Hacker News: mikelitoris

New comment by mikelitoris in "Some car companies are operating without regard for a declining customer base"

mikelitoris — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 05:41:43 +0000

It was going so well until it mentioned VTOL aircraft. It's been 100 years of this sci-fi dream man... People need to understand that nobody wants drones or "flying cars" above their head or property...

New comment by mikelitoris in "“We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”"

mikelitoris — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 21:04:10 +0000

“Hey stop stealing my data. I stole it fair and square.”

New comment by mikelitoris in "SpaceX bond worth 10% less than issue price – heading for junk bond status"

mikelitoris — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:37:41 +0000

Sounds like no true scotsman.

Remember kids: socialism is judged by how it failed in real life, capitalism is judged by how perfect it is in theory

New comment by mikelitoris in "The Future Worth Building Is Human"

mikelitoris — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:22:42 +0000

This has 1984 “war is peace” vibes, coming from an AI company.

New comment by mikelitoris in "AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit"

mikelitoris — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:13:13 +0000

I love(!) how these dev!kits are for devs in silicon valley making 300k+ a year and not any other dev in any other part of the world.

Satire if you can’t tell…

New comment by mikelitoris in "Guy in his basement creates a drug to treat Alzheimer's disease using AI"

mikelitoris — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 13:15:32 +0000

I feel like if you asked it how to make nerve gas or something that would trigger it. But don’t do that.

New comment by mikelitoris in "Guy in his basement creates a drug to treat Alzheimer's disease using AI"

mikelitoris — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 12:41:29 +0000

How did LLMs not immediately shut down for “biosensitive” prompt or whatever bs they build into them nowadays?

New comment by mikelitoris in "Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning"

mikelitoris — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 01:26:32 +0000

I love a good self reference

New comment by mikelitoris in "Millimeter wave technology drills 100 meters into granite"

mikelitoris — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 01:04:54 +0000

Impressive, but how long did it take to drill 100 meters? I didn't see a mention of that.

New comment by mikelitoris in "SpaceX sheds $400B in market value as debut rally hits reverse"

mikelitoris — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 03:46:56 +0000

Why don’t they name it: SpaceX + X (twtr) + xAI = SpaceXXXAI

New comment by mikelitoris in "Petition against Meta's employee training data collection for ML models"

mikelitoris — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 05:26:22 +0000

>Surveillance for thee but not for me...

Yeah, no thanks (or "how the turn tables")

New comment by mikelitoris in "Why Can't Walnut Creek Build 3 Bedroom Apartments with a Playground?"

mikelitoris — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:15:02 +0000

“A self driven car cannot block anyone in. "Humans park their own cars" will be true for maybe five more years“ Ok “human parked”, apologies. Maybe not as out of touch but still pretty out of touch.

New comment by mikelitoris in "Why Can't Walnut Creek Build 3 Bedroom Apartments with a Playground?"

mikelitoris — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:07:00 +0000

“Human driven cars are going to be around for about 5 years” is one of the most out of touch quotes I’ve seen this month.

Also, all of this is about NIMBYism, which is about house prices being inflated to make up most of households’ wealth, which is not fixable without triggering a massive wealth redistribution. Most western societies are stuck in a very non-ideal Nash equilibrium and it is not going to be solved any time soon.

New comment by mikelitoris in "Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau"

mikelitoris — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 17:19:10 +0000

But why?? Differential privacy works? It's not even "woke" or whatever these people perceive. It's just math man...

New comment by mikelitoris in "How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry"

mikelitoris — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:46:54 +0000

Which doctor/clinic did you go to?

New comment by mikelitoris in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

mikelitoris — Sat, 23 May 2026 19:13:44 +0000

It’s a smokescreen people use to claim it’s not racist. It reminds me of that south park episode with the cable company representatives with velcro pockets. “Oh you want to migrate here legally? Oh it will take 3 years and it requires an active employment offer at application time and on arrival? Oh no… tell me more”

New comment by mikelitoris in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

mikelitoris — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:34:17 +0000

This is what a declining empire looks like

New comment by mikelitoris in "Offenders sentenced up to 10 years for spying on TSMC"

mikelitoris — Mon, 04 May 2026 21:41:14 +0000

I guess Taiwanese lawmakers deemed this law necessary for national security purposes, but this would not fly elsewhere. We already have something to protect trade secrets: it’s called a patent. If you don’t patent it, and a competitor lures an employee with enough knowledge, everything is fair game, as it should be. Aka if you like it you should put a patent on it.

Edit: why would you downvote this? Jeez…

New comment by mikelitoris in "A more efficient implementation of Shor's algorithm"

mikelitoris — Sun, 03 May 2026 10:28:02 +0000

Could be one of the intents, but the main intent is reputation building.

New comment by mikelitoris in "Spirit Airlines Is Winding Down All Operations"

mikelitoris — Sat, 02 May 2026 07:09:03 +0000

Is this an actual question? I’ll answer it anyway: because they had nothing to do with financial market risk shenanigans and just wanted to get somewhere.