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atlgator

1,716 karma · joined October 10, 2019

Interests: Books, Cybersecurity, DevOps, Entrepreneurship, Hacking, Healthcare, Investment, Remote Work, Startups, Technology

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atlgator··on Tesla Roadster
This is one of those products that offers a thrilling demo but I have no desire to own one. I much prefer the 2020 design that never made it to production.
atlgator··on Ask HN: Why aren't Americans rising up against tipping?
I worked unskilled labor jobs for 8 years. Started out making $5.15/hr, got a new job every 9-12 months for a pay raise. Different types of jobs too. My last year I was making $27/hr, and that was 20 years ago.

The thing about unskilled labor jobs is that anyone can do them. The market is very fluid, but the wage is different based on the market, how laborious the job is, and how customer-service oriented you have to be. Reliability (showing up) and consistency (of work product) are your main assets in unskilled labor, and they are rewarded. The idea that you are stuck in a job and cannot move around, especially as a cleaning person, is false.

atlgator··on Ask HN: Why aren't Americans rising up against tipping?
Do you not work hard for your money? Do you not market your skills to the highest bidder? Why do you have agency but Maria can't be expected to?

Hotel cleaning staff are harder to find than you think. If Maria is made or broken based on your $2, she can find a job that pays better. You enabling her through a system of random rewards may actually hold her hostage in a bad situation.

atlgator··on Ask HN: What's your favorite children's books?
Chronicles of Narnia and Harry Potter were my favorite children's series.
atlgator··on Ideas aren't getting harder to find, anyone who tells you otherwise is a coward
They're just hard for me to find.
atlgator··on Pixel 11 doesn't yet meet the GrapheneOS security standards and may be skipped
Why does the announcement focus so much on Apple when they exclusively support Android?
atlgator··on Show HN: Open Grind – An unofficial open-source Grindr client
Has anyone done this for Tinder, Bumble, or Hinge?
atlgator··on X signups now require a face photo
They cannot achieve their goal of becoming the US WeChat if users remain anonymous.
atlgator··on AirPods 5
They teased an AppleCare One Family plan and never explained it. wtf
atlgator··on AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit
Another Framework Desktop clone.
atlgator··on U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations
I can't tell if you're disingenuous or just ignorant. The Trump admin has been completely coopted by the pro-Israel lobby and Big Tech. He betrayed his entire base. He's ruling by executive fiat (EOs). Anyone that speaks out publicly for the original platform gets a primary challenger funded by Miriam Adelson or threats. See Thomas Massie, MTG, Lauren Boebert, etc. Are you paying attention at all? The Boomers watching Fox News propaganda in their nursing homes all day are not a reflection of party unity.
atlgator··on US allows Anthropic to release Mythos to 'trusted partners'
They passed one major piece of legislation since he took office and it was loaded with pork to get everyone onboard. I wouldn't call that aggressive. The Right is very fractured right now.
atlgator··on RTX 5080 and RTX 3090 Setup: 80 Tok/s on Qwen 3.6 27B Q8
Which "good quality PCIe 4 riser" did you buy?
atlgator··on Nvidia RTX Spark
Anything they can do to avoid producing more 5090 FEs.
atlgator··on Framework Laptop 13 Pro
The 20 hour battery rating is for Windows 11. How long does Linux last?
atlgator··on Ask HN: Has AWS Support fallen off?
It can't be worse than Azure support.
atlgator··on Claude Opus 4.7
We've all been complaining about Opus 4.6 for weeks and now there's a new model. Did they intentionally gimp 4.6 so they can advertise how much better 4.7 is?
atlgator··on Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?
I like Openclaw. It's able to interact with a bunch of apps I self-host (e.g. media server, home automation, productivity) and I generally prefer communicating with it over Claude directly. I would not tell people to go out and fork over money for a mac mini to use it. I already had a mac mini sitting idle, so I'm putting it to use.
atlgator··on Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?
To be fair, my mac mini was sitting idle well before Openclaw arrived on the scene.
atlgator··on "The Last Airbender" movie leaked 9 months before release date
Has the story changed from the last 3 times they've told it?
atlgator··on Best AI coding interview assistant in 2026
I switched my org back to in-person interviews. The cheating is so rampant, not just for coding but behavioral as well.
atlgator··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
same.
atlgator··on State of Homelab 2026
You are doing more than I am (e.g. synchronized file storage, books, music), but I have radarr, sonarr, overseerr, plex, and supporting apps for movies and tv shows. Plex is available externally through its remote access feature. For the actual request system, I run OpenClaw with an Overseerr extension. This allows me to manage titles remotely via Telegram without any kind of tunnel or SSO. Simple and gets the job done for the solo-user scenario.
atlgator··on The effects of caffeine consumption do not decay with a ~5 hour half-life
I generally avoid caffeine at all costs. I'm susceptible to SVT, and I want the Adenosine to work if I should need it. Caffeine blocks Adenosine receptors. But on the rare occasion I have a single can of caffeinated Diet Coke, I experience a crash 48 hours later so profound that I cannot get out of bed that day.
atlgator··on EFF is leaving X
They make valid suggestions on improvements for X. Unfortunately, they undercut their credibility by complaining that their tweets don't get seen as often anymore. Sounds like sour grapes from a group that thinks they deserve special treatment.
atlgator··on Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter
I am very disappointed that Anthropic killed the use of Max subscriptions for OpenClaw, especially when I never hit my usage limits on it. Perhaps I will try this combo as an alternative.
atlgator··on MegaTrain: Full Precision Training of 100B+ Parameter LLMs on a Single GPU
The GPU is no longer the brain, it's the hand. The brain is your RAM. Suddenly that 256GB DDR5 build your wife questioned is 'research infrastructure.'
atlgator··on Git commands I run before reading any code
Step 6: grep the thread count on the squash-merge debate to determine if the team has unresolved interpersonal conflict.
atlgator··on System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]
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atlgator··on Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era
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