Hacker News: rd

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

rd — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:34:58 +0000

I'm just wondering why they sold compute to Anthropic if they were planning on still competing in this race?

New comment by rd in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"

rd — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:51:58 +0000

i’ll never really understand this comment. why would labs do this if they know private benchmark evals will come out in the next week?

New comment by rd in "Mapping homes you can buy from the US government for <$100k"

rd — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:34:17 +0000

Peter Santenello does a great job of this.

New comment by rd in "Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI"

rd — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:00:14 +0000

Give it a rest, you've gotten the point across.

New comment by rd in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

rd — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:32:35 +0000

I wonder if I could start a US-based company with good data regulation and just serve open-weight models at a competitive price. I feel like the real barrier is just that most companies willing to adopt AI usage enough to make it worth it at this point don't want to be using inferior models.

New comment by rd in "The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen"

rd — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:48:47 +0000

You've gotta leverage your network and find friends you know who work at Meta/IG. I was able to get my account back without asking friends at IG (because mine wasn't fully disabled just password changed), but people I know who lost their accounts have had to ask multiple people very up the chain at IG to do some special restoration.

New comment by rd in "The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen"

rd — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 23:36:38 +0000

I don’t use this account as a personal account. It has 0 followers. It’s solely used for design inspiration.

New comment by rd in "The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen"

rd — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:03:25 +0000

This happened to my instagram yesterday night while I was asleep. I don't have a particularly high value username (it's probably worth somewhere in between $300-500), but still incredibly frustrating to deal with. True to the article, I had already enabled 2FA last night and it didn't matter.

Thankfully, IG gave me the option of restoring my username when I logged back into my account today.

New comment by rd in "GPT-5.5"

rd — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:51:17 +0000

should be more f’s and da’s in there

GPT-5.5

rd — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:01:39 +0000

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-5/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47879092

Points: 1580

# Comments: 1056

New comment by rd in "Open Source Isn't Dead"

rd — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:06:50 +0000

I don't follow. It seems obvious that there's more to gain for attackers using AI agents to exploit open source repositories, than there is for good samaritan defenders. In this new closed-source world (for Cal.com), there's nothing stopping them from running their own internal security agent audits, all whilst at least blocking the easiest method of finding zero-days - that is, being open source.

This really just seems like Strix marketing. Which is totally fair, but let's be reasonable here, any open-source business stands to lose way more by continuing to be open-source vs. relying on the benevolence of people scanning their code for them.

New comment by rd in "Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids"

rd — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:09:13 +0000

Submarine marketing?

New comment by rd in "Oregon school cell phone ban: 'Engaged students, joyful teachers'"

rd — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:49:52 +0000

A combination of https://selfcontrolapp.com/ and Hammerspoon automation and you can lock yourself out of pretty much everything.

New comment by rd in "Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)"

rd — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:14:53 +0000

It would be easier if we could just block comments from green users. I get that it loses ~.1% of authors who might have made an account to comment on a blogpost of theirs that was posted here. I'd rather have that loss than have to deal with the 99.9% of spam.

New comment by rd in "US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says"

rd — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 17:14:15 +0000

This can't be a to-die-on rule though. Retail would've never bought GOOG, or TSLA, or AAPL if that were the case. Maybe I'm just being pedantic.

GitHub Having Issues

rd — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 05:02:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/02z04m335tvv

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47346682

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by rd in "GPT-5.4"

rd — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:07:44 +0000

Noticeably yes much more than usual. It’s quite bad. I need to start blocking accounts.

New comment by rd in "I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services"

rd — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:40:54 +0000

Is there any hard evidence that this is true compared to say 20 years ago. I’ve heard it repeated a million times but no one’s ever provided evidence

New comment by rd in "Launch HN: Cardboard (YC W26) – Agentic video editor"

rd — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:36:31 +0000

Who do you think your target customer is? Curious to know if you think the money is in short form, traditional YouTube videos, or even movie studios one day.

Great website btw. The onboarding was very pleasing

New comment by rd in "New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes"

rd — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:33:48 +0000

what qualifies as old?