Hacker News: MBlume

New comment by MBlume in "X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok"

MBlume — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 19:57:50 +0000

You cannot build a CSAM generator, period. CSAM means Child Sexual Abuse Material -- material created through the sexual abuse of children. If it came out of a generator, it is not, by definition, Child Sexual Abuse Material.

New comment by MBlume in "Toll roads are spreading in America"

MBlume — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 07:24:56 +0000

This is an easy fix. Ditch the HOV element and make the lane toll-only. Tolls already encourage carpooling -- more people in the car means less toll per occupant.

New comment by MBlume in "Tom Lehrer has died"

MBlume — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 19:16:07 +0000

I assure you we sing it sometimes!

New comment by MBlume in "Ocarina of Time Randomizer"

MBlume — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 20:50:21 +0000

> given the incredible preservation that Dolphin provides for their original versions.

Does cemu not provide comparable preservation for the HD versions? I played through both WW:HD and TP:HD on my Steam Deck using cemu and found it a great experience.

New comment by MBlume in "Amazon to display tariff costs for consumers"

MBlume — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 11:41:51 +0000

Trump will certainly consider this provocation, so perhaps the news here is that Amazon considered this worth it, even given the inevitable retaliation.

New comment by MBlume in "The optimised version of 7-Zip can't be built from source"

MBlume — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 03:57:58 +0000

I would be shocked if the rust documentation didn't explain very clearly how to bootstrap rustc starting from gcc

New comment by MBlume in "Dockworkers at ports from Maine to Texas go on strike"

MBlume — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 05:21:03 +0000

The strike emphasizes the importance of automation. We should be prioritizing the investments that will allow us to fire as many of them as possible as soon as possible.

New comment by MBlume in "ts-blank-space is a fast type-stripping compiler"

MBlume — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 00:57:02 +0000

I'm a little confused about when I'd use this, if I'm quickly iterating on code as I develop it, probably I also want to know whether it type checks, right?

New comment by MBlume in "Git-absorb: Git commit –fixup, but automatic"

MBlume — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 00:45:33 +0000

I've been using this workflow with hg and it's great, happy to see a git port

New comment by MBlume in "Debugging a memory leak in a Clojure service"

MBlume — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 21:39:57 +0000

The article makes it sound like the system was using eval (probably on a per-request basis, not just on start-up), and also like ceasing to use eval was pretty trivial once they realized eval was the problem. I'd be curious why they were using eval and what they were able to do instead.

Ask HN: Was There a Widespread Outage?

MBlume — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 16:05:32 +0000

Tumblr, Facebook, and discord all seem down Google and Hacker News seem to work

Update: everything seems to be back up

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41079731

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by MBlume in "Reformatting 100k Files at Google in 2011"

MBlume — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 04:16:00 +0000

Seems like the solution here is to set up buildifier so that it can send out robot CLs on an ongoing basis.

New comment by MBlume in "Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice"

MBlume — Thu, 23 May 2024 04:08:27 +0000

As I recall McCartney didn't like the idea of Live And Let Die being parodied as Chicken Pot Pie, since he's vegetarian. Funny thing is so's Al.

New comment by MBlume in "OpenAI departures: Why can’t former employees talk?"

MBlume — Fri, 17 May 2024 19:32:53 +0000

Submission title mentions NDA but the article also mentions a non disparagement agreement. "You can't give away our trade secrets" is one thing but it sounds like they're being told they can't say anything critical of the company at all.

It's 2024 and Drought is Optional

MBlume — Mon, 13 May 2024 23:50:04 +0000

Article URL: https://asteriskmag.com/issues/06/its-2024-and-drought-is-optional

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40349963

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by MBlume in "AI Doesn't Threaten Humanity. Its Owners Do"

MBlume — Tue, 07 May 2024 21:11:53 +0000

The article doesn't seem to make any attempt at all to defend the first half of its thesis.

New comment by MBlume in "Hacking on PostgreSQL is hard"

MBlume — Thu, 02 May 2024 20:45:38 +0000

Coming at this from a naive outsider perspective, the central problem described in the post (commits to PostgreSQL frequently have serious defects which must be addressed in follow-up commits) seems like one that would ideally be addressed with automated testing and CI tooling. What kind of testing does the Postgres project have? Are there tests which must pass before a commit can be integrated in the main branch? Are there tests that are only run nightly? Is most core functionality covered by quick-running unit tests, or are there significant pieces which can only be tested by hours-long integration tests? How expensive is it, in machine-hours, to run the full test suite, and how often is this done? What kinds of requirements are in place for including new tests with new code?

New comment by MBlume in "Git Bisect-Find"

MBlume — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 05:00:28 +0000

I actually prefer to add a passing test asserting the bug exists in one commit, then fix the bug and reverse the sense of the test in a second commit. The second commit is now more or less self documenting -- this case used to produce this buggy behavior but now produces correct behavior -- and the fact that the test originally passed provides proof that the test is capable of detecting a regression.

New comment by MBlume in "The happiest kids in the world have social safety nets"

MBlume — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 21:21:00 +0000

Sounds nice. I've personally spoken on the phone with a police officer who told me he'd involve CPS if he saw my daughter walking (two blocks!) to school again.

New comment by MBlume in "The happiest kids in the world have social safety nets"

MBlume — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 21:17:06 +0000

This was my experience. There's this narrative that you move away from your parents and you have the freedom and independence they were previously denying you, and I'm sure that's very much the case for many people but it's not as though my parents were ever trying to keep me from going places and seeing people, the built environment where I grew up (suburb of Los Angeles) did that.