Hacker News: harambae

New comment by harambae in "Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future"

harambae — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:04:25 +0000

> Rich white man's paradise

The majority of new billionaires are either Chinese or Indian [0] so at some point you’ll need to update your race-based hatred (if you feel passionately about it) to remain accurate

[0] https://www.hurun.net/en-us/info/detail?num=FTJ5PSSPOWOF

AI mines 500 years of Spanish colonial records to find hidden wrecks, lost cargo

harambae — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 04:25:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-company-hiring-a-literal-pirate-to-salvage-sunken-treasure-found-by-artificial-intelligence-pays-up-to-usd500k-a-year-mining-80-million-pages-of-spanish-colonial-records-to-find-undiscovered-wrecks-and-lost-cargo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49356812

Points: 3

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Chatbots are doing the work of Congress with little oversight

harambae — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 22:03:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/08/13/chatbots-are-doing-work-congress-with-little-oversight/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49292408

Points: 5

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Scientists find 200k barrels of radioactive waste in the ocean

harambae — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:39:23 +0000

Article URL: https://geekspin.co/scientists-find-200000-barrels-of-radioactive-waste/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49260859

Points: 4

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New comment by harambae in "'Pervert glasses': Backlash against Meta's smart glasses grows"

harambae — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:26:43 +0000

Skill issue.

New comment by harambae in "U.S. Sees Iran as Likely Behind Cyberattack on Minnesota Water Systems"

harambae — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 21:35:33 +0000

>And with the reckless/wanton damage the US is doing to civilian infrastructure in Iran, I think the only sane position is to brace for something much worse, inevitably.

We should have critical infrastructure secured whether or not Iran gets super mega big mad.

It's like when the guy taunted the tiger at the SF zoo and then it turned out the tiger could make it over the wall if it was sufficiently pissed off. Not the way to design any of this.

The pope's prayer app has been leaking its users' info for months

harambae — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 18:56:49 +0000

Article URL: https://san.com/cc/the-popes-prayer-app-has-been-leaking-its-users-info-for-months/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49040159

Points: 1

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4,500 Google Employees Sign Petition Demanding Layoff Protections

harambae — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 22:42:19 +0000

Article URL: https://abc7news.com/post/4500-google-employees-sign-petition-demanding-layoff-protections/19522280/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48952984

Points: 6

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New comment by harambae in "At least 105 past YC founders have worked at OpenAI and Anthropic"

harambae — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:22:22 +0000

AI/ML can make the pauses, intonation, and context pronunciation (it is "bass" the fish or the guitar?) more natural/correct I'm sure.

Now whether you actually WANT your AI voice to sound completely indistinguishable from a human voice is another story. I personally wish it would remain differentiable forever, but there's no real way to enforce that.

George Lucas says rejecting AI is like rejecting cars in favour of horses

harambae — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 05:07:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/george-lucas-says-rejecting-ai-is-like-rejecting-cars-in-favour-of-horses-theres-nothing-you-can-do-about-it-its-the-future/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48916503

Points: 2

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Amazon Studios Won't Release Movie It Made That Makes Tech Billionaires Look Bad

harambae — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 16:32:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.showbiz411.com/2026/06/19/jeff-bezoss-amazon-studios-wont-release-movie-it-made-about-sam-altman-and-chatgpt-that-makes-all-the-tech-billionaires-look-bad

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48600364

Points: 6

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San Andreas fault reaches highest stress level in 1k years

harambae — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 02:44:25 +0000

Article URL: https://mauinow.com/2026/06/15/san-andreas-fault-reaches-highest-stress-level-in-1000-years/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48549895

Points: 9

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New comment by harambae in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

harambae — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:15:35 +0000

>It wasn’t that long ago when Facebook had to get special permission from the government to stay private until they got to $100 billion.

is this true? There was the "Jumpstart Our Business Startups" (JOBS) Act, signed by Obama around that time that changed the maximum number of private investors or whatever, but was special permission given to Facebook?

Do more Europeans die of summer heat than Americans die of guns?

harambae — Fri, 29 May 2026 01:17:52 +0000

Article URL: https://hannahritchie.substack.com/p/heat-guns-america-europe

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48317789

Points: 5

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New comment by harambae in "FBI arrests CIA official with $40M in gold bars in his home"

harambae — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:58:09 +0000

Not that it matters, but I think it's closer to 600 lbs.

$40M /( $4.5k / oz) and then (1 lbs / 16 oz)

Erin Brockovich Asks Americans for Help as She Launches Data Center Map

harambae — Wed, 27 May 2026 06:15:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.newsweek.com/erin-brockovich-asks-americans-for-help-as-she-launches-data-center-map-11989813

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48290353

Points: 2

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West Coast Cities Turn to Vacancy Taxes to Grapple with Housing Crisis

harambae — Sun, 24 May 2026 19:52:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theurbanist.org/west-coast-cities-turn-to-vacancy-taxes-to-grapple-with-housing-crisis/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48260448

Points: 50

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House Passes Housing Bill, Uniting on a Measure to Bring Down Costs

harambae — Thu, 21 May 2026 02:09:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/us/politics/housing-bill-house-senate-trump.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48216966

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

New comment by harambae in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

harambae — Sun, 17 May 2026 08:06:24 +0000

> No wonder they need to lay people off!

He clearly works at Apple, and they aren't laying people off.

New comment by harambae in "First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5"

harambae — Fri, 15 May 2026 20:52:55 +0000

> replay of Y2K, where, compared to the warnings, not lot happened

My dad was on one of the many Y2K teams that major tech companies had to make sure nothing went wrong. I feel like history may have undersold what could've been if not for considerable effort leading up to Jan 1, 2000.