Hacker News: okdood64

New comment by okdood64 in "Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters"

okdood64 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:27:28 +0000

Sounds like a societal and parenting problem that Apple has nothing to do with.

New comment by okdood64 in "Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLI"

okdood64 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 03:07:00 +0000

I don't understand. If a public github project's CLI was being used to access workspace, then clearly they had the APIs for it open? How can they restrict how people do that?

New comment by okdood64 in "Anthropic's Safety Superpower"

okdood64 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:35:20 +0000

What's the speed on DeepSeek Flash? And what provider?

New comment by okdood64 in "Alphabet announces $80B equity capital raise to expand AI infra and compute"

okdood64 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:16:14 +0000

> yet OpenAI and Anthropic are eating their pie

I'm actually impressed by how much the Hackernews crowd is sleeping on Google & Gemini. Yes, it's lagging behind in coding, but it's consistently much better and more reliable at literally everything else.

Also there was a period of time when Gemini was the best model out there...

New comment by okdood64 in "Ask HN: Shouldn't Google need to give a public statement about Railway incident?"

okdood64 — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:33:57 +0000

You're assuming GCP was in the wrong. What if it turns out someone's actions within your company resulted in this? And you woke up to see some TechCrunch article about how one of your engineers took down your site in all it's glory details?

New comment by okdood64 in "Expertise in the age of AI"

okdood64 — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:27:46 +0000

I don't see this discussed often enough but high school and universities need to adapt FAST, like yesterday, to the current reality.

More in-class study and "hands-on" work with proctored in-person exams. There is no incentive for students to go through their courses "the honest way" and build this intuition themselves. Can you blame them?

New comment by okdood64 in "Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation"

okdood64 — Fri, 29 May 2026 06:35:57 +0000

Why not? If it prevents people from getting their customized LLM answers from ChatGPT or Claude?

New comment by okdood64 in "Ask HN: Shouldn't Google need to give a public statement about Railway incident?"

okdood64 — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:41:30 +0000

Would you be okay with GCP making public issues you encounter with your account?

New comment by okdood64 in "Gemini Omni"

okdood64 — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:15:46 +0000

> Don't Look Up

That was just a bad, mildy entertaining movie.

New comment by okdood64 in "Anthropic Is Preparing for IPO and We Should Be Worried"

okdood64 — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:28:11 +0000

So you mean just Anthropic vs OpenAI?

New comment by okdood64 in "AI subscriptions are a ticking time bomb for enterprise"

okdood64 — Sun, 17 May 2026 18:55:09 +0000

> That is not a rounding error. That is a line item that needs its own budget code.

Claude produces this kind of prose SO much. It's pretty annoying. I don't notice it happening on Gemini for the same prompts.

New comment by okdood64 in "Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California"

okdood64 — Sat, 16 May 2026 01:00:13 +0000

This what California's political machinery is focused on? Rather than the colossal waste that is the high speed rail project, or rampant corrupt use of State and local funds for social welfare projects?

New comment by okdood64 in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"

okdood64 — Mon, 11 May 2026 02:54:51 +0000

> I replaced all of it with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and most stuff from Datastore to Postgres and Mongo with replicas. I added Redis.

But now you need staffing/headcount to be experts in, and maintain, upgrade and be oncall for this stuff?

New comment by okdood64 in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

okdood64 — Thu, 07 May 2026 04:33:26 +0000

I take software engineering and production reliability very seriously. But coding is just a small part of my job. It's not really the meat and potatoes. I'll vibe code (responsibility) where I can.

New comment by okdood64 in "Live: Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

okdood64 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 03:54:48 +0000

What’s the margin of error on a free return orbit burn though? Isn’t there a scenario of being pointed slightly in the wrong direction or burning for too long throwing them off?

New comment by okdood64 in "Waymo seeking about $16B near $110B valuation"

okdood64 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:37:38 +0000

Yea, I can't imagine being a woman and having to deal with some of these drivers.

This doesn't compare, but as a man I get really put off by the amount of invasive questions (where I work, where my family is from, etc) when I'm just trying to get from point A to point B.

I'm a mid-millenial FWIW, so I very much remember a world of only having old school taxis.

New comment by okdood64 in "Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica"

okdood64 — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 20:51:06 +0000

> Waymo will still have to accept some responsibility

Why? This is only true if they weren't supposed to be on the road in the first place. Which is not true.

New comment by okdood64 in "Don't fall into the anti-AI hype"

okdood64 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 04:40:21 +0000

> software quality is going down

Is there some metric for this?

New comment by okdood64 in "NASA announces unprecedented return of sick ISS astronaut and crew"

okdood64 — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 14:50:38 +0000

A single soldier having a medical issue generally doesn't cancel a multi-month mission costing some X large sum of money, requiring another Y large sum of money to even finish cancelling it (returning their unit home).

Therefore it's not relevant and not needed for the public to know.

New comment by okdood64 in "NASA announces unprecedented return of sick ISS astronaut and crew"

okdood64 — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 14:48:28 +0000

I can respect operational security requirements. Even though they are abused.