Hacker News: _dark_matter_

New comment by _dark_matter_ in "CEO of largest public hospital says he's ready to replace radiologists with AI"

_dark_matter_ — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:51:56 +0000

For folks with long wait times, maybe the advantage of "immediate access to AI radiologist" beats out "wait for human radiologist"? Would be interesting to weigh those harms against each other.

New comment by _dark_matter_ in "Netflix Backs Out of Warner Bros. Bidding, Paramount Set to Win"

_dark_matter_ — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:08:40 +0000

I literally do not understand this perspective. If that was true they would have let Netflix buy Warner Bros., which would have spun off CNN, and Skydance could have scooped it up for much much less money than buying the entirety of Warner Bros/discovery.

New comment by _dark_matter_ in "Roger Ebert Reviews "The Shawshank Redemption" (1999)"

_dark_matter_ — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 06:42:09 +0000

Unbelievable film. I am so appreciative this was made.

New comment by _dark_matter_ in "Claude Opus 4.6"

_dark_matter_ — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 10:19:47 +0000

Don't most jobs have unmetered access? I know mine does

New comment by _dark_matter_ in "Systems Thinking"

_dark_matter_ — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 07:44:43 +0000

Iceberg is, primarily, a spec [0]. It defines exactly what data is stored and how it is interacted with. The community debates broadly on spec changes first, see a recent one on cross-platform SQL UDFs [1].

We have yet to see a largely llm driven language implementation, but it is surely possible. I imagine it would be easier to tell the llm to instead translate the Java implementation to whatever language you need. A vibe-coded language could do major damage to a companies data.

[0] https://iceberg.apache.org/spec/ [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/whbgoc325o99vm4b599f0g1owhgw...

New comment by _dark_matter_ in "Real engineering failures instead of success stories"

_dark_matter_ — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 19:36:46 +0000

Whether or not it's AI written, these very vague stories are not useful.

New comment by _dark_matter_ in "Amazon cuts 16k jobs"

_dark_matter_ — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:12:51 +0000

You want Victorian healthcare? Or privacy? No air conditioning? Dirty air? Horse shit everywhere? No different, people stink, can't shower, and it takes hours of labor to wash clothes without a washing machine?

New comment by _dark_matter_ in "The tech market is fundamentally fucked up and AI is just a scapegoat"

_dark_matter_ — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 13:52:47 +0000

Almost always they start by having connections that hire them (old colleagues, former friends, etc.), building out those connections (conference talks, doing really good work, writing high quality blogs), and then if you're lucky, some word of mouth.

New comment by _dark_matter_ in "A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks"

_dark_matter_ — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 04:23:35 +0000

Your docs are a contact. You can verify that contract using integration tests

New comment by _dark_matter_ in "The bachelor tax – what it costs in taxes to be single"

_dark_matter_ — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 21:20:30 +0000

I think there's just not enough money in the county to induce more babies. The cost would be a shock. Anyone wealthy enough to shoulder the cost would fight so hard against it, it would never stand a chance. IMO the number is probably something like $10k per year per kid. Foster Care pays somewhere between 8k-12k.

New comment by _dark_matter_ in "Heathrow scraps liquid container limit"

_dark_matter_ — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 13:48:32 +0000

Why would they? Because they are about to do the thing they planned to do for months or years? Because they may be risking their own life? Because they're worried about getting caught rather than following through? Because no matter how prepared they are they have never done that EXACT scenario before at that exact airport with those exact people? Because the human mind is a lizard brain even with training and preparation?

Still not a perfect systems, other countries manage this part much better (I've heard Israel is especially good at it, but I don't have direct evidence).

New comment by _dark_matter_ in "eBay explicitly bans AI "buy for me" agents in user agreement update"

_dark_matter_ — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 15:55:50 +0000

Seriously, how is this the top comment?

New comment by _dark_matter_ in "Eat Real Food"

_dark_matter_ — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:33:31 +0000

Whole milk, cheese, and steak are not the usual foods I associate with health. Unfortunately this is not backed by scientific evidence.

New comment by _dark_matter_ in "Charles Proxy"

_dark_matter_ — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 14:45:19 +0000

Agreed, I used to have a bunch of mitm commands in my bashrc to easily intercept https messages

New comment by _dark_matter_ in "CRISPR fungus: Protein-packed, sustainable, and tastes like meat"

_dark_matter_ — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 09:07:03 +0000

I'm sorry, I've been vegetarian (mostly vegan, no eggs or milk) for over 10 years, and I crave meat. A juicy burger. Spicy chicken wings. Actually those are mainly it.

I am so thankful of advances that let me eat something my brain enjoys. I get the best of both worlds - no animal harmed in the process.

Why do vegs have to neg on other vegs for what they eat? I hate that. To each their own. I encourage everyone to be vegetarian to support animal rights, but I also would never tell them that their cravings aren't real or how to go about doing it.

New comment by _dark_matter_ in "CRISPR fungus: Protein-packed, sustainable, and tastes like meat"

_dark_matter_ — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 09:01:18 +0000

Wild to think that there's 6-7 chickens for every human in America at all times

New comment by _dark_matter_ in "Show HN: Continuous Claude – run Claude Code in a loop"

_dark_matter_ — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 23:47:41 +0000

Fyi

New comment by _dark_matter_ in "Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky has died"

_dark_matter_ — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 17:57:56 +0000

I was wondering why I knew his name - he published a series of chess puzzles based on actual historic games in the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/chess-puzzles.

They were fabulous, and I especially enjoyed his commentary. May he rest in peace.

New comment by _dark_matter_ in "My new Git utility `what-changed-twice` needs a new name"

_dark_matter_ — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 01:41:01 +0000

This is why I no longer do atomic commits. I've just never had it be a benefit to walk through and guarantee that each commits tests and builds successfully. I so rarely back out changes that when I do, I test then that everything is working (and let's be honest, I back out usually at the PR level, not the commit).

New comment by _dark_matter_ in "Databricks is raising a Series K Investment at >$100B valuation"

_dark_matter_ — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 07:57:16 +0000

I'm as skeptical as anyone, but have you ever heard of companies like Oracle, which got rich off a database or Snowflake (current market cap 65B)? Companies pay oodles of money for that capabilities.