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New comment by rogerkirkness in "Ask HN: Will There Be Another iPhone Mini?"

rogerkirkness — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 13:49:04 +0000

I'd pay $2k for a Mini Pro. Just want this to be on the internet, in case...

New comment by rogerkirkness in "We are terminating Chris Degnan for unethical conduct involving Cognition"

rogerkirkness — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 15:50:50 +0000

Both people here sound excessively political and self rationalizing. It literally never makes sense to take a dispute like this public also.

New comment by rogerkirkness in "Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone"

rogerkirkness — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 15:23:27 +0000

N=1 from my own experience but other than occasionally disabling it in Safari for websites it seems to work flawlessly for me. I've had it on MacOS and iOS for about a year now.

New comment by rogerkirkness in "Pivot to AI safety, I beg you"

rogerkirkness — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:55 +0000

I feel similarly right now, which is patr of why I shut down my company.

New comment by rogerkirkness in "Four Weeks of a Vegan Diet Alter Signs of Inflammation and Aging"

rogerkirkness — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 23:59:39 +0000

I had to stop after 6 months because my testosterone dropped so much (serious, blood test confirmed). Felt way better for the first few months, then slowly lower energy and not like myself. Eventually realized more vegetables is good, but nailing is protein wise on true vegan diet is very very hard.

New comment by rogerkirkness in "They Looked Like They Were Getting Rich on Polymarket–But None of It Was Real"

rogerkirkness — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 02:17:37 +0000

It is fraud*

New comment by rogerkirkness in "New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra"

rogerkirkness — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 14:38:58 +0000

Opus is probably ~2T parameter model, so that would probably not run on these. More like Sonnet.

New comment by rogerkirkness in "The Facebook Files (2021)"

rogerkirkness — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 11:16:02 +0000

Facebook are the worst, and I hope the settlement exceeds their balance sheet.

New comment by rogerkirkness in "Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like nothing matters anymore?"

rogerkirkness — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 01:32:09 +0000

I feel this way, so I shut my startup down. Not sure what I'm going to do next but I'm hoping it isn't so computer dependent. The reason I got into computers was unregulated opportunity and freedom and it's just the opposite today.

New comment by rogerkirkness in "Anthropic revenue reportedly jumps to more than $11.5B in second quarter"

rogerkirkness — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:09:46 +0000

There is just no way all these data center investments in the trillions pay off. That has to be paid out of cashflow, like, real profit. The price to do useful things keeps falling, the payroll economy will crash long before there's actual trillions of dollars of cashflow for tokens.

New comment by rogerkirkness in "Ask HN: When you sell your company, do you receive the money with a normal wire?"

rogerkirkness — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 14:08:10 +0000

Yes it's a giant wire payment. Depending on your bank, it might have to be setup to send in daily large amounts (e.g. $999k every day for X days). It can actually cause problems for your local bank branch because one thing banks have to do at the regional level is show that their own local balance sheet is healthy. So a giant deposit moving in and out of the bank can cause compliance issues.

New comment by rogerkirkness in "Ask HN: Should hard-tech founders join a problem or technology-first PhD lab?"

rogerkirkness — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:43:56 +0000

In my totally uneducated opinion as a founder working on winding down my software company that can't differentiate anymore and considering finding someone in hard tech to partner with, I think problem first is a mistake. Problem first is appropriate for a business, but for a lab, I think it should be organized around the art of possible, deep specialization and capabilities first. You never know what valuable things will come out of that process. Once you have something promising, you can match it to problems and make a business case working backwards from you. Generally startups are the opposite, you want to organize them around a customer and a problem, but fundamental R&D != startups.

New comment by rogerkirkness in "The future is for billionaires – the rest of us will get open weight AI, maybe"

rogerkirkness — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:13:59 +0000

Gemma and Muse Glimmer are pretty sweet, I like my adaptiveness odds against their sloppiness. It seems like the new billionaire move is starting a company with your buddies to do your 'life's work' of automating scientific research. Sort of like science and enlightenment without human involvement. Key unsolved philosophy question of what the humans will do.

New comment by rogerkirkness in "Gen Z has rediscovered the joy of going to the movies"

rogerkirkness — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 01:41:53 +0000

Gen Z seems to have some kind of vaccine against all the Gen X problems.

New comment by rogerkirkness in "Analyzing data from Silicon Valley ventures and founders prosecuted for fraud"

rogerkirkness — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:21:50 +0000

I think this is accurate and a reflection of the pathological insecurity that leads someone to want to start a startup.

New comment by rogerkirkness in "Who should be responsible for OpenAI's hack of Hugging Face?"

rogerkirkness — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:34:13 +0000

OpenAI, and it's legal officers.

New comment by rogerkirkness in "OpenAI Model Hacks into HuggingFace During Cybersecurity Evaluation"

rogerkirkness — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:02:07 +0000

I don't think anyone including Americans are really buying that OpenAI or Anthropic are capable of keeping people safe from AI models at this point, given they can't even run evals on them without significant real world harm.

New comment by rogerkirkness in "Ask HN: Is it normal ChatGPT told me it was "literally smiling" for me?"

rogerkirkness — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 12:20:38 +0000

Depends on whether you like have parasocial relationships with machines or not. It will say what is necessary to get you to keep using it on a regular basis.

New comment by rogerkirkness in "Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA"

rogerkirkness — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 01:14:47 +0000

the weights are the bones

New comment by rogerkirkness in "OpenAI Strategic Lead Defines Open-Source AI as Dystopian Hellscape"

rogerkirkness — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 01:24:00 +0000

> Still, in the end, open-weight models deter further AI capex.

Good.