Hacker News: supertroop

New comment by supertroop in "U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Bay Model"

supertroop — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:08:41 +0000

Don’t show something good the government has done or the POTUS will cancel it!!!

New comment by supertroop in "Patching my guitar amp's firmware"

supertroop — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:14:39 +0000

It is so easy to use signature verification and even encrypted XIP with Mcuboot it just blows my mind that companies don’t.

Also the level of reverse engineering here is kinda bananas. I almost don’t believe he was able to find the transfer functions for the dsp bias equations w/o some source guidance. I mean that’s just bad ass if he did it without help.

New comment by supertroop in "Morningstar values SpaceX at $780B, half its IPO target"

supertroop — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:03:43 +0000

I meant that as a pejorative self burn. :/

New comment by supertroop in "Morningstar values SpaceX at $780B, half its IPO target"

supertroop — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:03:19 +0000

You’re doing pretty good!

New comment by supertroop in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

supertroop — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:02:12 +0000

Why not? Why can’t part of its previous state be part of the training?

New comment by supertroop in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

supertroop — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 01:01:19 +0000

Reinforcement learning changes the model. So it can and does change and remember based on experience. Eventually reinforcement learning can happen in real time.

New comment by supertroop in "Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?"

supertroop — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:28:29 +0000

You do know that many sites don’t work with a vpn. Like this one. You can’t create an account on HN with a vpn. Also, countries are starting to ban vpn ip blocks entirely. In fact, turkey was monitoring tor entry nodes and disappearing whomever provided them. Banned tor pretty damn fast. Vpns can be turned off in a snap.

New comment by supertroop in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

supertroop — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:36:21 +0000

We’ve all grown out of that cliche. Literally every OS is opinionated.

New comment by supertroop in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

supertroop — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:35:06 +0000

Doesn’t happen on mac either, right?

New comment by supertroop in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

supertroop — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:34:18 +0000

Why can’t you migrate? It took me a year to move my business to protonmail. I had to change about 200 accounts but we finally moved. I’m curious what the hard limit is for you.

New comment by supertroop in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

supertroop — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:25:04 +0000

No cfpa would claim #1. At retirement you are not balanced, you are in low risk funds or bonds.

New comment by supertroop in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

supertroop — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:22:33 +0000

I’m an index investor. I still need to sell to see the gains. So that’s a tax penalty. What am I missing?

New comment by supertroop in "Morningstar values SpaceX at $780B, half its IPO target"

supertroop — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:20:11 +0000

Can you image how much better Tesla would be doing if musk was no longer involved?

New comment by supertroop in "Morningstar values SpaceX at $780B, half its IPO target"

supertroop — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:19:33 +0000

That’s like 90% of this site. Roll with it.

New comment by supertroop in "Morningstar values SpaceX at $780B, half its IPO target"

supertroop — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:18:10 +0000

Same here. I’ve had an IRA and 401k since I was 21 and I’m 59 now (but still feel as smart as a 21 year old). I doubt I’ll see my lifetime of investment go up in smoke, just a big hill: up super high for a few years and then back to 2024 levels by 2030.

New comment by supertroop in "Morningstar values SpaceX at $780B, half its IPO target"

supertroop — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:16:12 +0000

Have you seen teslas EPS?

Unfortunately I have very little knowledge of the historical stock market and if this order of magnitude of bullshit valuation has ever occurred before.

New comment by supertroop in "Roughly a quarter of American professionals hit a wall in their careers"

supertroop — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:57:31 +0000

Oopsie. Looks like the 98% failure rate of startups means maybe they should take a seat?

New comment by supertroop in "Roughly a quarter of American professionals hit a wall in their careers"

supertroop — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:04:04 +0000

I’ve been in the industry for 40 years. This has always been a complaint. Always. It is not new.

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