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New comment by gricardo99 in "A Selection of Los Alamos Rolodex Business Cards"

gricardo99 — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 03:58:50 +0000

Incredible. I was curious to see what I could find for one of the business card:

Dr. Ronald Moskowitz, FerroFluidics (cool name).

Took me down a bit of a rabbit hole. Turns out the guy was a bit of a fraudster and was sentenced to 8 years in prison for securities fraud[1]

1 - https://www.sec.gov/enforcement-litigation/litigation-releas...

New comment by gricardo99 in "I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers"

gricardo99 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:57:23 +0000

It was such a joy to read something clearly written by a human, for humans, by someone who takes pride and spends effort in their writing.

Reading this article felt like a breath of fresh air, like a vice had been released from my head. Not just the broader point about our increasingly slop-filled world resonated with me, but the writing itself felt like it just flows effortlessly.

I guess I’ve been suffering for too long, pouring over claude code jargon-filled responses and going in circles trying to understand its convoluted sentence construction and terminology. I think I’m burnt out on working with agents all day long…

New comment by gricardo99 in "Roku LT Operating System open source distribution"

gricardo99 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:55:42 +0000

it’s open source now so presumably it’s harder to outright lie about how their system works.

New comment by gricardo99 in "Roku LT Operating System open source distribution"

gricardo99 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 06:21:45 +0000

   you can disable this feature by going to Settings > Privacy > Smart TV Experience.

New comment by gricardo99 in "Leaving the Physical World"

gricardo99 — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:43:16 +0000

An incredible, lucid, and beautiful depiction of the burgeoning, inchoate world of cyberspace at the time — voicing an anxiety that echoes even louder today:

   We humans would be liberated into an Elysian condition of permanent leisure. We’d have nothing to do but hang out in our indestructible miracle-fiber jumpsuits and talk philosophy.
  Only it didn’t happen quite like that. The machines did get many of our physical jobs alright, but no one could quite figure out how to pay us   for all that hanging out.

What would John make of what’s unfolded since? Much as he envisioned and embraced, humanity poured its imagination, creativity, toil, and love into cyberspace — only for the machines to feed on it all and usher in a new, all-encompassing level of human obsolescence.

New comment by gricardo99 in "Production engineering when trading billions of dollars a day [video]"

gricardo99 — Sat, 09 May 2026 21:30:56 +0000

there’s a move now towards 24/7 trading. I guess we’ll see how the rigors of the trading environment mesh with zero down time. I’m sure the rollout will be slow and steady.

New comment by gricardo99 in "I’m joining OpenAI"

gricardo99 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:48:53 +0000

  bad at identifying business trends

I think you’re being unduly harsh on yourself. At least by the Shopify/COVID example. COVID was a black swan event, which may very well have completely changed the fortunes of companies like Shopify when online commerce surged and became vital to the economy. Shortcomings, mismanagement and bad culture can be completely papered over by growth and revenue.

Right place, right time. It’s too bad you missed out on some good fortune, but it’s a helpful reminder of how much of our paths are governed by luck. Thanks for sharing, and wishing you luck in the future.

New comment by gricardo99 in "xAI joins SpaceX"

gricardo99 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 04:03:34 +0000

not to mention that radiation hardening of chips has a big impact on cost and performance

New comment by gricardo99 in "Verizon starts requiring 365 days of paid service before it will unlock phones"

gricardo99 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 05:35:31 +0000

That’s what I thought and did this for years. However, the major carriers do offer promotions and incentives that make the phones cheaper, sometimes significantly. e.g. of recent deal from major US carriers: iPhone 16 deal for $16/month for 36 months ($576 total) versus Apple store $699.

New comment by gricardo99 in "Show HN: Geofenced chat communities anyone can create"

gricardo99 — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 07:46:42 +0000

iOS safari same issue. can’t get passed the terms

New comment by gricardo99 in "The AI Kids Take San Francisco"

gricardo99 — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 03:10:46 +0000

The AI Kids Take San Francisco

gricardo99 — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 03:10:02 +0000

Article URL: https://newyorktoday.net/the-ai-kids-take-san-francisco/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45587702

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by gricardo99 in "Designing a Low Latency 10G Ethernet Core (2023)"

gricardo99 — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 14:30:12 +0000

actually you do need another participant to take the other side of your trade. That’s not a middle man. Market makers, liquidity providers, are a key component of these markets, taking risk with their own capital (no systemic risk, no too big to fail, going to get a government is things go badly), requiring sophistication and specialization to survive in an ultra competitive environment with a high degree of uncertainty and risk exposure.

New comment by gricardo99 in "The AI Kids Take San Francisco"

gricardo99 — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 14:42:12 +0000

archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250930162317/https://newyorkto...

The AI Kids Take San Francisco

gricardo99 — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 14:40:58 +0000

Article URL: https://newyorktoday.net/the-ai-kids-take-san-francisco/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45463562

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by gricardo99 in "The AI Kids Take San Francisco"

gricardo99 — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:26:41 +0000

The AI Kids Take San Francisco

gricardo99 — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:20:53 +0000

Article URL: https://newyorktoday.net/the-ai-kids-take-san-francisco/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45427479

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by gricardo99 in "Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit"

gricardo99 — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 02:16:55 +0000

he’s clearly commenting on how the “maga gang” is characterizing the murderer. There’s no statement directly about the murderer.

New comment by gricardo99 in "Configuration files are user interfaces"

gricardo99 — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 18:28:33 +0000

With all the code syntax highlighting support as a feature, I feel it will become tempting to put code in configuration files (which some of their examples show). That just feels wrong. Code should go in code files/modules/libraries, not mixed with configuration files. If your configuration starts to become code, maybe you need to rethink your software architecture. Or perhaps KSON proves that principle to be too rigid and inferior, and leads to more intelligible, manageable software. I guess we'll have to see.

New comment by gricardo99 in "Show HN: Engineering.fyi – Search across tech engineering blogs in one place"

gricardo99 — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 14:14:52 +0000

nice concept. fyi, search feature doesn’t seem to work