Hacker News: ronnier

New comment by ronnier in "Kirkland Roundabouts"

ronnier — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:19:30 +0000

People (including me) are getting flat tires. There's an obstruction jutting out into the road in going west on 85th to South on 405. It's a few inches high, very sharp, and right into the pathway. We've filed a complaint but it's still there.

New comment by ronnier in "Stop the Apple Music app from launching"

ronnier — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:45:35 +0000

Would also love to stop the dictionary app from opening

New comment by ronnier in "Naphtha shortages in Japan"

ronnier — Sat, 30 May 2026 05:20:31 +0000

Hn has at least one article in the top 25 related to Japan every day, even about the most obscure topics.

New comment by ronnier in "Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country"

ronnier — Wed, 27 May 2026 01:53:05 +0000

There’s lots of anti ai and anti tech coming from hn and in general lately. I guess this is start of the hit list.

New comment by ronnier in "Uber, Lyft drivers in Massachusetts form first US ride-share union"

ronnier — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:33:29 +0000

It's close and it will happen. In my Tesla it already drives itself nearly 100% of the time through city streets, highways, rush hour traffic, complex situations (hardware 4 Teslas are amazing). I also have a Toyota truck and it feels like such a downgrade to drive without self driving anymore. It's only a matter of time before Tesla and others perfect self driving (as Waymo nearly has done) and we no longer have human driven taxis/ubers/lyfts and regular drivers are also on self driving. It will save time, lives and reduce road rage.

New comment by ronnier in "Toshifumi Suzuki, founder of Seven-Eleven Japan, has died"

ronnier — Tue, 26 May 2026 00:17:45 +0000

Many don't realize 711 was started in Dallas, Texas (by Joe C. Thompson). 711 is an interesting part of American and Japan culture

New comment by ronnier in "Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored"

ronnier — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:52:15 +0000

On flight WiFi so searching was a hard but I did find it. Thanks!

New comment by ronnier in "Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored"

ronnier — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:27:19 +0000

I saw that but not a picture of the plutonium core which I thought the OP was referring to

New comment by ronnier in "Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored"

ronnier — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:18:50 +0000

Do you mind linking the photo you mentioned? I’d love to see it if you are able to find it

New comment by ronnier in "Shunning AI is the human choice"

ronnier — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:02:36 +0000

These anti AI westerners won't burn down the datacenters in China. These westerns will be subjugated to a lower quality of life as Asia in general rises as they embrace tech and use the advantages for their own. The same with the tech companies the westerners try to neuter, they'll pass the advantages to giant Chinese conglomerates instead

New comment by ronnier in "Three men are facing charges in Toronto SMS Blaster arrests"

ronnier — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 05:40:01 +0000

I wonder why the article didn’t name them?

New comment by ronnier in "Japanese, French and Omani vessels cross Strait of Hormuz"

ronnier — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:46:03 +0000

I think a large part of why they do this and vote the way they do is because of comments like yours. Hacker news, Reddit, award shows, movies, universities, etc all have a constant drum beat of disdain and hate towards them. I think this motivates them into voting even if the vote is against their own interest.

New comment by ronnier in "France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app"

ronnier — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:19:55 +0000

Russia and China help them.

New comment by ronnier in "Meta and TikTok let harmful content rise to drove engagement, say whistleblowers"

ronnier — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 02:36:37 +0000

Then we'll just use the Chinese apps. Or do you plan on shutting down our access to Chinese apps too?

New comment by ronnier in "Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis"

ronnier — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 01:30:54 +0000

But when it’s time for entertainment, someone only has so much time in the day to watch a movie, play a game, watch sports, or scroll TikTok. They are all in competition with each other for that little slice of time each day

New comment by ronnier in "The changing goalposts of AGI and timelines"

ronnier — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 18:53:19 +0000

We have nukes, missiles, bombs, all capable of mass widespread death. Should we give those up too and just let adversaries be the only ones in possession of these types of weapons?

New comment by ronnier in "The changing goalposts of AGI and timelines"

ronnier — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 18:30:53 +0000

That simplistic question is not how things will work. I guess we’ll just get shot by Chinese AI, they will not stop.

New comment by ronnier in "The changing goalposts of AGI and timelines"

ronnier — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 18:25:19 +0000

Do Chinese do this in China? Walk away from companies that will be used for war? I doesn’t seem to be prevalent and instead they try to take every advantage they can to push their country, China, to become the most dominate in the world. They must be elated to watch the world’s premier tech companies protest the American government and refusal to work with them. If I wanted China to be weaker I’d hope that Chinese companies protested and refused to work with the Chinese government.

New comment by ronnier in "Yoghurt delivery women combatting loneliness in Japan"

ronnier — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 19:14:18 +0000

I also find it odd that there’s daily top ranked Japan related articles on HN.

New comment by ronnier in "Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model"

ronnier — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:03:09 +0000

Apple AirPods.