Hacker News: mikeodds

New comment by mikeodds in "Florida sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over AI risks"

mikeodds — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 06:02:41 +0000

Not sure how this doesn’t seem to get more attention. Sensitive queries can undoubtedly end up flagged and eventually in front of a human, apparently with the capability to then explore all other submissions from you.

New comment by mikeodds in "Squillions: How money laundering won"

mikeodds — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:57:39 +0000

Disappointly small bag to buy most cars with 100 dollar bills

New comment by mikeodds in "Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'"

mikeodds — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:36:48 +0000

Just prepend url with archive.is/ if you want to check

New comment by mikeodds in "Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term"

mikeodds — Thu, 28 May 2026 11:06:40 +0000

fair number of people do this, bunch of free tools to filter by this criteria (brand new account, more than $xx,xxx size), vulnerable to spoofing obviously

New comment by mikeodds in "Tell HN: One Medical Is a Nightmare"

mikeodds — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 07:12:24 +0000

Had a bizarre situation for a while where they had physical branches in Texas, could deliver care, but couldn’t take card payments for years. Medical bills could be paid but the actual subscription couldn’t be. They asked for a cheque. Support promised they wouldn’t pursue the charge until they could take card payments. Obviously they reneged (even with the above statement in writing) and sent it to collections.

New comment by mikeodds in "The Onion to Take over InfoWars"

mikeodds — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:42:27 +0000

Maybe I’m out of touch, but doesn’t a $1.4b dollar settlement for this seem rather… large?

New comment by mikeodds in "Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses"

mikeodds — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:08:59 +0000

New comment by mikeodds in "UK's Ofcom has today fined 4chan £450k for not having age checks in place"

mikeodds — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:27:48 +0000

Already have the makings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_th...

New comment by mikeodds in "Why did we use leaded petrol for so long? (2017)"

mikeodds — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:29:49 +0000

I’m perpetually having to take apart and clean the carbs of a 2003 motorbike because of the added Ethanol in fuel nowadays.

New comment by mikeodds in "YouTube's CEO limits his kids' social media use – other tech bosses do the same"

mikeodds — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 13:19:08 +0000

I don’t think this idea is that controversial? Most (?) people would agree watching YouTube 16 hrs a day is bad, but agree there is also a benefit to some of the content available.

New comment by mikeodds in "Tiny sugar spoons are popping up on NYC fast-food menus"

mikeodds — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 15:16:41 +0000

Treat yourself to a sonic shake with your sonic fast food meal instead.

Only 146g of sugar, 26g of saturated fat and 1100 calories.

https://foods.fatsecret.com/calories-nutrition/sonic/banana-...

New comment by mikeodds in "America's future could hinge on whether AI slightly disappoints"

mikeodds — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 14:16:21 +0000

That’s cumulative liquidity available on the right hand side.

i.e the ~13k shown at 99c and ~12k show at 98c aren’t independent. If the 12k is taken at 98c, only 1k would be left avail at 99c.

You’re right if you wanted to hold the price there it would cost you more, however if there isn’t a straight arb, maybe not instantly, and (some) smart bettors might be wary of such a market going to near 100%

New comment by mikeodds in "America's future could hinge on whether AI slightly disappoints"

mikeodds — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 13:53:53 +0000

I can push that market to 100% with 10k usd so I wouldn’t weight that too strongly as evidence, although I agree on the tariffs part.

New comment by mikeodds in "Abu Dhabi royal family to take stake in TikTok US"

mikeodds — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 13:29:55 +0000

Now let’s do LPs of famous American VCs

New comment by mikeodds in "Find SF parking cops"

mikeodds — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 18:41:45 +0000

Thats cool. Would be nice to see annual median take from each warden.

New comment by mikeodds in "Prison isn’t set up for today’s tech so we have to do legal work the old way"

mikeodds — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 02:50:24 +0000

Equally awkward places to have your phone not on silent

New comment by mikeodds in "Ask HN: Does Anyone Use Bitchat?"

mikeodds — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 06:47:34 +0000

Im in SF and have the same

New comment by mikeodds in "Testing Bitchat at the music festival"

mikeodds — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 17:02:52 +0000

I like the idea, I’ve been wandering around soma and mission for a week but not found anyone online

New comment by mikeodds in "GPT-5 streaming requires submission of biometric data"

mikeodds — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 05:00:15 +0000

worldcoin OpenAI flywheel

New comment by mikeodds in "Turns out you can just hack any train in the USA"

mikeodds — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 08:13:55 +0000

eh I worked around this and other operational technology and industrial control system security testing previously - lots of it isn’t built with security in mind

test wise you’d be amazed at what old controllers end up at surplus places or on eBay.