Hacker News: ultra_nick

New comment by ultra_nick in "Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database"

ultra_nick — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:20:08 +0000

No right to free speech.

Then they start jailing people for posts.

Then they get rid of juries.

Then they get rid of public records.

What are they trying to hide?

New comment by ultra_nick in "Ubisoft cancels six games including Prince of Persia and closes studios"

ultra_nick — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 17:21:51 +0000

A lot of game companies are really committed to building products that their customers hate these days. What happened to talking to your customers?

New comment by ultra_nick in "Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws"

ultra_nick — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 19:15:03 +0000

It's crazy how many adults think regulation is free, especially here. All consuming vague regulations like GDPR increase the cost of a startup by 500%. Europe should have just banned startups entirely. It would have the same effect.

Imagine being a college student with 240 hours and $1,000 to release an MVP over the summer. How long would it take to read GDPR yourself, 100 hours? How much would it cost to hire a lawyer verify that your startup meets GDPR guidelines, $5,000? It would be almost impossible for any young person to start a business. GDPR was obviously a failure from the start. Anyone who couldn't see that has a child's understanding of business. Grow up.

New comment by ultra_nick in "AI isn't replacing jobs. AI spending is"

ultra_nick — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 21:25:45 +0000

AI isn't replacing jobs. AI spending isn't either. It's outsourcing and can be easily confirmed by cross-referencing H1B approval rates with layoffs.

If you've been outsourced, ask your representative to support the HIRE Act: - Creates a 25% tax on outsourcing payments - Creates a “Domestic Workforce Fund” for apprenticeships/workforce development. - Prohibits companies from deducting outsourcing payments.

The Tech Recruitment Ruse That Has Avoided Trump's Crackdown on Immigration

ultra_nick — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 01:59:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-immigration-h1b-visas-perm-tech-jobs-recruitment

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44176563

Points: 26

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New comment by ultra_nick in "Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new code is created by AI"

ultra_nick — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 02:58:08 +0000

Why work at big businesses anymore? Let's just create more startups.

New comment by ultra_nick in "Starlink offering free internet access for 30 days for Hurricane Helene victims"

ultra_nick — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 22:00:26 +0000

It's nice that Musk and his companies always seem to be willing to provide free emergency services. Over various disasters they've provided free energy, internet, and cell service.

I can't believe people complain about charity when so many other companies do nothing. Same with Mr.Beast's charity acts. There's something wrong with people who do nothing and hate on other people doing charity.

New comment by ultra_nick in "IPMI"

ultra_nick — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 16:58:13 +0000

Dell is working pretty hard to replace IPMI with Redfish these days. Redfish is an out of band management protocol like IPMI, but using an HTTP/JSON REST API that doesn't assume a secure management network.

https://www.dmtf.org/standards/redfish

New comment by ultra_nick in "Accident Forgiveness"

ultra_nick — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 22:45:15 +0000

Build everything on Docker, Kubernetes, and VPS.

Run on the cheapest VPS provider with human support.

Make a quick and easy switch if they get too shifty.

New comment by ultra_nick in "Quint"

ultra_nick — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 05:03:39 +0000

With LLMs getting smarter every day, the next generation might be writing specs like this instead of actual code.

New comment by ultra_nick in "My Python code is a neural network"

ultra_nick — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 18:03:10 +0000

I feel like neural networks are increasingly going to look like code.

The next big innovation will be whoever figures out how to convert MOE style models into something like function calls.

AMD on MLPerf

ultra_nick — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 14:14:55 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/1800932122569343043

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40669937

Points: 3

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New comment by ultra_nick in "What Is PID 0?"

ultra_nick — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 00:46:49 +0000

People should be suspicious of statements regardless of tone. Conmen, hackers, cult members, job applicants, and AIs are all trying to trick people who only listen to tone.

New comment by ultra_nick in "HP bricks customers laptops with faulty automatic BIOS upgrade"

ultra_nick — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 20:37:34 +0000

Why are hardware companies like this?

New comment by ultra_nick in "Infections Correlate with Entrepreneurship"

ultra_nick — Thu, 30 May 2024 14:01:22 +0000

Maybe busy people are more likely to own cats.

New comment by ultra_nick in "Let yourself be monitored: EU governments to agree on Chat Control"

ultra_nick — Wed, 29 May 2024 19:14:18 +0000

The EU governments will ruin the lives of random innocent people with buggy AI.

Look what happened yesterday in the UK: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/uk-woman-mistaken-as-s...

New comment by ultra_nick in "GDPR: Is It Worth It?"

ultra_nick — Fri, 17 May 2024 14:12:28 +0000

GDPR would be fine if they had a limits for small businesses. As written, startup founders don't have the resources to comply, so they often end up blocking all of Europe.

New comment by ultra_nick in "Deep Reinforcement Learning: Zero to Hero"

ultra_nick — Mon, 06 May 2024 02:28:35 +0000

Didn't "Zero to Hero" come from Disney's Hercules movie before Karparthy used it?

New comment by ultra_nick in "Nintendo blitzes GitHub with over 8k emulator-related DMCA takedowns"

ultra_nick — Sat, 04 May 2024 06:36:30 +0000

IPFS can do that

https://docs.ipfs.tech/how-to/host-git-repo/

New comment by ultra_nick in "Did we lose our way in making efficient software?"

ultra_nick — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 17:19:42 +0000

We learned that efficiency is just one feature of many.