Hacker News: abofh

New comment by abofh in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

abofh — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 03:03:27 +0000

Cursor which is just a ux on other people's models and only has value as a UI that can be replaced by those models...

Jesus Christ, where do i buy cat bonds?

New comment by abofh in "Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos"

abofh — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:15:33 +0000

Lawyers are gonna be making this a legal quagmire for years. Even after it gets retracted.

New comment by abofh in "AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models"

abofh — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:37:19 +0000

Yes and no. Anthropic controls what is determined to be "similar or higher" and when models are deprecated. Will sonnet 4.7 be "too powerful"? Because once it's released. 4.6's days are numbered.

This created a huge future risk for our org and we're already scheduling meetings over it. Regulated industry, we can't lose control over our data governance or residency controls, let alone the lack of visible audit trails that could reveal customer or PII.

Just an absolute bomb of a release

New comment by abofh in "AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models"

abofh — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:17:06 +0000

Not a sub processor for us, so insta banned. Also spiked the ball on us updating our sub processor list. If they'd done something in-cloud we wouldn't have blinked, but no governance or controls, non starter.

New comment by abofh in "AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models"

abofh — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:58:59 +0000

Bedrock supports many models. Open weights models aren't far behind, maybe a year, 18 months.

Given they could have done this with data residency rules being respected and chose not to suggests all I need to know - this is for Anthropics IPO, not for user safety

New comment by abofh in "Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality"

abofh — Sat, 23 May 2026 19:02:07 +0000

Nobody has to order people to do anything if it's in their self interest. Yes corruption flows downhill, but until they flip, just following orders isn't a defense.

New comment by abofh in "Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]"

abofh — Wed, 20 May 2026 02:56:20 +0000

I've been in AWS for almost twenty years at this point. It's been a long time since I've seen a global outage of the data plane on anything. The control plane, especially the US-east-1 services? Yes - but if you're off of east-1, your outages are measured in missile strikes, not botched deployments.

New comment by abofh in "Tesla Wall Connector bootloader bypasses the firmware downgrade ratchet"

abofh — Fri, 15 May 2026 02:54:03 +0000

It's a car the charging port is a viable physical perimeter, letting people inject code at the pump is a risk of design, not user error.

New comment by abofh in "SpaceX rocket set for unintentional moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway"

abofh — Sat, 02 May 2026 11:52:15 +0000

No, but wasn't that a great use case?

New comment by abofh in "Hyperscalers have already outspent most famous US megaprojects"

abofh — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 04:50:02 +0000

Not if you include tax breaks as mega projects

New comment by abofh in "How Kernel Anti-Cheats Work: A Deep Dive into Modern Game Protection"

abofh — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 02:57:20 +0000

I think it's somewhere between halting and turing - given infinite resources it's likely solvable, but lacking that it's just narrowing bounds

New comment by abofh in "The Shady World of IP Leasing"

abofh — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 23:43:36 +0000

For people that implement it there's less than three people who use it, or agencies supporting it

New comment by abofh in "We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk"

abofh — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 04:29:52 +0000

If the president does it, it's not illegal.

These were words issued by the president - which means at face value, if Trump orders it, it's not illegal - that was the fight that was lost today.

New comment by abofh in "650GB of Data (Delta Lake on S3). Polars vs. DuckDB vs. Daft vs. Spark"

abofh — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 01:48:15 +0000

6$ of data does not a compelling story make. This is not 1998

New comment by abofh in "Finland Bans Smartphones in Schools"

abofh — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 11:14:29 +0000

Kids have access to what their parents give them - I suspect most parents shouldn't be trusted with a flashlight or a nokia.

New comment by abofh in "Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move"

abofh — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 12:09:42 +0000

You don't - similarly you don't need a Mac Book to run OS X (technically at least); You buy the full-flag NAS or MacBook because it's a bundled supportable quantity that reduces your cognitive load in exchange for money. Synology for an SMB or home lab is pretty good stuff and you don't spend (as much) of your time editing smb.conf, or configuring the core backup services or whatever. Some clickops and you're done - and you can do a lot - under the hood it's still Linux (or at least mine is), you can SSH in and do damage -- the hardware isn't "special", it's not necessarily substantially better than another system that could handle a similar number of drives in any measurable way.

I have a synology because I got tired of running RAID on my personal linux machines (had a drobo before that for the same reasons) - but as things like drive locking occur and arguably better OSS platforms available, I'm not sure I'd make the same decision today.

New comment by abofh in "Curl-impersonate: Special build of curl that can impersonate the major browsers"

abofh — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 18:46:46 +0000

I have to assume /s, but lacking that -- Why can't you just allow `curl`? You need a human for advertising dollars or a poor mechanism of rate limiting. I want to use your service. If you're buying me a fragment shader, I guess that's fine, but I'm feeding it to the dogs, not plugging in your rando hardware in to my web-browser.

New comment by abofh in "Curl-impersonate: Special build of curl that can impersonate the major browsers"

abofh — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 17:46:16 +0000

That's the same argument as CAPTCHA's - as far as I know there are no bots protesting them making their lives harder, but as a human - my life is much harder than it needs to be because things need me to prove I'm a human.

Clean for data ingestion usually means complicated for data creation - optimizing for the advertisers has material cash value downstream, but customers are upstream, and making it harder is material too.

New comment by abofh in "Yoke: Infrastructure as code, but actually"

abofh — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 17:14:46 +0000

Being a developer is not necessarily a life-long goal of ops people. I like playing with all the toys in the toybox - sometimes I need to write code to make things play the way I want. I went to school to become a programmer, and discovered that while I enjoyed programming for myself, I hated doing it for others -- otoh, I had been working as an ops guy to pay beer money, and found that it was a lot more aligned with my interests.

Most of these tools though, are written by engineers who don't want to understand the tools they were given, and want to write their own. Even the vaunted pulumi's 'aws-native' package is just built on top of cloud control which is built on top of cloudformation which is often cited as the reason terraform (which pulumi is based on top of) was created: "eww, I don't like that tool".

Which is all to say - people write code because they have a problem - engineering, operational, it doesn't matter. Assuming an ops person wants to become a developer is akin to assuming all developers want to become managers, and that all managers want to become TV stars. The logic presumes a viewpoint that simply isn't true.

New comment by abofh in "They wanted to save us from a dark AI future. Then six people were killed"

abofh — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 13:48:28 +0000

It was more about the, ya know, murder cult thing, than technology. It's an artifact of telling a story - which is different than relaying a 'classic' journalism piece where the 5W's are most important.

"Years before she became the peculiar central thread linking a double homicide in Pennsylvania, the fatal shooting of a federal agent in Vermont and the murder of an elderly landlord in California, a computer programmer bought a sailboat."

I wanted to keep reading, so I guess I was their audience - not everything has to be up to your personal standards to be worth while.