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New comment by freediddy in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

freediddy — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:10:37 +0000

Microsoft didn't sell anything. OpenAI created more shares and sold those to investors, so Microsoft's stake is getting diluted.

And Microsoft only paid $10B for that stake for the most recognizable name brand for AI around the world. They don't need to "hedge their bets" it's already a humongous win.

Why let Altman continue to call the shots and decrease Microsoft's ownership stake and ability to dictate how OpenAI helps Microsoft and not the other way around?

New comment by freediddy in "Aspartame is not that bad? (2022)"

freediddy — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:07:52 +0000

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New comment by freediddy in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

freediddy — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:56:01 +0000

Nadella had OpenAI by the short and curlies early on. But all I've seen from him in the last couple of years is continuously acquiescing to OpenAI's demands. I wonder why he's so weak and doesn't exert more control over the situation? At one point Microsoft owned 49% of OpenAI but now it's down to 27%?

New comment by freediddy in "Aspartame is not that bad? (2022)"

freediddy — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:34:23 +0000

When I drink a single can of Diet Coke or anything with aspartame, I get crippling stomach aches and then sudden diarrhea, all within about 2 hrs and very predictable. It's definitely not harmless. This doesn't happen to me with stevia or sucralose, and I know sucralose isn't good for your either.

New comment by freediddy in "Microsoft offers buyouts up to 7% of US employees"

freediddy — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:03:53 +0000

Speaking as a greybeard, it's not really that valuable. Younger people are just as smart, if not smarter, and they can figure it out if I get hit by a bus. There's literally nothing I know that someone younger couldn't learn or figure out.

New comment by freediddy in "Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing"

freediddy — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:43:23 +0000

If the pace of gains with AI levels out, which has been predicted, then the next target would be to lower the cost of power usage. All of the gains will have been paid for by the investors today, but all the benefits will be for the AI companies of the future.

So my prediction is that AI won't be profitable for a long time for the current batch of companies today, but will be extremely profitable for the new companies without the same debt and burdens and will come to birth in an era where AI computing is cheap to buy and run.

New comment by freediddy in "As oceans warm, great white sharks are overheating"

freediddy — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:34:21 +0000

Another alarmist who believes "this time it's different!" with no knowledge about how climate has changed over the past 400 million years. You probably thought when Big Basin burned that it would never recover, meanwhile it started to recover in months. People who doubt nature's resilience are ALWAYS wrong.

New comment by freediddy in "As oceans warm, great white sharks are overheating"

freediddy — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:11:00 +0000

Except you have no idea what the capability of sharks are to adapt to different ocean temperatures. As sharks swim across various parts of the ocean or at various depths in a single day, the temperatures change far quicker than ocean temperatures over the last 100 years. The idea that you could guess that sharks can't adapt to a wide range of temperatures is nothing but a wild guess on your part because it agrees with your biased belief that sharks are in danger due to climate change.

But sharks have been around for 400 million years, longer than trees have existed. The amount of change they have endured is far greater than that, and sharks are likely the most adept at climate change.

New comment by freediddy in "As oceans warm, great white sharks are overheating"

freediddy — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:51:50 +0000

How are you in any way qualified to know that what you said is correct, besides that being a wild guess?

New comment by freediddy in "As oceans warm, great white sharks are overheating"

freediddy — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:31:15 +0000

No they aren't.

They will move to different locations like they always have been for the past 400 million years. Sharks are older than trees, they can adapt to climate change better than anything alive right now.

New comment by freediddy in "F-35 is built for the wrong war"

freediddy — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:59:33 +0000

I described below how you could launch thousands of them from a single massive container that gets dropped by B2 bombers. You have to use your imagination, you're not limited by today's technology anymore.

New comment by freediddy in "F-35 is built for the wrong war"

freediddy — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:58:44 +0000

You could drop them from B2 bombers and they could fall to the ground en masse at hundreds of miles an hour and then the propellers could open up as they get closer to the ground.

Or you could launch them in massive containers like in Infinity War and these containers filled with thousands of them would land on the ground and open up and release the drones.

You're just not imaginative enough to solve the problem you described.

New comment by freediddy in "F-35 is built for the wrong war"

freediddy — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:43:44 +0000

I think ultimately the real weapon of mass destruction will be long-range drones the size of a DJI drone, each holding a small but extremely powerful explosive.

And then send millions of them, with specific single targets. Each AI controlled to target single weakpoints in buildings, bridges, or even specific people. You can't stop a million of them even with EMPs because you can just end a million more. You can destroy entire cities with a technology like this. If each drone costs $10,000 and you send a million of them that's only $10 billion for a war and complete destruction of your enemy.

New comment by freediddy in "At long last, InfoWars is ours"

freediddy — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:14:04 +0000

I think it's better if they keep all the URLs as they are right now, but then add misinformation into each page and put a big banner saying that this site is parody. Then search and AI will index this and then it will another lawsuit from Alex Jones to get the information removed from those alternate sources.

New comment by freediddy in "Ask HN: How to solve the cold start problem for a two-sided marketplace?"

freediddy — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:57:39 +0000

How is this different from Uship? I've used that service and it's pretty good and reasonably priced. They do exactly what you talk about which is allow people to ship things between cities for a pretty reasonable price. You can either specify a price or have shipper bid on it, along with flexibility as to when it gets shipped. People end up being small-time shippers and will buy vans and then just deliver in between cities for as many parcels as they can ship.

Car-T therapy vanquishes ultra-rare disease trio

freediddy — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:54:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01108-4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47707003

Points: 2

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New comment by freediddy in "I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue"

freediddy — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:31:37 +0000

FTC should enforce across all companies either a support level commensurate to revenues, or the ability for customers to force refunds automatically.

New comment by freediddy in "Blackholing My Email"

freediddy — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:23:14 +0000

My nephew who is in his early 20s beat me at Madden so badly that I quit. It wasn't that he just beat me, I couldn't score against him at all, and I consider myself a decent Madden player. I've been playing that game since the times I was changing his diapers and babysitting him. It was so humiliating that I haven't touched the game since.

New comment by freediddy in "Taste in the age of AI and LLMs"

freediddy — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:19:10 +0000

At some point, just an idea will be enough for your Neurolink to spawn an agent to create 1000 different versions of your idea along with things that mimic your tendencies. There will be no effort, only choice.

New comment by freediddy in "Blackholing My Email"

freediddy — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:16:13 +0000

de_dust... such good times! A perfectly designed map where everyone knew what the chokepoints were and what the best strategies were but the outcomes between equal opponents was never guaranteed. That's what makes a perfect playing field!

I recently got my older kid and his friends hooked on CS2 via steam. I'm considering having a "dads vs kids" tourney because we're at that cross section where all the dads have played CS2 and now some of the kids are getting old enough and good enough to be competitive.