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ransom1538··on Apple capped engineers at a $200 daily AI budget
"Apple is paying API prices, not subscription prices, though. $6000/month"

Smart guy showed up. Yes. Don't do this.

ransom1538··on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair
Spooks is a pretty knowing term to use. Not exactly a word the average person throws around. And yes, they likely knew long before now. Right after the midterms? Interesting timing. Seems the spooks are doing what spooks do.
ransom1538··on Ask HN: How do you manage your AI agents' context across clients and projects?
Tell claude to do 1-5. I have it doing a mysql db on all prompts and it can recall any "type" of conversation. A github repro is hilarious, just prompt it.
ransom1538··on UK Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power
This is such a bummer. Russia still has good long term energy plans for Germany. (if you are European this is sarcasm).
ransom1538··on Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth
Phase 0: breakins to all (php/python/etc,)

Phase 1: the closure, companies close down sites, all banks down

Phase 2: the reopen- but to only the correct* sites

Phase 3: the viruses

Phase 4: the re-shutdown

Phase 5: use of physical currency / fax machines only.

We are just getting to Phase 0. By end of 2026 most things will be broken into. By 2027 most banks will be offline.

ransom1538··on Anthropic S-1
"How much can Anthropic reasonably grow from a 1.5 or 2 trillion dollar valuation"

Bahhaa. I love it when a normal guy just exposes the issue. Yes. 10 trillion is getting close to us GDP lol.

ransom1538··on Can we replace a $150k Looker with a bucket of HTML files?
IF you are using Looker in 2026 look at ai/grok/fable/etc.
ransom1538··on CVE-2026-111943: Compromised Intermediate Certificate Authority
"All I'm saying is that understanding how to maintain the systems"

Awwww. It is like talking to a dev in 2010. Ok. So, there are machines now smarter than you. You are the problem. You are the thing that adds errors. "understanding how to maintain" No, that is over. sorry. As a human, you are too slow, too dumb to compete.

When a CVE comes out, the patch needs to be applied across the company in minutes. YOU cannot do this 2010 dev dude. Put down the Puppet files. Let go of the python PR.

ransom1538··on CVE-2026-111943: Compromised Intermediate Certificate Authority
"Hey claude this is the cve I need you to fix [link]"

Takes about 20 seconds. Depending if you need to hit enter.

ransom1538··on US federal budget deficit jumps 12% in one year to nearly $2 Trillion
"The US federal deficit is growing at an alarming rate; if nothing is done, it will solve itself with inflation. "

AKA: Take on massive loans. Buy assets fast or stick into HSA.

ransom1538··on Tesla Roadster
"The problem with the demo is that it was vapourware. Period, full stop."

I want to short anything you touch. Please give us stock predictions.

ransom1538··on Tesla Roadster
That is interesting...
ransom1538··on In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life
"Trump administration’s freezes to federal science"

Nytimes can't help itself. love it.

ransom1538··on Promising discoveries about the potential for life on one of Saturn’s icy moons
"~$50 Billion"

Are you saying people would rather have an apartment? It would house 250,000 people for 10 years. But the slime is cooler.

ransom1538··on Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS
hahaha
ransom1538··on Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS
With AI now, I am suprised we are not seeing many new os systems built. Have fable build a secure OS..... hm...
ransom1538··on Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
Burn (radiation). Cut. Poison (chemo). Your picks for cancer. IMHO Eat less. Remove all sugar and vitamins. Go a week without food. Give your body time to kill the weak cancer cells before they grow exponentially.
ransom1538··on The darker side of being a doctor
"I have lost control of my days. I had worked in a hospital where I was oncall 24/7, 12 days out of 14. I had fortnightly weekends off."

Medicine is ran by a bunch of creepy boards. "ACGME Review Committee for Dermatology." For example gets together and votes on how many Dermatologist we get, fun fact it doesn't go up much.

$They were so kind to add 400 more Dermatologist$ in the past decade to the student pipeline.$ What could the rea$son be?

What I would do if you are a doctor and don't hate humans - ask these boards to let more people in (hopefully Americans, but Americans have an uphill climb getting accepted with the flood of fraud applications from around the world).

ransom1538··on Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived
True. When someone on the internet sends me a vfp file... i just open it in my IE6.0 no cares given.
ransom1538··on MCP was always a bad idea?
MCPs just misses what AI is. If you think MCP is a good idea you are confused what is going on. AI is beyond MCP. MCP is SOAP of AI.
ransom1538··on Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes
I haven't heard of the term "chaining zero-days". Now as a SRE I wont sleep.
ransom1538··on iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
Siri: "Sorry I don't understand"
ransom1538··on I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea
This is what Columbus saw:

"The captive women told the Spaniards that Carib men traveled by canoe to neighboring islands, killed or captured men and carried away young women. Chanca says the women were kept as servants and concubines. They further alleged that children born to these captive women by Carib men were eaten, whereas children born to Carib women were raised."

IMHO People had it rough before missions. These particular natives left right there and were ready to sign up!

ransom1538··on New $100K H-1B Visa Fee Pushes Tech Jobs Offshore
Wait? People do not know this? This war was lost a decade ago. Google employs more than 4,100 H-1B visa holders.
ransom1538··on David Sacks: OpenAI and Anthropic Don't Need Regulations to Pace Frontier Models
"If it's true, it makes them evil."

Hitler level evil.

ransom1538··on I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots
Those are rookie numbers. The other 39% are just too good for you to catch.
ransom1538··on Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
Yes. We need to respect all laws. I am strongly uphold the Peruvian Naval Law here in Michigan.
ransom1538··on GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
Now GITHUB gets to experience debugging the GHA in prod. From my experience, good luck.
ransom1538··on DOGE overstated savings, government watchdog says
Last night a jam was canceled in Brazil: "bee-conservation musical". People say it's a waste of US tax payer funds (USAID), but they don't understand the real cost. 600 people are now suffering from PTSD and attending survivor therapy after being deprived of the bee-conservation musical. Our homeless can wait, the "bee-conservation musical" must go on.

(Europeans: this is sarcasm)

ransom1538··on Americans are rallying against data centers. Surprisingly few are getting built
You are a voice a reason.
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