Hacker News: higginsnigginshttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=higginsnigginsHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 06 May 2026 08:25:51 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by higginsniggins in "Mike: open-source legal AI"]]>Beautiful website.

]]>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:49:58 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47958639higginsnigginshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47958639https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47958639<![CDATA[New comment by higginsniggins in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"]]>There's literally an ancient text called `The Satire of the Trades` which bacially just pumps up nice it was to be the ancient world equivalent of a white collar worker.

]]>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 17:18:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47825877higginsnigginshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47825877https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47825877<![CDATA[New comment by higginsniggins in "Show HN: Viral Potential Predictor"]]>According to your research paper you should have made this post a "Tell HN:" rather then a "Show HN:", lol

]]>Sun, 28 Dec 2025 03:21:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46408071higginsnigginshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46408071https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46408071<![CDATA[New comment by higginsniggins in "Why outcome-billing makes sense for AI Agents"]]>That's litterlly the job of a founder. You talk to cusomters and learn from them.

]]>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:49:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46304591higginsnigginshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46304591https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46304591<![CDATA[New comment by higginsniggins in "Why outcome-billing makes sense for AI Agents"]]>If your customer base is so broud that you can't define a clear outcome for your nitche, your company probably isnt focused enough. Especially for a start up.

]]>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:48:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46304573higginsnigginshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46304573https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46304573<![CDATA[New comment by higginsniggins in "“Super secure” messaging app leaks everyone's phone number"]]>When you go the website the first line is literally “Say hello to Freedom Chat—a next-generation messaging app that keeps your conversations actually private

]]>Mon, 15 Dec 2025 20:58:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46280547higginsnigginshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46280547https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46280547<![CDATA[New comment by higginsniggins in "DeepSeek uses banned Nvidia chips for AI model, report says"]]>Bob is a citizen of X, the site formerly known as twitter where their are no laws

]]>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 19:49:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46222721higginsnigginshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46222721https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46222721<![CDATA[New comment by higginsniggins in "DeepSeek uses banned Nvidia chips for AI model, report says"]]>How about and.... this might be too radical for you but here me out...... no one with "dominance for humanity overall"

]]>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 19:43:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46222629higginsnigginshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46222629https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46222629<![CDATA[New comment by higginsniggins in "Show HN: I built an interactive HN Simulator"]]>https://news.ysimulator.run/item/498

]]>Mon, 24 Nov 2025 23:55:48 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46040835higginsnigginshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46040835https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46040835<![CDATA[New comment by higginsniggins in "Using Generative AI in Content Production"]]>Any one with a brain knows it is not stolen, but nevertheless the fact that people will claim so is a risk.

]]>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 23:33:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45882341higginsnigginshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45882341https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45882341<![CDATA[New comment by higginsniggins in "Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k"]]>Honestly, that's not a bad idea for a start up. Maybe a marketplace where people can see what things cost in different places and book a surgery directly.

]]>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 17:33:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45736009higginsnigginshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45736009https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45736009<![CDATA[New comment by higginsniggins in "Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia"]]>"attack on economic activity of the competitors"

Thats competition. It is a feature of markets.

not a bug.

]]>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 04:25:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45576244higginsnigginshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45576244https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45576244<![CDATA[New comment by higginsniggins in "Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia"]]>A free market just means that people are allowed to buy and sell what they want. If a government decides to help some industries that is irrelevant.

It stops being free when government attacks economic activity, not when it promotes it.

]]>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 00:11:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45574769higginsnigginshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45574769https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45574769<![CDATA[New comment by higginsniggins in "AI and the Future of American Politics"]]>Ok, but If elections are decided by the small swing group, wouldnt that mean a small targeted impact from AI would could *more* effective not less? If all it needs to do it have a 1 percent of impact that makes a huge difference.

]]>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 17:43:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45571209higginsnigginshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45571209https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45571209<![CDATA[New comment by higginsniggins in "Figure 03, our 3rd generation humanoid robot"]]>who do you think spins "grand illusions" if not your "high priest" who dosn't even know you exist.

]]>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 21:19:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45533214higginsnigginshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45533214https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45533214<![CDATA[New comment by higginsniggins in "The publishing industry has a gambling problem"]]>Isn’t that the exact same case for software though?

It seems interesting to me the one of the highest paying professions- software engineer and the lowest- author are both that way because of scalability.

]]>Wed, 08 Oct 2025 02:45:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45511501higginsnigginshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45511501https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45511501<![CDATA[New comment by higginsniggins in "Florida student asks ChatGPT how to kill his friend, ends up in jail: deputies"]]>I don't think this is what he had in mind in trying to jailbreak the program...

]]>Sun, 05 Oct 2025 19:29:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45484464higginsnigginshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45484464https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45484464<![CDATA[New comment by higginsniggins in "Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available"]]>Unfortunately, the algorithm to unhash it is written in smoke signals

]]>Sun, 05 Oct 2025 19:16:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45484346higginsnigginshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45484346https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45484346<![CDATA[New comment by higginsniggins in "The collapse of the econ PhD job market"]]>Dont forget the worlds oldest profession.

]]>Fri, 03 Oct 2025 18:10:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45465940higginsnigginshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45465940https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45465940<![CDATA[New comment by higginsniggins in "Chatbox app is back on the US app store"]]>how is this different then t3chat?

]]>Sat, 13 Sep 2025 04:45:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45229375higginsnigginshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45229375https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45229375