Hacker News: fred_is_fred

New comment by fred_is_fred in "Alberta to hold referendum on whether to remain in Canada"

fred_is_fred — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:18:03 +0000

If they secede the US can go help them with democracy. They do have oil.

New comment by fred_is_fred in "Bank boss sorry after describing workers as 'lower value human capital'"

fred_is_fred — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:53:45 +0000

Bank boss is sorry that you're mad, not sorry he said it.

New comment by fred_is_fred in "The Companies Cutting Headcount for AI Will Lose to the Ones Who Didn't"

fred_is_fred — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:25:01 +0000

Companies are cutting headcount to fund AI projects, not necessarily because of the gains they are getting from it. And frankly in many companies, cutting layers and reducing team handoffs will be a net gain - even if AI didn't exist.

New comment by fred_is_fred in "After Town Bans Flock, Councilmember Crashes Out, Proposes Internet, Phone Ban"

fred_is_fred — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:17:29 +0000

Does Texas have open records law for politicians? He's taking this personally, which means he has a personal stake in the outcome.

New comment by fred_is_fred in "AI is too expensive"

fred_is_fred — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:33:34 +0000

Most disruptive start-ups don't come from a giant pile of cash, but from new ideas that the old players can't or won't adopt. It did not take $500B to build a digital camera.

New comment by fred_is_fred in "Sam Altman's Business Dealings Under GOP Scrutiny Ahead of OpenAI's IPO"

fred_is_fred — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:14:16 +0000

Is this why Claude recommended that I use a Trump phone when I use it?

New comment by fred_is_fred in "Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)"

fred_is_fred — Thu, 14 May 2026 03:08:35 +0000

Preferably a beowulf cluster of them.

New comment by fred_is_fred in "Another day, another universal Linux LPE"

fred_is_fred — Wed, 13 May 2026 13:20:59 +0000

I've been wondering - Is there any possibility that Nation States had AI models busy finding this stuff several years before we see things like Mythos or Opus showing up? Or are those models not only consumer but also cutting edge?

New comment by fred_is_fred in "Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth"

fred_is_fred — Wed, 06 May 2026 18:45:42 +0000

Speaking as someone with kids, many people I know rejected all of these. The eye ointment that they gloss over is to protect from gonorrhea. Which presumes that everyone having a kid has it in the first place. This is easy to test for before the baby comes though - what about Vitamin K?

New comment by fred_is_fred in "California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy"

fred_is_fred — Tue, 05 May 2026 19:07:09 +0000

Significantly reduced water usage for one. The water is the limiting factor.

New comment by fred_is_fred in "California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy"

fred_is_fred — Tue, 05 May 2026 19:06:33 +0000

Farmers care about making money.

New comment by fred_is_fred in "Show HN: I built a new word game, Wordtrak"

fred_is_fred — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:16:41 +0000

I don't know if it's my adblockers but your page loads an insanely large picture of your face and then people playing scrabble. Like I have to scroll two directions to see the whole picture large...

New comment by fred_is_fred in "AI Product Graveyard"

fred_is_fred — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:13:04 +0000

1/3 of these were acquired so far. I think what would be interesting is a label that showed whether anyone made money before it shutdown.

New comment by fred_is_fred in "Snowball Earth may hide a far stranger climate cycle than anyone expected"

fred_is_fred — Fri, 01 May 2026 02:23:03 +0000

The Lithos Carbon idea is interesting. The mine they show looks like they can just scrape it rather than needing to mine it with explosives. Unfortunately the site's blog has 1 post and it is 3.5 years old. Is it still a going concern?

New comment by fred_is_fred in "OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma dissolves after judge approves criminal sentence"

fred_is_fred — Fri, 01 May 2026 01:02:41 +0000

With zero consequences for the family.

New comment by fred_is_fred in "SatoshiGuesser – Roll for Bitcoin"

fred_is_fred — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:39:05 +0000

If you actually won this amount of money it would effectively ruin your life. You and your family would never be safe from a wrench attack - from criminals or a nation-state.

New comment by fred_is_fred in "SatoshiGuesser – Roll for Bitcoin"

fred_is_fred — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:30:03 +0000

Is the search space too big to effectively divide it up GIMPS-style. How do the odds look if every laptop on earth was trying this?

New comment by fred_is_fred in "A 25-Year-Fight over a 2-Second Sample"

fred_is_fred — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:07:32 +0000

Here's the video to watch on the history of the Amen Break. It's very in-depth and I highly recommend it. I just noticed it's 20 years old too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SaFTm2bcac

New comment by fred_is_fred in "Maryland becomes first state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores"

fred_is_fred — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:59:46 +0000

"The easy way to implement this in-person would be to give customer-specific coupons. You could get an email that says "use your loyalty card at checkout and get $2 off eggs"."

This already happens. We've been getting personalized coupons from our local store for 15+ years now.

New comment by fred_is_fred in "Data center boom strains Texas homebuilders' need for electricians"

fred_is_fred — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:30:09 +0000

Scotty probably loves capitalism until it affects him personally.