Hacker News: mtoner23

New comment by mtoner23 in "Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models"

mtoner23 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:01:23 +0000

Why would someone good at running a social media website be good at managing and developing ai frontier models

New comment by mtoner23 in "New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study"

mtoner23 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:50:16 +0000

I'm sure they will gladly sell us both

New comment by mtoner23 in "Germany maybe found a new source of renewable energy"

mtoner23 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:03:42 +0000

Hopefully Germany doesn't ban geothermal like they did with nuclear and fracking

New comment by mtoner23 in "Mystery behind Moana: After 1,700 years, why did Polynesians suddenly sail east?"

mtoner23 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 15:07:54 +0000

Food would be the biggest barrier to population growth in pre modern times

New comment by mtoner23 in "No leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2026"

mtoner23 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 22:17:01 +0000

They're cool people but like it doesn't stop the world from imploding. Most of all of our code is full of trivial bugs and edge cases and most people don't mind too much. Certainly no one cares about leap seconds, they hardly even notice DST or leap days

New comment by mtoner23 in "No leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2026"

mtoner23 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 22:13:25 +0000

After reading all that, maybe we should just have some bugs in our code and stop making up new things

New comment by mtoner23 in "EU commissioners shut down air conditioning for employees, leave theirs on"

mtoner23 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:15:10 +0000

so yes something is very wrong

New comment by mtoner23 in "US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks"

mtoner23 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 23:16:06 +0000

trump just undid the gpu export to china to help jensen make money

New comment by mtoner23 in "I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA"

mtoner23 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:09:03 +0000

well, eric's book tries to make the point that these good companies DO overperform the market. after reading the book this past week, im not convinced. feels like heavy selection bias.

New comment by mtoner23 in "Shopify Is Down"

mtoner23 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:58:58 +0000

just take the day off mate, this shit happens in every field of work

New comment by mtoner23 in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

mtoner23 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:01:42 +0000

A fundamental misunderstanding of index funds and what an arbitrage is

New comment by mtoner23 in "The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen"

mtoner23 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:40:24 +0000

wow thats extremely embarassing for meta

New comment by mtoner23 in "A 10 year old Xeon is all you need"

mtoner23 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:11:26 +0000

Surely that number can go lower with some tweaks

New comment by mtoner23 in "The real cost of owning a home"

mtoner23 — Wed, 27 May 2026 03:12:23 +0000

yeah of course. theres no license for most of these things. just clarifying

New comment by mtoner23 in "The real cost of owning a home"

mtoner23 — Wed, 27 May 2026 00:15:24 +0000

Cost of labor quite higher here. Especially house work. Any licensed person to work in your house you're looking at paying $200 minimum just to walk in the door. At least in the major metro areas.

New comment by mtoner23 in "To achieve major goals, NASA seeks to streamline its organization"

mtoner23 — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:12:09 +0000

Overall seems pretty good and level headed for changes at a large bureaucracy. If he delivers on no big layoffs then I think this is great for the legacy of isaacman

New comment by mtoner23 in "Colorado Amended SB051 (Age Verification Bill) to Exclude Open Source Projects"

mtoner23 — Thu, 21 May 2026 04:25:56 +0000

The kids are very fucked up tho by the internet in our pockets. I'm Not sure that id on OS is the solution. But we should be trying something

New comment by mtoner23 in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

mtoner23 — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:32:01 +0000

Because programming languages are the clearest way we can write down instructions for computers to execute without ambiguity.

New comment by mtoner23 in "Red Hot Chili Peppers ink $300M deal with Warner Music to sell catalog"

mtoner23 — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:43:55 +0000

Can't wait for the RHCP biopic in 2028!

New comment by mtoner23 in "Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs"

mtoner23 — Tue, 05 May 2026 17:15:37 +0000

Openai should not design a phone... They should try making money first