Hacker News: ralphington

New comment by ralphington in "How to Write with an LLM"

ralphington — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 05:06:49 +0000

Hyperbole = strong opinions? If you're stating your 'strong opinions' as fact, then you deserve the push back. If you're stating your strong opinions as strong opinions, then fair game.

New comment by ralphington in "Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork"

ralphington — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:06:24 +0000

It must be considered false for all tech providers unless there is a verification mechanism. There will be big money for whoever sorts that out

New comment by ralphington in "Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets"

ralphington — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 19:15:34 +0000

[citation needed]

New comment by ralphington in "Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected"

ralphington — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:37:23 +0000

It will scale inefficiently until efficiency breakthroughs occur, but it's really hard to predict when those breakthroughs will happen. Plan on the worst, but be ready and capable of capitalizing when it happens!

New comment by ralphington in "OpenAI DayBreak – GPT-5.5-Cyber"

ralphington — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 07:06:34 +0000

I don't have a horse in the race, but these comments are remarkably toxic. This reminds me of the RTFM epidemic on early Stack overflow.

New comment by ralphington in "Meta just suspended the Facebook account of Neal Stephenson"

ralphington — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 20:28:32 +0000

You seem to have funded your own demise

New comment by ralphington in "Show HN: I created an app for you to be a more unpredictable romantic partner"

ralphington — Sun, 12 May 2024 19:44:55 +0000

Sorry aboot that.

New comment by ralphington in "Hacker deleted all of NewsBlur’s Mongo data and is now holding the data hostage"

ralphington — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 04:03:24 +0000

What kind of database auth did you have? Wouldn't they have had to access config files or related in order to obtain your passwords, usernames, etc?

New comment by ralphington in "New York Fed Adds $115.14B in Short-Term Liquidity to Markets"

ralphington — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 22:55:14 +0000

[citation needed]

New comment by ralphington in "Space catapult startup SpinLaunch comes out of stealth"

ralphington — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 22:28:32 +0000

They mention in the article of being able to launch objects at 3,000 MPH. That's a tad short of the typical 17,500 MPH used for low earth orbit, and that's not counting the extra Delta-V required to resist atmospheric drag.

I'm very glad that this company exists, but this article doesn't help its case very much other than "Hey look, they got a load of funding".

New comment by ralphington in "Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netflix content"

ralphington — Tue, 08 Aug 2017 22:19:29 +0000

The market cap of Netflix is 78 billion USD at the time of this writing. On top of that, they'd have to pay a premium. I suspect that you were thinking Netflix was an order of magnitude or two smaller than that.