Hacker News: thisisauserid

New comment by thisisauserid in "Who Runs the Ransomware Group 'The Gentlemen?'"

thisisauserid — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:32:32 +0000

Alexander Yapaev, alias Hastalamuerte, orchestrates a dark digital extortion empire.

New comment by thisisauserid in "AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models"

thisisauserid — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:40:42 +0000

Smells more like a secret agreement with the government.

New comment by thisisauserid in "Alphabet announces $80B equity capital raise to expand AI infra and compute"

thisisauserid — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 02:01:15 +0000

They do buy a ton of Nvidia but they seem to want to make their own chips more and more.

New comment by thisisauserid in "Short-Term and Late-Term Effects of Psilocybin on Symptoms in Major Depression"

thisisauserid — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:13:20 +0000

A single 25mg dose reduced depression for three months.

New comment by thisisauserid in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

thisisauserid — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:56:57 +0000

I'm so offline I announce my offlineness to the internet.

New comment by thisisauserid in "I analysed 20 years of my chats"

thisisauserid — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:59:06 +0000

Taking a look at your past comments, I agree with you about you curating "vacuous superiority."

That kind of self insight is valuable.

So maybe, ya know, stop pretending on the internet that you have things figured out?

New comment by thisisauserid in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

thisisauserid — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:12:08 +0000

I miss the old days of two weeks ago when you guys complained that Google Search was unusable for non-AI reasons.

New comment by thisisauserid in "The AWS Service Quotas That Will Take Down Your Production at 3 Am"

thisisauserid — Sun, 24 May 2026 03:36:21 +0000

Or talk to your Account Manager and tell them what capacity you need.

It's not rocket surgery.

New comment by thisisauserid in "Hengefinder: Finding when the sun aligns with your street"

thisisauserid — Sat, 23 May 2026 18:51:47 +0000

Manhattanhenge is cool but people standing in the middle of street for it is pretty nuts.

New comment by thisisauserid in "JWT is a scam and your app doesn't need it"

thisisauserid — Sat, 23 May 2026 18:20:15 +0000

K, I'll stop authorizing incoming OAuth 2 requests to Amazon AgentCore by validating JWTs before allowing access to agents and gateways.

New comment by thisisauserid in "Sam Altman Won in Court Against Elon Musk. But, We All Lost"

thisisauserid — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:58:58 +0000

Exquisite prose merely to call two billionaires insufferable.

New comment by thisisauserid in "Google Declaring War on the Web"

thisisauserid — Thu, 21 May 2026 02:17:37 +0000

>> existential threat from other AI products that provide answers directly

For anything more recent than their knowledge cutoff those AI products are looking answers up on Google.

New comment by thisisauserid in "Silver scrollers: What is screen time like for seniors?"

thisisauserid — Sun, 17 May 2026 20:52:14 +0000

Older adults spend more time on screens than younger generations.

New comment by thisisauserid in "Halt and Catch Fire"

thisisauserid — Sat, 16 May 2026 21:41:39 +0000

This article is deadbeef on arrival.

New comment by thisisauserid in "Using OR-Tools CP-SAT for Scheduling Problems"

thisisauserid — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:30:40 +0000

When you have 50 technicians going to 500 sites, that is not a Traveling Salesman Problem. It might seem like a Vehicle Routing Problem but it isn't that either.

Batch a cheap process at night that runs CP-SAT solution. If someone calls in sick, be prepared to run it again with more horsepower so you can update it.

New comment by thisisauserid in "Ask HN: If AI has made engineers more efficient, why does everything feel worse?"

thisisauserid — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:35:55 +0000

"If X is good and it makes things bad, is X good?"

New comment by thisisauserid in "Claude for the Legal Industry"

thisisauserid — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:34:26 +0000

Anthropoic is approaching AWS levels of sprawl.

New comment by thisisauserid in "Behind the scenes at Wirecutter for an epic duel of air purifiers"

thisisauserid — Tue, 12 May 2026 10:58:18 +0000

Coway's Mighty2 outperformed the original Mighty, becoming Wirecutter's new favorite air purifier.

New comment by thisisauserid in "How the Heck Do Solar Panels Work?"

thisisauserid — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:34:50 +0000

Sunlight strikes doped silicon cells, freeing electrons to generate electricity.

New comment by thisisauserid in "The Mythology of Rice and Beans"

thisisauserid — Mon, 11 May 2026 00:45:20 +0000

The myth that rice and beans must be combined for complete protein is false; they are simply very cheap foods.