Hacker News: gregw134

New comment by gregw134 in "US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes"

gregw134 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 23:48:16 +0000

It's a good start. Would be nice to add a gradually increasing tax on multiple home purchases, e.g. buying a third home has a 5% tax, 4th 15% tax, fifth 25%, and if you want a sixth home you have to build it yourself. Would prevent regular people from buying up dozens of homes to rent.

New comment by gregw134 in "Deaths are projected to exceed births in 2031"

gregw134 — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 21:40:27 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_argument

Statistically, we're most likely to be born when the world population is at its peak.

New comment by gregw134 in "GLP-1s are breaking life insurance"

gregw134 — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 22:41:27 +0000

Unnoticable meaning doesn't have any effect at all, or just no bad side effects?

New comment by gregw134 in "I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt"

gregw134 — Tue, 06 May 2025 04:34:18 +0000

In our case, sold to the bidder who gave kickbacks to the district supervisor.

New comment by gregw134 in "Google is illegally monopolizing online advertising tech, judge rules"

gregw134 — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 04:39:02 +0000

Search "chili recipes" on bing. Now search kagi or any other alternative search engine. They all show the exact same recipes because they're using the bing API.

New comment by gregw134 in "Google is illegally monopolizing online advertising tech, judge rules"

gregw134 — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 01:14:21 +0000

Which uses Bing as its primary index

New comment by gregw134 in "Google is illegally monopolizing online advertising tech, judge rules"

gregw134 — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 18:49:02 +0000

There's really only one alternative, Bing. Virtually all the other western search engines are using the Bing api, and just slightly modify the results.

New comment by gregw134 in "Long Read: Lessons from Building Semantic Search for GitHub and Why I Failed"

gregw134 — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 06:36:44 +0000

What would you recommend for billions of embeddings?

New comment by gregw134 in "Jeep owners fed up with in-car pop-up ads"

gregw134 — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 21:34:20 +0000

> Last year, Ford filed a patent for an in-car advertising system that would use the car’s speakers and display screen to serve ads to drivers and passengers

I've owned Ford stock for 10 years, I think I'll finally sell it today

New comment by gregw134 in "When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines"

gregw134 — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:13:26 +0000

Would you be willing to share more about how you guys did click ranking at Blekko? It's an interesting problem.

New comment by gregw134 in "TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users"

gregw134 — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 18:28:36 +0000

"The law banning TikTok, which was scheduled to go into effect Sunday, allows the president to grant a 90-day extension before the ban is enforced, provided certain criteria are met"

Sounds like they're operating within the law

New comment by gregw134 in "In a cold day of late winter a new search experience came out"

gregw134 — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 18:20:19 +0000

They're literally scraping Google on the backend and returning the results to the user as if they invented a new search engine. The links are exactly identical to Google's, in the same order.

New comment by gregw134 in "In a cold day of late winter a new search experience came out"

gregw134 — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 21:11:11 +0000

It's just scraping Google. The results are identical to Google's.

New comment by gregw134 in "In a cold day of late winter a new search experience came out"

gregw134 — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 20:01:48 +0000

Looks like it just scrapes Google. Hacker news gets one of these every two weeks.

New comment by gregw134 in "Missiles Are Now the Biggest Killer of Airline Passengers"

gregw134 — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 20:40:27 +0000

From the Korean air incident: "As a result of the incident...President Ronald Reagan issued a directive making American satellite-based radio navigation Global Positioning System freely available for civilian use, once it was sufficiently developed, as a common good."

New comment by gregw134 in "Australia Bars Everyone Under 16 from Social Media"

gregw134 — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 19:37:32 +0000

My bad couldn't find it. Mods you can delete this post.

New comment by gregw134 in "[dead]"

gregw134 — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 19:36:56 +0000

Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/28/world/asia/australia-soci...

New comment by gregw134 in "Military's UFO-hunting aerial surveillance system detailed in report"

gregw134 — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 21:43:20 +0000

I think some country has developed some very cool drones with non-traditional propulsion. I'm imagining gyroscopes inside mounted on gimbals, and when pressure is applied to the gyroscopes they cause the spheres to spin and bend through the air like a ping pong ball, but in a controlled fashion. The spheres are supposed to be 3-6m wide, so filled with helium could have enough lift to counterbalance 50 pounds of equipment.

New comment by gregw134 in "Two upstart search engines are teaming up to take on Google"

gregw134 — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 15:25:00 +0000

The article you linked doesn't say anything about 100 petabytes

New comment by gregw134 in "Two upstart search engines are teaming up to take on Google"

gregw134 — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 15:19:00 +0000

Imo you need to do all of this, plus be compelling different. Nobody is going to beat Google playing Google's game.