Hacker News: rib3ye

New comment by rib3ye in "Why I Stopped Arguing with People"

rib3ye — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:18:24 +0000

His point is, it didn't matter if he was wrong or right about the topic because he admitted he was wrong about the reason: his ego.

New comment by rib3ye in "Claude Sonnet 5"

rib3ye — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:01:53 +0000

link?

New comment by rib3ye in "The best response to AI slop and online noise is from Robin Williams"

rib3ye — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 07:38:22 +0000

Is this clip from Good Will Hunting really a rip on vibe coding?

It seems more akin to a linux kernel eng talking down to a react developer.

New comment by rib3ye in "Slate EV truck starts at $24,950"

rib3ye — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:43:58 +0000

Saw this on Jay Leno's youtube channel: https://youtu.be/L6_9_HHLOSY

Everything about modularity seems awesome, but you can see panel misalignment in several shots. Are the component tolerances really going to be that low?

New comment by rib3ye in "Anthropic updates their terms to verify age or identity"

rib3ye — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:46:55 +0000

How many tokens /sec?

New comment by rib3ye in "What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000"

rib3ye — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:03:47 +0000

Maybe more importantly, Win2k was the first windows version actually WORKED in a predictable way after years of unstable post-Win3.1 (Win95 and onward) production releases.

New comment by rib3ye in "US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks"

rib3ye — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 01:14:03 +0000

I don't remember the U.S. federal government declaring Guatemala a U.S. territory and asking all Guatemalans to change their official language.

What China did in Tibet is closer to what the U.S. did with Hawaii.

New comment by rib3ye in "US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks"

rib3ye — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:13:33 +0000

It certainly wasn't a denial. China could learn a lot from that.

New comment by rib3ye in "US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks"

rib3ye — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:08:33 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Tibet_by_the_Peo...

New comment by rib3ye in "US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks"

rib3ye — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:07:46 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_War

New comment by rib3ye in "US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks"

rib3ye — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:09:16 +0000

When it comes to annexation, China doesn't threaten, they just invade and extinguish.

New comment by rib3ye in "Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability"

rib3ye — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:06:36 +0000

Going scorched earth was kind of Steve’s thing.

New comment by rib3ye in "How to Earn a Billion Dollars"

rib3ye — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:07:23 +0000

So who was the woman he mentioned growing her company at 93% a month?

New comment by rib3ye in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

rib3ye — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 06:04:52 +0000

If this is the result of Jassy simply shooting his mouth off to Bessent at a New York Knicks game I am going to be pissed.

New comment by rib3ye in "A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime"

rib3ye — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:31:56 +0000

I spend a lot of time filing requests to take down my home address. Most low-hanging fruit options have been scrubbed. I am hesitant to increase the count.

New comment by rib3ye in "A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime"

rib3ye — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:16:31 +0000

> Note: By checking this box, I acknowledge that I am filing a document into an official FCC proceeding. All information submitted, including names and addresses, will be publicly available via the web.

Is there really not a way to submit an express FCC comment that avoids all my personal info being publicly published to the web? Yeesh.

New comment by rib3ye in "I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA"

rib3ye — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:53:02 +0000

Hi Eric, I worked for IMVU shortly after you left and tbh I didn't see a ton of "lean startup" ideas implemented well. And today, company is not healthy.

Why do you think IMVU never hit escape velocity?

New comment by rib3ye in "Fake Money Built America"

rib3ye — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:10:36 +0000

Even creating real money becomes theft at a certain scale.

New comment by rib3ye in "Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection"

rib3ye — Fri, 29 May 2026 05:54:01 +0000

The Reckless Ben video is the best thing I've seen on youtube in the last several years.

New comment by rib3ye in "Show HN: Continue? Y/N: A 60-second game about AI agent permission fatigue"

rib3ye — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:11:53 +0000

claude --dangerously-skip-permissions

just give in