Hacker News: lvl155

New comment by lvl155 in "Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study"

lvl155 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:22:20 +0000

Let’s be honest, it was DOA. Even Gruber admitted to it later. The whole thing was basically a scam.

Edit: I will never understand why people think ACA was so great. It was a bad policy because they couldn’t get it through whole. They passed it with all the compromises that made it DOA. You can’t fix something when you are still in denial about it being bad. ACA is not a transition to universal healthcare when you allowed massive consolidation in the space with some of the biggest companies in this country. Good luck deconstructing that mess.

New comment by lvl155 in "Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study"

lvl155 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:19:50 +0000

You mean obstacles from politicians who took money from the healthcare industry. That’s how we ended up with PPACA and they used it to justify massive cost increases and consolidations. They passed that junk to save face and now healthcare is far worse. But we “closed” the donut hole, right? Quite literally made everyone worse off and no one wants to talk about it. I still can’t believe they allowed payors such as UNH to buy up everything without ANY proper investigations during that period.

New comment by lvl155 in "Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+"

lvl155 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:17:40 +0000

I’ve stopped using OpenRouter this year. And I stopped using different models for testing. Anthropic won. I’ve even let my OpenAI API credits expire (which is a ridiculous policy in itself) because I had no need for them.

New comment by lvl155 in "Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models"

lvl155 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 19:33:10 +0000

All the money in the world and Zuck can’t buy anything worthwhile in AI. The problem at Meta is really Zuck taking interest in AI. Perhaps the adults should steer him back toward VR unless they all left.

New comment by lvl155 in "Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era"

lvl155 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 21:31:57 +0000

If you’re going to use AI, why use charting libraries? Just build it off of D3. By the way, latest models still struggle with charts/diagrams even if you specify your design system.

New comment by lvl155 in "Did they ghost you?"

lvl155 — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:46:47 +0000

I was once ghosted mid interview day. They left me in conference room and completely forgot. I was going to walk out after 30 minutes but I just wanted to see how long I could stay there. It took them five hours. And this was in a “highly secure” building so not sure how they invite someone to interview and let them just hangout inside the building for five hours.

New comment by lvl155 in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

lvl155 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:47:11 +0000

What if I told you writing in all caps is even better for your brain.

New comment by lvl155 in "Intel Starts Shipping High-NA EUV Silicon"

lvl155 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 12:47:37 +0000

Basically most of the technology was US govt funded at some point. Now the Dutch can just leech off of that. I guess that’s what they’re good at considering their long history with VOC and “mercantilism”.

New comment by lvl155 in "Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude"

lvl155 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 11:54:31 +0000

So they used pirated materials to train their models but others can’t use their models for training even if you pay.

New comment by lvl155 in "Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA"

lvl155 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 23:16:41 +0000

It is not SOTA. Give me a break. Sure, run it on Cerebras to get speed but that’s pretty much its advantage.

New comment by lvl155 in "Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting"

lvl155 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:34:16 +0000

As much as I detest Zuck, he was right about Twitter guys.

New comment by lvl155 in "Blender 5.2 LTS"

lvl155 — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:27:27 +0000

Even if you never use Blender, I highly recommend you to donate to the organization if you happen to donate to non-profit tech organizations/projects.

New comment by lvl155 in "Blender 5.2 LTS"

lvl155 — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:24:53 +0000

It’d pretty much Houdini plus render engine of your choice. Blender will eventually get there especially if someone rolls out an AI module.

New comment by lvl155 in "GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization"

lvl155 — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 14:22:41 +0000

Intelligence was always relatively cheap. You can pick up a phone and get answers for free in most academic settings.

New comment by lvl155 in "NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook"

lvl155 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:58:59 +0000

Company run by consultants and MBAs.

New comment by lvl155 in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"

lvl155 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:28:08 +0000

Say what you want about these Chinese models but they sure create competition and urgency in the space.

New comment by lvl155 in "Codex Micro"

lvl155 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:13:58 +0000

If this is a sign of what’s to come from OAI, it’s going to be worse than Meta devices.

New comment by lvl155 in "Completing a computer science degree on Coursera"

lvl155 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 22:38:14 +0000

CS degree is not all that fun. You’re better off doing math and just learning to code on the side.

New comment by lvl155 in "Completing a computer science degree on Coursera"

lvl155 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 22:36:50 +0000

To be fair, you do research at school.

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.