Hacker News: garyfirestorm

New comment by garyfirestorm in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

garyfirestorm — Sat, 23 May 2026 18:43:18 +0000

They undid public charge from my memory. It doesn’t exist anymore.

New comment by garyfirestorm in "I don't think AI will make your processes go faster"

garyfirestorm — Sun, 17 May 2026 15:37:55 +0000

In my world automotive/mechanical engineering we are also observing how much AI can help you build a mental model, fetch unstructured data and help shape your understanding of the system. Onboarding new engg. figuring out what is what in the system. It could have taken hours before to fetch right info, now we are able to do this in seconds.

New comment by garyfirestorm in "Claude Account Suspended Seconds After Purchase?"

garyfirestorm — Thu, 14 May 2026 13:55:28 +0000

Are you located in a country that is sanctioned by the US?

New comment by garyfirestorm in "Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off"

garyfirestorm — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:48:53 +0000

Yes and yes

New comment by garyfirestorm in "Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off"

garyfirestorm — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:47:53 +0000

‘We threw the rule book out of the window’

New comment by garyfirestorm in "Hackers breach JDownloader's website to serve malware-laced downloads"

garyfirestorm — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:44:34 +0000

The ‘scene’ or warez sites are still up and running. Sharing cracked softwares, movies shows etc. through file hosting services. If say you wanted a Blu-ray movie with Dolby atmos sizing near 10 gig. Then you’d queue the file sharing site download links in jdownloader and let it automatically manage these downloads for you.

New comment by garyfirestorm in "DHS demanded Google surrender data on a Canadian man over anti-ICE posts"

garyfirestorm — Mon, 04 May 2026 19:38:22 +0000

Shouldn’t we fix the laws instead of penalizing users for using cloud services? There should be freedom to use cloud services for our convenience without having to accept legal defeat. That should be the focus for fix.

New comment by garyfirestorm in "New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag"

garyfirestorm — Sun, 03 May 2026 21:12:47 +0000

waving any flag and thinking its us or them is equally blinding. the world is not vacuum and to coexist we need to put flags behind and work together.

New comment by garyfirestorm in "Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons"

garyfirestorm — Sun, 03 May 2026 15:44:16 +0000

If you can save a dollar on a part, and that part goes into millions of cars per year… then it will be on the chopping block. That cost and weight savings are then passed onto other things, better rear camera? More electrical current to charge your phone faster. Quicker HVAC operation? Everything is a compromise and tradeoff.

Source - I work in an OEM.

New comment by garyfirestorm in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

garyfirestorm — Sun, 03 May 2026 00:21:28 +0000

I have been both on visa side of things and LPR/citizen side of things. I don’t understand this mindset lpr|citizen>>perm|visa. As if the perm/visa individual has no life and can easily pack a handbag and leave tomorrow. Not defending any processes here just pointing out people (perm or not) buy homes/cars have kids in schools etc and by the time they get to perm process they are pretty much ingrained here. The viewpoint of ‘discarding’ batches of perms sounds very hypocritical.

New comment by garyfirestorm in "Show HN: A Multi User Multi Task Board MCP Server"

garyfirestorm — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:24:56 +0000

Why not connect to JIRA using an MCP? Would also be helpful to provide userid/password to demo instance or simply a button to log onto demo user account

New comment by garyfirestorm in "Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day"

garyfirestorm — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 05:21:11 +0000

This setting does not exist on iOS 26.4.1

New comment by garyfirestorm in "Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys"

garyfirestorm — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:30:45 +0000

Under the name of the* same government. You can’t equate 1940s US govt with today’s government. Different people different priorities different actions. Not necessarily saying good or bad one way or the other. But ‘same’ is reductionist way of interpreting the situation. There’s plenty of nuance.

Tell HN: Gemini CLI and codex are broken

garyfirestorm — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 23:13:39 +0000

Pro paying subscriber and both tools completely fail to auth/run a query. No way to contact support with both.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47842325

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New comment by garyfirestorm in "AI is about to make the global e-waste crisis worse"

garyfirestorm — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:26:55 +0000

Even 2 generations older 30 series GPUs are holding their value. Definitely not being thrown out as ewaste.

New comment by garyfirestorm in "Show HN: MDV – a Markdown superset for docs, dashboards, and slides with data"

garyfirestorm — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:01:37 +0000

nope this is becoming a theme. many showhn posts that are about visualizations do not have any renderings of said visualizations. especially in github readme.

New comment by garyfirestorm in "Hacker News CLI"

garyfirestorm — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:18:10 +0000

no information about installation - no github repo

New comment by garyfirestorm in "PyCon US 2026: Why we're asking you to think about your hotel reservation"

garyfirestorm — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:11:57 +0000

Why not move the conference to a friendly country? Like Canada maybe?

New comment by garyfirestorm in "DOJ wants to scrap Watergate-era rule that makes presidential records public"

garyfirestorm — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:43:20 +0000

‘Let the law not get in our way’

New comment by garyfirestorm in "Police used AI facial recognition to wrongly arrest TN woman for crimes in ND"

garyfirestorm — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 14:37:21 +0000

It’s a tool. Used incorrectly will lead to errors. Just like a hammer, used incorrectly could hit the users finger.