Hacker News: reilly3000

New comment by reilly3000 in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

reilly3000 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 15:25:23 +0000

What happens if the auditors use software that consumes the model provider they are auditing? Seems like an obvious conflict of interest for the model, no?

I think that’s not how that works today, but I’m sure that it could and will one day.

New comment by reilly3000 in "Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation"

reilly3000 — Fri, 29 May 2026 05:42:38 +0000

I think the level of panic in CFO offices every where about AI cost explosion directionally validates that the spending is real.

New comment by reilly3000 in "Building Pi with Pi"

reilly3000 — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:56:21 +0000

More like they sing in coil whine.

New comment by reilly3000 in "Googlebook"

reilly3000 — Tue, 12 May 2026 22:41:59 +0000

That’s why we’re all here together friend.

New comment by reilly3000 in "Days without GitHub incidents"

reilly3000 — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:06:12 +0000

This is a real business continuity issue for us. We’re kinda stuck with GitHub Enterprise but we may need to move from cloud to on-premises if this keeps up.

New comment by reilly3000 in "Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day"

reilly3000 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:21:35 +0000

My parent company offers Headspace as an employee benefit. My phone doesn’t have any MDM so in theory it should stay deleted after I just deleted it. I suspect that an MDM policy could be triggering these installs. That said, the other theories shared here seem more plausible.

New comment by reilly3000 in "Ubuntu now requires more RAM than Windows 11"

reilly3000 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:30:55 +0000

> Linux's advantage is slowly shrinking

This is garbage writing. Linux’s advantages are numerous and growing. Ubuntu ≠ Linux. WRT RAM requirements, Win 11’s 4GB requirement isn’t viable for daily use and won’t represent any practical machine configuration that has the requisite TPM 2 module. On the other side, the Linux ecosystem offers a wide variety of minimal distributions that can run on ancient hardware.

Maybe I’m just grouchy today but I would flag this content if sloppy MS PR was a valid reason.

New comment by reilly3000 in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

reilly3000 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:20:31 +0000

It’s the new cloud cost vector, where cutting 2K from context on a busy service saves $xxxxx.

Terse.

New comment by reilly3000 in "Ageless Linux – Software for humans of indeterminate age"

reilly3000 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 03:20:50 +0000

Until the normies come in droves because their dear leader decided that it’s illegal to speak ill of him on a computer, or whatever drives mass change. The regulations will follow, and they will say what we were doing the whole time is impossible and would never work.

New comment by reilly3000 in "Claude March 2026 usage promotion"

reilly3000 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 22:29:12 +0000

This. The best way to win a net promoting customer is to show them that given more tokens, you can do more amazing things, by giving them something they want that looks amazing (at first glance). They then feel indebted and grateful, and go off to show what they have made. Paying greater sums feels to them like gaining greater leverage.

I dunno y’all; feels like free drug samples. Who would ever think of coding without it?

New comment by reilly3000 in "HP has new incentive to stop blocking third-party ink in its printers"

reilly3000 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 17:02:08 +0000

Epson EcoTank has been a great system for my personal needs. They sell devices for full price but will ink that is distributed via bottle that fill a visible tank. If you’re using one color more than others you only have to buy that one. I’m sure the print head will eventually need replacement but it’s been going strong for 5 years so far.

New comment by reilly3000 in "HP has new incentive to stop blocking third-party ink in its printers"

reilly3000 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:58:34 +0000

Or is that the latest tactic in appearing human-written?

New comment by reilly3000 in "OpenAI is walking away from expanding its Stargate data center with Oracle"

reilly3000 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 23:22:44 +0000

Yes and CNBC is comically rife with payola content. I just want to know who’s buying.

New comment by reilly3000 in "MacBook Neo"

reilly3000 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 05:51:54 +0000

They are a highly NPS driven operation. It makes sense: if you keep NPS above a certain threshold each sale begets additional sales from other customers. They manage people and places to what customers say in NPS surveys but don’t allow tolerate soliciting ratings. It’s simple, thus scalable.

New comment by reilly3000 in "Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pulling back from OpenAI and Anthropic"

reilly3000 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 05:30:20 +0000

This leaves an opening for Intel to get in the game. Their new lines have a pretty decent value proposition for mid-tier gaming. If they focused on the higher end they would could own it. There is massive latent demand because of the NVidia situation. It’s easier to make money from than the R&D to build the next Blackwell but there is just as much demand for local/private models on the prosumer level.

New comment by reilly3000 in "OpenAI – How to delete your account"

reilly3000 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 14:39:41 +0000

FYI I am a paying Workspace customer. I disabled Gemini retention. Doing so means no chat history sidebar- all are ephemeral. It was org-level. That became impractical. I re-enabled it. Magically, all of my old chats were back. The ones during no retention mode weren’t there. Perhaps if I’d left it off for more than 30 days the old stuff would have been truly removed.

The point is there is no conversation-level controls. It’s incredibly user-hostile.

New comment by reilly3000 in "Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras"

reilly3000 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:59:51 +0000

Doesn’t that just mean Flock makes more money from making replacements?

New comment by reilly3000 in "Every company building your AI assistant is now an ad company"

reilly3000 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 01:12:33 +0000

It really is a prosthetic for minds that struggle to organize themselves.

New comment by reilly3000 in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

reilly3000 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 18:25:21 +0000

Flash is (was?) was better than Pro on these fronts.

New comment by reilly3000 in "A Programmer's Loss of Identity"

reilly3000 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 17:01:05 +0000

Maybe they choose not to exude those traits by choice (when a leader slot opens up), and can use them when they are circumstantially relevant. I have gone full founder, and I’m not happy with who I was. It’s an IC’s life for me.

The only thing is, we’re all managers now. We’ve been given a fleet of robots to support a set of outcomes. We have to set expectations, monitor outputs, coach, intervene, step back, onboard new team members, train regularly, make sure they have the tools they need, etc and so on. Are those “soft skills” or just engineering? I’m curious if and how people are lacking in these areas when it’s just text.