Hacker News: pluc

New comment by pluc in "OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, with Spending Hitting $34B"

pluc — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:07:23 +0000

I'm really curious about something: how far will you go to support AI? Clearly they'll need to monetize things further, would you still use [whatever AI you are paying for] if the price was doubled? Tripled? Where would you stop and would you stop using AI altogether or would you look at competitors?

New comment by pluc in "A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer"

pluc — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:57:07 +0000

Have you seen the state of *gestures at everything*

New comment by pluc in "US-Canada border library gets new Quebec-only entrance"

pluc — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:34:31 +0000

That's a pretty good example of US-Canada relations. That entrance isn't getting closed when the US regains its sanity. The new reality is that it exists now.

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

pluc — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:38:37 +0000

Book recommendations?

New comment by pluc in "Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers"

pluc — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:39:02 +0000

If you want to be taken seriously, don't use Windows.

New comment by pluc in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

pluc — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 21:13:40 +0000

Ok but you can download the entirety of Wikipedia too, in a queryable format..

New comment by pluc in "Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot"

pluc — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 21:11:03 +0000

It's not stealing if you give it to me, regardless of your door

New comment by pluc in "Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot"

pluc — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 20:58:45 +0000

By "abusing" they mean "using"

New comment by pluc in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

pluc — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:49:52 +0000

How is that result any different than what you would have done without AI, which is likely a search for the item name which would have given you a wiki about it and videos on how to get it? Why were you amazed at what, on any other day, is a common query? Really just that it was offline?

New comment by pluc in "Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?"

pluc — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 11:51:43 +0000

Because it's the crowd that sees reality of the results, not just the marketing.

You can ship a 1.0 10x faster and leave bug hunting to your users and tank your reputation before you have one or you could do like what we've been doing for 30 years and ship quality. There was no problem to fix there that AI fixed.

New comment by pluc in "Under Notre Dame, a 'dig of the century' unearths 1,700 years of history"

pluc — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:31:47 +0000

Or about 1/27th of a football field for the Americans

New comment by pluc in "Shopify outage [resolved]"

pluc — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:50:20 +0000

Yeah let's consolidate further

New comment by pluc in "Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel"

pluc — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:24:52 +0000

Have you gotten the "hey, wanna be a North Korean proxy?" offer yet?

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

pluc — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:29:19 +0000

The level of idiocy... like what was the alert for? "A bomb was registered through bluetooth?" They really thought that a legitimate bomb, calling itself a bomb and registering on a device bluetooth spectrum was a threat? And these people are allowed to fly planes? What if my laptop's name is dabomb and I register on the plane's wifi node, will that trigger a call to a SWAT team?

New comment by pluc in "Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection"

pluc — Fri, 29 May 2026 12:10:19 +0000

"This agreement is null and void except for this part that works in my favour"

New comment by pluc in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"

pluc — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:16:10 +0000

The results are not wrong, they are AI. Google wants that to become a distinct thing that is neither. What's a better answer for Google than one that generates more usage? If we all push in the same direction we can make AI work, we just need to accept we will need to hold its hand for a while.

New comment by pluc in "Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests"

pluc — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:13:09 +0000

They moved to Azure. Nothing improves on Azure.

New comment by pluc in "Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests"

pluc — Wed, 27 May 2026 12:26:25 +0000

Name one thing Microsoft didn't run into the ground post-acquisition

New comment by pluc in "GitHub Actions down again today"

pluc — Tue, 26 May 2026 13:54:25 +0000

Sure. Don't use GitHub.

You can now hire me as an overpriced consultant instead of paying Microsoft.

New comment by pluc in "Greg Brockman interview [video]"

pluc — Sun, 24 May 2026 14:34:33 +0000

There's a lot of things these days that you can't do that are being done.