Hacker News: AustinDev

New comment by AustinDev in "An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail"

AustinDev — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:08:59 +0000

>I was using a @gmail.com address. Bad mistake on my part. So actually tracking what I used the address with, that was my real pain.

This is thankfully mostly solved now by AI. I recently had a do a migration that I had been putting off for years and it was relatively painless.

New comment by AustinDev in "Incident with Github.com"

AustinDev — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:11:09 +0000

Alternatively, don't use GH for critical infrastructure they are no longer reliable, simple as.

New comment by AustinDev in "AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain"

AustinDev — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 19:05:48 +0000

Humanoid robots are obviously more than marketing. The entirety of human civilization is human shaped. Making robots that are human shaped is easier and more efficient than redesigning and rebuilding everything that exists.

New comment by AustinDev in "How Claude marks AI-generated content"

AustinDev — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:37:15 +0000

It would appear that their altruism isn't very effective.

New comment by AustinDev in "What Happened to HackerOne?"

AustinDev — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 05:14:11 +0000

Just pay them in stable coins. That's a solved problem.

New comment by AustinDev in "Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index"

AustinDev — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 02:00:53 +0000

seams, boundaries, envelopes, etc

New comment by AustinDev in "Trump again tries to limit US birthright citizenship with new executive orders"

AustinDev — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 01:47:19 +0000

It was a joke about typos.

New comment by AustinDev in "Trump again tries to limit US birthright citizenship with new executive orders"

AustinDev — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 01:19:26 +0000

to true

New comment by AustinDev in "Dario Amodei's stance on open weights is self-serving and short-sighted"

AustinDev — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 22:01:19 +0000

Fair enough. Thanks for clarifying.

New comment by AustinDev in "Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index"

AustinDev — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 21:54:39 +0000

They always all gather around the same spot then that spot moves every 6-9 months. I think the clustering is more likely evidence of distillation. I don't personally think distillation is a bad thing. If the LLM providers can distill all of human output into their models for 'free'. I don't think distilling a model from the output of those models is morally wrong.

New comment by AustinDev in "Dario Amodei's stance on open weights is self-serving and short-sighted"

AustinDev — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 02:14:41 +0000

I'm surprised he just kept at it, honestly.

New comment by AustinDev in "Dario Amodei's stance on open weights is self-serving and short-sighted"

AustinDev — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 04:58:31 +0000

Claiming he's not an Effective Altruist is a stretch. He's been tightly coupled with that movement for nearly a decade.

New comment by AustinDev in "Dario Amodei's stance on open weights is self-serving and short-sighted"

AustinDev — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 01:42:37 +0000

Criticizing EA is not a personal attack it's an observation of the outcomes associated with the ideology.

I'm sorry if it was flamebait.

New comment by AustinDev in "Dario Amodei's stance on open weights is self-serving and short-sighted"

AustinDev — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 20:07:21 +0000

Dario Amodei's stance on ________ is self-serving and short-sighted. It's the EA way.

New comment by AustinDev in "Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake"

AustinDev — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 17:07:19 +0000

>'Gwynne Shotwell is weirdly undervalued for what she's accomplished and what she's put up with, and I think that will show up some time in the future.'

Gwynne is fiercely loyal to Elon. I don't expect to see significant strife between them.

New comment by AustinDev in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"

AustinDev — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:20:40 +0000

With memory manufacturers running gross margins in excess of 80% how long until we see upstarts come online to eat away at that or is that unlikely to happen in the near future?

I can't imagine a margin that large is allowed to exist unchallenged for more than a few years.

New comment by AustinDev in "NSA lost access to Mythos amid Anthropic dispute"

AustinDev — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:39:51 +0000

If they wanted to officially take the weights the DPA would work and Dario could do nothing. If they wanted to do it in clandestine manner no one could stop them and no one would know. It's very likely they already have all the weights from all the frontier models. I mean all the frontier models are capable of being served from AWS Bedrock so the weights aren't exactly locked in some air-gapped vault.

It would be easy to make a national security justification to take the weights in a clandestine manner especially because Anthropic supposedly got caught giving China access to the model through a cutout.

New comment by AustinDev in "NSA lost access to Mythos amid Anthropic dispute"

AustinDev — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:25:40 +0000

They could easily take the weights if they wanted. I don't believe they meaningfully lost access.

New comment by AustinDev in "Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'"

AustinDev — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:33:22 +0000

>“50th rocket company, previous ones failed on financials not tech”

Its Falcon 9 has flown 667 times to orbit with a 99.55% success rate. SpaceX isn't like the other rocket companies and it's pretty obvious to anyone who looks at the metrics objectively. Not in technology or in finances.

>"minus $5B/year but AI/Space makes it +$200B”

$18.7B revenue in 2025. Starlink alone was $11.4B

The comparison to Iridium isn't even worth refuting because it's like comparing the Wright Flyer to the 747.

It's a shame that otherwise intelligent people have such difficulty objectively assessing anything Elon Musk; I assume it's mostly idealogical reasons. Do I think $135 is a bit high for the SpaceX IPO? probably. Do I agree with everything Elon Musk says? nah. Is Elon Musk the most capable entrepreneur and innovator to ever live? It's definitely possible.

New comment by AustinDev in "Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers"

AustinDev — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:00:48 +0000

This is your sign to start using a DNS based ad/tracking blocker. Run it on your VPS with tailscale if you want it available everywhere without significant security overhead.