Hacker News: hattmall

New comment by hattmall in "OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon"

hattmall — Thu, 21 May 2026 05:22:54 +0000

I believe, but could be wrong, is that the big change is the time frame for index and managed funds buy in. It used to be a year, but it's much shorter now, like 2 weeks. Which means as long as they can maintain a high market cap relative to their exchange for that time period they will be stabilized by institutional funds and basically crowd sourcing any losses to the public and massively cashing out the internal pre-ipo investors.

At least that's my understanding of the current market dynamics regarding IPOS, if I'm wrong that would be great, and if someone else would explain it even better.

New comment by hattmall in "Declining America"

hattmall — Thu, 21 May 2026 05:18:38 +0000

>there’s a significant risk of an extremely negative outcome. I have a family to support and really can’t afford that risk.

I can understand the principles and the bit of Canadian pride, but ultimately it's rather hyperbolic. Even on principle, the fact is Canada and the US are strong and long lasting allies with a very obvious power imbalance, and this sort of pouting over commentary is more fitting to members of an elementary school kickball team than a professional organization on the cutting edge of technology.

New comment by hattmall in "Declining America"

hattmall — Thu, 21 May 2026 05:10:10 +0000

Ah, good old Benjamin "Fake News" Franklin, or should I say SILENCE DOGOOD.

New comment by hattmall in "Declining America"

hattmall — Thu, 21 May 2026 05:04:11 +0000

No, if they ask just give them the handle of any accounts that are currently on your phone. Just remove anything from your phone or computer if you think it might be an issue, like if you are sharing ISIS videos and stuff. As a citizen you don't have to do anything, but if they ask and you don't let them look at a device they can keep it to inspect it and let you go.

New comment by hattmall in "Declining America"

hattmall — Thu, 21 May 2026 04:52:05 +0000

Really? Like Italy, Germany, Japan, etc can be trusted but after, I'm not even sure what exactly, the US is fully and forever untrustworthy??

New comment by hattmall in "Declining America"

hattmall — Thu, 21 May 2026 04:49:34 +0000

Damn, a few years of Trump and your solution is to dissolve the US? Really?

New comment by hattmall in "Don't Sign in with Google"

hattmall — Tue, 19 May 2026 03:14:44 +0000

We need to have an entirely different set of regulations and expectations for entities in excess of a certain size. I think 50-100 million in revenue would be a fairly reasonable starting point but even lower would be acceptable. Certainly at a billion dollars you should be able to speak to someone who can resolve or escalate any issue with in less than a working day.

New comment by hattmall in "The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization"

hattmall — Sun, 17 May 2026 17:48:58 +0000

I think you are still vastly misunderstanding what the war on drugs concerns. This level of overdose deaths is a problem, but not really what the struggle is really about.

New comment by hattmall in "SANA-WM, a 2.6B open-source world model for 1-minute 720p video"

hattmall — Sun, 17 May 2026 16:43:17 +0000

>I have a collection of vintage microwave cookbooks

Of course you do! Please take the time to upload and share that's an amazingly niche knowledge pocket.

New comment by hattmall in "SANA-WM, a 2.6B open-source world model for 1-minute 720p video"

hattmall — Sat, 16 May 2026 22:31:31 +0000

Tbh, most people actually don't know how to microwave. The typical microwave users just trys to "one-shot" it by punching in a time and using high heat.

Proper microwaving is what gave rise to the entire concept of "fast casual" restaurants, famously AppleBees (or "club B's" in the late night focus iterations!)

Complex entrees that could be partially cooked and frozen. Then rapidly microwaved on a custom program that varies the timing and intensity of cooking. Then finished on a grill or conventional heat source for less than 1 minutes.

Microwaving food generally produces a lower quality finished product. But you can take a similar approach at home. The short cut is to just double the cooking time and cook at 50% power. Then throw whatever the item is in a preheated pan for about 1 minute if it's applicable. Other variations are possible too, I air fry finish most things like chicken nuggets, tater tots etc and the difference is considerable while still offer a significantly reduced cooking time.

New comment by hattmall in "Trade Dollars with other startups. Book it as revenue"

hattmall — Sat, 16 May 2026 02:50:32 +0000

How would this reduce taxes? If I normally charge 20k for widget Z but only invoice company A 10k because they will see me widget B for 10k and we trade widgets, there is no taxable event. If company A was willing to pay the 20k instead obviously I would rather have that even if it creates 10k taxable income because profit.

Investor fraud is much more likely if neither company actually needs each other's widgets and it's just to pump revenue.

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

hattmall — Sat, 16 May 2026 02:22:32 +0000

How do you find this type of work??

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

hattmall — Sat, 16 May 2026 02:21:23 +0000

I'd really like to know how he won contracts, just in general. Did he have some connections. And he doesn't even know how to get it to run on a server by himself? There's millions of people that can do that, if he can win contracts why worry about vibe coding at all, just hire someone to do it. Winning contracts is the challenge in my view.

New comment by hattmall in "The Dating App Swipe Is Dying. What Comes Next May Be Worse"

hattmall — Thu, 14 May 2026 12:53:14 +0000

I find that so incredibly hard to believe, in my experience it's like the primary purpose of people in relationships past a certain age is to play matchmaker.

It seems inevitable if you are consistently around people and known to be single that they will try to set you up with *someone.

New comment by hattmall in "Leaving the Physical World"

hattmall — Thu, 14 May 2026 12:42:27 +0000

That's a weird take, IMO, the physical world is much more oriented around not being wealthy and you can still find plenty of community online.

And your English seems fine.

90s / early 2000s internet was awesome though.

New comment by hattmall in "A sentimental tour of late 1990s and early 2000s hacking tools"

hattmall — Thu, 14 May 2026 04:13:28 +0000

Netbus was everywhere. I would just scan random subnets and find open servers. I had one file bundled with a subseven server that somehow got passed around extensively to the point that I was constantly getting ICQ notifications of people being online that I had no idea who they were.

One of my favorite tools though was the Munga Bunga HTTP brute forcer. Uncovered tons of awesome hidden parts of websites.

Also the trick where you could specify a domaing like https://freemoneygiveaway.hotmail.com@192.168.1.1 or whatever and people would think it was some legitimate Hotmail thing and dump in their credentials.

New comment by hattmall in "The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization"

hattmall — Thu, 14 May 2026 03:54:23 +0000

Yes, The fear with the war on drugs was that a large majority of the population would become addicted to hard drugs. The fear was the the US population would become like China in the 1800s and the communist aligned countries where drugs were produced would have massive trade and power imbalances over the US population. China had as much as 25% of the population addicted to British opium in the 1800s. The US war on drugs has been very successful in keeping the percentage of Americans abusing highly addictive drugs very low.

Imagine the strength of the cartels with 10-20x the customer base and far more frequent usage among them.

New comment by hattmall in "The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization"

hattmall — Thu, 14 May 2026 03:43:35 +0000

You would need like 1,000,000,000,000 SQFT of solar panels to even begin to approximate a space based directed energy weapon that has a fraction of the effect of a nuclear weapon. Tens of thousands of times more than all that have ever been produced on earth. And then you have to move them to space.

New comment by hattmall in "Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent"

hattmall — Thu, 14 May 2026 03:20:55 +0000

Doesn't really sound like high trust, more like high risk to reward ratio.

New comment by hattmall in "Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent"

hattmall — Thu, 14 May 2026 03:13:27 +0000

Sort of, but there's a difference, the rise in anti-shoplifting stuff is in contrast to a decline in things like burglar bars. Stealing from residential property is seen as mostly the domain of drug addicts. Stealing from a multi-national corporation doesn't have the same stigma.