Hacker News: lvl155

New comment by lvl155 in "Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos"

lvl155 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:44:23 +0000

I actually think that’s warranted. And if you used it to poke around, you would also agree.

New comment by lvl155 in "Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?"

lvl155 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 22:46:11 +0000

This is like asking why isn’t the US better at Cricket.

New comment by lvl155 in "SQLite is all you need for durable workflows"

lvl155 — Fri, 29 May 2026 22:02:35 +0000

And all you need is pen and paper to do calculations.

New comment by lvl155 in "Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection"

lvl155 — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:26:19 +0000

Adults ruined LEGO. There I said it.

New comment by lvl155 in "AMD pulls a bait-and-switch on Linux users with Vivado licensing changes"

lvl155 — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:35:40 +0000

AMD is not a good company. They stopped innovating after Intel was put down. Except, now Intel has govt backing while AMD will face significantly more competition from not only x86 but arm. Stock price says otherwise but I think they had more than enough time to catch up to Nvidia and simply refused to compete.

New comment by lvl155 in "I’ve joined Anthropic"

lvl155 — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:45:45 +0000

I think this signals game over in the arms race.

New comment by lvl155 in "Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense"

lvl155 — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:00:12 +0000

Unfortunately insider trading happens all the time in commodities and isn’t necessarily illegal. It depends.

New comment by lvl155 in "OpenAI's o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors"

lvl155 — Sun, 03 May 2026 20:55:18 +0000

I’ve some family in medicine and it scares me how much they now rely on AI. Some even quote it like Bible.

New comment by lvl155 in "Ti-84 Evo"

lvl155 — Fri, 01 May 2026 21:00:21 +0000

Biggest ripoff in academics.

There should be a cheap open source calculators for schools and exams. It’s ridiculous that TI is still charging this.

New comment by lvl155 in "AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it"

lvl155 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:38:01 +0000

95% of the population is educated to think inside of the box and just rely on repetition/memorization. There’s not a lot of thinking happening in this world outside of a very small group of people. AI is not going to change that reality at least not until we educate our children for the AI age.

New comment by lvl155 in "U.S. Mint Buys Drug Cartel Gold and Sells It as 'American'"

lvl155 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:53:57 +0000

Gold has been a vehicle for cartels for a very long time. It’s shifted to crypto in recent years but gold is still the cleanest (and most economical) way to clean money.

New comment by lvl155 in "The hottest college major [Computer Science] hit a wall. What happened?"

lvl155 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:49:10 +0000

So you hire people who “don’t even own their own computers?” You might be the problem then.

New comment by lvl155 in "Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage"

lvl155 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:42:58 +0000

Constant complaints about Anthropic. Not much on OAI/Codex. It seems people should just use OAI and come back when they realize compute isn’t free elsewhere.

New comment by lvl155 in "Jack Dorsey says Block employees now bring prototypes, not slides, to meetings"

lvl155 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:54:28 +0000

Prototypes of what? What new products came out of Block in the past six years since pandemic? This makes it sound like Block is a place of innovations when it’s just a rent seeking enterprise.

New comment by lvl155 in "15 years, one server, 8GB RAM and 500k users – how Webminal refuses to die"

lvl155 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:48:57 +0000

You just might break that 10K visit from Spanish tech blog in 2017.

New comment by lvl155 in "Apple Business"

lvl155 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:01:28 +0000

I detest Apple for constantly bothering me at the store for small business sales pitch. Apple Store experience has really gone down the hill.

New comment by lvl155 in "What makes Intel Optane stand out (2023)"

lvl155 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 18:18:18 +0000

It’s the best OS drive especially p5800x.

New comment by lvl155 in "Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters"

lvl155 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:25:03 +0000

My experience was quite different. It was on par with open source models from China (and it was priced as much) and could never replace Sonnet/Opus/GPT5.x.

New comment by lvl155 in "Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters"

lvl155 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:22:25 +0000

xAI showed me that it’s really still OAI and Anthropic (which is basically the OG devs). No matter how much money you throw at the problem, the entire space is still in the hands of a few.

New comment by lvl155 in "Lego's 0.002mm specification and its implications for manufacturing (2025)"

lvl155 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:45:41 +0000

Worth mentioning that tolerance is that low for multi-stud pieces. For an individual stud it’s closer to 0.02mm but as you add more studs tolerance spec goes up.