Hacker News: ripvanwinkle

New comment by ripvanwinkle in "Friendica – A Decentralized Social Network"

ripvanwinkle — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:31:14 +0000

The LLMs need documentation

New comment by ripvanwinkle in "US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects"

ripvanwinkle — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:55:07 +0000

I had this big guy, very big guy with tears streaming down his cheeks asking me "Sir can you take down that woke star that keeps me awake"

New comment by ripvanwinkle in "BYD is seeing a flood of new EV buyers"

ripvanwinkle — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:39:12 +0000

I'd say it's a closer race and the end is not a foregone conclusion yet. That one country currently exhibiting some very troubling tendencies also has more robust self-healing mechanisms in the form of democracy. It has gone off course in the past too but then found its way back. That said, those self-healing mechanisms are under attack as well so there is at least some suspense in the long term outcome

New comment by ripvanwinkle in "US Job Market Visualizer"

ripvanwinkle — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:34:09 +0000

The surplus goes to the owners of the capital. Labor has been losing to capital for sometime now

New comment by ripvanwinkle in "US Job Market Visualizer"

ripvanwinkle — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:32:07 +0000

I was wondering about that too. It shows 1.9M Software Developer Jobs and 122K Computer Programmer jobs.

Reason for hope

New comment by ripvanwinkle in "Iran War Cost Tracker"

ripvanwinkle — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:58:11 +0000

because it worked out for North Korea

New comment by ripvanwinkle in "Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?"

ripvanwinkle — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:38:05 +0000

Pick an activity that is accessible that catches your fancy. Even better if you already have an activity, just spend more time doing it and with people you enjoy hanging out with. At a minimum you'll start feeling less lonely and over time hopefully you'll start forming relationships outside the activity

I am a recent convert to pickleball and highly recommend it because it relatively easy to start with but also the wide range of people who participate in the sport - college kids to retirees

New comment by ripvanwinkle in "Microsoft has a problem: lack of demand for its AI products"

ripvanwinkle — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 20:04:15 +0000

It's not just about protecting data in the old sense - typically from other corporate entities. It would suck if your information somehow made it into a generally available model that then leaked some of that anyone asking a question

New comment by ripvanwinkle in "Microsoft has a problem: lack of demand for its AI products"

ripvanwinkle — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 17:24:28 +0000

I see mentions of Gemini as a fast growing alternative to ChatGPT. Isn't anyone troubled by the fact that for consumers there is no way to keep your data from being used for model training if you want to maintain history of your Gemini chats.

ChatGPT respects privacy and allows for maintaining history while also opting out of using ones data for model training

New comment by ripvanwinkle in "Jeff Bezos says AI is in a bubble but society will get 'gigantic' benefits"

ripvanwinkle — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 23:43:25 +0000

This shouldn't be a surprise - capitalism always overshoots. Anything worth investing in will generally receive too much investment in because very few people can tell where the line is.

And that's what causes bubbles but at this point it should be clear that AI will make a substantial impact - at least as great as the internet, likely larger

New comment by ripvanwinkle in "Claude 4"

ripvanwinkle — Fri, 23 May 2025 05:50:22 +0000

shouldn't the comparison be with gpt4o or 4.5 and not 4.1 or o3

New comment by ripvanwinkle in "Expanding on what we missed with sycophancy"

ripvanwinkle — Fri, 02 May 2025 20:06:34 +0000

a well written postmortem and it raised my confidence in their product in general

New comment by ripvanwinkle in "CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in sheep"

ripvanwinkle — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 19:31:33 +0000

I think this is the best april fools article I've seen

New comment by ripvanwinkle in "Playful Drawings That Charles Darwin's Children Left on His Manuscripts"

ripvanwinkle — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 18:41:55 +0000

Very cool to have his kids closely involved in his work

New comment by ripvanwinkle in "Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO"

ripvanwinkle — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 05:53:49 +0000

Its cyclical, a lot of companies over hired and are trying hard to cut down

Soviet frigate Storozhevoy

ripvanwinkle — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 18:03:23 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_frigate_Storozhevoy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41830106

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Exercise of Command [pdf]

ripvanwinkle — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 06:15:33 +0000

Article URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Exercise_of_Command_-_Excess_of_Detail_in_Orders_and_Instructions.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41144977

Points: 3

# Comments: 13

New comment by ripvanwinkle in "Microsoft ties executive pay to security after multiple failures and breaches"

ripvanwinkle — Fri, 03 May 2024 22:03:28 +0000

about time. you also need a clawback provision since it can take a while for flaws to be detected and the execs could be in new jobs by then.

New comment by ripvanwinkle in "The walls of Apple's garden are tumbling down"

ripvanwinkle — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 17:01:44 +0000

As a newish user of Apple (Macbook and the IPad mini) it was not as big a leap from Android and Windows as I had feared. I still live in Google services including Gboard on the IPad mini and apart from klutzing around with system settings occasionally the mini feels "not terribly different" from the android devices I use. The Macbook is a bigger challenge though.

I only picked the mini because I couldn't get the same performance with that form factor in Android.

I only entertained the mini because I was forced to use a Macbook for work and realized that apart from annoyances with keyboard shortcuts and system settings I could continue to live in a Firefox + Chrome + Edge + Google services ecosystem.

I will now definitely consider Apple hardware if I don't find a good fit in the Android + Windows world

Amazon's Push to Crack Trader Joe's–and Dominate Everything

ripvanwinkle — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 18:38:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/amazon-the-everything-war-dana-mattioli-4966915d

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40025078

Points: 2

# Comments: 1