Hacker News: geor9e

New comment by geor9e in "Ask HN: Shouldn't Google need to give a public statement about Railway incident?"

geor9e — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:44:08 +0000

They brand it Google, trade it under the ticker GOOG, and are run by the same CEO.

New comment by geor9e in "Why is this site named Antipope?"

geor9e — Sat, 16 May 2026 19:55:14 +0000

look up the word pontiff

New comment by geor9e in "How David Sacks crashed and burned in the White House"

geor9e — Thu, 07 May 2026 00:53:38 +0000

I like him too. I only see him on the all-in podcast, though.

The headline apparently refers to the White House's recent desire to add a government vetting process to new models, whereas he wants less regulation.

If you click into the author's profile, you can see her other articles. At a glance it looks like 20% of her headlines over the years have been dedicated to David Sachs and how much he sucks. That must be what gets the clicks.

New comment by geor9e in "Waymo Drives Off with South Bay Man's Luggage"

geor9e — Sun, 03 May 2026 00:50:41 +0000

You can prevent this by leaving the passenger door open until you've gotten the trunk open.

New comment by geor9e in "Waymo says can't avoid bike lanes because riders want to be dropped off in them"

geor9e — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 23:01:31 +0000

As a bicyclist who hates cars, I'm totally fine with this. I've been riding alongside Waymos in San Francisco for seven years now, and they are the most polite and protective drivers ever. If I'm merging into traffic and I can get in front of a Waymo, it's the best feeling in the world. Waymo will see you from any direction with lasers and always yield to you. It's better they block the whole bike lane momentarily so I can pass them on the left, rather than have their passenger surprise swing their door into the bike lane.

New comment by geor9e in "Hospital at centre of child HIV outbreak caught reusing syringes in Pakistan"

geor9e — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 01:43:43 +0000

There's obviously terrible procedures happening at this clinic, involving contamination, but that one video doesn't seem like the culprit. Notice he removes the needle, then injects medicine into a cannula tube, not flesh. He then re-attaches the needle, draws the second dose, and injects again. That was the problem. The narrator says he then used a brand new syringe for every child, but that initial procedure contaminated the vial. Cannula tubes are primed with saline, that's kind of a long gap for blood to travel to contaminate the vial. Yes he did it wrong, but I get why he thought it would be ok.

New comment by geor9e in "Is anyone actually using OpenClaw?"

geor9e — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:27:45 +0000

Nope. I spun up a few Openclaws & a Hermes but never enjoyed the end results. Now I just use a telegram plugin for Codex. And run Codex on a miniPC I found in the trash. A $20/mo Codex sub gets me a GPT-5.4 agent that can make its own Automations (cron jobs), search the web, and modify the files and apps on the NAS drive I share. Simple and cheap works for me.

New comment by geor9e in "Peter Thiel's big bet on solar-powered cow collars"

geor9e — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:39:59 +0000

Animals don't give off much waste heat. They evolved not to. And it's very hard to extract energy from small temperature gradients. The thermoelectric chargers that convert body heat to energy are only ~1% efficient. Compare to sunlight, which gives ~20x the watts per square inch, and can be converted at 20% efficiency. So a body heat charger needs to be roughly 400 times as big as a solar panel does.

New comment by geor9e in "Isseven"

geor9e — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 03:00:17 +0000

true: 0x7, 007, 0b111

kinda: seven

false: siete, 111, VII

New comment by geor9e in "Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder"

geor9e — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 01:54:03 +0000

"That moment was not just a milestone in mission terms. It was a fundamental scientific event."

Come on people. This article is straight out of ChatGPT.

New comment by geor9e in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

geor9e — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:07:45 +0000

>how you extrapolated that

I wasn't extrapolating - it was the literal meaning of the words. The context was that someone commented "shouldn't be called prediction markets, they should be called outcome-shaping markets" in direct reply to "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over…[the prediction market "Iran strikes Israel on March 10"]. I interpret that as polymarket gamblers outcome-shaped Iran striking Israel. It was at 25% odds when they struck. I don't think the commenter actually meant that literally, which is why I asked them to clarify. I'm just doing my best here.

New comment by geor9e in "US Job Market Visualizer"

geor9e — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:01:40 +0000

He originally vibe coded this as AI Exposure, but deleted that one because people were misinterpreting it. Someone mirrored that one here https://joshkale.github.io/jobs/ . EDIT: D'oh, I now see Karpathy didn't delete it, he just made it into a "Digital AI Exposure" button.

New comment by geor9e in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

geor9e — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:10:01 +0000

Do you have an example of polymarket betters changing the outcome of an event?

New comment by geor9e in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

geor9e — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:03:58 +0000

Surely I am misreading what you mean here. But your comment very much reads like you think "Iran strikes Israel on March 10" at 25% odds is what in fact caused Iran to strike Israel on March 10. I'll search the space of other interpretations in the mean time, but if you could help me out here and clarify…

New comment by geor9e in "Waymo blocking ambulance during deadly Austin shooting"

geor9e — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:02:18 +0000

It doesn't sound difficult to solve. The sensors can classify firetruck, ambulance, red&blues, uniformed police, badge, siren, etc. At a certain criteria, they can unlock the driver door for normal human driving, perhaps for a very limited speed and distance. The officer can move it to the side, and if they crash it's not waymo crashing it. This override should send the an alert to the remote command center, so a human can watch the video and also decide how much further they can drive it. Since passenger safety is a concern, if there is a passenger inside who chooses to remain inside, the car should remain locked and not allow any driver in. The human can decide to follow police orders to exit the car, or remain inside, but at that point a human becomes responsible for obstructing. The whole freezing waymo trend seems driven by legal liability - not engineering. They know if they always freeze, their million miles with no accidents stats are safe.

New comment by geor9e in "SynthID: A tool to watermark and identify content generated through AI"

geor9e — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:59:27 +0000

This is from 2025. Did something new happen? What am I missing here?

New comment by geor9e in "Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI"

geor9e — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:05:30 +0000

Is this because Anthropic models are worse at those tasks, or more expensive, or what?

New comment by geor9e in "Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI"

geor9e — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:03:23 +0000

They are talking about Claude Code, the terminal app, which uses Opus and Sonnet for models mainly.

New comment by geor9e in "All Look Same?"

geor9e — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 03:53:03 +0000

It's too slow. It takes at least five seconds to load the next picture after you answer. You should probably just preload all the pictures client-side. I wasn't able to get through it.

New comment by geor9e in "OpenClaw is changing my life"

geor9e — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 18:58:31 +0000

>the joy of problem solving

It's frontier exploration that brings me joy. If a clanker can do something, then it's a solved problem. I use all the tools at my disposal to push the frontier of problems solved. Wasting my time re-inventing the wheel brings me the opposite of joy.