Hacker News: freeplay

New comment by freeplay in "Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit"

freeplay — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:43:26 +0000

Agreed. Before I had finished reading, I honestly thought you declined the $100 because everything ended up alright, you got to see some dolphins, and have a cool story to tell.

New comment by freeplay in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

freeplay — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:15:09 +0000

Exactly this. I know HN is obviously a very pro tech, pro science demographic, but I can't believe there's so little opposition to having our coasts littered with wind turbines.

I don't care how energy efficient it is. It's dystopian and depressing.

New comment by freeplay in "Silicon Valley sees AI as the solution – for everyone else"

freeplay — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:28:19 +0000

This makes the assumption that humans are needed to drive these AI assisted workflows. I don't think that's going to be the case at all.

The majority of office jobs are comprised of many simple tasks that current and, to an even greater extent, future, models can handle with ease.

Not all companies are looking for 10x productivity gains. I assume most of them probably just want to do exactly what they are doing now but with lower costs.

New comment by freeplay in "Midjourney Medical"

freeplay — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:27:38 +0000

Elysium is playing out right before our eyes

New comment by freeplay in "How to automate Instagram engagements with computer vision (and get banned)"

freeplay — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:44:56 +0000

1. Social media accounts with lots of engagement and high follower counts are worth big money these days. However, it takes a ton of effort to build that up organically. It's not difficult to see possible motives for something like this.

2. Leveraging their private APIs will get you banned even quicker than OPs method.

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

freeplay — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:38:57 +0000

Some spaces just can't be "disrupted."

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

freeplay — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:07:00 +0000

This was my first thought when I saw "travelers going between countries."

You're going to have a problem getting carriers to sign up because they are assuming all of the risk. Unfortunately, "oh you don't understand - I got paid $27 by CarrierPigeon™ to bring this unmarked, brick shaped package into the country" just isn't going to fly with customs/feds.

New comment by freeplay in "Goodbye to Sora"

freeplay — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:55:17 +0000

Genuinely curious what the [morally] good use cases for Sora would be.

New comment by freeplay in "Show HN: Claude skill that evaluates B2B vendors by talking to their AI agents"

freeplay — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:53:51 +0000

From a technical standpoint, this is pretty cool. From a human standpoint, this feels so unbelievably dystopian.

New comment by freeplay in "Show HN: I built a site that maps the web from a bounty hunter's perspective"

freeplay — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:43:14 +0000

Thanks! Just grabbed one.

New comment by freeplay in "Show HN: I built a site that maps the web from a bounty hunter's perspective"

freeplay — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:46:21 +0000

By time I got signed in, I missed the early adopter spots. Any chance you could open up a couple more?

New comment by freeplay in "Goodbye to Sora"

freeplay — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:07:28 +0000

I think the evil part is putting it in the hands of the general public. The ability to create propaganda and deep fakes gives everyone a powerful tool for manipulation. The rich and powerful are going to do whatever the want, anyway. Everyone having access to that same tool doesn't make it any less dangerous.

There's nothing inherently evil about a knife. Standing outside of a high school and handing a knife to every kid walking in is pretty evil though.

New comment by freeplay in "My Homelab Setup"

freeplay — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:54:06 +0000

You can set that globally but override at the individual entry.

New comment by freeplay in "MacBook Neo"

freeplay — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:59:58 +0000

It's been able to run on A series chips for a while. I don't think that's what's preventing MacOS on iPad. It's that the OS is not optimized for touch in any way. Too many small things to click. It's just not the kind of half-baked experience Apple would put their name behind. Likely the same reason why you haven't seen a touchscreen on a Mac.

New comment by freeplay in "Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras"

freeplay — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 01:03:06 +0000

The commercial was essentially announcing their partnership with Flock

New comment by freeplay in "Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras"

freeplay — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 01:01:45 +0000

Don't forget about the facial recognition any time you go through a toll booth

New comment by freeplay in "Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras"

freeplay — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:47:17 +0000

Mass unemployment would/will be the catalyst to mass uprising. All of the fuel is in place (ICE, Epstein, rising costs of everything, unaffordable housing, general lack of hope and faith in the government, etc.) High unemployment numbers will be the spark that sets it all ablaze.

New comment by freeplay in "FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me"

freeplay — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:38:12 +0000

If you could write drivers in javascript, it probably would have done just fine /s

New comment by freeplay in "Google co-founder reveals that "many" of the new hires do not have a degree"

freeplay — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 19:47:22 +0000

I'm a senior engineer and have no degree. I never get offended by people making comments like this. If we're both in similar roles, making quality contributions, and are progressing in our careers, the only difference between us is, I didn't spending 50k-100k on a degree.

Sounds more like a knock on the person making the comment than it is on me.

New comment by freeplay in "Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?"

freeplay — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:30:01 +0000

Seems like everything is a hot button topic these days. Even things like movies get connected to a hot button in one way or another.