Hacker News: unstatusthequo

New comment by unstatusthequo in "Tesla 'Cannot Guarantee' Roadster Reservation Holders Will Ever Get a Car"

unstatusthequo — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 17:12:54 +0000

Great way to get $250k interest free loans from suckers with too much hopium and not enough class to get the Mission S.

New comment by unstatusthequo in "Websites are closing their doors to AI agents"

unstatusthequo — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 16:57:57 +0000

Exactly. Shut yourself off, you get shut off. I don’t give a damn you want me working the mouse on your site. Your site probably sucks ass and loaded with ads and popup offers and cookie banners and login hoops other bullshit I can’t stand that wasted my time. Oh check my email for a one time code becuase you don’t like passkeys.

New comment by unstatusthequo in "California closed the Montana license plate loophole"

unstatusthequo — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 15:42:07 +0000

My CA registration was going to be around $2k. Then I moved to Florida. $40 including the $2.95 credit card fee and $1 mail it to me instead of pickup. Sanity is possible in registrations, CA is just greedy, corrupt, and led by fuckwads.

New comment by unstatusthequo in "Ex-Anthropic's Jacob Coxon says he's 90% certain PRC has spies in US AI giants"

unstatusthequo — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 15:36:16 +0000

Temu Harry Potter back with another banger. Yes China likes to steal IP. Did he learn this in his ~1 month at Anthropic where he had clearly had executive level access? Amazing he had such access to such detailed, specific information just after the effective altrusism indoctrination onboarding.

New comment by unstatusthequo in "Astra for Law"

unstatusthequo — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:21:57 +0000

This is already a thing to some extent. I don’t recall the products that do it, but judge profiles def exist and are taken into account .

New comment by unstatusthequo in "GTP-6 Astra"

unstatusthequo — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 03:16:22 +0000

GTP.

New comment by unstatusthequo in "White House taps security firms for offensive hack-back operations"

unstatusthequo — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 04:41:58 +0000

Anyone on HN heard of defending themselves before? The economic losses and impact on this country’s business and IP is staggering. It always annoyed me in breach response that we couldn’t hack back. Just lie there and take it is some very weak posture. We don’t negotiate with terrorists, so why don’t we stop being pillaged by know bad actors/states/org crime?

New comment by unstatusthequo in "Californians' data deletion requests, DROP, become enforceable Aug. 1"

unstatusthequo — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 23:19:55 +0000

The Advertising ID field/ Nice of them to think of this, but it doesn't seem that I could actually get this from any of my Samsung TVs, Apple devices, apps?, etc? So while that field is nice and all, without transparency on getting the ad ID, those fields kind of do nothing.

New comment by unstatusthequo in "LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach"

unstatusthequo — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:48:45 +0000

LastPass is still behind TMobile on breach frequency, but maybe they will catch up soon.

New comment by unstatusthequo in "Ask for no, don't ask for yes (2022)"

unstatusthequo — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 23:19:12 +0000

Covered in Chris Voss book Never Split the Difference. Works well in practice based on my own personal experiences.

New comment by unstatusthequo in "Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs"

unstatusthequo — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:20:31 +0000

I hope a family-level AI appliance is a thing later. Local non-cloud assistant that lives in the house, families interact via voice or phones or whatever. Knows the contextual family stuff you need, etc.

New comment by unstatusthequo in "Running Gemma 4 locally with LM Studio's new headless CLI and Claude Code"

unstatusthequo — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:53:21 +0000

Check out vMLX if you use Apple Silicon. https://github.com/jjang-ai/mlxstudio

New comment by unstatusthequo in "72% of the dollar's purchasing power was destroyed in just four episodes"

unstatusthequo — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:57:35 +0000

I think the idea is crash the stock market to force interest rate drop to refinance the massive debt.

New comment by unstatusthequo in "Get Shit Done: A meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven dev system"

unstatusthequo — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 03:02:18 +0000

Same. Have had great results with it. I got sick of paying FreshBooks monthly for basic income/expense tracking for Schedule C reporting and used GSD to build a macOS Swift app with Codex 5.4 and Opus 4.6. It’s working great and I am considering releasing it on the App Store. It started as a web app, but then I wanted screen capture from other windows for receipts in email or whatever. Then I wanted physical receipts, and so used Apple continuity camera. All working now in my app. And, I just added receipt auto-extract to pull salient info from and determine deduction category using Anthropic API.

Yes this is how much paying FreshBooks annoyed me. Plus I hated they forced an emailed 2FA if you didn’t connect with Google.

New comment by unstatusthequo in "Stop Sloppypasta"

unstatusthequo — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:51:00 +0000

Copy/paste it into your CrapBot of choice and respond with even longer sloppy pasta. Just do that every time and make sure it’s longer than their original message. Maybe slam in some Socratic method questions and theory to wander through the response for awhile. Ensure it creates action items only they can perform and make sure the ball is in their court each time. I should make a skill for this.

New comment by unstatusthequo in "Show HN: Pidrive – File storage for AI agents (mount S3, use ls/cat/grep)"

unstatusthequo — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 05:22:00 +0000

What could go wrong. Someone is going to wake up to a bankruptcy inducing Amazon bill.

New comment by unstatusthequo in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

unstatusthequo — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:01:29 +0000

You lay not travel much where opening a 16” MacBook Pro even in economy plus is a lean back risk and typing misery situation. iPad much better for tray table things. I have the 11” just for this purpose

New comment by unstatusthequo in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

unstatusthequo — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:10:18 +0000

FFS I cannot believe this. I went and looked it up, and you’re 100% right. It’s slight, but it’s real.

New comment by unstatusthequo in "Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)"

unstatusthequo — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:28:05 +0000

Really enjoyed this show. Not sure why it is so unknown. Highly recommend.

New comment by unstatusthequo in "Intermittent fasting may make little difference to weight loss, review finds"

unstatusthequo — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:19:12 +0000

Personal experience says otherwise. Low carb/slow carb diet plus fasting 100% did it for me. 40 lbs gone, and have kept it off even while backing off of the initial rigidity. Everything in moderation, especially alcohol. Beer is a huge carb load, so that had to go entirely. Pasta as well. Potatoes too. Sure, I have a couple fries (or chippies for the BBC crew), but it’s all about those being scarce. It’s actually pretty easy to intermittent fast. Eat dinner and be done before 8pm and have lunch around 1pm the next day. Have coffee or tea in the morning.

What really accelerated weight loss for me was extremely rigid ketogenesis. Felt amazingly sharp and dialed in every morning, slept well, shredded pounds.