Hacker News: UltraSane

New comment by UltraSane in "Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use"

UltraSane — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 03:19:20 +0000

This must be for Cowork. I don't have Hyper-V enabled because I prefer to use VMWare workstation so I can't use Cowork.

New comment by UltraSane in "Show HN: Atlasphere – Live Infrastructure Diagrams"

UltraSane — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 03:04:58 +0000

Why would AWS have any say in what someone does in their own time?

New comment by UltraSane in "Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension"

UltraSane — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:37:26 +0000

You are 100% correct and if uBlock Origin didn't exist I would dedicate my life to creating it.

New comment by UltraSane in "Spherical Voronoi Diagram"

UltraSane — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:58:42 +0000

Google Maps is the modern globe.

New comment by UltraSane in "Lies we tell ourselves about email addresses"

UltraSane — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:53:42 +0000

I own a domain I use for email and I have it configured to deliver ANY address that ends with @mydomain. This works like + addressing on steroids. I can have website@mydomain or recipient@mydomainand it makes filtering much easier.

New comment by UltraSane in "Are you expected to run five Python type-checkers now?"

UltraSane — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:14:48 +0000

F# is a really nice language, I just wish I could get paid for writing it.

New comment by UltraSane in "German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews"

UltraSane — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:11:39 +0000

The original Google search that used inverted indexes and page rank and respected boolean operators was very good and let you actually find obscure information. Call this Google Search 1.0

Then in order to increase revenue Google dumbed down search very badly and made it very hard to find obscure information. Whoever decided to delete random search terms is someone I want to punch in the face really hard. Call this Google Search 2.0

But the way Google has integrated Gemini Flash into search is actually pretty good and is definitely an improvement over Google Search 2.0

New comment by UltraSane in "How do you design a $30k electric pickup? Inside Ford's skunkworks"

UltraSane — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:07:39 +0000

If the US is shit, then the CCP is shit that has been eaten and puked back up.

New comment by UltraSane in "Claude Fable 5"

UltraSane — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 23:49:29 +0000

Anthropic knows it refuses too much, they want to be very cautious to avoid any scandals. I think this is why they want to store all Fable and Mythos chats for 30 days so they can use the data to improve.

New comment by UltraSane in "Flat Datacenter Networks at Scale at Amazon"

UltraSane — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:51:50 +0000

"Performance guarantees are stochastic rather than deterministic. The worst case performance (for metrics such as number of hops and oversubscription) is known, but for RNG our models are stochastic (i.e., the worst case performance is known with high probability). This is a weaker limitation than it might appear. Fat-tree guarantees are also effectively stochastic once you account for real-world failures, which are frequent at scale. RNG simply makes the stochastic nature explicit and designs for it from the start."

New comment by UltraSane in "Ultrafast machine learning on FPGAs via Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks"

UltraSane — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:46:34 +0000

The author actually works at Jane Street.

New comment by UltraSane in "Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds"

UltraSane — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:44:42 +0000

People don't want to hear that fox news was created specifically to lie.

New comment by UltraSane in "Are you expected to run five Python type-checkers now?"

UltraSane — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:15:16 +0000

That is why I'm using C# and Rust more now than Python. You get far better RoI on types. and they are so much faster and can use all cores so much more easily.

New comment by UltraSane in "Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds"

UltraSane — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:13:14 +0000

Fox is bad in a way far more fundamental than CNN. It was created specifically to lie to people.

New comment by UltraSane in "Show HN: Lathe – Use LLMs to learn a new domain, not skip past it"

UltraSane — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:32:53 +0000

If your power is literacy, what are you without it?

New comment by UltraSane in "Amazon Cognito now supports multi-Region replication"

UltraSane — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:50:55 +0000

This should have been available from the beginning. I don't understand why it took so long.

New comment by UltraSane in "Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds"

UltraSane — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:48:29 +0000

It matters very very much. Fox News is much much worse than most news channels. It was created specifically as GOP propaganda.

New comment by UltraSane in "Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds"

UltraSane — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:15:02 +0000

"one of them always has a 24 hour news going "

Why didn't you say which one? I bet it is Fox.

New comment by UltraSane in "Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe"

UltraSane — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:09:19 +0000

Russia invaded Ukraine specifically to stop it from becoming too integrated with Europe. The idea of a rich and democratic Ukraine is a nightmare for Putin.

New comment by UltraSane in "Show HN: Infinite canvas notes in the non-Euclidean Poincaré disk"

UltraSane — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 22:01:20 +0000

Greg Egan uses 5D for his notes.