Hacker News: sfmike

New comment by sfmike in "Things that apparently cause cancer"

sfmike — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 04:43:24 +0000

seems higher income and gluttony? is what causes cancer?

New comment by sfmike in "Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo"

sfmike — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:02:08 +0000

what book did they get it from that they burned?

New comment by sfmike in "OpenAI scraps release of Astra 6.1 model over safety issues"

sfmike — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 04:07:05 +0000

Don't pull the same con twice...

New comment by sfmike in "All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen"

sfmike — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:30:31 +0000

what if this was a ultra genius move to end authoritarianism by being so blatantly bad that we actually get a new amendment added for right to privacy and flock was a non profit all along

New comment by sfmike in "New York passes pied-a-terre tax"

sfmike — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:20:18 +0000

Against all new tax. It's spent too inefficiently. Why does there need to be more New York Learing Centers. Would you keep adding buckets of water into a leaky boat or try to patch where it's leaking first?

New comment by sfmike in "Kv4p HT – A homebrew 1W radio (VHF or UHF) that plugs into an Android phone"

sfmike — Tue, 19 May 2026 08:24:13 +0000

Is this prevented by physics or cost or just no one has the motivation?

New comment by sfmike in "AI data center project sucked 29M gallons of water"

sfmike — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:19:43 +0000

The title doesn't mention a time horizon it states what was used which it was. This is not misleading.

New comment by sfmike in "Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school"

sfmike — Fri, 08 May 2026 10:28:07 +0000

the problem is what if the victim fights back, then they might be misconstrued as the bully and get caned.

New comment by sfmike in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

sfmike — Thu, 07 May 2026 08:51:26 +0000

aren't most installers like 10 mb then downloads when run? that's way more then 5x

New comment by sfmike in "I Cancelled Claude: Token Issues, Declining Quality, and Poor Support"

sfmike — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:18:34 +0000

i ran prompts used up a ton of usage, and got no return just showed error.

Asked support hey i got nothing back i tried prompting several times used a ton of usage and it gave no response. I'd just like usage back. What I payed for I never got.

Just bot response we don't do refunds no exceptions. Even in the case they don't serve you what your plan should give you.

New comment by sfmike in "Android now stops you sharing your location in photos"

sfmike — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:22:09 +0000

so aaron schwartz is alive?

New comment by sfmike in "Codex pricing to align with API token usage, instead of per-message"

sfmike — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:02:31 +0000

what are some of them?

New comment by sfmike in "My Google Workspace account suspension"

sfmike — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:58:20 +0000

you keep the old number forever and when travelling get a data sim only

New comment by sfmike in "My Google Workspace account suspension"

sfmike — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:56:45 +0000

people who travel shouldn't trigger account abuse

New comment by sfmike in "Meta and YouTube Found Negligent in Social-Media Addiction Trial"

sfmike — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:45:58 +0000

its gone too far half of browsing now gets blocked as a normal user

New comment by sfmike in "GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics"

sfmike — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:00:33 +0000

5.2 is the best model on the market.

New comment by sfmike in "GPT-5.3-Codex"

sfmike — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 03:12:58 +0000

It's the opposite? codex course corrects and is self inquisitive. opus is just wrong and need to refeed it it's wrong.

New comment by sfmike in "US trade deficit widens by the most in nearly 34 years in November"

sfmike — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 16:53:21 +0000

whats a rice country person?

New comment by sfmike in "The Myth of the ThinkPad"

sfmike — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 06:10:11 +0000

TIL Thinkpads are New Balance of Laptops

New comment by sfmike in "Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions"

sfmike — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 05:38:21 +0000

but if something is used in CLI it makes sense it would be in order to be used with other things in the CLI