Hacker News: wmeredith

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.

New comment by wmeredith in "Shopify outage [resolved]"

wmeredith — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:23:43 +0000

If you're asking the question, most likely yes. If you have evidence of the problem being AI slop, no.

New comment by wmeredith in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

wmeredith — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:55:50 +0000

Essentially, yes, as I understand it. Elon's "investment" of millions in the current administration is paying dollars on the penny.

New comment by wmeredith in "Three Ways to Get Paid (2018)"

wmeredith — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:52:08 +0000

It's also broken for Safari (on Mac).

New comment by wmeredith in "When AI Crosses the Line: The Matplotlib Incident"

wmeredith — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:34:24 +0000

It's the formality of the language. It sounds robotic.

New comment by wmeredith in "Private Equity Bought America's Essential Services"

wmeredith — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:29:52 +0000

As a Missourian who is regular embarrassed by Senator Hawley, I must say that he brings the goods when he has the opportunity to grill an oligarch.

New comment by wmeredith in "Uber, Lyft drivers in Massachusetts form first US ride-share union"

wmeredith — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:25:03 +0000

I think it's reasonable to request the person making the assertion to back it up. It's not on the audience to either only debunk or accept the assertion. It can just be rejected.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

New comment by wmeredith in "Ferrari Luce"

wmeredith — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:06:14 +0000

It's a $600,000 car. I don't think they're widening access.

New comment by wmeredith in "The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics"

wmeredith — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:08:04 +0000

> most of the tech leadership has to play along

Many of them orchestrated the situation.

New comment by wmeredith in "Google changes its search box"

wmeredith — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:12:48 +0000

That's a pretty sinister system when the dam builders are suing the work of those downstream to build their damn. What happens when everyone downstream has been starved to death?

New comment by wmeredith in "The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization"

wmeredith — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:48:56 +0000

> If I start driving south from Seattle then I'll eventually reach Los Angeles. How long will it take me to drive to Honolulu?

I like this analogy, but I'll be replacing Honolulu with The Moon when I steal it in the future.

New comment by wmeredith in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

wmeredith — Wed, 06 May 2026 21:09:21 +0000

Eh, Topps did in the 1950s and The American Tobacco company did it in 1909.

New comment by wmeredith in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

wmeredith — Sun, 03 May 2026 15:03:16 +0000

This is what I sees getting missed in a lot of LLM conversations. They're amplifiers. Full stop. If you have good practices they supercharge them, if you had bad practices, same thing.