Hacker News: wmeredith

New comment by wmeredith in "Red Hat being phased out of existence?"

wmeredith — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 19:13:38 +0000

They had $67 billion in revenue last year, which was up 7% from the previous year. Not exactly out of business.

New comment by wmeredith in "America.gov"

wmeredith — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 22:41:07 +0000

Well, it says it cover info from 29,000 website. I'm not sure that list would be helpful. Which is the point of this.

New comment by wmeredith in "Warren Buffett Steps Down as Berkshire Chairman, Names Son to Replace Him"

wmeredith — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 12:45:37 +0000

Oh it applies to him. He just doesn’t care.

New comment by wmeredith in "I turned off my algorithm for 24 hours. Is this how social media used to be?"

wmeredith — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 01:05:48 +0000

This is not how social media used to be. Without the algorithm there is no social media. What the author is describing/experiencing is a social network. There's no editorial voice/algorithm deciding what to broadcast to your eyeballs. It's just people who you've opted into consuming their content.

Social Networks seem to be pretty great while social media tuned for maximum engagement (rage) is what's driving addiction and polarization.

New comment by wmeredith in "What will our economic future look like?"

wmeredith — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 21:20:56 +0000

Seriously. Can AI build a web page I can read?

New comment by wmeredith in "AirPods 5"

wmeredith — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:28:19 +0000

A manual operation wouldn't shock me at all. A friend used to work on Apple.com and as recently as 5 years ago the product pages were still hard coded. No CMS.

New comment by wmeredith in "Cheap GPS jammers are filling the world with navigation dead zones"

wmeredith — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 15:46:23 +0000

I am a volunteer coach in a rec soccer league for 6th graders. Bluetooth jamming could literally kill one of my diabetic (type 1) players during a game because of this scenario.

New comment by wmeredith in "Coordination Headwind: How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds"

wmeredith — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 02:04:58 +0000

This is also a core tenant in Ender's game.

New comment by wmeredith in "US Government designates host of noblogs.org a "global terrorist""

wmeredith — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 15:51:46 +0000

No. Just because I am not against people golfing, does not making me a golfer.

New comment by wmeredith in "US Government designates host of noblogs.org a "global terrorist""

wmeredith — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 15:50:55 +0000

> one has long wondered what this government actually considers NOT to be terrorism

Anyone willing to line their pockets, it seems.

New comment by wmeredith in "AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late"

wmeredith — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:54:17 +0000

I'd also be curious about the provenance of that statement. Why would they buy all copies? What would be the purpose of scanning multiple copies?

New comment by wmeredith in "Claude Users Cancel Subscriptions, Citing Anthropic's New AI Watermark"

wmeredith — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:14:35 +0000

"Anthropic said that heavy editing, paraphrasing, translating, or mixing Claude's output with other writing can make its watermark undetectable. Plus, finding a watermark doesn't prove Claude originally authored something, since even proofreading or translating with its AI can leave a mark."

This seems worthless.

New comment by wmeredith in "Show HN: I backtested my own stock site's signals and published what failed"

wmeredith — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:13:17 +0000

This doesn't pass the smell test. On the home page they claim a consistent 1.28% return on 5 days of trading. This would mean you could make $1 into $67,000,000 in one year.

Tell me: if you figured out how to do that would you make a website about it or would you spend a year turning $1,000 into $67 billion?

New comment by wmeredith in "The ACLU Is Arming Lawyers to Expose State Surveillance Secrets"

wmeredith — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:32:50 +0000

Good. Donate to the ACLU here: https://action.aclu.org/give/now

I've been a card carrying members for years.

New comment by wmeredith in "Most rewrites serve the engineer, not the business"

wmeredith — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 21:24:53 +0000

Unemployed engineer: business is my problem.

New comment by wmeredith in "Military branches restore flu shot requirement after virus swept through base"

wmeredith — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 02:25:40 +0000

I'll bite. The Covid vaccines were extremely effective. This information brought to us by a data leak of the report blocked by the US government...

"NEW YORK (AP) — A study on COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness has finally been published after being blocked from a government health journal.

The vaccine was found to be about 55% effective against COVID-19-associated hospitalizations, and reduced COVID-19-related trips to emergency departments and urgent care clinics by 50%, according to the study published Tuesday by JAMA Network Open."

https://apnews.com/article/cdc-covid-vaccine-effective-study...

New comment by wmeredith in "Ozempic and Wegovy linked to surprising drop in violent behavior"

wmeredith — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:48:17 +0000

This is a known potential side-effect of these drugs. When I started them my doctor warned me about a possible lack of motivation. These drugs trigger your body's satiation mechanism (as I understand them–not a doctor) and that can apply to more things than just eating.

New comment by wmeredith in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

wmeredith — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:45:56 +0000

Both teams I run use Cursor as their daily drivers. It's fantastic. I am annoyed with this acquisition.

New comment by wmeredith in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

wmeredith — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 11:50:47 +0000

"SpaceX told investors during the IPO process that it sees an addressable market for AI products worth $26 trillion, roughly equivalent to U.S. GDP."

This is unhinged.

New comment by wmeredith in "Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now "Magic" Gives It Gravity"

wmeredith — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:44:16 +0000

As all programmers know: naming things (abstracting ideas for human interpretation) is hard.