Hacker News: nilamo

New comment by nilamo in "A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle"

nilamo — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:44:34 +0000

Full agree. It certainly feels like people are afraid of imagined threats, there just is no way there's so much rampant crime that people's living space is broken into so often, that surveiling everything all the time is a valid solution.

Like, I live in Detroit, and we don't have enough crime to justify it.

New comment by nilamo in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

nilamo — Sun, 31 May 2026 19:54:47 +0000

I've never heard of that before, is it common behavior?

New comment by nilamo in "Shift will clean homes for free to train future robots"

nilamo — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:03:45 +0000

Yes, nobody ever actually lives in them, they're just 24/7 airbnbs with a cleaning service.

New comment by nilamo in "Robinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks"

nilamo — Fri, 29 May 2026 21:54:19 +0000

And I don't think any of that documentation or warnings should be applied to covered calls.

New comment by nilamo in "Robinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks"

nilamo — Fri, 29 May 2026 21:25:51 +0000

I think it comes from decades of fear mongering over how "dangerous" stocks and options are. If you can, instead, explain to an llm what your goals are, it can set up a simple buy-and-hold for you.

Basically what investment agents used to do in the 80s-90s where the only way to make a trade was to call someone at the broker and explain what you want.

Taking a step back, I see this as what llms are actually useful for. Empowering people to do things they might otherwise need to study and research for a few weeks to do. When ultimately, that research is just unnecessary gatekeeping.

New comment by nilamo in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

nilamo — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:43:45 +0000

> As an example, what innovative amazing world-changing products have Google or Meta launched in the past decade

Kubernetes is at 11 years ago, and is huge enough to be included there. The Google Pixel was just under 10 years ago. So... not nothing haha

New comment by nilamo in "Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence"

nilamo — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:15:31 +0000

So if you kidnap them, hold them in a bunker for a month, then release them, it will pay out. That's probably a positive thing for the world somehow, right?

New comment by nilamo in "Everything in C is undefined behavior"

nilamo — Wed, 20 May 2026 12:23:15 +0000

That's very funny to me.

A) x is always removed.

B) no, it's never removed if volatile.

But neither person can prove what a compiler will actually do, despite claiming they'll always act a certain way given 5 lines of code.

New comment by nilamo in "Everything in C is undefined behavior"

nilamo — Wed, 20 May 2026 12:03:23 +0000

This looks like a long back and fourth, that can easily be solved by a minute or two on godbolt...

New comment by nilamo in "Google changes its search box"

nilamo — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:58:14 +0000

If it's wrong 2 out of 5 times, why even waste your time going to it in the first place? That's a massive failure rate.

New comment by nilamo in "Google pushes update to Antigravity instead it reinstalls and locks everyone out"

nilamo — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:54:52 +0000

Title seems unrelated?

New comment by nilamo in "Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude"

nilamo — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:54:21 +0000

The idea that someone (the NSA?) is training models on all of our collected info, and using that to predict all of our hidden information, is horrifying.

The best time to start using a password manager was 10 years ago. The second best time is now.

New comment by nilamo in "Starship V3"

nilamo — Wed, 13 May 2026 03:29:38 +0000

Weird AI photos on this article, too. Like, it's cool. Take pictures of the cool thing you actually have.

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

nilamo — Mon, 11 May 2026 23:54:29 +0000

> By the way,

> I tried to say

> CRAZY BIG BOB IS HAVING ANOTHER CRAZY SALE THIS MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND!!!

> so don't wait for Dani, come on down and say "I love you" to a pre-owned Nissan!

New comment by nilamo in "AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved"

nilamo — Sat, 09 May 2026 15:04:18 +0000

> And honestly, everybody else's stuff is in use-1, so at least your failures are correlated with your customers lol.

Is it not a selling point to be able to say "we're still up while out competitors are down"?

New comment by nilamo in "Let's Buy Spirit Air"

nilamo — Mon, 04 May 2026 12:43:40 +0000

Consumer air travel is not a necessary service, though.

New comment by nilamo in "Edit store price tags using Flipper Zero"

nilamo — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:33:23 +0000

Hardware stores sell chainsaws. There might be a disclaimer about proper usage or safety guidelines or some such, but you're right... someone who intends to use something to commit a crime, will do so regardless of the text asking them not to.

New comment by nilamo in "Edit store price tags using Flipper Zero"

nilamo — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:09:05 +0000

Don't tell me, you think the store actually expects to sell all that milk before it goes bad?

New comment by nilamo in "AI chatbots could be making you stupider"

nilamo — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:35:43 +0000

A forklift can lift far more than the average human. Just like a train can carry more, faster, than a couple people carrying those goods. Your comment seems to imply that a forklift replaces the need to be strong or physically fit, which is obvious nonsense, so I'm not really sure what you're trying to say, here.

New comment by nilamo in "At long last, InfoWars is ours"

nilamo — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:04:42 +0000

Stopping the current owner of infowars from continuing is a valid "why". What happens after doesn't matter.