Hacker News: mikeryan

New comment by mikeryan in "OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining"

mikeryan — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:15:32 +0000

Every OpenAI news cycle the board members who were unceremoniously dumped in the wake of trying to fire Sam prior to the transition to a “for profit” company seem to be proven right.

New comment by mikeryan in "Designing Icons"

mikeryan — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 01:59:34 +0000

lol. Wish I could have grabbed a pic for this but on mobile the actual Material Icon in the top left is pretty much unreadable.

New comment by mikeryan in "SPCX is now Wall Street's most shorted new stock"

mikeryan — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:24:48 +0000

I think the pullback from the initial IPO bump was expected. I think the news here is expectations that it has a lot more downside to come.

Particularly once it gets past the lockup period. If I had to guess I say a lot of folks are thinking a lot of people will sell post lock up and they’re timing their shorts around that date.

New comment by mikeryan in "Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable"

mikeryan — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 21:20:44 +0000

In all my CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md files I have a line to fix pre-existing issues. I don’t know what it is but every agent I’ve tried through Claude code (including deepseek and GLM) will actively try to avoid fixing pre-existing issues. I even added hooks to Claude and git to try to get them fixed. If I leave a bailout for myself agents will find it sit and ask if it can push with no-verify or an environment variable in the case of Claude hooks instead of trying to fix an issue it didn’t cause.

New comment by mikeryan in "Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable"

mikeryan — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 21:15:56 +0000

That and finishing a statement with an em dash — that’s what AI does.

New comment by mikeryan in "CarPlay Is Additive"

mikeryan — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 01:30:13 +0000

When I bought a Rivian I missed CarPlay. There were a few things that really stood out.

1. Proper Voice Texting

2. Google maps for routing with (good) traffic data.

The Voice Texting just a release or two ago - its okay so far but not as good as CarPlay. Google traffic landed a while back (in Rivian's map which I prefer over Google Maps)

I'll take the voice texting for what is otherwise a very elegant and well designed UI - that keeps getting better.

Full disclosure. Even when I have a rental with CarPlay I just use Spotify and google maps. Both of which are integrated into the Rivian UI. So YMMV

New comment by mikeryan in "Herdr: Agent multiplexer that lives in your terminal"

mikeryan — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 13:16:31 +0000

I’ve been using herdr for about a week. There is visibility into which terminals need attention and you can set up workspaces to organize it. I’ve enjoyed it so far though the key bindings are all over the place - likely due to it trying to avoid existing bindings.

New comment by mikeryan in "Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI"

mikeryan — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:41:45 +0000

he didn’t solve content moderation.

Considering what character.ai is, maybe he should have at least taken a shot at it.

New comment by mikeryan in "Show HN: Are You in the Weights?"

mikeryan — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:34:38 +0000

MICHAEL RYAN HUNGERFORD MASSACRE PERPETRATOR 204 STRENGTH · TOP 35%

For fucks sake.

New comment by mikeryan in "Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone"

mikeryan — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:37:58 +0000

I started my web dev career in 1999 so my main code references were a combination of O’reilly and “for dummies” books. As a wet behind the ears engineer I’d find myself regularly walking over to my more senior friend Dan’s cubicle for help.

Half the time on the walk over, trying to frame the question in my mind I’d figure out the answer or at least next step. It got to the point where Dan would see me heading towards him and suddenly turn around and he’d as “Figure it out?” And I’d throw him a thumbs up on the way back to my desk.

New comment by mikeryan in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

mikeryan — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:48:35 +0000

It’s all in a stock that may very well be near its zenith when this closes (or maybe not. This is so far past fundamentals it’s impossible to tell).

They’re spending Monopoly money.

It also seems like SpaceX is poised to Hoover up all of Elons companies so it’s might not be “just a space company” for long.

New comment by mikeryan in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

mikeryan — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:02:39 +0000

Google also just announced a new equity raise of $80B. I have no idea if doing this via equity vs debt is trying to suck some of the wind out of the IPO Market for Anthropic and OpenAI but it’s going to be interesting to see how the markets deal with all the new equity being floated. Someone isn’t going to hit their raise targets and the later IPOs may be the ones holding the bag.

New comment by mikeryan in "Open Source Isn't Dead"

mikeryan — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:02:22 +0000

It’s also now ridiculously easy to simply cherry pick from open source without actually “using” it.

“I need to do foo in my app. Libraries bar and baz do these bits well. Pick the best from each and let’s implement them here”

I’d not be surprised if npmjs.com and its ilk turn into more a reference site than a package manager backend soon.

New comment by mikeryan in "Sam Altman's Coworkers Say He Can Barely Code and Misunderstands Basic Concepts"

mikeryan — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:00:03 +0000

I agree this article doesn’t add to the conversation except as additional color that belongs in a larger story.

I think it’s about as strong as trying to absolve Sam by saying “he’s a CEO so he does CEO things.”

New comment by mikeryan in "Sam Altman's Coworkers Say He Can Barely Code and Misunderstands Basic Concepts"

mikeryan — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 02:27:50 +0000

Well there's the whole issue that Open AI wasn't a "business" when it started, it was in fact a non-profit focused on safe AGI for humanity. That said the whole "He's a CEO thing" is a convenient escape hatch now that it's a for-profit business (just ignore the whole way it got there).

Just because you're a successful CEO doesn't mean you're not a shitty person or immune from so-called "hit pieces".

New comment by mikeryan in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

mikeryan — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:13:15 +0000

JavaScript Temporal. Not sure knowing what a "workday" is in each timezone is in it's scope but it's the much needed and improved JS, date API (granted with limited support to date)

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

New comment by mikeryan in "The truth that haunts the Ramones: 'They sold more T-shirts than records'"

mikeryan — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:08:09 +0000

No. Just no, this is backwards. Bands, especially bands early in their career made money from touring. Merch was always a huge driver. Bands got “loans” to record albums with that had to get paid back first before they made any money from album sales.

It’s better now because artists can record pro quality music at home and go direct to consumer with TikTok and Spotify.

New comment by mikeryan in "We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk"

mikeryan — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 21:22:42 +0000

That’s not how the term is being used here.

In this case “red lines” as a term is being used as “lines than can not be crossed”

Anthropic wanted guardrails on how their tech was used. DOD was saying that wasn’t acceptable.

New comment by mikeryan in "We installed a single turnstile to feel secure"

mikeryan — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:54:20 +0000

It also doesn’t describe any of the why the additional security measures were put in place. It sounds arbitrary, but could be an insurance or regulatory requirement that the acquiring company needed to meet. Similar for the login issue, it’s suboptimal but what constraints caused that solution to be put in place? And why wasn’t it fixed?

Sans context there’s not a lot to complain about here.

New comment by mikeryan in "Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter"

mikeryan — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:04:46 +0000

Unity has a whole template and asset library for creating car displays.

https://unity.com/blog/industry/automotive-hmi-template-take...