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New comment by rottencupcakes in "MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch"

rottencupcakes — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 17:38:56 +0000

I've had a touch screen Lenovo for 10 years. It was a huge mistake and I never use it. It's uncomfortable and doesn't work with laptop interfaces or form factor.

All the cons are real (which Apple figured out in the aughts), but enshittification at a corporate bureaucracy is inevitable without a strong person in charge.

New comment by rottencupcakes in "I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken"

rottencupcakes — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 14:57:12 +0000

It was pretty clear from the outside what OpenAI was 3.5 years ago.

If it wasn’t clear, the coup should have solidified it.

Yet he stayed for 3 more years and vested his stock and improved the company and then spoke out.

I believe that is why most of the comments here are mocking him.

New comment by rottencupcakes in "Burning Man death rates – A short lesson in statistics"

rottencupcakes — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 17:53:51 +0000

It's good to give any sort of thing you're going to climb at the burn a bit of a once over and think about failure modes and worst cases before going on.

In 2018 there was a tower of cars on a spike. [1][2]

One of the cars bent in half (turns out cars aren't design to be supported by a stake in the middle but instead on their two axles. Who would have guessed).

Climbing was closed for the rest of the week.

In 2016 there was a giant boar you could climb on that swiveled at the base and head. There were rumors going around of severed fingers. Surprisingly (or not) it was welded stationary mid-week. [3][4]

[1] https://www.rgj.com/story/life/arts/burning-man/2018/08/29/b...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/BurningMan/comments/9crpce/night_at...

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/BurningMan/comments/51d1t5/comment/...

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4l-eAJT1Cg

New comment by rottencupcakes in "Waymo in Singapore"

rottencupcakes — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 04:31:14 +0000

Singapore has the potential to be the first country to eliminate the private ownership of vehicles.

New comment by rottencupcakes in "Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists"

rottencupcakes — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:37:57 +0000

I had to give this thought, but yes.

I could use Tor or Google from the library if I wanted. Maybe I would accidentally leak my paper trail, like the Dread Pirate Roberts (Ross Ulbricht) did. But it was possible.

The AI systems require an account.

New comment by rottencupcakes in "Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists"

rottencupcakes — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:09:43 +0000

So we're creating a system where people who can afford their own hardware can speak to AI freely but the plebes will be monitored by the elites for any attempted uprising?

New comment by rottencupcakes in "Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists"

rottencupcakes — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:07:08 +0000

By allowing the monitoring of AI conversations, we are creating a dystopian world where essentially all recorded or spoken thought is monitored (given that AI has or will have access to almost all conversations).

Is this the world we want to live in?

New comment by rottencupcakes in "Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists"

rottencupcakes — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 16:56:43 +0000

This is dangerous. I think of talking to an LLM like playing a game - it's a complex system and it's fun to mess with it and role play.

Taking what somebody says in an LLM chat as the truth and using it in the real world is a slippery slope. The fears about thought crime are real.

New comment by rottencupcakes in "How H-E-B became Texas' most beloved brand (2024)"

rottencupcakes — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 14:49:10 +0000

Buc-ee’s ain’t cheap. But people pay it.

New comment by rottencupcakes in "How H-E-B became Texas' most beloved brand (2024)"

rottencupcakes — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 14:47:54 +0000

It’s interesting that the private supermarkets (TJs, HEB) seem to both follow this happy and overstaffed model, and the public ones (Kroger, Albertsons/Safeway) do the opposite.

Albertson’s adds insult to injury by overcharging for everything. Tomato? $4.99/lb please.

New comment by rottencupcakes in "Mmorpg World of ClaudeCraft, vibe coded with Fable 5"

rottencupcakes — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 22:05:10 +0000

The plans have weekly limits, but are charged monthly. So this is actually only about ~$45.

New comment by rottencupcakes in "US Consumer Price Index up 4.2%"

rottencupcakes — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:00:25 +0000

Also is having twice as much money (1x from interest and 1x from income) not a benefit?

Maybe you are the strawman consumer that skeptics point to in guaranteed basic income debates, who just stops working because they get a check.

New comment by rottencupcakes in "Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC"

rottencupcakes — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:41:49 +0000

It's this sort of mentality and the prolitferation of passive investing that gives these companies the opportunity to pass the bag.

New comment by rottencupcakes in "Training our own AI models"

rottencupcakes — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:39:48 +0000

Defaults matter.

Opt-in vs opt-out organ donorship has a large impact.

Most people on any web app won’t stray from the defaults.

New comment by rottencupcakes in "Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers"

rottencupcakes — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:02:27 +0000

What on earth does "returned the hacked personal data" mean?

New comment by rottencupcakes in "Waymo in Portland"

rottencupcakes — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:04:01 +0000

I drove up there in the AM Thursday, Feb 18th, during the snowstorm, about an hour before they closed the pass for the rest of the day.

You couldn't see anything. As soon as there wasn't a car 20 yards in front of you, it was a complete whiteout. Ice built up on the wiper as quickly as you could possibly reach out of your window and clear it. Radar would probably be nice, but I don't think it'd be enough to keep driving. The cameras and lidar would be an absolute wreck.

I'm sure we'll get there eventually, but that is really the final frontier for AI driving I think. Waymos aren't even allowed to drive in a snowstorm right now. I suspect that you'll be dealing with Caltrans closing the pass for the rest of your life.

New comment by rottencupcakes in "Layoffs at Block"

rottencupcakes — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:59:44 +0000

i like it. it's how you show you didn't use ai to write the message.

Hydra Joins Supabase

rottencupcakes — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:08:28 +0000

Article URL: https://supabase.com/blog/hydra-joins-supabase

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46978517

Points: 4

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New comment by rottencupcakes in "East Germany balloon escape"

rottencupcakes — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 22:27:38 +0000

Odd how nobody ever builds a balloon to fly towards the communist utopias.

New comment by rottencupcakes in "Show HN: Website that plays the lottery every second"

rottencupcakes — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 06:15:50 +0000

A limited availability loss leader product meant to normalize lottery tickets to young customers.