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New comment by amelius in "FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs"

amelius — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:41:20 +0000

This will kill so many movie plots.

New comment by amelius in "Where is the AI jobs crisis?"

amelius — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:03:05 +0000

That little arrow on the right of that graph is wishful thinking.

New comment by amelius in "Show HN: GentleOS – A pair of hobby OSes for vintage 32-bit and 16-bit PCs"

amelius — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:09:06 +0000

Part of why these images look so nice is because these systems were not so locked down.

Fear of AI bubble ahead of SpaceX IPO

amelius — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:07:48 +0000

Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/06/08/stocks-ai-bubble-spacex-ipo/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48459459

Points: 3

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New comment by amelius in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

amelius — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:10:03 +0000

Wait, if it's Gemini why do they call it "Apple Intelligence"? Is Google okay with that?

New comment by amelius in "EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices"

amelius — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:06:59 +0000

We're reaching the point where people need to install GC/MS systems in their homes in order to be safe from food hazards.

New comment by amelius in "Siri AI"

amelius — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:58:59 +0000

Amazing how someone again finds a meaningless thing Apple does better than the rest then blows it out of proportions. Makes you wonder if they are on Apple's PR team.

New comment by amelius in "Splash Is a Colour Format"

amelius — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:55:06 +0000

Also if you divide by 10 your maximum is 0.9, not 1.0.

So you still need a calculator to map between the two.

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

amelius — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:16:33 +0000

> It's some remote person attempting to manipulate you by also packaging something enticing along with that manipulation.

What baffles me is that they call this manipulation "influencing" and they consider this a positive word.

New comment by amelius in "What is the purpose of the lost+found folder in Linux and Unix? (2014)"

amelius — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:10:53 +0000

Sorry, but I just don't believe all this. We're talking about hiding a folder. Of course the developers could do that.

New comment by amelius in "What is the purpose of the lost+found folder in Linux and Unix? (2014)"

amelius — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 23:06:45 +0000

> Preallocating space without making the directory visible would require more arcane file system magic.

If those filesystem engineers had a manager that said: make this nice for the user, then it would have been done.

But these developers had no managers and were OK eating their own unpalatable dogfood.

New comment by amelius in "A Fundamental Principle of Aeronautical Engineering Has Been Overturned"

amelius — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 22:54:56 +0000

Discussed previously (132 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48260117

New comment by amelius in "What is the purpose of the lost+found folder in Linux and Unix? (2014)"

amelius — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 22:50:10 +0000

Why can't a filesystem create the lost+found folder only when it needs to store files in it?

That would be a much cleaner approach, imho.

Added benefit is that you'd immediately see it if something is wrong with a disk.

New comment by amelius in "Splash Is a Colour Format"

amelius — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 22:45:23 +0000

That's certain okay with me, but I assumed you came here to get feedback.

New comment by amelius in "Splash Is a Colour Format"

amelius — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 22:42:45 +0000

Well, I find it hard to reason with RGB values. It is much easier to use HSV, to be honest, after looking up the Hue with a tool.

New comment by amelius in "Splash Is a Colour Format"

amelius — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 22:39:01 +0000

We already have 3-digit hex colors, e.g. #fff is white.

I don't see the point of using decimals here. You only lose resolution.

New comment by amelius in "VibeOS: First ever AI-native operating system"

amelius — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 22:36:24 +0000

This website seems broken in multiple ways. Is the author trying to make a point?

New comment by amelius in "The architecture of the internet creates risks for democracy"

amelius — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 22:28:50 +0000

> "If people were better informed, they wouldn't care"

That is not what I said. They might still care, but the point is that the elections should not be hijacked by one topic (this is not in the interest of those voters, but since they are uninformed, what do they know?) I hope that clears it up.

New comment by amelius in "The architecture of the internet creates risks for democracy"

amelius — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:54:27 +0000

Well, the populist approach is to exploit that people are uninformed about most of the important topics and then induce fear with just one tiny topic. If people were better informed, they would see that the tiny topic didn't matter in the greater scheme.

New comment by amelius in "The architecture of the internet creates risks for democracy"

amelius — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:59:17 +0000

The danger to democracy has always been uninformed voters.

Now it is mis-informed voters.