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New comment by TheTaytay in "How to earn a billion dollars"

TheTaytay — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 13:48:01 +0000

Your phrase “extract” betrays a fundamental disagreement with what Paul is saying. (Externalities does so again) It assumes a zero-sum game where the job is to shift money from one person to another. Value, and thus money/wealth can be created. Literally. You are saying, in different words, that no one can do it “honestly”. He is saying one can.

New comment by TheTaytay in "AI OSS tool repo goes archived over night after raising $7.3M Seed"

TheTaytay — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 02:45:59 +0000

I'm really sorry to hear that, and I wish you and the rest of the team luck. When you first came out, I thought the approach was really solid - particularly with regards to structured inputs and outputs.

New comment by TheTaytay in "Meta’s chaotic AI strategy"

TheTaytay — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 02:39:53 +0000

I was never sentenced to the Gulag, but based on what little I know, it's pretty different than one these people are experiencing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag

New comment by TheTaytay in "macOS Container Machines"

TheTaytay — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:20:29 +0000

We love OrbStack too! Thank you for it,

I wanted to make its VM/machine our default secure agent sandbox, but I couldn’t figure out how to isolate this VM from the host properly. This thread prompted me to find the issue though, and I saw this was recently implemented! https://github.com/orbstack/orbstack/issues/169

New comment by TheTaytay in "I found a seashell in the middle of the desert"

TheTaytay — Sun, 31 May 2026 09:58:50 +0000

True, but I actually had no idea that it was the soft parts rather than the hard parts that had been fossilized. (I haven’t verified it yet.) Either way, it didn’t read like a bad faith interpretation/comment.

New comment by TheTaytay in "Railway Is Having a Major Outage"

TheTaytay — Wed, 20 May 2026 04:34:48 +0000

I appreciate it. That's my belief as well. Very easy to write a post like, "Just use multiple clouds!" or to claim to have done it with a small project. But it's hard for me to imagine the benefits outweighing the extremely massive complexity costs at a certain scale.

New comment by TheTaytay in "Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud (Resolved)"

TheTaytay — Wed, 20 May 2026 01:28:59 +0000

I’ve seen a few smug “all your eggs in one basket” comments here.

I’m aware of some companies hosting their own metal and infra, but I’m not aware of large companies mitigating risk by hosting on separate cloud providers as a fallback mechanism. We might disagree with cloud provider choice, or think they should have been hosting their own metal, but that’s still an “all your eggs in one basket” choice, right?

Heck, they might even have multi-region fallback with GCP, but if GCP bans your account, that doesn’t matter.

Are there good examples of running a company of railway’s size so redundantly that their host could nuke one of their accounts and they’d just keep on trucking?

New comment by TheTaytay in "Δ-Mem: Efficient Online Memory for Large Language Models"

TheTaytay — Sat, 16 May 2026 16:35:45 +0000

Fascinating! Do you have a way to detect/flag malicious stuff by any chance? (Seems like a good vector for prompt injection, but maybe no more than any other internet site?)

New comment by TheTaytay in "I am building a cloud"

TheTaytay — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 01:57:07 +0000

Ah very cool. Thank you!

New comment by TheTaytay in "I am building a cloud"

TheTaytay — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:19:07 +0000

Can you elaborate a bit on what terraform and mandible are doing for you in your setup?

New comment by TheTaytay in "GitHub's fake star economy"

TheTaytay — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:58:11 +0000

I was literally was just looking at GitHub dataset availability and musing on this. A star from karpathy is worth a lot more than a star from open_claw_dood that just created his account 5 min ago.

In general, I’ve been dissatisfied with GitHub’s code search. It would be nice to see innovation here.

New comment by TheTaytay in "Show HN: LangAlpha – what if Claude Code was built for Wall Street?"

TheTaytay — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:55:24 +0000

Oh does it? I didn't realize that it had the built in ability to do so.

New comment by TheTaytay in "Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors"

TheTaytay — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 02:20:23 +0000

Yes…mistakes are inevitable, and I get not expecting or demanding perfection. But the subtext here is that this is unlikely to be a mistake, and much more likely to be fraud.

There are incentives for these spreadsheets having the values that they do, and also there is no conceivable way that the values are correct, and on top of that, the most likely ways to get these values are to copy and paste large amounts of numbers, and even perturb some of them manually.

If you see this in accounting,(where there are also mistakes), it’s definitely fraud. (Awww man - we accidentally inflated our revenue and profit to meet expectations by accidentally duplicating numerous revenue lines and no one internally caught it! Dang interns!) If you see it in science, you ask the authors about it and they shrug and mumble a semi plausible explanation if you’re lucky? I can totally imagine a lab tech or grad student making a large copy paste mistake. I can’t imagine them making a series of them in such a way that it bolsters or proves the author’s claim AND goes completely undetected by everyone involved.

New comment by TheTaytay in "Show HN: LangAlpha – what if Claude Code was built for Wall Street?"

TheTaytay — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 02:42:36 +0000

I wish it was a more standard pattern to pull down a dataset and manipulate it or give the agent the ability to manipulate it!

Durable Objects in Dynamic Workers: Give each AI-generated app its own database

TheTaytay — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:35:07 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/durable-object-facets-dynamic-workers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47764832

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Canary – tiny filesystem honeypot for macOS

TheTaytay — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 03:33:48 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/dweinstein/canary

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47760939

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by TheTaytay in "Building a CLI for all of Cloudflare"

TheTaytay — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 02:07:00 +0000

This looks like a really nice pattern for exposing all allowed capabilities in one place. Are you using it? Looks like it could easily wrap a CLI too…

New comment by TheTaytay in "Make Tmux Pretty and Usable (2024)"

TheTaytay — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:40:39 +0000

Yes you can!

New comment by TheTaytay in "Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage"

TheTaytay — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 03:22:47 +0000

Aren’t they saying that it’s 5minutes for things like subagents (that wouldn’t benefit from it?)

New comment by TheTaytay in "Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th"

TheTaytay — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 20:56:57 +0000

This should be the top comment. The OP misunderstands the change and has their LLM write an expose. The company responds with a well-reasoned explanation that it would actually cost MORE money if there was a global 1h default for ALL prompts. It gets downvoted and the pitchforks stay out because…I presume the words like “cache read likelihood” sounds like made up fluff to the audience, rather than an actual explanation?