Hacker News: amazingman

New comment by amazingman in "Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS"

amazingman — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:10:42 +0000

Quite honestly it sounds like:

1. Your use case falls squarely into "you should be paying for support" territory. 2. You're setting things up incorrectly. You should be shipping logs, not scraping them when you think you need them.

New comment by amazingman in "Microsoft turns to AWS as GitHub faces AI capacity crunch"

amazingman — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:37:16 +0000

It's a bot

New comment by amazingman in "Microsoft turns to AWS as GitHub faces AI capacity crunch"

amazingman — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:23:25 +0000

Nature abhors a monoculture.

New comment by amazingman in "GLM 5.2 Is Out"

amazingman — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:34:39 +0000

AI seems to be renewing and amplifying our cultish behavior as a species. AI is not going to save us from ourselves.

New comment by amazingman in "Nvidia RTX Spark"

amazingman — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:07:47 +0000

This narrative only really fits the pro line, and only if you squint hard enough. The story falls apart immediately with the MacBook Air. I remember the late Intel years: constant fans spinning, noticeable latency between mouseclick and UI response, 1-2h battery life in scenarios that now reliably get 8-10. Those were dark times.

New comment by amazingman in "Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs"

amazingman — Wed, 27 May 2026 23:08:54 +0000

Skills are just very poorly defined workflows.

New comment by amazingman in "Private equity bought America's essential services"

amazingman — Wed, 27 May 2026 23:04:18 +0000

>All of the oldest folks I knew were wrong about many things, but they were right to say that morality must be at the center of all public discourse

Most of the Trump supporters most everyone here knows are also the oldest folks they know. Funny that.

New comment by amazingman in "Slumber a TUI HTTP Client"

amazingman — Fri, 22 May 2026 07:18:19 +0000

People use YAML because a bunch of other people use YAML. Whatever its warts, there's no use resisting it.

New comment by amazingman in "Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem"

amazingman — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 04:37:20 +0000

> Yes, current LLMs likely still lack some major aspects of intelligence.

Indeed, and so do current humans! And just like LLMs, humans are bad at keeping this fact in view.

On a more serious note, we're going to have a hard time until we can psychologically decouple the concepts of intelligence and consciousness. Like, an existentially hard time.

New comment by amazingman in "Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem"

amazingman — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 04:30:52 +0000

They pay for it with their personal data.

New comment by amazingman in "FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages"

amazingman — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:53:10 +0000

"Security" is not a binary, but a spectrum along which there are various tradeoffs. The vendor attempts to select the best configuration for its average/median user, and that's almost by definition not going to be the most secure configuration (see: tradeoffs).

I do think there should be some UI somewhere that allows for locking all things down to the most secure configuration possible.

New comment by amazingman in "We intercepted the White House app's network traffic"

amazingman — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 02:45:43 +0000

Poe's Law strikes again. I legitimately can't tell if this is sarcasm.

New comment by amazingman in "Gaza toddler returned with alleged torture wounds after Israeli detention"

amazingman — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:31:12 +0000

Are you claiming the Hamas does not use the entire civilian population under their rule as human shields? I hope not, because that reality is obvious. It's not merely individuals, either: it's policy.

(Before responding with rhetoric in the other direction, please note that I have not taken a position on Israel here.)

New comment by amazingman in "The new Apple begins to emerge"

amazingman — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 21:56:11 +0000

IIRC Other brands at the time did not actually do better. They all had similar issues and made similar or different tradeoffs.

New comment by amazingman in "The new Apple begins to emerge"

amazingman — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:20:12 +0000

People were in fact holding it wrong to get the signal to attenuate. The way you had to grip the phone to affect signal was not practical in any way. That controversy was entirely bullshit and only Apple would have ever been dragged for it.

New comment by amazingman in "The new Apple begins to emerge"

amazingman — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:17:15 +0000

The experience of using the butterfly keyboard was fantastic, I agree, but it was definitely polarizing. Some people hated it. At the end of the day, however, the reliability issues were unacceptable.

New comment by amazingman in "The new Apple begins to emerge"

amazingman — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:15:57 +0000

I've found you can do one of two things to some door this:

1. Turn around and face the other way. 2. Make a visor with your other hand on your forehead.

New comment by amazingman in "Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran's oil depots bombed"

amazingman — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:49:15 +0000

Which has been obvious since 2015. 11 years later and many of us still can't even convince our own family members that Trump and Trumpism are appreciably different than "the left".

New comment by amazingman in "If It Quacks Like a Package Manager"

amazingman — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 04:17:21 +0000

It's wild to me that MVS didn't get picked up everywhere else for their next-gen package managers. Picking up "fixes" automatically turned out to be a boondoggle, if not a security risk. There's no reason we need to write a SAT solver just to manage our library dependencies.

New comment by amazingman in "MacBook Neo"

amazingman — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 23:30:12 +0000

Unused RAM is wasted RAM. If your machine isn't reporting memory pressure and/or the user isn't experiencing pageouts, then the machine is well-suited to the user's workload.