Hacker News: ransom1538

New comment by ransom1538 in "Florida sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over AI risks"

ransom1538 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:58:35 +0000

Chemical weather creation, known scientifically as cloud seeding, uses substances like silver iodide ($AgI$), dry ice (solid carbon dioxide). This is the worst conspiracy there is a conspiracy ever. Just google it. Just ask people that dumped it from a plane. The people saying the gov. controls the weather were right, proved tons of times. Just toss up silver iodide, wtf is this hard to conceive?

Florida doesn't lie? wtf?

New comment by ransom1538 in "Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC"

ransom1538 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:47:56 +0000

Yeah. Sure. But, If you are charging for intelligence, I want in.

New comment by ransom1538 in "The Siri for Families Apple Will Never Build"

ransom1538 — Thu, 14 May 2026 16:20:44 +0000

"Siri would be amazing if it could just be a wrapper for chatgpt. Otherwise, it is useless." - Every user in the world.

New comment by ransom1538 in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

ransom1538 — Thu, 14 May 2026 16:15:19 +0000

"get a grad student union to try and combat the increasingly exploitative nature of academia"

Lol. Well you should introduce MIT to the concept of supply and demand. I am confident you can find people to pay MIT to work there.

New comment by ransom1538 in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"

ransom1538 — Sun, 10 May 2026 20:41:10 +0000

There will be no greater engineering feat than the ability to set a spending cap. FAANG is filled with brilliant people working alongside the smartest AI of our time, yet somehow the ability to set a spending cap has eluded some of the best engineers on the planet for over a decade.

Einstein split the atom. Newton explained gravity. Musk can land rockets backwards on floating platforms in the ocean.

But none of them could answer the ultimate question:

How do I stop AWS from charging me $47k because someone forgot to turn off a Kubernetes cluster?

New comment by ransom1538 in "Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation"

ransom1538 — Mon, 04 May 2026 19:26:04 +0000

Space Quest IV: Roger?

New comment by ransom1538 in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

ransom1538 — Fri, 01 May 2026 00:55:00 +0000

Oh it's way worse than people realize. The monthly vs api keys is a huge issue for them. They will have to end monthly subscription plans. You can pay $20 a month and use $10k in api tokens. They are in all out panic trying to fix this. But yes, the house of cards is ending.

The company ending part is when they have to cut the $20 a month plan and take things away. They are creating a massive group of coders that can't code - soon to have no way to code. This cohort will rampage through all social forums.

New comment by ransom1538 in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

ransom1538 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 04:09:48 +0000

My famous interview question: "How do you copy a file to another computer?", I was told I need to tone down. It filters out too many entry/mid level candidates.

New comment by ransom1538 in "GPT-5.5"

ransom1538 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:13:01 +0000

"when the tokens run out, I'm basically done working."

Oh stop the drama. Open source models can handle 99% of your questions.

New comment by ransom1538 in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

ransom1538 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:14:44 +0000

We need thinner phones. We need 19 cameras. The future is clear.

New comment by ransom1538 in "College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work"

ransom1538 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 04:43:13 +0000

Every class. Teachers think: "We want a curve, not everyone is getting an A". This pushes the teacher to ask questions not covered in the material. If they stick to what is covered it is hard to get a decent curve. So, in the end, teachers just hand out grades based on IQ, and there isn't a point of grades.

New comment by ransom1538 in "Intel 486 CPU announced April 10, 1989"

ransom1538 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:54:28 +0000

My mother was a stenographer. She used a 286 for processing docs. That baby wasssss alll mine during the day!!! All my friends had hacks for sys/bat/exe files to get wolfenstein at least to load. Best days of my life.

New comment by ransom1538 in "FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages"

ransom1538 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:02:06 +0000

0) send a public key. 1) encrypt the file with your private key 2) send file.

WTF. This is super simple stuff.

New comment by ransom1538 in "GitHub is once again down"

ransom1538 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:24:28 +0000

Did MS finish the Hotmail transition?

New comment by ransom1538 in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

ransom1538 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 16:56:13 +0000

You truly speak for many. I don't have the energy to center a div anymore, and to be honest, that time was thrown away [excluding money, a pretty big exclusion]. I am sure my boss's "Uber for cats" will work, I just like using AI at this point. I can iterate on 15 "Uber for cats" with 200 centered divs, spitting out documentation and excellent objects all day.

But the real talk we need to have is... "Uber for cats"

New comment by ransom1538 in "Blood test boosts Alzheimer's diagnosis accuracy to 94.5%, clinical study shows"

ransom1538 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 09:40:56 +0000

Off topic: Would insurance companies carry patients after being detected for Alzheimers?

New comment by ransom1538 in "0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix"

ransom1538 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:56:22 +0000

Thank you 0 A.D. team. My son and I play, it is one of the few things we can do together. Nothing has brought me so much joy as fighting my son: king of the Persian army.

New comment by ransom1538 in "How your high school affects your chances of UC Admission"

ransom1538 — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 19:29:21 +0000

I knew this secret early on. The better your high school - the lower your odds of going to UC.

New comment by ransom1538 in "Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?"

ransom1538 — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 02:24:53 +0000

HEAR, HEAR. You’ve just described how modern SWE truly works. You’re ahead of your time — of the same spirit as Martin Luther or George Washington. Fear not, brave soldier; carry on the message. Downvotes will come, but take heart: the truth must be spoken.

The days of copying and pasting from Stack Overflow will not be forgotten — they will be honored by our laid off forefathers.

New comment by ransom1538 in "Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?"

ransom1538 — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 02:08:33 +0000

"This is just meaningless knee-jerking,"

Your point is valid.

"AI leads to loss of personal coding skills"

Unfortunately, I can no longer do long division. No one will pay me to do long division and I have a calculator now. I could stay sharp at long division for a hobby though. Keep those for loops sharp if you want, but I don't see people paying you to hand code. Eventually, it will just be a liability. (like not using a calculator).

"it could hit a hard wall at 70% of a good programmer's ability"

That is not what NVDA,AMZN,GOOG,or MSFT believe. Maybe you are right and they are all wrong. They do have some smart people on staff. But, betting against the sp50 is generally a terrible plan.