Hacker News: interestpiqued

New comment by interestpiqued in "US Supreme Court drug users cannot be prohibited from firearms [pdf]"

interestpiqued — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:54:14 +0000

Unreal people don’t even read an ai summary of the case

New comment by interestpiqued in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

interestpiqued — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:12:54 +0000

I wouldn’t see it as just pure gambling. I’m not a dividend queen that really cares all That much about it. I do think we are sliding along the scale from shares having intrinsic value as an ownership stake in an income producing asset to collector cards that we track societies valuation of a company with. And at some point in the next 50 years shit will hit the fan. Unfortunately sitting it out isn’t really an option either

New comment by interestpiqued in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

interestpiqued — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:47:13 +0000

I mean that just begs the question how we got to this point. And how far detached is the public market from real value. Many shares don’t confer actual value. Hell a lot of these companies don’t pay dividends in addition to very little or no voting rights.

New comment by interestpiqued in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

interestpiqued — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:28:19 +0000

You must be a joy to work with.

New comment by interestpiqued in "Policy on the AI Exponential"

interestpiqued — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:46:28 +0000

Release date seems like a terrible x axis with how much more compute they are using. Not to mention while I like what METR is trying to measure, it is an uber specific metric. And frankly, me just complaining, they’re prompts I feel do most of the work for the AI. I’ve never gotten as detailed instructions as they give the AI for the task

New comment by interestpiqued in "Policy on the AI Exponential"

interestpiqued — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:38:00 +0000

Also I’m not denying it would have a major impact either way. But c suite have basically demanded people use ai to code. It’s not all organic

New comment by interestpiqued in "Policy on the AI Exponential"

interestpiqued — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:30:50 +0000

Yeah I’m lost by the constant use of “exponential”. What is the x and y axis when the talking heads say this?

New comment by interestpiqued in "Apple WWDC 2026 Livestream"

interestpiqued — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:27:43 +0000

I think they were just pointing out the difference between that and iOS there

New comment by interestpiqued in "Joby kicks off NYC electric air taxi demos with historic JFK flight"

interestpiqued — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:04:48 +0000

You’re probably right on crime. But I will say that both SF and Chicago(most of my experience) local train systems are constantly filled with homeless people with severe mental health issues. Generally , without fixing that a large segment of the population are never going to want to ride public transport.

New comment by interestpiqued in "U.S. Debt Tops 100% of GDP"

interestpiqued — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:39:25 +0000

GDP is literally just in dollars as a unit

New comment by interestpiqued in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

interestpiqued — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:49:58 +0000

What if I’m a farmer who wants to short whatever commodity I grow as a hedge.

New comment by interestpiqued in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

interestpiqued — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 06:38:28 +0000

I’m not saying you’re wrong. But man haves lots of people who don’t know what a war crime is really devalued the accusation. So much so I read yours and I just assume it isn’t.(again idk)

New comment by interestpiqued in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

interestpiqued — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 06:28:46 +0000

Yeah I don’t find this article particularly insightful. If we don’t have troops on the ground to prevent attacks in the straight, it would be always be vulnerable despite superiority. Shit if we don’t control the land, they could drop a bunch jet skis with bombs in the water in the middle of the night. The straight is only 21 miles wide at some points

New comment by interestpiqued in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"

interestpiqued — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:21:47 +0000

So literally what I was implying

New comment by interestpiqued in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"

interestpiqued — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:38:06 +0000

I mean you can read it in your app and they're not just stored on your phone. E2E just means in transport from what I understand.

New comment by interestpiqued in "After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes"

interestpiqued — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 05:16:45 +0000

I mean yeah it happens all the time but you need to start somewhere. But I worked in safety critical self driving firmware and rtl verification before that, so documentation was a necessity

New comment by interestpiqued in "AI coding is gambling"

interestpiqued — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:38:40 +0000

I think AI literally makes even being wrong feel like getting something done. And that is the addictive part for people.

New comment by interestpiqued in "Wired headphone sales are exploding"

interestpiqued — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 12:18:09 +0000

A bit off topic, but I sometimes wonder if OpenOffice would have become as prevalent without wireless ANC headsets be coming the default for focus.

New comment by interestpiqued in "After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes"

interestpiqued — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 23:08:19 +0000

I’m confused, are you saying that making a design plan and high level spec before hand doesn’t work?

New comment by interestpiqued in "After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes"

interestpiqued — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 05:36:17 +0000

Spec should be made before hand and agreed on by stakeholders. It says what it should do. So it’s for whoever is implementing, modifying, and/or testing the code. And unfortunately devs have a tendency of poor documentation