Hacker News: tmpz22

New comment by tmpz22 in "Paramount Caught Using 'Astroturf' Group to Drum Up Fake Support for Merger"

tmpz22 — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:14:30 +0000

A popular MMORPG went through a period of not enforcing rampant botting, gold farming, and similar activities which provided a substantial boost to their user numbers. A short time after the acquisition, they announced major initiatives to combat botting, bringing the user count back down.

IANAL, but couldn't this be fraud?

New comment by tmpz22 in "Political meddling at the Census Bureau damages the US statistical system"

tmpz22 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 23:38:12 +0000

The quote isn't corroborated by the report.

Ohio and Utah were overcounted, Illinois was undercounted, and the remaining 37 states plus DC had no statistically significant error either way. Some of the significant results are also marginal: Delaware's estimate of 5.45% has a standard error of 2.82, so the 90% confidence interval barely clears zero.

New comment by tmpz22 in "1Password Replied to My Disappointment"

tmpz22 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 02:18:02 +0000

I heard a wonderful quote the other day:

> Politics is just another word for how we treat our neighbors.

So yes, as I accept this definition - I may choose a "less efficient" tool if it treated my neighbor better.

New comment by tmpz22 in "Launch HN: Bloomy (YC S26) – AI-powered mastery learning for K-12"

tmpz22 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 11:48:00 +0000

Move fast and break things.

New comment by tmpz22 in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

tmpz22 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:33:43 +0000

Is that multi-trillion dollar market being created or is it being extracted from other markets?

New comment by tmpz22 in "Mayor Mamdani Says Landlords Can't Use AI Images to Advertise"

tmpz22 — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 03:30:48 +0000

Students, out of state, and other groups may sign a lease sight unseen. Yeah its dumb but it does happen. Yes there is -some- reasonable assumption of risk, but not to the extent to allow blatant deceptive advertising.

New comment by tmpz22 in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

tmpz22 — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 04:01:04 +0000

And if the HR bot is anything like Facebooks customer support - itll just let you do it!

New comment by tmpz22 in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

tmpz22 — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 03:56:21 +0000

AWS has had this reputation for over a decade. Every former AWS (including poached not fired) has relayed to me a verson of this.

Every once in a while (~1:12) you get one that sounds like a Mormon missionary praising how its not that way and AWS is perfect.

New comment by tmpz22 in "Google Kills Custom Search API on Jan 1, 2027"

tmpz22 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 02:05:14 +0000

Not affiliated - would Kagis search API be a drop in replacement?

New comment by tmpz22 in "At least 105 past YC founders have worked at OpenAI and Anthropic"

tmpz22 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:20:08 +0000

> but that are eminently employable

This is what always stood out to me. Founders talk about the risks they take as their major legitimizing force. But what risk? They’re the types who can (mostly) skip an interview and go direct into a six figure job - because of the sales and founder networks they develop.

Startup founders with no risk doesnt sound like a recipe for great companies.

New comment by tmpz22 in "Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

tmpz22 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 01:12:58 +0000

Silicon valley may be a low trust society but I havent given up hope on the rest of it yet.

New comment by tmpz22 in "The US Used to Demand the Best Tech. Now We Ban It"

tmpz22 — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 22:41:14 +0000

“Private industry” as defined by Musk, Ellison, Kushner and Trump.

Im so sick of winning. Im so happy for the future of the US and humanity. Yey tech bros.

New comment by tmpz22 in "Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak"

tmpz22 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 03:43:20 +0000

> I also don't think that the purpose of the move was to manage workers and see if they slack off, it was to gather training data, but even if it were, I think that's normal?

This is the cost of losing consumer trust over two decades of untrustworthy acts.

New comment by tmpz22 in "AI's Affordability Crisis"

tmpz22 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:06:13 +0000

Yes our passionate defense of Academia will surely survive Techno Oligarchs desire for a 20th vacation home

New comment by tmpz22 in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

tmpz22 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:12:37 +0000

If only we had established means of pooling community resources for the public good

New comment by tmpz22 in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

tmpz22 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 01:53:40 +0000

Lol just meet one of them. Not at a curated product launch. You’ll never think of them as smart again.

New comment by tmpz22 in "AMA: I'm a Random HN User, ask me anything (and I might respond)"

tmpz22 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:17:58 +0000

How much industry experience do you actually have and, with that in mind, do you regularly make opinionated comments authoritatively and beyond your expertise?

New comment by tmpz22 in "pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution"

tmpz22 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 01:12:00 +0000

Do you thank the OSS community or Claude?

New comment by tmpz22 in "Cloudflare CEO is lying to you about the bot traffic jump"

tmpz22 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:31:32 +0000

The fent dealer just serves the customers needs too

New comment by tmpz22 in "My thoughts after using Clojure for about a month"

tmpz22 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 02:23:53 +0000

Yeah integrating NPM is the big one, then you’re whole day converts to recovering from breaches