Hacker News: nick49488171

New comment by nick49488171 in "Grok 4.5"

nick49488171 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 23:49:17 +0000

Authoritarian?

New comment by nick49488171 in "A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking"

nick49488171 — Fri, 08 May 2026 21:05:11 +0000

The gyroscope and battery should not be getting exposed without permission. That seems unexpectedly invasive, and I'm in tech.

Also we should disable referrer field.

New comment by nick49488171 in "Ti-84 Evo"

nick49488171 — Fri, 01 May 2026 22:21:09 +0000

The interface is great for what it does though. I still use ti-83 interface with the calculator app on my phone.

New comment by nick49488171 in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

nick49488171 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 04:10:38 +0000

My brand new Pixel phone several years back, I was so excited it was IP68. Took some photos splashing around in water, not more than a foot or two. It died in minutes.

New comment by nick49488171 in "Artemis II safely splashes down"

nick49488171 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:26:32 +0000

That would have been absolutely horrible

New comment by nick49488171 in "Will the AI data centre boom become a $9T bust?"

nick49488171 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 02:57:51 +0000

No probably not

New comment by nick49488171 in ""Disregard That" Attacks"

nick49488171 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 07:13:47 +0000

Eventually we will rediscover the Harvard Architecture for LLMs.

New comment by nick49488171 in "ARC-AGI-3"

nick49488171 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 07:06:00 +0000

Arc AGI 4 can be Chip's Challenge!

New comment by nick49488171 in "Why Going to Mars Would Be Bad for Your Health"

nick49488171 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 18:18:28 +0000

I would make the same argument about bicycles then. What is the point of spending taxpayer money providing services for such a dangerous activity?

New comment by nick49488171 in "Why Going to Mars Would Be Bad for Your Health"

nick49488171 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:29:48 +0000

The counter argument is this: if the chance of dying is 2% to make a historic mission, then people should be able to make that choice. What's your counterargument to this statement?

As for your hazards Microgravity can be counteracted with a centrifugal living environment.

Radiation can not be mitigated effectively yet other than throwing mass at the problem. But if someone wants to launch enough mass that's on them.

New comment by nick49488171 in "Why Going to Mars Would Be Bad for Your Health"

nick49488171 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:01:33 +0000

I was not arguing about the hazards of space travel. Of course it is hazardous. I dislike the article because his conclusion is more dangerous to society than any hazardous activity: "something is dangerous therefore nobody should do it." And he makes no arguments to support this conclusion.

New comment by nick49488171 in "Why Going to Mars Would Be Bad for Your Health"

nick49488171 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:52:30 +0000

Fixed pie fallacy.

New comment by nick49488171 in "Why Going to Mars Would Be Bad for Your Health"

nick49488171 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:47:23 +0000

"Space travel is bad for your health and here's what we know about it" is actually a fine article. It's his concluding statement that is contemptible.

"Space may be fascinating, wonderful, and exciting, but most of all, it is incredibly dangerous. As far as human space travel goes, it’s probably best that it stays in the realm of science fiction, at least for the foreseeable future."

How about letting explorers, informed adults, and risk takers make their own decisions.

New comment by nick49488171 in "Why Going to Mars Would Be Bad for Your Health"

nick49488171 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:47:40 +0000

About as dangerous as climbing Everest. So we definitely shouldn't do that either, in case these pearl clutching anti-progress journalists experience emotional discomfort.

New comment by nick49488171 in "ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies – study"

nick49488171 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:36:00 +0000

You can start by comparing "doctor" care vs "doctor who also uses AI" care

New comment by nick49488171 in "Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model"

nick49488171 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 06:50:48 +0000

One would assume

New comment by nick49488171 in "People Loved the Dot-Com Boom. The A.I. Boom, Not So Much"

nick49488171 — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 04:15:59 +0000

Probably because at that time, normal people weren't rolling off the back of a massive inflationary period where they can no longer afford to look forward to having enough money to buy/use/participate in whatever cool new technology arises.

New comment by nick49488171 in "Show HN: Mines.fyi – all the mines in the US in a leaflet visualization"

nick49488171 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 02:53:57 +0000

Agreed. Huge annoyance when looking for routes on MountainProject as one example.

New comment by nick49488171 in "Speed up responses with fast mode"

nick49488171 — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 21:54:16 +0000

Seems like an opportunity to condense the context into 'documentation' level and only load the full text/code for files that expect to be edited?

New comment by nick49488171 in "Speed up responses with fast mode"

nick49488171 — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 19:55:59 +0000

For us mere mortals, how fast does a normal developer for through a MTok. How about a good power user?