Hacker News: alexnewman

New comment by alexnewman in "Astra for Law"

alexnewman — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 22:25:14 +0000

As a user of ai hooked up to my Gmail I assume I’ve lost all privilege

New comment by alexnewman in "I've operated petabyte-scale ClickHouse clusters for 5 years"

alexnewman — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 22:45:03 +0000

About 20 years ago the titans of the database fields told us they wanted to put ML in the brain of databases. I think agentic databases are the future.

New comment by alexnewman in "Tailwind Labs is joining Shopify"

alexnewman — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:16:12 +0000

Phew was worried it was tailscale

New comment by alexnewman in "Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit"

alexnewman — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:15:43 +0000

I find palantir and flock are more obsessed with rules on data. The seriously insidious companies tend to be international and change names every year or so. The idea that you could get that flock CE to bend the rules for the feds are basically 0. Some random middle eastern country, the issue is trusting them .

New comment by alexnewman in "California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law"

alexnewman — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 01:15:16 +0000

I mean the big one

New comment by alexnewman in "NYC mayor Mamdani imposes 1 year ban on AI for schools through 8th grade"

alexnewman — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:22:51 +0000

I support this. Education should be reserved to the fancy private schools. Public school should be able drugs and getting laid. That was my experience anyways

New comment by alexnewman in "California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law"

alexnewman — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 10:39:31 +0000

Totally agree. After the next big cyber attack, ganna have to kyc to access internet. It will be “for our safety”. Luckily now with ai the world doesn’t need me as a programmer so I’m just ganna stop using computers if they go full facist

New comment by alexnewman in "Memo to Ridley Scott: no one needs more Alien: Covenant movies"

alexnewman — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 10:35:51 +0000

The issue is, these stories are kinda … He’s not making them up from scratch he’s interpreting

New comment by alexnewman in "US Kobo Sales Double?"

alexnewman — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 22:58:18 +0000

Switched to kobo never going back

New comment by alexnewman in "Debugging my new network, when 10 Gigabit Ethernet Runs at 300 Megabits"

alexnewman — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 17:50:12 +0000

Recently I found my bilateral Bandwidth was limited from the switch to host. Turns out I didn’t plug the sfp+ all the way in. Amazing it worked at all

New comment by alexnewman in "OpenRouter Is Having Issues"

alexnewman — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 15:27:27 +0000

Open router is not to be trusted.

It’s not open. They’ve misled people on logs. They are not reliable. I used Trusted router as it is open source

New comment by alexnewman in "Xcancel and Nitter have been taken down"

alexnewman — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 11:26:34 +0000

And hacker news is a diverse pluralistic utopia

New comment by alexnewman in "Toilet Revolution in China"

alexnewman — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:23:13 +0000

Did it work?

New comment by alexnewman in "Hister – A private, full content search index that you control"

alexnewman — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 19:56:55 +0000

Time to shameless plug my own easy to host your own content search index

Webtm.io

All open source and small enough to deploy. I deploy to cf webworkers so it’s the only place it’s tested.

One cool thing is we work on iOS, chrome and friends, Firefox and pretty much everywhere. We do require you bring your own LLM though.

New comment by alexnewman in "Anthropic publishes a practical key-recovery attack on HAWK-256"

alexnewman — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 22:35:56 +0000

I believe this class was broke but this is cool cause practical.

New comment by alexnewman in "DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16"

alexnewman — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:37:47 +0000

Finally. I hope they do a10!

New comment by alexnewman in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

alexnewman — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:17:49 +0000

i have one

New comment by alexnewman in "Synth beats Fable 5 on deep research"

alexnewman — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:38:11 +0000

Proud trusted router user .

New comment by alexnewman in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

alexnewman — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 02:33:05 +0000

But I can rebuild glm Using open source methods…

New comment by alexnewman in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"

alexnewman — Wed, 27 May 2026 11:21:31 +0000

Man people who owned stock and sold calls when it went up killed it.