Hacker News: qwerpy

New comment by qwerpy in "Stripe Clinches over $7B Deal to Buy AI Firm OpenRouter"

qwerpy — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 04:33:28 +0000

> Netflix, Oracle, Oracle

Well that brings back some memories. I remember there was a third Oracle in that chain, but he left earlier compared to the others.

New comment by qwerpy in "The case for overhauling American science"

qwerpy — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 01:28:04 +0000

Weird seeing such emotionally charged angry comments.

New comment by qwerpy in "Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index"

qwerpy — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:52:29 +0000

Nah, I think I'll keep calling it out when people keep going on political tangents. Maybe my whining will help everyone save some time.

New comment by qwerpy in "Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index"

qwerpy — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:27:47 +0000

It's fine to make your own choices about what you want to spend your money on. But it gets old to constantly have actual technical discussion drowned out by the same repetitive low-effort comments in every single post. I want to hear about what people have used Grok for, how it compares to other models, what it's not good at, etc., without having to wade through all the predictable "Elon bad" comments.

@dang - feature request for HN: have a "Thunderdome" section for the off-topic political commentary on the site, and once enough people flag something for being political, it gets detached and moved to the Thunderdome. People can let off steam there and the rest of us can have a nice clean place to read about tech.

New comment by qwerpy in "Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index"

qwerpy — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:20:56 +0000

I recently decided to get an AI subscription and evaluated Grok vs chatgpt. Went with Grok because it's all-around good enough at day to day stuff, integrates with my Tesla, and the image/video generation is great. Kids love whimsical videos of them riding dinosaurs.

Feedback: I'd like Grok to have more connectors (I see OpenAI just added Apple Health, that would be nice to have, and I wish it could read my Onenote notebooks) and for existing ones to be improved. I gave it access to my gmail and asked it "what was my last electricity bill?". It failed to find it, even when I told it the exact subject line to search for. Something about not getting any data back when trying to get the email contents.

New comment by qwerpy in "Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index"

qwerpy — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:06:44 +0000

The issue is that this is supposed to be a tech discussion forum and many of us don’t want to be repeatedly beaten over the head with other people’s politics. Plenty of other places to be political, we just wish this wasn’t one of them.

New comment by qwerpy in "Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index"

qwerpy — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:04:42 +0000

When you make politics a big part of your identity, you can’t help but to inject it everywhere. It’s glaringly weird and annoying for those of us who are apathetic and just want to talk about tech, but that’s how it has been for a few years.

New comment by qwerpy in "US hires over 2k video gamers as air traffic controllers"

qwerpy — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:34:18 +0000

Reddit is way worse. At least we pretend to be here for tech discussions, even if we can’t help but get baited by politics most of the time.

New comment by qwerpy in "Woman pulled over twice after Flock-linked software connected her to homicide"

qwerpy — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 19:03:17 +0000

I’d be happy to contribute to this effort, be it financial or technical or just uploading my video sources (home camera feeds and Teslas). I’m retired with young kids and community safety is a top priority for me. Some local police departments here (Orange County) would probably appreciate this as well.

I’ve always thought millions of camera-equipped cars on the road combined with AI/ML would be an excellent tool for catching criminals.

New comment by qwerpy in "The SpaceX Sham"

qwerpy — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:17:18 +0000

@cdrnsf is posting negative articles all you do? isn't it exhausting to bathe in negativity all day long?

New comment by qwerpy in "Amazon backs power plant that may become top source of US climate pollution"

qwerpy — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:46:26 +0000

That’s an interesting hypothetical. In the same vein of “assume the cow is spherical”, I also have a degenerate example! Suppose the Vatican City has horrific per capita emissions. Maybe the pope has a gastrointestinal disorder involving frequent methane emissions. The pope is otherwise healthy and will remain in office for decades. China and India point at them “but per capita emissions!” and refuse to do anything.

New comment by qwerpy in "Amazon backs power plant that may become top source of US climate pollution"

qwerpy — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:16:39 +0000

Apparently I need help understanding why this matters more than simply prioritizing countries who emit the most. Do you want to reduce total emissions or do you want reduce it equitably across countries? The greenhouse effect doesn’t care how equitable the reductions are.

New comment by qwerpy in "Influencers face backlash over Meta 'pervert glasses' content"

qwerpy — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:48:59 +0000

This isn’t specific to Tesla, both Rivian and Waymo have similar numbers of cameras. This seems essential for self-driving. Thankfully people find it socially acceptable outside of the tech bubble. I’d prefer to have self-driving rather than less cameras roving the roads.

New comment by qwerpy in "Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did"

qwerpy — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 05:09:04 +0000

Brave still maintains MV2 support (for now) so you get to use full-fat uBlock Origin. Eventually, I imagine they'll tire of it, say "well just use the built-in one", and get rid of MV2 when it gets too obnoxious to maintain.

I go through a 5 minute ritual every time I reimage/build a PC of installing Brave and disabling all the garbage on it. It's worth it to get Chromium compatibility and speed with uBlock Origin.

New comment by qwerpy in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

qwerpy — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 23:38:46 +0000

When people here complain about HN becoming Reddit, they get that snide HN guideline thrown at them. I mostly refuse to abide, and continue to call out and downvote/flag Reddit-tier comments. Fighting the redditization of HN is what will save this place.

New comment by qwerpy in "Zohran Mamdani's NYC Tech Team Is What DOGE Should Have Been"

qwerpy — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 17:49:22 +0000

I agree with you about this. If you go against the prevailing politics here, you'll get "source?"-d and nitpicked to death by an army of fact checkers while they can state opinions as facts with impunity. If your facts are unassailable you simply get downvoted and ignored.

The best thing to do is to flag political posts and comments to bury them. Happily, this appears to have happened here.

New comment by qwerpy in "Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery"

qwerpy — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:36:32 +0000

Meta is better than anyone at anti-ad-blocking. Even the best ad blockers struggle to keep ahead of the ever-changing structure served up by their websites, and the websites are intentionally bad to make you use the apps instead. But the apps are nearly immune to ad-blocking.

“Just stop using meta properties then”. Sure but some of us have wives, friends, etc

New comment by qwerpy in "Cookware Got Worse on Purpose: Who Owns Pyrex and All-Clad Now"

qwerpy — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 22:26:59 +0000

Not sure if you have a wife or not, but "just get cast iron" is something I would have said when I was single. Now, it's buy a new nonstick pan every year.

New comment by qwerpy in "Kids who own phones have poorer reading comprehension scores VS those who don't"

qwerpy — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 15:05:37 +0000

I appreciated your comment and especially liked the way you characterized the original commenter. Everyone going for low effort points here is cheapening the discussion, like that R website we hate being compared to.

New comment by qwerpy in "What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality"

qwerpy — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:54:59 +0000

Yeah but I’m not driving an Elon. I’m driving a Tesla.