just to clarify: Trump didn't do worse than Maduro (he got stopped) but he did do much worse than "ignore the election results" in that he actively tried to overturn the results.

New comment by frankzinger in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

frankzinger — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 15:23:45 +0000

Trump himself did much worse in 2020.

New comment by frankzinger in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

frankzinger — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 12:36:08 +0000

It's possible to imagine all kinds of fantastical explanations but usually the simplest one is the correct one: Trump is receiving bags of money for the pardon. Also bolstered by his past (and ongoing) behaviour of openly and shamelessly enriching himself at every opportunity.

New comment by frankzinger in "The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine"

frankzinger — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 05:02:15 +0000

So many discoveries only find an application decades later. If you stop persuing knowledge purely for its own sake you will never again be able to compete with countries that are serious about science and you will never again live up to your past achievements.

From the perspective of somebody outside the US it really is a shocking tragedy what the Republicans have done to what used to be the greatest country in the world. I hope you can manage to right the ship soon because I fear it may already be too late.

New comment by frankzinger in "IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off"

frankzinger — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 04:55:42 +0000

Surely nobody writes this XAML by hand?

New comment by frankzinger in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)"

frankzinger — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 05:23:42 +0000

Yes it's a bit confusing for multiple reasons but I think it's ai at nx1 dot com.

New comment by frankzinger in "Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout"

frankzinger — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 05:21:56 +0000

Performance Improvement Plan, a formal process for employees whose performance is not meeting job expectations.

New comment by frankzinger in "Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agreeing new rules"

frankzinger — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 06:54:34 +0000

Every country in the world is severely affected by Trump's reversal of climate change policy.