Hacker News: krainboltgreene

New comment by krainboltgreene in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

krainboltgreene — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:07:13 +0000

> If you give the Iranians arms, I’m sure they would be happy to fight. Have we armed anti-regime Iranians?

lmmaaaaaooo

New comment by krainboltgreene in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

krainboltgreene — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:06:04 +0000

I'm well aware of the insane perspective of Iranian monarchists in America. Frankly it's not really their fault, American interventionists have pushed them into this brainrot.

But having an opinion doesn't make it a good opinion and there is no way to say "please get my grandmother's blood on your hands for my insane vision of Iran" sanely.

New comment by krainboltgreene in "ML promises to be profoundly weird"

krainboltgreene — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:28:44 +0000

Your project vue-skuilder has 6 github action steps devoted to checking the work you do before it's allowed to go out. You do not trust yourself to get things right 100% of the time.

I am watching people trust LLM-based analysis and actions 100% of the time without checking.

New comment by krainboltgreene in "The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess"

krainboltgreene — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:26:42 +0000

Any amount of reading into how we understand brains and LLMs to work.

New comment by krainboltgreene in "ML promises to be profoundly weird"

krainboltgreene — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:25:30 +0000

> The current corpus used for training includes virtually all known material.

This is just totally incorrect. It's one of those things everyone just assumes, but there's an immense amount of known material that isn't even digitized, much less in the hands of tech companies.

New comment by krainboltgreene in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

krainboltgreene — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:36:06 +0000

Hey man, 60% of americans disapprove of the current government, that doesn't mean they want to nuke Washington DC.

New comment by krainboltgreene in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

krainboltgreene — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:25:30 +0000

> The US and Israel have been sitting on this the entire time. They don't want to do it, because it would cause near permanent economic damage to Iran.

That is such an incredible interpretation of the situation that basically requires you to ignore basically every economic problem being faced from this insanity currently and in the near future.

Sure, the US an Israel were just "too concerned" about the Iranian economy to do war crimes.

New comment by krainboltgreene in "Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter"

krainboltgreene — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 23:08:42 +0000

> Stripe needs all that byzantine fraud prevention, on top of what they had a decade ago, because they are a huge concentrated target.

This is not true. Every payment processor needs this effort because as soon as you broadcast that you're a payment processor you're going to get about 3-5 scammers a day.

As an aside I really think Mercury bank should audit their onboarding process.

New comment by krainboltgreene in "Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter"

krainboltgreene — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 23:07:15 +0000

Even if that was true literally no payment processor cares about what a small project worries about and they never will.

New comment by krainboltgreene in "Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter"

krainboltgreene — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:12:31 +0000

You can't really do better than stripe. The onboarding overhead is because of fraud and the costs are basically barely above interchange.

New comment by krainboltgreene in "AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradox"

krainboltgreene — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 06:38:34 +0000

There's an argument to be made that a "return on investment by way of eliminating all workers" is a reasonable result for the capitalists.

New comment by krainboltgreene in "Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files"

krainboltgreene — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 21:45:37 +0000

They're using jmail because it's source material. An LLM by definition is not source material. I can't believe you're openly saying this.

New comment by krainboltgreene in "Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files"

krainboltgreene — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 21:44:38 +0000

Yeah but that's fucking twitter and reddit, this is supposed to be a verifiable source.

New comment by krainboltgreene in "Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files"

krainboltgreene — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 19:37:29 +0000

This feels like an insanely bad idea.

New comment by krainboltgreene in "Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs"

krainboltgreene — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 06:21:34 +0000

It does provide that, but currently I keep hearing people use it not as an analog but as a direct description.

New comment by krainboltgreene in "Hacking Moltbook"

krainboltgreene — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 09:14:58 +0000

Did it or did it pretend to?

New comment by krainboltgreene in "Hacking Moltbook"

krainboltgreene — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 09:14:21 +0000

> The solution is proxy everything.

Who knew it'd be so simple.

New comment by krainboltgreene in "They lied to you. Building software is hard"

krainboltgreene — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 21:56:05 +0000

> LLMs have clearly accelerated development for the most skilled developers.

Have they so clearly? What's the evidence?

New comment by krainboltgreene in "Software is mostly all you need"

krainboltgreene — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 02:00:23 +0000

> I think that's also true of people

Reductionist positions seem to always pop up in these threads.

New comment by krainboltgreene in "Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal"

krainboltgreene — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 09:07:17 +0000

And? Realizing that you can't convince me that punishing the population is correct, you fall back to "Well a bunch of nation states are kowtowing to American hegemony" which is frankly pathetic.