Hacker News: binlog

New comment by binlog in "Using thousands of AI agents to uncover new leads in biological data"

binlog — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 17:52:16 +0000

“AI shouldn’t make groundbreaking advancements because the scientists who otherwise wanted to make those advancements feel sad”.

All those scientists can go pound sand as far as I am concerned. I don’t give a shit about “joy” I care about curing diseases and solving the universe’s mysteries. If AI can get us there faster then I’m 100% for it.

New comment by binlog in "OpenAI models are coming to Google Cloud"

binlog — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 17:41:57 +0000

Doesn’t really matter what happens at the GPU level when Google can see all API traffic.

New comment by binlog in "OpenAI models are coming to Google Cloud"

binlog — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 17:39:24 +0000

Contracts and lawyers are more powerful than any technical tool.

New comment by binlog in "PHP2Shell: AI uncovers critical RCE in PHP"

binlog — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 16:52:40 +0000

This is a very misleading stat. A single path or subdomain on the website needs to be running PHP for the entire site to count as “powered by PHP”. Plus it excludes sites whose server-side tech cannot be identified at all (aka properly configured ones).

New comment by binlog in "PHP2Shell: AI uncovers critical RCE in PHP"

binlog — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 16:37:18 +0000

Depends on how you define Java. Android can execute Java programs, and bundles a handful of OpenJDK libraries, but it stopped running the JVM a long time ago.

New comment by binlog in "Learning to live with Waymos"

binlog — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 02:52:25 +0000

Have you used public transit in San Francisco?

New comment by binlog in "Learning to live with Waymos"

binlog — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 02:48:58 +0000

You can tell that this piece is written by someone who visited San Francisco to sit in a Waymo and then extrapolated how weird it must be for people who see them every day. In reality after the initial shock wears off these cars are just a normal, boring part of the road. Seeing them drive around town is the same as seeing any other kind of taxi. I find that the strongest opinions about Waymos come from people who live in cities where they don't operate.

New comment by binlog in "What shall I teach my son?"

binlog — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 20:25:40 +0000

Teach your kid to be a good person, to value hard work, to set lofty goals and strive to achieve them. Beyond that they’ll find their own way. “I’ll make my unborn son a programmer just like myself” was always going to be a pointless effort, AI or not.

New comment by binlog in "Steam Users Beg for "No AI" Filter as Vibecoders Flood Next Fest"

binlog — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 17:48:04 +0000

So what people are really complaining about is the lack of an approval or curation process on Steam’s end. AI is exposing the problem by making it worse.

New comment by binlog in "Facebook Pages require paid subscription to post more than two links per month"

binlog — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:13:53 +0000

Title isn’t fully accurate. This is specifically for business pages. You can still post links on your own profile or groups.

New comment by binlog in "eMudhra intermediate CA compromise"

binlog — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:03:24 +0000

Creating a dependency on OS specific APIs solves this one niche problem but causes a hundred more.

New comment by binlog in "eMudhra intermediate CA compromise"

binlog — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:00:07 +0000

Why? How do you pin a website to a specific cert provider? And what happens when you want to switch?

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

binlog — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 13:36:03 +0000

Reason #1385275 why an iPad will never be a replacement for a real desktop OS no matter how much fancy hardware they shove in it.

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

binlog — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 13:19:38 +0000

Model weights being open to inspection means absolutely nothing. What are you going to inspect in a bunch of numbers?

New comment by binlog in "Demographic "doomsday" misses the mark"

binlog — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:39:39 +0000

Relevant xkcd - https://xkcd.com/605/

New comment by binlog in "If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on?"

binlog — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 11:25:42 +0000

Something like 99% of US businesses have less than 100 employees.

New comment by binlog in "British Airways: Filming Crew W Meta Glasses Could Get Your Tickets Cancelled"

binlog — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 18:06:43 +0000

Willing to bet that after all the Meta glasses backlash companies are going to start releasing AI devices that have cameras but don't store photos or videos.

New comment by binlog in "An ESPN producer who quit because of sports gambling"

binlog — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:49:42 +0000

Even worse because rigging professional sports is illegal, but similar manipulation in any other betting category is perfectly fine. Kalshi and co. are being used pretty openly by insiders. Trump's own family are major stakeholders and advisors of both Kalshi and Polymarket.

New comment by binlog in "An ESPN producer who quit because of sports gambling"

binlog — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:05:30 +0000

Sports gambling is the perfect counter to everyone who says "people are going to do xyz anyways so it's better to legalize and tax it". Yes some people will gamble regardless of the legality, but putting the experience in an app in your hand, gamifying it to maximize addiction, blasting ads 24x7, including in the broadcast itself, having all your favorite athletes and celebrities endorse it, getting VC/PE and big corporate involved and giving it wide social acceptance increases the problem 100000x. It's perfectly fine for such vices to be left in society's underbelly rather than shoved in everyone's faces.

New comment by binlog in "Apple ML Research: Muse Spark Open with MLX on Mac Studio"

binlog — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:44:05 +0000

Now scale that up to Nvidia and you've understood the entire AI market