Hacker News: ronnier

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.

New comment by ronnier in "We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science"

ronnier — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:36:28 +0000

No. Europe is in decline. Asia will.

New comment by ronnier in "Apple's latest attempt to launch the new Siri runs into snags"

ronnier — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 22:51:04 +0000

Is it not impressive what xai did with Grok? It's already integrated into twitter and my Tesla. So quickly? What prevented apple from doing the same but building out their equivalent of grok?

New comment by ronnier in "A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs"

ronnier — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 19:44:21 +0000

Then Reddit and almost all of social media went on to purge trump and pro trump content. The Donald was banned. Trump deplatformed across social media.

New comment by ronnier in "Waymo seeking about $16B near $110B valuation"

ronnier — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 16:03:49 +0000

Yes. It's already happening

https://www.reddit.com/r/Minneapolis/comments/1pdzd2f/some_m...

New comment by ronnier in "Waymo seeking about $16B near $110B valuation"

ronnier — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 15:55:36 +0000

> but I don't see an obvious way for Waymo to get enshittified

My guess is that once Waymo starts to extremely take off, law makers in various cities will start to pass laws to ban them or the number of regulations will make it impossible to run at a profit. This will almost certainly happen. It will disproportionately impact an entire segment of the population and will put them out of work.

New comment by ronnier in "Windows 11's Patch Tuesday nightmare gets worse"

ronnier — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:13:06 +0000

Windows Key + P to change monitor configuration quickly.

New comment by ronnier in "Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee"

ronnier — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 21:26:02 +0000

Safety wise, yes. But sometimes the routing is weird and I want to override that

New comment by ronnier in "BYD's cheapest electric cars to have Lidar self-driving tech"

ronnier — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 21:49:27 +0000

This goes against my daily fsd usage and my friends fsd usage. We all use fsd daily, zero issues, through hard city and highway environments. It’s near perfect outside of the occasional weird routing issues (but that’s not a safety issue). We all have the latest fsd on hw4. No other consumer car on the market in the US can do this (go from point a to b with zero interventions through city and highway). If there was something better then I’d buy it, but there’s not.

New comment by ronnier in "Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades"

ronnier — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 23:37:41 +0000

I have a wife and two kids. That's one reason I still work (it's probably not a good example for the kids to see a father not working)

New comment by ronnier in "Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades"

ronnier — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 23:22:16 +0000

I'm at that point now, debating when I'll retire. We only live once and I'm not sure if I should continue working. I've reached financial freedom at a pretty young age. It's a daily debate in my mind when to call it quits, but I've never not worked and it's difficult to make the change. What I'm missing in life is time and that's what work takes from me and is the driving force behind my desire to retire -- time to do other things in life.

New comment by ronnier in "Stepping down as Mockito maintainer after ten years"

ronnier — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 21:15:00 +0000

It’s taken years off of my life dealing with the test mess people have made with it.