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New comment by reenorap in "Feeling Sad about AI"

reenorap — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:26:18 +0000

I feel the opposite of sad, I am very very excited. I love programming and I love technology, but the stuff I'm doing now is beyond what I could not do on my own, and now I'm spending a few hours building complete end-to-end stuff. This is the golden age for builders.

I created a fully working house simulator, I made a math test creator for my kids, I fixed up some other side projects that I had and added observability, as well as installed Prometheus and Grafana and built grafana dashboards all using AI. It's wonderful.

I plan on building real-time stock price monitors with personalized alerting, taking images from my security cameras and making time lapse videos, trying to do real time predictions on football games/individual plays by having AI monitor the game and based on previous history predict plays/outcomes specifically for sports betting. I need to find the time to figure out how to do all this stuff but what used to be a pipe dream is now 100% possible and accomplishable within days.

New comment by reenorap in "iPhone Duo"

reenorap — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:56:19 +0000

Apple does this right now. I use AirPlay to extend one laptop into an older laptop so I can have 2 displays when I’m away from home

New comment by reenorap in "Tell HN: OpenAI brings back 5 hour limit for plus and business standard users"

reenorap — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 17:43:37 +0000

How is 5 hrs being measured and over what time period?

New comment by reenorap in "Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat"

reenorap — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 15:27:26 +0000

Droughts are scary and they suck badly. California went through one for 10+ years. However, don’t go off the deep end and think that it’s the “new normal” like Californians did at one point.

All it took was one big rainfall a few years ago, and California has been out of drought ever since then. The reservoirs have been above historic norms and at the end of this summer, it’s only “abnormally dry”. Compare that to a few years ago where the entire state was mostly in an exceptional level of drought.

Droughts and heat waves suck and many people are suffering but nature goes in cycles and it will get better.

New comment by reenorap in "Highest-ever ocean temperature measured as powerful El Niño forms"

reenorap — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 03:11:21 +0000

Sf Bay Area didn’t have a single day above 100 this year. Not counting Livermore etc. it’s the first time in a long time I can remember the entire summer being so nice and relatively cool.

New comment by reenorap in "Stripe said to abandon $50B pursuit of PayPal"

reenorap — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 11:16:27 +0000

If this is true, the CEO needs to be fired immediately by the Board and negotiations need to be resumed. Paypal has no future, getting 60B would have been a gift to them.

New comment by reenorap in "FDA clears blood test to aid evaluation for Alzheimer's disease"

reenorap — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:50:41 +0000

I know it’s a joke but then you’ll leave your family bearing the burden of your care. As someone whose parents had dementia, finding a place that treats your parents with dignity is extremely expensive and very rare. We were spending 12k/month and even we needed to set up camera’s and my sister slept with my mom and took care of her like a nurse. When the pandemic hit my sister couldn’t enter so every morning they took my mom, clothed her and sat her facing the bathroom all day long.

The only other alternative is some sort of mental hospital which is more like a prison than anything else.

New comment by reenorap in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

reenorap — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 01:53:09 +0000

That’s false. Maybe a few hours but that’s it. The CBP are expressly not allowed to deny citizens entry into the US.

New comment by reenorap in "Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)"

reenorap — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 04:02:59 +0000

> Smart people are smarter than stupid people, but not that much smarter.

This is patently untrue. My middle school kid finished Calculus 1/2 last year and got a 5 on AP without breaking a sweat. He’s taking college calculus this year and we need to figure out what math he’s going to do next year already. He has friends who are younger and even more advanced.

There are genius level kids that are at another plane of intellectual existence. It’s quite something to see.

New comment by reenorap in "California's new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year"

reenorap — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 03:37:39 +0000

It cost me $1600 to change the 4 tires for my Tesla because they are “energy efficient” and matched my original tires. I do not want the tires for my other car to be this expensive. I don’t care about efficiency those tires are literally 4X the price of my other car a Honda.

New comment by reenorap in "Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak"

reenorap — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 03:28:48 +0000

Watch Alton Brown’s Good Eats on cooking steak. It takes less that 10 mins cooking time and it’s easy. That gets you 80% of the way there and then the rest is fiddling around for personal taste.

New comment by reenorap in "Norway became a global salmon behemoth. Now it's facing the consequences"

reenorap — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 18:14:22 +0000

You are exactly wrong. Farmed salmon has very high levels of heavy metals and PCB because the water where they are farmed is slow moving accumulate pollution. Wild ocean fish swim in the open ocean where overall pollution is less. That’s why if you buy omega 3 tablets it needs to be from ocean fish otherwise you’re getting a high level of toxic chemicals.

New comment by reenorap in "Plug-in solar is coming. Plug-in batteries should follow"

reenorap — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 03:40:32 +0000

Why bother? Power companies will complain they are losing money and regulators will allow them to buy energy from residential solar panels basically for free (NEM 3.0). This is California.

California has spent decades convincing people to convert to solar panels and EVs and now that many have switched, they doubled electricity prices and told us not to charge when it’s too hot. Now they want solar panel owners to pay a surcharge for “connecting to the grid”, upwards of $100/month or more than my actual solar bill. It’s all a scam.

New comment by reenorap in "Google kills Earth AI generator after one day"

reenorap — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 14:03:44 +0000

I think if Google stopped retreating so quickly with its tail between its legs after getting “embarrassed”, people would stop caring. All of the “sins” that were created via this is nothing that other AI couldn’t produce either.

Part of the sport in making Google look bad is because they know Google will predictably cower when they are embarrassed. If they just said “ya, sometimes people will make bad pics but who cares?” people would stop caring.

Everything that Ars Technica found in my opinion is nothing that other AI image generators couldn’t do on their own. What’s the big deal?

New comment by reenorap in "New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study"

reenorap — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 23:30:47 +0000

FYI teen pregnancy in the US is the lowest it’s ever been in the history of the country.

New comment by reenorap in "A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months"

reenorap — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:10:37 +0000

Holy fuck! How can someone without no evidence and completely innocent be convicted of an offense like this in Canada? What in the fuck is going on?? What happened to “guilty beyond a reasonable doubt?”

Everyone needs to be investigated for this, this is absolutely unbelievable and sickening!

New comment by reenorap in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

reenorap — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 05:43:24 +0000

There’s no way to prove intent if you keep your mouth shut and don’t answer anything.

New comment by reenorap in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

reenorap — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 01:19:57 +0000

Have the duress PIN on sticker on your phone. Maybe put it backwards and don’t say anything to border patrol. Have them try it out and erase the phone and then you can legitimately say you didn’t do anything and they did it themselves.

New comment by reenorap in "Park by Robot at London Gatwick Airport"

reenorap — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:34:38 +0000

The cookie screen for this web site is the most deceitful I’ve come across in a long time. How do I report this?

Ask HN: How can I reliably/safely sell my high cost item (M3 Ultra 512 GB)?

reenorap — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 12:36:53 +0000

I have an M3 ultra mac studio with 512 GB of memory. I want to sell it, but there appears to be no way to sell it without exposing myself to buyer fraud.

I know all the ways that eBay sellers can get scammed and even local purchases can be scammed via reversed Venmo or Zelle payments. Even cashiers checks can be fake.

Given the high cost of the Mac studio ($20,000 or more) are there no online or local platforms that protect both buyers and sellers from fraud?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49005798

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