Hacker News: thrwaway55

New comment by thrwaway55 in "GameStop Preparing Offer for eBay"

thrwaway55 — Sat, 02 May 2026 16:22:22 +0000

Oh come on now, you know you are arguing in bad faith. Explain how the BTC in anyway synergized and drove value for anything GME did. MSTR has a BTC leverage angle that GME has never had so it's not even an apt comparison.

New comment by thrwaway55 in "You don't need advice from editors on rejected manuscripts"

thrwaway55 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:48:04 +0000

Maybe pick a more restrictive modding engine or cut out obvious fetish and meme material from evaluation? Even gems of games ala Factorio 1.0 aren't really as good as their peak mods ala Space Exploration. If you limited to larger scale overhaul style mods I think your economic argument starts collapsing quickly

New comment by thrwaway55 in "Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs"

thrwaway55 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 02:23:32 +0000

Why do you think it can't sexually harass someone or drive people to suicide. There are already lawsuits coming in on it causing suicides.

This is an architecture that people are increasing begging to give network connectivity that can't differentiate its system prompt from user input

New comment by thrwaway55 in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

thrwaway55 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 03:32:21 +0000

We need only ask the dead. Aaron Schwartz knew what Altman is. The answer to the topic is no.

New comment by thrwaway55 in "Every layer of review makes you 10x slower"

thrwaway55 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 08:32:45 +0000

Okay but Claude is a fucking moron.

New comment by thrwaway55 in "The American Healthcare Conundrum"

thrwaway55 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 08:29:09 +0000

Cost cut them. You think the administration won't take a bribe at that point?

New comment by thrwaway55 in "The American Healthcare Conundrum"

thrwaway55 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 06:29:04 +0000

Why not just research it outside of the US if the problem is the FDA cost

New comment by thrwaway55 in "Google Safe Browsing missed 84% of confirmed phishing sites"

thrwaway55 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:34:36 +0000

The deep scan detected all phishing sites correctly with the unfortunate tagging of legit sites as phishing too. I imagine their code looks something like isPhishing = true.

New comment by thrwaway55 in "How will OpenAI compete?"

thrwaway55 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 04:19:03 +0000

Isn't half the appeal of AI that they can write a prompt like move all my text history from OpenAI to Claude and then they do it?

New comment by thrwaway55 in "Jane Street Hit with Terra $40B Insider Trading Suit"

thrwaway55 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 03:37:18 +0000

Especially since it's a public ledger. Anyone with a program watching the chain is going to see it. From there they can exercise whatever trade they want for their gain.

New comment by thrwaway55 in "Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at landmark US trial"

thrwaway55 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:38:31 +0000

Ah yes because trade secrets were never a thing at any of these companies. The companies always shut down when it's founding members died wiping out all the knowledge it had built up.

That is to say organizations have always had this edge on individuals.

New comment by thrwaway55 in "Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence"

thrwaway55 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 01:18:05 +0000

FSD next year! Our safeguards are a joke so it's not surprising to see this behavior

New comment by thrwaway55 in "Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy"

thrwaway55 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:52:35 +0000

Is there? Covid stimulus would say there isn't. Granted a company raising wages doesn't print money out of air like the Fed but the amount of goods doesn't change, the cost of the goods adjusts to the monetary supply. You now pay more for the same.

New comment by thrwaway55 in "Six-decade math puzzle solved by Korean mathematician"

thrwaway55 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 02:12:11 +0000

Before or after the solution was published?

New comment by thrwaway55 in "Novo Nordisk launches Wegovy weight-loss pill in US, triggering price war"

thrwaway55 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 02:09:05 +0000

This feels overly optimistic. You want to optimize for existing foods that are still high fat big carb and don't have the quality qualifier. I'm not familiar with the biological pathways that GLP1 operates on but I'm sure food companies will be working on adversarial products

New comment by thrwaway55 in "BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal"

thrwaway55 — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 03:37:05 +0000

Epstein is good for the economy because it ensures politicians get goods before they would be considered market ready allowing for policy to be created proactively. /s

New comment by thrwaway55 in "OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026"

thrwaway55 — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 07:19:11 +0000

Sure but if there's no moat would you rather pay 100% or 80% until the credits run out? You reap the 100% spend in the meantime. Not everyone even has the no moat discount.

New comment by thrwaway55 in "MongoBleed Explained Simply"

thrwaway55 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 00:42:22 +0000

I mean giving everyone footguns and you'll find that is unavoidable forever. Thoughts and prayers to the Mongo devs until we migrate to a language that prevents this error.

New comment by thrwaway55 in "Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class"

thrwaway55 — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 01:01:56 +0000

Time?

New comment by thrwaway55 in "Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class"

thrwaway55 — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 00:45:01 +0000

I'll be honest I actually prefer my words to be lasting and have weight so I prefer block letters carved into lead which doesn't benefit much from cursive