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New comment by unreal37 in "Malus – Clean Room as a Service"

unreal37 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:31:02 +0000

I think of this in reverse. It's legal for the government to track mail - who sent a message, and who it's going to. They have access to the "outside of the envelope". But it's not legal for them to read the message inside.

And this same principle allows them to build massive friend/connection networks of everyone electronically. The government knows every single person you've communicated with and how often you communicate with them.

It was never designed for this originally.

New comment by unreal37 in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

unreal37 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 15:06:26 +0000

I wonder if the pace of change in AI will push you back to the "ready to retire" state.

Sure, AI is exciting, and it reignites a passion. But everything you learn today will be obsolete a year from now. And that might tire you out again.

New comment by unreal37 in "The internet is no longer a safe haven"

unreal37 — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 17:32:03 +0000

Given that the World Wide Web was invented in 1989... are you saying that the Internet was safer when only FTP and Usenet existed?

New comment by unreal37 in "Affinity Studio now free"

unreal37 — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 21:25:42 +0000

Open Source absolutely stops being maintained. And worse.

New comment by unreal37 in "OpenAI Launches LinkedIn Competitor"

unreal37 — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 08:50:46 +0000

LinkedIn deserves some disruption. OpenAI announces a jobs platform to put employers in contact with people with AI skills. And an academy to teach AI skills that businesses need. They hope to certify 10 million Americans by 2030.

OpenAI Launches LinkedIn Competitor

unreal37 — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 08:50:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/05/openai-is-building-an-ai-jobs-platform-that-could-rival-microsofts-linkedin.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45136414

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New comment by unreal37 in "US Wholesale Inflation Rises by Most in 3 Years"

unreal37 — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 13:08:15 +0000

A 0.9% month-over-month increase is significant.

New comment by unreal37 in "I'd rather read the prompt"

unreal37 — Sun, 04 May 2025 21:33:46 +0000

Looks like a "GPT text output condenser" might be a good project to work on.

New comment by unreal37 in "Meta antitrust trial kicks off in federal court"

unreal37 — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 19:59:45 +0000

The government is claiming that Facebook bought Meta and Whatsapp because it couldn't compete with them.

Is that illegal? I don't understand! Every company that buys another company buys it because it adds something to their business. It's a ridiculous claim.

New comment by unreal37 in "Automatically tagging politician when they use their phone on the livestreams"

unreal37 — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 14:01:32 +0000

You don't know if they're doing their job from a photo. Perhaps they're replying to constituents, reading the details of the law they are being asked to vote on, checking with colleagues on the status of votes, etc. You don't know. It's just harassment without facts.

New comment by unreal37 in "Automatically tagging politician when they use their phone on the livestreams"

unreal37 — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 13:58:49 +0000

Oh I can use your personal private data for artistic expression?!?

Doubtful.

New comment by unreal37 in "Automatically tagging politician when they use their phone on the livestreams"

unreal37 — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 13:57:02 +0000

There's a brand new AI law too. You'd likely need explicit consent of these people to have their personal data (face) processed by AI.

New comment by unreal37 in "The Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine"

unreal37 — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 07:23:52 +0000

GenAI is becoming popular for image generation to add visuals to the novel.

New comment by unreal37 in "The Profitable Startup"

unreal37 — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 20:19:34 +0000

No, not in the AI space. Disagree that you can be successful by avoiding risk and conserving resources.

New comment by unreal37 in "The Profitable Startup"

unreal37 — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 20:17:43 +0000

If all you're doing is building a project management app, yeah it's easy to be profitable.

The trick is when you're trying to take risks and innovate. It took Amazon a long time to be profitable. It took Uber a long time to be profitable. It took Facebook a long time to be profitable.

When it's a land grab - when you're racing against other companies in a new market like AI - you need to burn money fast to run fast. Can't take a year in private beta.

New comment by unreal37 in "The 8-Bit Era's Weird Uncle: The TI-99/4A"

unreal37 — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 06:34:54 +0000

I loved my little TI-99/4A...

I used to lay down in the living room and transcribe BASIC from COMPUTE! magazine into it, and customize them, and that's how I learned to program.

New comment by unreal37 in "Many of the Pokemon playtest cards were likely printed in 2024"

unreal37 — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 21:34:21 +0000

Yes imagine if Andy Warhol were alive and involved in selling forgeries of his own work... is it still a forgery then?

New comment by unreal37 in "Many of the Pokemon playtest cards were likely printed in 2024"

unreal37 — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 21:32:31 +0000

It sounds like they suspect someone who helped design the original Pokemon trading card game - Takumi Akabane. A prominent investor claims to have gotten the cards directly from him and doesn't care if they're fake as a result.

Maybe the original designer wants to make a few more dollars.

New comment by unreal37 in "OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor"

unreal37 — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 22:51:04 +0000

I thought OpenAI GPT took Wikipedia and the content of every book as inputs to train their models?

Everyone is standing on the shoulders of giants.

New comment by unreal37 in "A 10-Year Battery for AirTag"

unreal37 — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 13:45:31 +0000

There is no concept in American Law of "acquiring stolen stuff legally".

If you buy something that was stolen, the original owner has the right to get it back without compensation to you.