Hacker News: Matl

New comment by Matl in "Stop the Apple Music app from launching"

Matl — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:50:43 +0000

There's great hand crafted library managers/players out there like https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org etc.

New comment by Matl in "Replies to comments on my "LLMs are eroding my career" post"

Matl — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:29:11 +0000

In the case of Gates at least, it definitely came in part from having access to the right people.

New comment by Matl in "The OnlyFans Economy of American AI"

Matl — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 16:18:22 +0000

> known IP thieves

Such as Antropic and OpenAI you mean?

New comment by Matl in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

Matl — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 10:51:00 +0000

Yes, it's like selling a share to a group of mates who hear from their mates that AI is hot so they want in. Still does nothing for the profit not being there to pay those investors back in any other way than via new investors (ie pension funds).

New comment by Matl in "Squillions: How money laundering won"

Matl — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:47:15 +0000

Sanction busting is an interesting thing because states are sovereign so if one state imposes sanctions on another, it's not illegal for the sanctioned state to do everything to ignore/bypass them, unless we consider the sanctioning state to be somehow above others/source of truth for what's legal.

New comment by Matl in "Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording""

Matl — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:02:31 +0000

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-us-military - this goes beyond previous technology sharing

New comment by Matl in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

Matl — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:59:53 +0000

I'm happy for you that you're always the perfectly informed player in every transaction you ever make having the most up to date information, ensuring that you're getting the best deal possible at any given second, groceries and all.

Sadly, some poor slobs are too lazy to be as informed as you.

New comment by Matl in "Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording""

Matl — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:18:13 +0000

I am not endorsing what China is doing in terms of surveillance by any means, but their argument would be that every nation not subservient to the US got overthrown by CIA backed forces the moment they opened up.

The surveillance tech that is much more likely to be deployed in the US and that few are talking about is Israeli tech used to spy on and suppress the self determination of Palestinians. Especially given the recently proposed fusing of US/Israeli military tech.

New comment by Matl in "Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit"

Matl — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:36:13 +0000

> Training a model on copyrighted material is fair use

I am not sure this has been actually established, but I don't see how distilling a model is not fair use then.

New comment by Matl in "Nvidia RTX Spark"

Matl — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 11:38:33 +0000

It can work quite well in the desktop GPU 'happy path' (single monitor etc.) if you don't care about the proprietary nature of it.

But once we're talking about laptops, hybrid graphics etc. it quickly shows that this is not a platform Nvidia cares about.

New comment by Matl in "Nvidia RTX Spark"

Matl — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:14:35 +0000

> just like their GPUs are

So with proprietary blobs that give you more trouble that they're worth?

New comment by Matl in "Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software"

Matl — Sun, 31 May 2026 11:07:50 +0000

> if that were true, the large portion of code now being rewritten in Rust wouldn't be vibe-coded slop.

There may be some recency bias with the whole Bun fiasco, but Bun is after all owned by Anthorpic.

The wast majority of software in Rust that's actually used is not vibe coded as far as I know. There may be a large number of vibe coded Rust projects on GitHub but that's a poor metric to judge by given how easy it is to publish a new repo.

Is a large portion of in use Rust code vibecoded? I don't believe so.

New comment by Matl in "Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software"

Matl — Sun, 31 May 2026 10:15:15 +0000

You're conflating why people want to rewrite it in Rust vs what is the likely end result i.e. I do think people want to rewrite things in Rust because they believe long-term it will mean fewer (memory safety etc.) bugs especially because there's been almost no meaningful improvement in this space for a long time. But of course in the short term it will mean regressions compared to the established C written version.

That is different from AI where the calculus seems to be that if AI isn't involved, it aien't relevant.

New comment by Matl in "The Website Specification"

Matl — Sun, 31 May 2026 10:00:20 +0000

I too want to go back to that, but I fear most consumers/potential visitors to your website have been conditioned to expect flashy web by this point and so it's a self reinforcing paradigm.

New comment by Matl in "Danish pension fund excludes SpaceX citing governance and valuation"

Matl — Sat, 30 May 2026 11:17:47 +0000

Tesla is known for hazardous factory conditions, worker mistreatment etc.[1]

Then there's the autopilot misleading marketing, Cybertruck being glued together with spit glue and duct tape etc.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Tesla,_Inc.#Worki...

New comment by Matl in "Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit"

Matl — Sat, 30 May 2026 10:09:03 +0000

So then the European ones should join with European copyright holders to sue OpenAI/Anthropic and watch them trying to BS their way around what they train on.

New comment by Matl in "Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit"

Matl — Sat, 30 May 2026 10:07:00 +0000

> it's against the OpenAI ToU

Given that OpenAI doesn't care about training on copyrighted data, why is suddenly their ToU something anyone should care about?

New comment by Matl in "Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test"

Matl — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:01:16 +0000

There was no race anymore once the first Moon landing happened. Same as the Soviets won the 'space race' since they were the first to get into space.

The Moon landing race was a new race.

Now the Back to the Moon race is a different one altogether.

New comment by Matl in "Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test"

Matl — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:56:04 +0000

Are you saying that Americans, who have close to 1,000 known and many unknown bases in every corner of the globe are worried someone else might set up a base somewhere before them?

I guess I am just not that bothered, because I don't assume American intentions are inherently better.

New comment by Matl in "Go: Support for Generic Methods"

Matl — Wed, 27 May 2026 22:04:00 +0000

Yeah, because software is not meant to evolve and people are not meant to either.