Hacker News: gradus_ad

Long-Term Finasteride and Dutasteride Use: It's Time to Sound the Alarm

gradus_ad — Thu, 21 May 2026 02:07:53 +0000

Article URL: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7308241/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48216953

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

The Patchwright – AI Assisted Short Film

gradus_ad — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 01:04:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Rzl7nUdEs4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47801447

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by gradus_ad in "OpenAI's $852B valuation faces investor scrutiny amid strategy shift, FT reports"

gradus_ad — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 02:20:54 +0000

Claude Code is extremely easy to set up and use. I suspect its saturation among software professionals is at the majority of the addressable market.

What if there are no other killer apps for Enterprise? Only CC will produce the level of token churn that could drive huge profits for model providers.

The Enterprise market is not as substantial as the rapid success of CC makes seem.

The Timeless Way of Building

gradus_ad — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:04:45 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Timeless_Way_of_Building

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47771514

Points: 1

# Comments: 4

New comment by gradus_ad in "40% of lost calories globally are from beef, needing 33 cal of feed per 1 cal"

gradus_ad — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:48:12 +0000

"lost calories" as if having people consume animal feed to reduce total caloric loss is a good idea.

Mystery around top-ranked Rockefeller book grows

gradus_ad — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 07:19:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/28/top-ranked-rockefeller-book-at-center-of-publishing-mystery.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47624049

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by gradus_ad in "Men are ditching TV for YouTube as AI usage and social media fatigue grow"

gradus_ad — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:58:40 +0000

YouTube Premium is the best $10 I spend per month. Nowhere else can I consistently find the sort of niche content that interests me.

Starlink satellite 34343 disappears in 'fragment creation event'

gradus_ad — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:44:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/service-providers/network-providers/starlink-satellite-34343-disappears-in-fragment-creation-event-observation-immediately-detected-tens-of-objects-in-the-vicinity-of-the-satellite-after-the-event

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47599556

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

Congressman Calls for FBI Help over Missing General, Scientists

gradus_ad — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 02:34:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.newsweek.com/congressman-calls-for-fbi-help-over-missing-general-scientists-11764096

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47596091

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by gradus_ad in "Say No to Palantir in Europe"

gradus_ad — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:22:33 +0000

Say No to Subsidizing European Defense

New comment by gradus_ad in "Goodbye to Sora"

gradus_ad — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:39:40 +0000

I thought AI video was the future? Now the biggest AI company in the world is straight up shutting their service down because it's too expensive? Simply a disaster for OpenAI and the industry as a whole.

OpenAI shutters short-form video app Sora as company reels in costs

gradus_ad — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:09:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/24/openai-shutters-short-form-video-app-sora-as-company-reels-in-costs.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47509359

Points: 16

# Comments: 1

New comment by gradus_ad in "The bridge to wealth is being pulled up with AI"

gradus_ad — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:05:03 +0000

Whether or not AI consolidates (even more than now) is irrelevant. The tech is extremely useful as a catalyzer of ideas and stimulus to action.

New comment by gradus_ad in "The bridge to wealth is being pulled up with AI"

gradus_ad — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:13:52 +0000

>"Wealth passed through property law: wills, trusts, title deeds, institutional relationships. No regression. No noise. Just compounding."

Slopspeak detected.

New comment by gradus_ad in "The bridge to wealth is being pulled up with AI"

gradus_ad — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:43:34 +0000

A rebuttal: the institutional and experiential barriers to wealth generation can be overcome with AI unlike any other technology before. Consider: someone wanting to start a business previously had to negotiate tremendous legal/compliance/technological hurdles. The prospect of going alone given these is very intimidating so most without wealth or connections didn't. Their good ideas languished. Now, everyone has a knowledgeable and forgiving partner and guide.

New comment by gradus_ad in "Migrating to the EU"

gradus_ad — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:19:26 +0000

Capital flows to where it enjoys the greatest returns. That is not Europe, not now nor in any foreseeable future. There is no reason for a skilled professional interested in making money to go there.

New comment by gradus_ad in "Migrating to the EU"

gradus_ad — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:36:54 +0000

The EU is going to fail in the next decade or two. It is a financially and politically unsustainable patchwork that will rip apart in the great power conflict that is coming. The sick man of Europe is now Europe itself.

New comment by gradus_ad in "I'm OK being left behind, thanks"

gradus_ad — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:48:09 +0000

Did it not work after the first try and you gave up? Did it not produce any usable code that you could hand tweak or build off of? I want to understand your definition of "failed" here.

Chuck Norris dies at age 86

gradus_ad — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:41:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsbtv.com/news/trending/chuck-norris-dies-age-86-family-says/UXJ7WNQKKBCQHOCMF6UXCWY57U/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47455259

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by gradus_ad in "I'm OK being left behind, thanks"

gradus_ad — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:39:12 +0000

But it's so easy to try something like Claude Code. It's not like you need to get up to speed. There is no learning curve*, that's the nature of AI. Just start using it and you'll see why it has attracted so much hype.

*I should qualify that "using" CC in the strict sense has no learning curve, but really getting the most out of it may take some time as you see its limitations. But it's not learning tech in the traditional sense.