Hacker News: surfmike

New comment by surfmike in "A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals"

surfmike — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:32:23 +0000

Maybe because the headline is misleading? (because there's no connection to the Hugging Face attack)

That said, it's the second day and it's still on the front page.

New comment by surfmike in "Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread"

surfmike — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 23:15:58 +0000

The most blatant recent case is Trump selling early access to his Truth Social posts

https://abcnews.com/Politics/profoundly-corrupt-trump-sued-f...

New comment by surfmike in "California's new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year"

surfmike — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:30:07 +0000

California is also over regulated.

New comment by surfmike in "In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices"

surfmike — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:49:55 +0000

California is also adding a lot of battery storage… but why are electricity prices falling in Australia and not in CA? Are they outpacing us?

New comment by surfmike in "Gemini 3.7 Flash"

surfmike — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 05:58:07 +0000

Yes I will look into it now but there’s no cross reference from GCP, and why are there two ways? And why did the GCP way require all these APIs enabled while AI studio didn’t?

New comment by surfmike in "Gemini 3.7 Flash"

surfmike — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 02:08:29 +0000

Personally I went to https://console.cloud.google.com since I already had some GCP projects. Then I searched for Gemini API Key. It brought me to https://console.cloud.google.com/agent-platform/studio/setti.... Then, there was a banner saying "Enable APIs to access full platform capabilities." Then, I did that, which took quite a while (minutes). Finally, I was able to see the way to create an API key.

The fact that there's two ways to get keys is also very confusing.

New comment by surfmike in "Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas"

surfmike — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:05:05 +0000

How much does OpenAI actually control the way the data centers are built and deployed?

I don’t know much about the impact of their data centers compared to others, but there weren’t many (if any) concrete commitments in this letter. The promises all seem like areas that even an evil corporation could pay lip service to.

New comment by surfmike in "Corporate America Has Suddenly Decided to Stop Blowing Money on AI"

surfmike — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 14:36:35 +0000

You can use opencode

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=sst-dev....

New comment by surfmike in "Xiaomi-Robotics-1"

surfmike — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 07:32:42 +0000

Sorting and folding laundry is one of the most tedious chores in our household. Do you have kids?

New comment by surfmike in "Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers"

surfmike — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:48:28 +0000

Did you use AI to rewrite it?

Bernie Sanders: A.I. Is a Public Resource. You Should Own Half of It

surfmike — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:27:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/opinion/artificial-intelligence-bernie-sanders.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48370748

Points: 5

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New comment by surfmike in "Atherton spent $145K to delay train electrification. The rest of us paid $400M"

surfmike — Sun, 31 May 2026 22:36:41 +0000

A big reform passed in 2025: https://calmatters.org/housing/2025/06/ceqa-urban-developmen...

New comment by surfmike in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

surfmike — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:51:25 +0000

Since one of the major donors is Germany, I also like to consider this as reparations for WWII. I wish people in Poland would realize more how generous the EU has been to them.

New comment by surfmike in "Oracle may slash up to 30k jobs to fund AI data-centers as US banks retreat"

surfmike — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 17:08:40 +0000

Google’s training and running all their stuff on ASICs, seems to be working out well.

New comment by surfmike in "Gifted children are special needs children"

surfmike — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 09:02:57 +0000

Perhaps, but then surely reading should be part of the curriculum at least by by grade 1 or 2 then?

But if reading is part of the curriculum (which it generally is for K and certainly for the years after) then it’s just the reality that there will be big differences in ability and trying to have everyone go at the same pace doesn’t serve either early or late readers.

New comment by surfmike in "Gifted children are special needs children"

surfmike — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 14:35:55 +0000

If Kindergarten were just play based schooling then I’d agree with you. But there is an academic component, for example learning to read, and students abilities can be radically different.

New comment by surfmike in "You want to meet me, don't make me work for it"

surfmike — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:33:10 +0000

calendly / cal.com solves this problem, just give them a link.

New comment by surfmike in "The health benefits of sunlight may outweigh the risk of skin cancer"

surfmike — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 18:11:18 +0000

Also it makes a lot of difference where you are. Scandinavians rarely wear sunscreen but their UV index is much lower than, say, California, let alone Australia.

New comment by surfmike in "Corporations are trying to hide job openings from US citizens"

surfmike — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 04:43:26 +0000

You could make multiple pools, having separate ones carved out for research and advanced technology.

A lot of H1Bs are not working on anything you described though.

New comment by surfmike in "New Mexico is first state in US to offer universal child care"

surfmike — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 01:10:53 +0000

I think I muddled my point, I think with abundance we should offer childcare to people who have jobs. Even maybe some hours for those that don’t too.