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New comment by anthonyskipper in "AI ruling prompts warnings from US lawyers: Your chats could be used against you"

anthonyskipper — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:39:20 +0000

The obvious business opportunity here is for some lawyer to start running an AI service to do these kinds of things. Anyone who subscribes is a client of the lawyer, who owns the chatbot infrastructure, which would be protected under attorney client privilege.

New comment by anthonyskipper in "Show HN: OneCLI – Vault for AI Agents in Rust"

anthonyskipper — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:58:24 +0000

The fake key for real key thing seems like a problem. A lot of enterprise scanning tools look for keys in repos and other locations and you will get a lot of false positives.

Otherwise this is cool, we need more competition here.

New comment by anthonyskipper in "Apple will phase out Rosetta 2 in macOS 28"

anthonyskipper — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 18:15:44 +0000

This is the real issue. Mac is not a target for a large number of triple A games, and rosetta made that possible. Apple has a vested interest because if they support rosetta you don't need to by Windows laptops to game... you can just use your Mac. Otherwise they are routing money to their competition.

New comment by anthonyskipper in "Apple will phase out Rosetta 2 in macOS 28"

anthonyskipper — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 17:31:42 +0000

This is awful. I love playing games on my MBP and the latest crossover releases have been amazing in the ability to play almost all windows PC games at full speed. Losing rosetta means crossover is dead.

You would hope that apple would open source it, but they are one of the worst companies in the world for open sourcing things. Shame on all their engineers.

New comment by anthonyskipper in "M5 MacBook Pro"

anthonyskipper — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 14:49:11 +0000

I can see why that sounds sensible, but my personal obsevations are that heavy duty power users almost universally prefer the bigger screens, and those people also want the highest level settings. Most people I know who want smaller screens are not serious power users.

I can see an overlap with people who want smaller computers who also want max power, but I just would not believe that is a significant group. (again, all personal observations)

New comment by anthonyskipper in "Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College"

anthonyskipper — Wed, 07 May 2025 13:13:56 +0000

You don't pay your doctors, insurance does, so I mostly expect insurance will replace doctors with chatbots as soon as its feasible. Sadly in a large percentage of scenarios that would actually be an improved outcome. (yes, not all and those are the ones that will probably kill you... but come on, medicine is such a disaster its should be completley rebooted)

New comment by anthonyskipper in "The Website Hacker News Is Afraid to Discuss"

anthonyskipper — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 12:37:46 +0000

He is a horrible apple shill, but he does have great insight and articulate reasoning on why things are the way they are. We should figure out where the block is and remove it.

New comment by anthonyskipper in "'It's a money game to them':son takes on UnitedHealth over elderly father's care"

anthonyskipper — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 20:00:37 +0000

It has NOTHING to do with regulatory capture.

The US is polarized with the republicans not wanting any socialized health care because they don't want to care for people not like them. You can't organize and correctly run a health care systems when half you politicians actively sabotage and burn it down.

New comment by anthonyskipper in "Building a personal, private AI computer on a budget"

anthonyskipper — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 17:36:43 +0000

>>M4 Pro has less memory bandwidth than the P40, so it would be slower

Why do you say this? I thought the p40 only had a memory bandwidth of 346 Gbytes/sec. The m4 is 546 GB/s. So the macbook should kick the crap out of the p40.

New comment by anthonyskipper in "Why aren't we all serverless yet?"

anthonyskipper — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 14:16:08 +0000

I built a serverless startup (GalaticFog) about 8 years ago, had to shut it down. Market never developed. There were some obvious lessons learned.

First most companies thought they needed to do containers before serverless, and frankly it took them a while to get good at that.

Second the programming model was crap. It's really hard to debug across a bunch of function calls that are completely seperate apps. It's just a lot of work, and it made you want to go monolith and containers.

Third, the spin up time was a deal killer in that most people would not let that go, and wanted something always running so there was no latency. Sure workload exist that do not require that, but they are niche, and serverless stayed niche.

New comment by anthonyskipper in "Nvidia announces $3k personal AI supercomputer called Digits"

anthonyskipper — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 13:22:35 +0000

I think they say that because it used to be only supercomputers that could do a petaflop of compute. So taking what used to be a datacenter(15 years ago) and cramming it into a small device is a pretty impressive feat.

New comment by anthonyskipper in "Intel announces retirement of Pat Gelsinger"

anthonyskipper — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 17:44:27 +0000

I work in a large enterprise company, have both windows and mac machines, and excel works equally great in both, but more and more excel runs in a browser.

We mostly email links to spreadsheets running in cloud. So it really doesn't matter what your OS is any more from an excel perspective, as long as your computer can run a modern browser you are good.

New comment by anthonyskipper in "AI makes tech debt more expensive"

anthonyskipper — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 17:32:31 +0000

This is only partly true. AI works really well on very legacy codebases like cobol and mainframe, and it's very good at converting that to modern languages and architectures. It's all the stuff from like 2001-2015 that it gets weird on.

New comment by anthonyskipper in "AI makes tech debt more expensive"

anthonyskipper — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 17:30:55 +0000

I agree with this. But the reason is that AI does better the more constrained it is, and existing codebases come with constraints.

That said, if you are using Gen AI without a advanced rag system feeding it lots of constraints and patterns/templates I wish you luck.

New comment by anthonyskipper in "A neurology ICU nurse on AI in hospitals"

anthonyskipper — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 15:26:12 +0000

Some of us look forward to that future where you mostly just interact with AI. The one depressing us is not turning running over our goverment to AI. The sooner we can do that the better, you can't trust humans.

New comment by anthonyskipper in "Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new code is created by AI"

anthonyskipper — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 20:04:56 +0000

My company uses the Dora metrics to measure the productivity of teams and those metrics are incredibly good.

New comment by anthonyskipper in "OpenAI asks investors not to back rival startups such as Elon Musk's xAI"

anthonyskipper — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 17:00:09 +0000

This is pretty par for course for startups. I've seen companies that raised money ask their VCs to not to invest in competitors many many times.

New comment by anthonyskipper in "If you give Copilot the reins, don't be surprised when it spills your secrets"

anthonyskipper — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 12:03:03 +0000

Not soon enough, and it will never happen for tier-1 cloud providers, and Microsoft is one of those.

New comment by anthonyskipper in "AI Detectors Get It Wrong. Writers Are Being Fired Anyway"

anthonyskipper — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 12:32:55 +0000

Anyone who recommends using an AI detector should be the first person fired. No one cares if you use AI or not... judge the fk'ing writing and the quality of the work and stop being a blocker to progress. Same goes for education... and any where else AI touches... fighting calculators and slide rules was a stupid waste of time, and so is fighting AI.

New comment by anthonyskipper in "HMT: Hierarchical Memory Transformer for Long Context Language Processing"

anthonyskipper — Mon, 20 May 2024 12:42:34 +0000

Well both things can be true at the same time.

I agree Numenta missed the boat, but it doesn't mean that book wasn't prescient. Numenta just didn't get there first, wasn't a fast follower, and blew a huge lead in AI. It may still end up the HTM is one of the final state solution,s but they are so far from ever being able to capitalize on it that it is unlikely to even matter if they invented the concept.