Hacker News: azinman2

New comment by azinman2 in "DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order"

azinman2 — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:29:16 +0000

They’re American. Lockheed Martin isn’t part of the gov either. That’s the private/public model in the US.

New comment by azinman2 in "DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order"

azinman2 — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:24:13 +0000

I don’t know why this isn’t the majority opinion here in this western audience, but this seems like common sense to me. Why would you let the gov use foreign technology, particularly when standing in for human thought, when you have your own technology to choose from? No one is surprised we’re not buying military planes from China.

New comment by azinman2 in "Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads"

azinman2 — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:16:44 +0000

> Whoever made this decision in Apple seems pretty close to flat out evil.

Could not be further from the truth. Let’s stop such nasty hate for the most minor of things; there are lots of choices one makes when designing software / interfaces / hardware and not every edge case is immediately apparent.

Disclosure: I work at Apple. I also had nothing to do with this change.

New comment by azinman2 in "Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins"

azinman2 — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 19:51:53 +0000

Very well possible. I’m glad to see that this is all above board in the end, which further argues the case AGAINST conspiracy theories. Most people are just trying to do the right thing.

New comment by azinman2 in "Desire to Move Permanently to U.S. at New Low"

azinman2 — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:24:13 +0000

This is a bit extreme.... and yes I know this admin is extreme but there are still millions who visit the US and have a perfectly normal time.

New comment by azinman2 in "New Apple TV 4K"

azinman2 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:23:59 +0000

It’s ok. Their app isn’t great, but the underlying technology is. Spotify can directly play to one of their speakers. Their local protocol is also well understood and you can do most things with it, so you can vibe code your own replacement app pretty easily. The problem is once you hit their cloud APIs the latency is way too high for something like a speaker.

New comment by azinman2 in "Apple HomeView"

azinman2 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:16:10 +0000

27 is really good. Worth the upgrade.

Disclosure: I work at Apple. But that’s also my honest opinion.

New comment by azinman2 in "LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents"

azinman2 — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:27:05 +0000

I can’t do that, and I think I’m a very capable HI. Is that really the bar?

New comment by azinman2 in "Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back"

azinman2 — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:26:13 +0000

You’re missing the entire new world of personal context retrieval.

New comment by azinman2 in "Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back"

azinman2 — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 21:38:28 +0000

Nearly everything is improved and the new Siri is great.

New comment by azinman2 in "Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back"

azinman2 — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 21:37:38 +0000

What makes you call it crapware? The new spotlight search (from Siri) is amazing and super convenient.

New comment by azinman2 in "LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents"

azinman2 — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 18:01:42 +0000

I’ve changed my mind on this and think we’re already at AGI, in a jagged way. Remember we used to talk about narrow AI, which was the chess systems that beat expert humans but could do nothing else. Now models can do a wide range of tasks in very useful ways. That’s the general in AGI.

Now it seems like this ill-defined term has various other meanings attached that are separate milestones:

1. Continuous learning 2. Human-like reasoning 3. Ability to adapt to new situations and modalities 4. Being smarter than the most smart humans

And probably many more.

It’d be nice if we could get some general consensus on terminology if we’re going to debate what has or could come.

New comment by azinman2 in "DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec)"

azinman2 — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 05:53:27 +0000

They were at the frontier because they invented many of the techniques. Google already had the internet’s data well beforehand. Anthropic and OpenAI are still at the frontier today, independent of legislation.

New comment by azinman2 in "DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec)"

azinman2 — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 05:21:27 +0000

Well we do know the results. They’ve been at the frontier constantly, including developing the entire field and set of capabilities. In the beginning every OpenAI paper was basically a landmark.

New comment by azinman2 in "Disney+ and Hulu raise prices by up to 13 percent after doubling profits"

azinman2 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:54:52 +0000

Except it quickly becomes close to cable when you start adding all the streaming services up.

New comment by azinman2 in "Iranian banks' SSL certificates are being revoked due to OFAC sanctions"

azinman2 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:44:55 +0000

That’s fair as a very troubling threat. So far it hasn’t materialized. Seems to be the boy who cried wolf.

New comment by azinman2 in "Iranian banks' SSL certificates are being revoked due to OFAC sanctions"

azinman2 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:39:40 +0000

How could you possibly label the Iranian war so far a genocide?

New comment by azinman2 in "New $100K H-1B Visa Fee Pushes Tech Jobs Offshore"

azinman2 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 15:14:06 +0000

Its goal to protect the American citizen is fulfilled by economic security. If you let your industries leave, you have done a disservice to your citizens. That’s how trump got elected in the first place, and ironically it’ll only get worse because it’s the wrong solution.

New comment by azinman2 in "New $100k H-1B visa fee pushes tech jobs offshore"

azinman2 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 15:11:36 +0000

Are there not 10x the need of software engineers compared to other engineers, particularly in the US?

New comment by azinman2 in "New $100k H-1B visa fee pushes tech jobs offshore"

azinman2 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 15:09:40 +0000

Except that’s clearly not the case here.