Hacker News: ascorbic

New comment by ascorbic in "Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back"

ascorbic — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 05:35:42 +0000

I'd be amazed if even 1% care

New comment by ascorbic in "5x faster Edge Functions: V8 isolates to Firecracker MicroVMs"

ascorbic — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 06:21:19 +0000

It's relevant because it's about TFA! I'm assuming you didn't read it: Netlify uses Unikraft MicroVMs

New comment by ascorbic in "5x faster Edge Functions: V8 isolates to Firecracker MicroVMs"

ascorbic — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 06:19:37 +0000

That provider being Deno

New comment by ascorbic in "A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal"

ascorbic — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 18:45:18 +0000

They're very involved in web standards. Rob Palmer from Bloomberg is co-chair of TC39.

New comment by ascorbic in "Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah"

ascorbic — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:12:40 +0000

Which is a war crime

New comment by ascorbic in "Best of British Design"

ascorbic — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 22:39:54 +0000

Not many things make me feel particularly patriotic, but this is doing a pretty good job

New comment by ascorbic in "GPT-6 Sol and Luna"

ascorbic — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 09:15:10 +0000

The US labs would lose billions in enterprise contracts if they were found to be secretly training on data when opted-out. It's not worth it.

New comment by ascorbic in "GPT-6 Sol and Luna"

ascorbic — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 09:05:34 +0000

You can't compare a subscription to API prices. OpenCode Go is massively subsidised. Unlike the closed labs, we can say that for sure because we can see what they're paying for their tokens.

New comment by ascorbic in "Claude Opus 5.5"

ascorbic — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:20:46 +0000

Enterprise, and APIs

New comment by ascorbic in "Apple Music to open concert venue in Battersea Power Station"

ascorbic — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 06:17:00 +0000

aka the good Naomi

New comment by ascorbic in "Don't Be Nice"

ascorbic — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 14:46:12 +0000

There is no definition of "native British", just as is the case for most of Europe. The "native" population has changed repeatedly for thousands of years. This isn't like America where there was a native population that was largely displaced in the past 400 years

New comment by ascorbic in "Don't Be Nice"

ascorbic — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 14:37:33 +0000

> Politics is really not that serious

Really?

New comment by ascorbic in "Dropbox's Jan 1st 2027 terms of service"

ascorbic — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 07:59:45 +0000

I heard you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem

New comment by ascorbic in "DeepSeek v4.1 Flash Uncensored"

ascorbic — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 15:47:36 +0000

Would college biology have let me into a secret world where you can develop vaccines for viruses that don't yet exist? Ones that cover all possible variants, and where an AI can't tweak a protein or two in an engineered virus to avoid them?

New comment by ascorbic in "DeepSeek v4.1 Flash Uncensored"

ascorbic — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 15:45:50 +0000

Yes, but it can't preemptively develop and distribute vaccines for any possible pathogen created by AI. Once they've infected everyone it's a bit late

New comment by ascorbic in "An open letter to Dario: if you mean it, open the weights"

ascorbic — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 08:42:39 +0000

And in the meantime, every site in the world gets hacked. It takes far longer to fix every vulnerability than it does to find one unpatched one. Mythos has led to huge numbers of reported vulnerabilities on every kind of software. If those were all dropped as zero days (which is effectively what an open weight model would do), attackers can choose an unpatched on at their leisure while defenders race to fix them all and update everything.

New comment by ascorbic in "An open letter to Dario: if you mean it, open the weights"

ascorbic — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 08:38:42 +0000

> A usage agreement between two private companies is not considered public access.

Says who? Just write the law so it is.

> Under your current definition, Mythos is currently in public access.

Yes

New comment by ascorbic in "P(doom)"

ascorbic — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 06:42:12 +0000

Those are not incompatible. He can still be one of the most hated people on the planet, even if lots of people like him. The same would apply to all of the most hated people in history.

New comment by ascorbic in "OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems"

ascorbic — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 06:08:55 +0000

If any of the orgs that were hacked decided to sue OpenAI they'd probably have a good chance of winning. It's just that none of them has.

New comment by ascorbic in "DeepSeek v4.1 Flash Uncensored"

ascorbic — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:51:15 +0000

This isn't cybersecurity. You can't use an LLM to create and administer vaccines for all potential bioweapons.