Hacker News: unreal6

New comment by unreal6 in "OpenAI models coming to Amazon Bedrock: Interview with OpenAI and AWS CEOs"

unreal6 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:32:41 +0000

How are they "ruining" Amazon with these launches? That is not clear to me.

New comment by unreal6 in "AirPods Max 2"

unreal6 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:53:57 +0000

curious: why would this help?

New comment by unreal6 in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

unreal6 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:25:54 +0000

I find the consistent anthropomorphization to be grating as well

New comment by unreal6 in "Layoffs at Block"

unreal6 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:14:13 +0000

> If you’ve got the manpower and talent, why not play with it and see if anything makes money. In-house startups with stable capital, all that

We are no longer in a zero-interest rate environment, so I think those experiments are more costly than they were a few years go

New comment by unreal6 in "Amazon cuts 16k jobs"

unreal6 — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:00:18 +0000

You can find the warn notices here. [0] From a quick script I wrote up, it seems that ~60% of layoffs noted on 1/26/2026 are from individual contributors

[0]: https://esd.wa.gov/employer-requirements/layoffs-and-employe...

New comment by unreal6 in "Show HN: Jmail – Google Suite for Epstein files"

unreal6 — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 03:57:44 +0000

Bannon for a while was deeply ingrained in Hollywood. He still earns residuals on episodes of Seinfeld [0], and owns the film rights to Michael Lewis' Liars Poker (even supposedly writing a screenplay for it himself) [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Bannon#Media_and_investi...

[1] https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/movies/articles/steve-ba...

New comment by unreal6 in "Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max"

unreal6 — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 19:44:59 +0000

> Claude: they barely have a signin system at all. Multiple account support doesn’t exist. The minimum seat count for business is nonsense. The data retention policies are weak.

Please give me an option for a password (or passkey) or literally anything else that doesn't require either linking with google or going through an email flow for every login

New comment by unreal6 in "Boeing has started working on a 737 MAX replacement"

unreal6 — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 19:10:40 +0000

> Connect them with clear APIs that don't have to change all that often, and you can build pretty big things.

Emphasis on clear. It's a challenging endeavor to properly draw and enforce these service boundaries.

New comment by unreal6 in "Jules, our asynchronous coding agent"

unreal6 — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 18:59:50 +0000

In the middle of a billing cycle (which could be a month or year, in some cases), I would agree

New comment by unreal6 in "How to Bike Across the Country"

unreal6 — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 16:43:39 +0000

name/link?

New comment by unreal6 in "Waymos crash less than human drivers"

unreal6 — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 21:34:54 +0000

One would hope that a writer on this subject would have at least a cursory knowledge of statistics

New comment by unreal6 in "A $1k Wheelchair"

unreal6 — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 23:04:43 +0000

was it new?

New comment by unreal6 in "Does Fine-Tuning LLMs on New Knowledge Encourage Hallucinations?"

unreal6 — Sat, 11 May 2024 00:28:44 +0000

I've also found (anecdotal) significant success in just throwing in available context before prompting. I've written multiple automations in this way as well.

New comment by unreal6 in "The wealthy are cutting the line at the airport, Disney World and ski resorts"

unreal6 — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 19:46:58 +0000

> Disney & sky resorts are private and are free to charge who they want how they want.

Many ski areas, while private bushiness often operate on public lands through long-term leases [1]. Some amount of public access (eg free uphill access to the lands) are often requirements as a part of the lease; I don't see why certain business terms shouldn't be able to be regulated in the interest of the general public.

[1] https://www.snow.com/info/colorado-forest-service-informatio...

New comment by unreal6 in "uBlock Origin 1.53"

unreal6 — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 13:32:38 +0000

Or, for that matter, any incremental call Microsoft is making to any GPT-based model. The power consumption from these inferences are immense, and appearing with increased frequency.

New comment by unreal6 in "uBlock Origin 1.53"

unreal6 — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 13:32:07 +0000

Or, for that matter, any incremental call Microsoft is making to any GPT-based model. The power consumption from these inferences are immense, and appearing everywhere in their interfaces.

New comment by unreal6 in "Stolen van Gogh painting returned in an IKEA bag"

unreal6 — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 18:40:09 +0000

One of my favorite novels of all time

New comment by unreal6 in "Apple scores 35 Emmy nominations, including 20 for hit series “Ted Lasso”"

unreal6 — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 20:05:39 +0000

Ted Lasso is such an uplifting, sincere, and funny show. My favorite of the last five years, and I am indifferent at best to sports generally.

New comment by unreal6 in "Half of UK university students think degree is poor value for money"

unreal6 — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 13:41:04 +0000

One would hope that most students (certainly the median one) think of it as value-generative for them, and for only the students seeing the least value as break-even (otherwise one shouldn't go to uni)

New comment by unreal6 in "Princeton admits record-low 3.98% of applicants"

unreal6 — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 15:39:03 +0000

This is also ignoring the significant credit that having a "brand" name school as well as alumni network, like those in the Ivy League, has on one's job prospects. A significant portion of the value of one's graduation from these institutions is an affiliation with their name, which is more valuable than those of various (especially mid-tier) state schools.