Hacker News: ryan_n

New comment by ryan_n in "Tesla Roadster"

ryan_n — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 19:27:21 +0000

Right, I don't care about those things either...

New comment by ryan_n in "Tesla Roadster"

ryan_n — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 13:56:05 +0000

People are allowed to criticize things, and many of them are valid criticisms. Personally I'm a lot more interested in what SpaceX is doing in...space. I don't really care at all about this whole flying car thing because who does this really benefit? Pretty much nobody if you think about it.

New comment by ryan_n in "Tesla Roadster"

ryan_n — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 13:36:16 +0000

You would not be the one with the flying car lol

New comment by ryan_n in "Sites in ChatGPT"

ryan_n — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 15:34:00 +0000

Isn't it already objectively successful? What is your definition of success here?

New comment by ryan_n in "1 in 8 cancer cases worldwide are caused by infections, study finds"

ryan_n — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:31:24 +0000

I thought they meant it figuratively I guess.. I don’t know in hindsight maybe that’s dumb?

New comment by ryan_n in "1 in 8 cancer cases worldwide are caused by infections, study finds"

ryan_n — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:20:41 +0000

Nitrate ridden processed meat already has a “may cause cancer” sticker on it (unless you mean a literal sticker warning when you buy meat from stores?):

https://progressreport.cancer.gov/prevention/diet_alcohol/re...

https://publications.iarc.who.int/Book-And-Report-Series/Iar...

New comment by ryan_n in "ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026"

ryan_n — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 02:56:55 +0000

Most likely that is more caused by fear of mass immigration (which is valid) and propaganda on social media.

New comment by ryan_n in "ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026"

ryan_n — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 02:50:17 +0000

I'm not trying to be inflammatory but just thought it was kind of funny that one could say the same about your own comment but just swap the placement of the words Europe and American. I think unless someone pulls up actual stats on quality of life and all that just saying what people feel is kind of meaningless.

New comment by ryan_n in "End the H-1B Program"

ryan_n — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 02:50:36 +0000

This is absolutely hilarious and so incredibly misguided... I promise you that Mohamed the neurosurgeon is not the reason your children are not able to become doctors.

New comment by ryan_n in "CSS-Tricks in Limbo"

ryan_n — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 02:28:55 +0000

I strongly disagree. I listened to a few of his interviews (one was the 5 hour long lex interview), and read the entirety of his more inflammatory blog posts. In one of them he specifically says he doesn't like modern London because it's not full of native british people, but what he really means is he doesn't like it because it's not full of white british people. Of course he doesn't say this outright but if you look up the statistics he sites you can see for yourself that he excludes asian, black and mixed british people from the statistic he lists. This is just one specific example.

I do think he also supports merit based immigration, but that doesn't mean he's not racist. He also very openly supports very extreme right wing political figures that promote things like ethnic cleansing. If you look into it more, he is pretty blatantly racist.

New comment by ryan_n in "There's a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Ruining the Internet"

ryan_n — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:47:32 +0000

They’re writing about it though, I think was the “got em”.

New comment by ryan_n in "CSS-Tricks in Limbo"

ryan_n — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:04:27 +0000

Based on his own blog post (https://web.archive.org/web/20250925050154/https://world.hey...) I would argue he does come off as racist.

There are a lot of non-white british people (just like there are non-white americans), and he basically ignores that entire population. He assumes that you are only british if you are white and that london is worse now because there are less whites there. That has nothing to do with meritocracy, and arguable little to do with cultural non-fit.

There's a lot more to unpack in that article aside from just that, but that is the most blatantly obvious one.. And for what it's worth, I don't disagree with DHH on mass immigration. But he seems to have a lot more severe beliefs than just "mass immigration is bad".

New comment by ryan_n in "Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously"

ryan_n — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 11:42:16 +0000

How is that the same thing at all? You didn't understand the comment you replied to and were confidently wrong. The person replying to you understood what you were saying very clearly and didn't make any ridiculous "you may not last long" comments like you did...

New comment by ryan_n in "Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously"

ryan_n — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 11:39:51 +0000

Do you enjoy it still (if you did before)?

New comment by ryan_n in "Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously"

ryan_n — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 11:38:36 +0000

The truth is people just don't seem care about code quality anymore (if they ever did?). I don't think it generates great code (yes even using the state of the art, frontier, super max pro 9000 turbo boost ++ models), but it usually generates code that works. Sadly, that's all that most of the people in charge care about. I mean shit, half the time it doesn't even have to work great, look at the state of a lot of modern software. People complain about it all the time. Quite sad, but that seems to just be the state of things these days.

New comment by ryan_n in "Blizzard Revives 'StarCraft' Franchise with Open-World Sci-Fi Shooter"

ryan_n — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:56:01 +0000

They announced a new expansion for Warcraft III this past weekend actually. So they are definitely still trying : )

New comment by ryan_n in "Blizzard Revives 'StarCraft' Franchise with Open-World Sci-Fi Shooter"

ryan_n — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:54:28 +0000

This is pretty typical for a new blizzard game. For example Diablo 3 and 4 were both announced 4 years prior to release. Not saying it’s good or bad, but it’s not unusual.

New comment by ryan_n in "David Sacks: OpenAI and Anthropic Don't Need Regulations to Pace Frontier Models"

ryan_n — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 20:21:26 +0000

Look I don't entirely disagree but if guys like dario want to not be called a liar, perhaps he should stop lying on a regular basis

New comment by ryan_n in "Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]"

ryan_n — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:15:19 +0000

What I meant more is that the dataset they scrape is openly available for download by anyone, unlike any of the frontier labs. Not that they don’t scrape copyrighted content. Still sketch, but at least they don’t call themselves “OpenLAION”.

Also my understanding was they’re not storing the actual music, but the metadata and a link to the YouTube video.

New comment by ryan_n in "ChatGPT Images 2.5"

ryan_n — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 23:29:50 +0000

Why? Because you disagree with them? Would you rather it be an echo chamber?