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New comment by 1a527dd5 in "The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization"

1a527dd5 — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:19:26 +0000

I mean you can argue the same about Telsa, but look at BYD now.

Just because you are first to do x, doesn't mean you are going to be the winner.

New comment by 1a527dd5 in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

1a527dd5 — Sun, 10 May 2026 21:50:21 +0000

Consumer/private needs to be local.

Work? I don't want it local at all. I want it all cloud agent.

New comment by 1a527dd5 in "Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit"

1a527dd5 — Fri, 08 May 2026 07:32:50 +0000

This applies to much more than just software, in fact it applies to almost everything.

I don't remember where I read it, but it basically boils down to need vs want.

I've used that rule for deciding between a new car or used. A fancy vacuum or basic.

A shiny new gadget.

Bringing new things into the tech stack.

Picking a new tech stack.

New comment by 1a527dd5 in "Mythos is the best cybersecurity news in a decade"

1a527dd5 — Wed, 06 May 2026 22:28:14 +0000

Mythos has been a boon for "look busy" work. My global corp org has been on a bender upgrading everything, patching everything. There is a giant dashboard that shows green/red for everything we have.

I think it's a total overreaction. But the edict was passed down, and here we are go.

New comment by 1a527dd5 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)"

1a527dd5 — Fri, 01 May 2026 20:59:05 +0000

I mean this is pretty amazing.

New comment by 1a527dd5 in "SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities"

1a527dd5 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 15:02:52 +0000

This feels very much like "we are now moving the goal posts".

New comment by 1a527dd5 in "USB Cheat Sheet (2022)"

1a527dd5 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 12:05:16 +0000

Ha! No chance, my case comes in at a beefy 18kg (purchased circa 2008). Some of the components are slowly starting to give up the ghost. My GPU purchased in 2011-03 died a few weeks ago.

So it's happening, unfortunately I'm not paying for new RAM. So I'm planning a new rig around my existing CMK64GX4M4A2400C14 sticks.

New comment by 1a527dd5 in "USB Cheat Sheet (2022)"

1a527dd5 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 23:51:51 +0000

Tangent: Author has this fabulous post I'd highly recommend: https://fabiensanglard.net/mjolnir/index.html

I read it once years ago and I come back to it every now and then wishing my current PC (10+ years and going) would gently die so I could finally build something small and tiny.

New comment by 1a527dd5 in "Investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns"

1a527dd5 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:31:31 +0000

> She shared her suspicion with another government employee, who reported it.

And what pray tell do you do if you don't have anyone to report it to inside the government? Reports like that can easily get blackholed.

New comment by 1a527dd5 in "Why AI Sucks at Front End"

1a527dd5 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:37:25 +0000

...not in my experience. It does what I need it to do; center a div.

New comment by 1a527dd5 in "Cloudflare targets 2029 for full post-quantum security"

1a527dd5 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:43:55 +0000

That is a beautiful api.

New comment by 1a527dd5 in "Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead"

1a527dd5 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:16:06 +0000

Absolutely not. The value isn't in the cloud storage. The value is in the client (DropBox in my case) seamlessly working across all my devices.

New comment by 1a527dd5 in "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?"

1a527dd5 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:47:51 +0000

Ignoring the disaster that is their branding/naming.

Copilot is _amazing_. Everyone is hyping about Claude, but I'm way more productive with the copilot cli. The copilot cloud agent is great, and copilot code review is great (we also tried the new very expensive claude code review - it was slow and expensive).

Forget that it's Microsoft, forget that everything is Copilot and go and give it a shot.

New comment by 1a527dd5 in "I use Excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog"

1a527dd5 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:11:10 +0000

Huge fan of https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid, not the prettiest things but enough to scratch the itch.

New comment by 1a527dd5 in "A Faster Alternative to Jq"

1a527dd5 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:20:40 +0000

I appreciate performance as much as the next person; but I see this endless battle to measure things in ns/us/ms as performative.

Sure there are 0.000001% edge cases where that MIGHT be the next big bottleneck.

I see the same thing repeated in various front end tooling too. They all claim to be _much_ faster than their counterpart.

9/10 whatever tooling you are using now will be perfectly fine. Example; I use grep a lot in an ad hoc manner on really large files I switch to rg. But that is only in the handful of cases.

New comment by 1a527dd5 in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"

1a527dd5 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:47:10 +0000

I don't think I'm quite bored. I'm exhausted/fatigued with the pace.

New comment by 1a527dd5 in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

1a527dd5 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:39:24 +0000

> Desktops showing the taskbar positioned on the bottom, top, left and right side of the screen

Welcome to the 90s?

They are so far off track. I'm basically never leaving Windows 10.

New comment by 1a527dd5 in "Wired headphone sales are exploding"

1a527dd5 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:18:53 +0000

I'm waiting for a wired bone conducting headset (mic included), so far only Chinese producers for that market.

New comment by 1a527dd5 in "XML is a cheap DSL"

1a527dd5 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:17:53 +0000

The trouble with XML has never been XML itself.

It was also about how easy it was to generate great XML.

Because it is complicated and everyone doesn't really agree on how to properly representative an idea or concept, you have to deal with varying output between producers.

I personally love well formed XML, but the std dev is huge.

Things like JSON have a much more tighter std dev.

The best XML I've seen is generated by hashdeep/md5deep. That's how XML should be.

Financial institutions are basically run on XML, but we do a tonne of work with them and my god their "XML" makes you pray and weep for a swift end.

New comment by 1a527dd5 in "Big data on the cheapest MacBook"

1a527dd5 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:59:33 +0000

I adore DuckDB.

Did a PoC on a AWS Lambda for data that was GZ'ed in a s3 bucket.

It was able to replace about 400 C# LoC with about 10 lines.

Amazing little bit of kit.