Hacker News: mrkramer

New comment by mrkramer in "google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update"

mrkramer — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 11:38:45 +0000

They are allowed to scrape everybody else but get their feelings hurt when they get scraped....oh yea they respect robots.txt. Guess what, scraping everything that is public is legal.

New comment by mrkramer in "Instagram's head says engagement falls by half without the algorithm"

mrkramer — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:17:00 +0000

Because people are lazy, they feed on feed.

New comment by mrkramer in "Recreating Minecraft Is Not a Benchmark"

mrkramer — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 21:15:18 +0000

>GPT-6-Astra-Max

"Generate a SVG of a PlayStation 4 controller as nicely done as you can"

Time taken: 11m 54s

No image was used

I was expecting 10s not 12m; if it takes 12m to do it, I would rather try to do it myself. And what it means "No image was used", wasn't it trained on bunch of images including probably console controllers images?

New comment by mrkramer in "What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade?"

mrkramer — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 10:58:16 +0000

>What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade?

You get an intelligence of an average person. Imo, majority of people are clueless and just hustle day in and day out. I know that capitalism is hard but you have to stay informed and aware.

New comment by mrkramer in "It's a shame what's happened to radio"

mrkramer — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 07:59:17 +0000

"Video killed the radio star."

New comment by mrkramer in "Crypto firms have spent $189M so far on 2026 US election, report says"

mrkramer — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:19:36 +0000

I remember watching Sky News and hearing that UK political parties were from then on forbidden to take donations in crypto which is just another nail in the coffin of crypto. All started going downhill when Satoshi left his Bitcoin project.

New comment by mrkramer in "Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?"

mrkramer — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:20:00 +0000

One more reason not to use social media. Except anon discussion boards.

New comment by mrkramer in "Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers"

mrkramer — Wed, 13 May 2026 10:49:08 +0000

Stop funding cyberterrorism.

>the deal means that the hackers have returned the compromised data of some 275 million users across more than 8,800 institutions.

Yea sure, they didn't keep the copy of stolen database. You know, criminals are very trustworthy people.

New comment by mrkramer in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce"

mrkramer — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:23:05 +0000

I feel like they overhired over the years and now they reap what they sow. AI just accelerated their awareness of overhiring. I think if Cloudflare or any other well established software company stopped hiring this year, they would be doing the same as they did last year. At the end even the management will be replaced by AI.

New comment by mrkramer in "AI slop is killing online communities"

mrkramer — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:56:49 +0000

I actually think the good old Page rank[0] is crucial because if the authoritative sources link to some website, webpage or content it means that particular item provides some kind of value to the entity that linked it. I'm also a big fan of metadata which can be used to describe web content and make the content more usable to the search engines and the Web users.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank

New comment by mrkramer in "AI slop is killing online communities"

mrkramer — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:26:11 +0000

The importance of good search engines and good discovery engines will grow even more.

New comment by mrkramer in "Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard"

mrkramer — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:11:36 +0000

I meant this https://www.federalreserve.gov/central-bank-digital-currency..., this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_euro and this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_renminbi

New comment by mrkramer in "Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard"

mrkramer — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:47:55 +0000

I meant digital dollar and digital euro, you won't need Visa and Mastercard anymore.

New comment by mrkramer in "Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard"

mrkramer — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:38:31 +0000

Pix is for domestic use right? So tourists who come to Brazil still use Visa and Mastercard as well as Brazilian tourists who travel abroad. Visa and Mastercard are companies of the past, crypto and stablecoins will destroy them sooner or later.

New comment by mrkramer in "DeepSeek v4"

mrkramer — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:36:07 +0000

All empires are to some degree evil because their agenda is to dominate weaker peoples and nations. They almost all committed crimes against humanity and genocides if you look retrospectively from the todays point of view. Even our beloved Roman Empire that the Western civilization is built upon was genocidal empire.

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

mrkramer — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:52:13 +0000

Some things are better when they are outsourced because other companies specialized for that problem set. Just like you won't roll your own cryptography, you won't and can't do everything in-house.

New comment by mrkramer in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

mrkramer — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:19:32 +0000

Good luck competing with Google which has "unlimited" budget.

New comment by mrkramer in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

mrkramer — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:56:42 +0000

Epic lost billions of dollars when they were kicked out of the App Store and Google Play and they were out for a long time. Only now Fortnite is coming back to mobile.

New comment by mrkramer in "Regex Blaster"

mrkramer — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:22:26 +0000

I vibe code web apps with Google's Gemini and I think it actually mimics Google's UI and UX because I see similarities between my vibe coded web apps and Google's web apps.

New comment by mrkramer in "Regex Blaster"

mrkramer — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:13:02 +0000

This looks like something I would vibe code with Google's Gemini. Interesting concept.