Hacker News: StrLght

New comment by StrLght in "SpaceX Is Buying Cursor"

StrLght — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:53:28 +0000

How about paying 60 billion for a bunch of enterprise contracts?

New comment by StrLght in "Mechanical Watch (2022)"

StrLght — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:40:36 +0000

I got really excited thinking it was a new post for a second :(

New comment by StrLght in "Bring Siri AI to EU iPhone Users Safely"

StrLght — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 20:31:35 +0000

A vibecoded petition with no clear expected outcomes and no actionable items whatsoever.

Is it just a honeypot to get names and emails? Why would people sign something like that?

New comment by StrLght in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

StrLght — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 11:15:19 +0000

Local models are looking better and better each day. Still, not as capable, but you can be sure that nobody will take it away from you at a moment's notice.

New comment by StrLght in "AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit"

StrLght — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:14:43 +0000

IMO if numbers on Socket.dev can be trusted, then impact seems rather small (luckily). It also makes sense — I know some packages from the affected list, they're heavily outdated and their upstreams aren't maintained anymore.

Other than this — I don't know how many there are affected people in total, but AUR team probably has an exact number. I am also sure, they're doing their best to handle it accordingly to the impact.

New comment by StrLght in "AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit"

StrLght — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:42:44 +0000

Orphaned packages, so other people are able to file requests and take over them. That's how AUR works — it's community-driven [0].

[0]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository

Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?

StrLght — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 23:22:28 +0000

Article URL: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/age-verification-for-social-media-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-a-free-internet

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48363882

Points: 590

# Comments: 527

New comment by StrLght in "Today we reduced headcount by 22% / The goal is 100x output"

StrLght — Fri, 22 May 2026 09:58:06 +0000

I'm so glad that the LLM hysteria at $WORK is barely scratching the surface. These Twitter-brained CEOs are living in a completely different reality, so I am really happy I don't have to experience it firsthand.

New comment by StrLght in "Google's Antigravity bait and switch"

StrLght — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:45:30 +0000

[citation needed]

IDEs made by JetBrains are huge. At this point, they're basically the standard option for several JVM languages.

New comment by StrLght in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"

StrLght — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:22:12 +0000

> Same with PCs... do you really want to run that *.exe you downloaded from that cool site you found?

Yes, I am fully capable of making decisions about what software to run on my personal hardware on my own, thanks. I don't need Apple or Google or Microsoft to make this decision for me.

They're trying to fix social engineering. It's simply not possible.

New comment by StrLght in "How does GPS work?"

StrLght — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:55:32 +0000

You don't need to belittle someone else's work. It's a series of articles, and author has 2 more articles that aren't related to articles Ciechanowski wrote at all.

New comment by StrLght in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

StrLght — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:29:58 +0000

It's not? The only 2 options available there are last gen Strix Point (AI 300 series).

New comment by StrLght in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

StrLght — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:18:51 +0000

This doesn't sound quite right, I think they put a wrong price there.

Bottom cover alone goes for more than that, even without battery or speakers: https://frame.work/sg/en/products/laptop13pro-bottom-cover-k...

So does the screen: https://frame.work/sg/en/products/laptop13pro-display-kit

New comment by StrLght in "I ran Gemma 4 as a local model in Codex CLI"

StrLght — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:21:11 +0000

I was also surprised by this sentence. It sounds like this is the author's first attempt at running models locally.

Or maybe the author has been running heavily quantized small models all that time — Gemma 4 gguf he's using is Q4 and only 16 GB. In my experience quants like this tend to perform much worse.

New comment by StrLght in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

StrLght — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:24:02 +0000

You made a few typos in "LaLiga"

New comment by StrLght in "12k AI-generated blog posts added in a single commit"

StrLght — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:44:14 +0000

I am so glad DuckDuckGo allows blocking specific sites from the search. Just did this for a domain linked in this repository.

New comment by StrLght in "AirPods Max 2"

StrLght — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:19:49 +0000

Well, lossless over Bluetooth is a mess currently.

Only 1 codec is capable of that — aptX Lossless. Then, your transmitting device, phone / laptop / etc., needs to be compatible with it, and that's often not the case. Samsung and Apple don't support it.

I bought USB-C Bluetooth dongle that I use with my iPhone for that exact reason. It looks janky, but I think it's worth it.

New comment by StrLght in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

StrLght — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:43:33 +0000

Discord isn't under pressure to implement these measures globally.

I fully agree that they shouldn't be blamed for kick-starting age verification, because governments are pushing for this all around the world. But it's simply ignorant to pretend that Discord isn't helping these governments to normalise this process with their actions. They're also signalling that businesses are willing to comply and that they have all means necessary to do this.

New comment by StrLght in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

StrLght — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 08:49:58 +0000

I wouldn't call it a response, but rather another thing that normalises ID verification online. Now all these governments can use Discord as a reference that (1) this is possible at scale and (2) companies are willing to do this.

New comment by StrLght in "Anthropic Claude Max $200/mo: They claim 99% uptime, I calculated 84% Loss: $780"

StrLght — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 12:48:35 +0000

> Author: A paying Max 20x customer who's done subsidizing Anthropic's infrastructure problems

Shouldn't that be the other way around? Isn't every LLM provider losing money? Especially on premium subscriptions.