Hacker News: jorblumesea

New comment by jorblumesea in "CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s"

jorblumesea — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 22:21:51 +0000

This is a little indirect? A Colombian bottle company 25% owned by Coke suppressed union activity. awful but hardly what the headlines are stating

New comment by jorblumesea in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

jorblumesea — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:56:15 +0000

the people with the hiring and budget aren't technical people, usually are not engineers or have that background, and are incentivized to cut costs. It's not that complex, good engineering is expensive and somewhat of a cost center.

It's the same behavior around consulting firms, code boot camps, and now AI.

New comment by jorblumesea in "Woman Pulled over at Gunpoint Twice After Flock Camera Glitch"

jorblumesea — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:32:44 +0000

as if the other, 20th century surveillance states were so accurate and effective

New comment by jorblumesea in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"

jorblumesea — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:58:54 +0000

This is kinda silly, AI is just a faster re-tranmission of information but it's not fundamentally different from stackoverflow or older styles of communication. If you wrote a blog and some kid in 2025 spouting opinions that weren't their own. it sucks that right now it's controlled by a large corpo but open source models also train on the internet corpus.

freedom of knowledge and open sourcing should always exist, and if anything, even more important in the AI era.

New comment by jorblumesea in "A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands"

jorblumesea — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 20:55:20 +0000

resi has been drained pretty hard in the last 10 years, this just adds more fuel to the fire.

New comment by jorblumesea in "Critical Minerals: Reducing U.S. import reliance with substitution and recycling"

jorblumesea — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 17:21:37 +0000

great distraction for the masses from the files

New comment by jorblumesea in "ICE to Pay Thomson Reuters $125M to Find Voter Fraud"

jorblumesea — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:41:07 +0000

sure as if laws apply anymore. who enforces any of this when the DOJ is run by the president's personal lawyer?

New comment by jorblumesea in "Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)"

jorblumesea — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:05:54 +0000

most bricke and mortar should have at least 1mg tablets, and you can break those in half. or break a 3mg into 3rds. not perfect but should work.

New comment by jorblumesea in "Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)"

jorblumesea — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:02:15 +0000

sure if you're just taking it as a dietary supplement, but clearly OP is using it as a form of sleeping pill. which is also fine but just seems like mental gymnastics.

New comment by jorblumesea in "Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)"

jorblumesea — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:27:26 +0000

It's funny you talk about treating the root cause, and take magnesium, instead of addressing the workplace stress factor.

New comment by jorblumesea in "Claude Code is steganographically marking requests"

jorblumesea — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:00:46 +0000

well if you ask claude how to implement something, you may not always get the optimal solution. this feels like something claude would spit back at you given a basic prompt

New comment by jorblumesea in "U.S. science is in chaos"

jorblumesea — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:22:42 +0000

expat is usually synonymous with fire/retire early. most people move to spain or portugal and see their purchasing power multiply.

New comment by jorblumesea in "U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears"

jorblumesea — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:32:59 +0000

project 2025 is also just about the wholesale destruction of the opposition, including academia.

New comment by jorblumesea in "Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration"

jorblumesea — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:17:06 +0000

anecdotal but a good number of people have clearly stopped working as much or quiet quit. some even left the company or the industry. CEOs are also telling everyone to 5x their output, AI will replace them.

Whatever productivity gains models are giving us is being eaten away by other factors.

New comment by jorblumesea in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

jorblumesea — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:25:04 +0000

if you've ever bought and sold a house, you will know people who look at deeds and titles aren't very detail oriented. they even have title insurance because it happens so often.

New comment by jorblumesea in "Confidential submission of draft S-1 to the SEC"

jorblumesea — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:04:37 +0000

that's not the issue, Elon is just a petulant child that is losing the ai game ever since he left OAI. Elon wanted full control, and that dispute over control is the central issue.

Elon is 100% a for profit person, it's just a 10 year rivalry between Sam and Elon.

New comment by jorblumesea in "India's surprise baby bust"

jorblumesea — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:26:50 +0000

most retirement systems assume at least stable population growth. if the system can't sustain itself, debt borrowing can be done but eventually creditors will come calling.

what it means in practical terms is the destruction of the modern social safety net. some declining birth rates are ok but places like Japan, Spain, and South Korea look disastrous.

New comment by jorblumesea in "Iran Shock Jolts Asia and Europe to Speed Up Energy Transition"

jorblumesea — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:22:52 +0000

wow, that's really high. average price for the us is maybe $0.25 kwh adjusted for AUD

New comment by jorblumesea in "Iran Shock Jolts Asia and Europe to Speed Up Energy Transition"

jorblumesea — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:06:15 +0000

very jealous of how cheap AUS solar prices are. < $1 AUD per watt after rebate

New comment by jorblumesea in "Robinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks"

jorblumesea — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:58:35 +0000

awesome, now you can spend your money burning tokens to enable burning your retirement