Hacker News: october8140

New comment by october8140 in "There's no earthly way of knowing which direction we are going"

october8140 — Wed, 20 May 2026 08:26:52 +0000

Hank Green has had the best take I've heard which is AI is definitely something but everyones still figuring out what it is. It will likely end up being nothing like it is today.

New comment by october8140 in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

october8140 — Mon, 11 May 2026 07:03:32 +0000

They will never let us have enough RAM every again. RAM will be kept behind locked doors in the name of national security and only trusted corporations will be aloud to run AIs and "safely" run them in the cloud and sell them to us.

New comment by october8140 in "New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming"

october8140 — Sat, 02 May 2026 13:15:59 +0000

Hypnospace

New comment by october8140 in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"

october8140 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 08:32:20 +0000

The bubble is so big.

New comment by october8140 in "Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans"

october8140 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:56:04 +0000

If they don’t give refunds I can just do a charge back. It’s not what I paid for.

New comment by october8140 in "Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans"

october8140 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:53:14 +0000

So can I just have my credit card do a charge back? This fundamentally changes the thing I paid for.

New comment by october8140 in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

october8140 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 02:20:23 +0000

SpaceX is going to have an AI coding "oops" in space.

New comment by october8140 in "Figma's woes compound with Claude Design"

october8140 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:25:22 +0000

I’ve tried it. It’s useless.

New comment by october8140 in "Salesforce Stopped Paying for Salesforcefoundation.org"

october8140 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:23:30 +0000

https://help.heroku.com/VF2KIQ5S/does-heroku-offer-non-profi...

Salesforce Stopped Paying for Salesforcefoundation.org

october8140 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:22:05 +0000

Salesforce stopped paying for salesforcefoundation.org and now it's a gambling site. They still link to it in documentation.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47831955

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by october8140 in "Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock"

october8140 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 03:41:57 +0000

If this were a concern for me the better choice is shutting down the laptop to encrypt the drive and disable biometrics. This does nothing since the drive is still unencrypted.

Satoshi Nakamoto Unmasking

october8140 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:55:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/business/908601/the-latest-satoshi-nakamoto-unmasking

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47686852

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by october8140 in "OpenAI says its new model GPT-2 is too dangerous to release (2019)"

october8140 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:29:28 +0000

"You don't want no part of this" | Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

https://youtu.be/CepW8wAuL_M

New comment by october8140 in "AI that copied musical artist files copyright claim against artist [updated]"

october8140 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 04:23:31 +0000

YouTube already had a problem where small channels get copyright strikes for their own content. AI makes that a problem now for everything everywhere.

New comment by october8140 in "Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March"

october8140 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 04:06:22 +0000

It’s great. Moving on from Windows has been like leaving an abusive relationship.

New comment by october8140 in "OpenYak – An open-source Cowork that runs any model and owns your filesystem"

october8140 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 11:37:56 +0000

Flag this garbage.

New comment by october8140 in "OpenYak – An open-source Cowork that runs any model and owns your filesystem"

october8140 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 11:37:09 +0000

This was posted earlier this week.

If you are a published author you may be entitled to compensation

october8140 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 04:06:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47539027

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by october8140 in "Dataframe 1.0.0.0"

october8140 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 10:58:45 +0000

1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0

New comment by october8140 in "A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022)"

october8140 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 11:09:18 +0000

This is why Japan is not having kids. They are more worried about rules to make everyone’s life miserable.