Hacker News: ultrarunner

New comment by ultrarunner in "OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability"

ultrarunner — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 17:03:04 +0000

Pretty incredible how much humans can be conditioned, isn’t it?

New comment by ultrarunner in "Big AI sets out its terms for regulatory capture"

ultrarunner — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 15:02:17 +0000

And what has the FAA done to both costs and innovation?

New comment by ultrarunner in "Anthropic researcher says more than 10% chance AI "could kill all humans""

ultrarunner — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:33:16 +0000

You’re likely taking this too literally. OP is saying that beliefs inspire action, but as of now we haven’t seen action from these people that support such an extreme belief.

What we have seen is incredible hype (justified or not), so it’s more likely just a continuation of that.

New comment by ultrarunner in "Can AI design circuit boards yet?"

ultrarunner — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 13:45:54 +0000

It's like inflation for quality of life. Right now we're in the stimulus check phase, and people feel great about having been handed some cash. The next step is that cash has been spent, and what's remaining isn't worth anything.

New comment by ultrarunner in "Show HN: Weedout – Safari extension that hides YouTube AI-labeled videos"

ultrarunner — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 05:09:16 +0000

Shouldn't their presumably unlimited access to Gemini models enable them to implement things like this quickly and easily?

New comment by ultrarunner in "The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice"

ultrarunner — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 04:40:01 +0000

Funny how morality so often benefits incumbents and the powerful.

New comment by ultrarunner in "Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras"

ultrarunner — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 05:19:21 +0000

No, I think their civil forfeiture rates are quite a bit higher than average. Property taxes too. Quite a bit of fearless thievery going on in Texas.

New comment by ultrarunner in "Marijuana Legalization Didn't Fill Emergency Rooms with Stoned Drivers"

ultrarunner — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 19:01:34 +0000

Well, maybe not, but sober pedestrians increasingly show up in morgues, and if news reports are to believed, a lot of them are hit and run.

New comment by ultrarunner in "GitHub Outage Tracker: Is GitHub Cooked?"

ultrarunner — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:10:33 +0000

Frankly, even if it was limited only to videos contemporary to whichever point we decided is "classic", I'd still be in.

New comment by ultrarunner in "The great American road trip is in peril"

ultrarunner — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:10:59 +0000

Decent read, but ultimately “climate journalist sees climate issues in monthlong vacation”.

I would have liked to see a treatment of the title: is the roadtrip in peril because it’s not a sustainable activity? Ie road tripping (and energy use for travel writ large) contributes to climate change, so must either lead to ruin or be banned or otherwise made impossible. It is interesting that her wistfulness for the traditional road trip is probably exactly what her political opponents feel when opposing renewable energy sources.

New comment by ultrarunner in "Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)"

ultrarunner — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:11:40 +0000

Intelligence is a slippery term, as plenty of smart folks have made dumb decisions. That said, I’ve noticed that many people who don’t understand why their choices are subpar tend to blame others, i.e. life happens to them. Someone more aware might internalize their failures. Plenty of mutations of this mechanism.

New comment by ultrarunner in "My friends all hate AI; I just joined an AI startup"

ultrarunner — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 01:25:20 +0000

It walks my retired parents through their home projects like the project is a labyrinth. Spewing reams and reams of nonsense at them, but their memories are short enough (and their trust high enough) that they follow it aimlessly until they lose interest. For the most part, they wander around close enough to reality to be harmless, but they rarely ever land on “success” until it suggests hiring a professional. At least it gives them something to do.

New comment by ultrarunner in "My friends all hate AI; I just joined an AI startup"

ultrarunner — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 01:18:58 +0000

Currently: generating hype at a lower cost without emotion. Is the product itself better? Often no. But salaries have a large weight in the consideration, and hype corroborates the choice.

New comment by ultrarunner in "Claude Opus 5"

ultrarunner — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 12:26:01 +0000

There's been a dramatic increase in sloppy kinda-working something.vercel.com output in niche circles. I think that shows at least a weak demand for certain types of software, but it's not clear that the vast piles of cash that have been burned producing these "apps" are actually resulting in quality of life improvements.

New comment by ultrarunner in "Moody Bible Institute breach leaves 2.3M accounts needing salvation"

ultrarunner — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 01:03:43 +0000

That would be somewhat interesting, but it's tempered by relationship: the fine article mentions only that the demographics are "affiliated" with Moody. This could range from vendors & suppliers to mailing lists to groups of folks in neighborhoods targeted for evangelizing (should they even have such a program). It doesn't say which side of the affiliation initiated the relationship.

New comment by ultrarunner in "OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router"

ultrarunner — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:59:28 +0000

I couldn't agree more. It makes it difficult to attach my reputation to when making suggestions for hardware purchases.

New comment by ultrarunner in "Should DayQuil Be Legal?"

ultrarunner — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:42:15 +0000

Counterpoint: 54% of adults read below a sixth-grade level because a society has been created to facilitate (and encourage) just that. Encouraging a population to rely on the thought processes of others is exactly what leads to over reliance on marketing.

New comment by ultrarunner in "Flock-Powered Police Chiefs Stalking Women Shows Why Warrants Are Needed"

ultrarunner — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:40:05 +0000

She had low levels of amphetamines in her blood, consistent with her Adderall prescription. The only one bringing up meth is you. The guy was on the Brady list and the department never investigated his involvement.

Regardless, the point is that cops are very rarely models of good decision making or representatives of safety anymore. They shouldn't have access to blanket surveillance.

[0] https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/valley/autopsy-rel...

New comment by ultrarunner in "Ford AI hiccups push carmaker to rehire ‘gray beard’ inspectors"

ultrarunner — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:33:32 +0000

Unfortunately for this perspective, one side of the equation very much plans their lives around this mutual arrangement. When the other party experiments with the arrangement without deep consideration, I think "playing with people's lives" is very much an apt description.

Just because I would not be destitute tomorrow does not mean that my life (and those of my family) would not be deeply impacted.

New comment by ultrarunner in "The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs"

ultrarunner — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 01:24:16 +0000

Oh look, since I posted, another one.

https://www.azfamily.com/2026/06/24/watch-vehicle-fire-spark...