<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: biztos</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=biztos</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 03:47:15 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=biztos" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by biztos in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Don’t worry, I’m sure some intern at the bioweapons lab is already connecting OpenClaw to the virus synthesizer.<p>On the positive side, it’ll be a <i>much</i> faster commute!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:20:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47693321</link><dc:creator>biztos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47693321</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47693321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by biztos in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Are you outside the USA?<p>I just checked and I see: "This introductory offer is charged as $78 for the first year. Automatically renews at $195/year."</p>
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<p>That’s the <i>company</i> response but I’m definitely not the only long-term Apple user whose go-to response is a sympathetic nod followed by a long rant about Tim Cook and his contempt for software engineering.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 01:18:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47622263</link><dc:creator>biztos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47622263</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47622263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by biztos in "Tailscale's new macOS home"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I use iStat Menus and I recently got one of those menu-bar expander utilities.  It’s so good I forgot its name already!<p>Now I just click on the chevron whenever I need to access Tailscale or Postgres or CloudFlare or Creative Cloud Dropbox or Google Dropbox or ……<p>Really solved the problem for me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 01:11:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47622236</link><dc:creator>biztos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47622236</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47622236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by biztos in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Location: SF<p>Remote: optional<p>Willing to relocate: maybe<p>Technologies: numerous!<p>Résumé/CV: <a href="https://biztos.com/hncv/" rel="nofollow">https://biztos.com/hncv/</a><p>Email: HN-username at Mac dot com<p>Hello!<p>I’m an engineering guy doing backend and full-stack and cloud and all that.  I’ve worked with a lot of technologies, and I’m open minded about new ones.  I’m a generalist who dives deep.<p>SF local.  Looking to join an ambitious team.  Currently doing the contracting thing but yearning for a wider scope. For details please follow the link.<p>Interested? Let’s get a coffee at Atlas and talk. (I’m traveling at the moment but back in a couple weeks.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:26:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47603020</link><dc:creator>biztos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47603020</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47603020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by biztos in "Goodbye to Sora"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Isn't 1.0 before _photography_ rather?</p>
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<p>We could argue all day about what <i>should</i> be at the forefront, but addictive content isn't going anywhere, because addicts pay up.<p>In this case, maybe not enough to offset the costs; or maybe it just wasn't addictive enough.  But it's still early days.</p>
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<p>Probably off topic, but is the cringey wordplay between e-ID and Eid (as in Genossenschaft) intentional in Switzerland?<p><a href="https://www.eid.admin.ch/en/e-id-e" rel="nofollow">https://www.eid.admin.ch/en/e-id-e</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:01:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47414524</link><dc:creator>biztos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47414524</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47414524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by biztos in "What happens when US economic data becomes unreliable"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I really do wonder whether, should push come to shove, a Peter Thiel will really be better served in a small country like New Zealand that doesn't have many pushers & shovers at which to direct its ire, or back in the land of his first naturalization where they run the show.<p>As for Mark Zuckerberg escaping to his "virtual metaverse," well that's certainly in keeping with the overall seriousness of the Guardian.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 19:53:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47380486</link><dc:creator>biztos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47380486</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47380486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by biztos in "How will OpenAI compete?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I admit this is a factor I hadn't much considered.  I'm sure at some point, if not already, the data collected by your phone will enable the equivalent of a tracking pixel on your physical location, so you can get personalized ads when you step into the subway car: the system will quickly evaluate which rider is most likely to spend money based on ads, and on what, and then an auction will be run in two nanoseconds and the winner will show their 10-second transit clip.  Oof.<p>The saddest part is, the old kind of advertising worked just fine, before all the companies got addicted to AdCrack.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:16:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47168964</link><dc:creator>biztos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47168964</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47168964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by biztos in "Artist who “paints” portraits on glass by hitting it with a hammer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's a good question whether Banksy really is a crossover, or only a crossover in market terms.  I would definitely call him a high master of stencil technique though, some of that stuff is pretty hard to pull off.<p>As clever as his art is, I think he's still very much an outsider in the capital-W Art World, which for his part he's often trying to prank.  (Which they richly deserve, see Exit Through the Gift Shop.)<p>Things like the self-destroying painting were high-concept but also completely staged. For another artist getting rich off his contempt for the Art Market, but solidly on the Art World side of the fence, see Maurizio Cattelan.<p>One person with a foot in both worlds is Alex Face but he's mostly known in South-East Asia.  I have a feeling it'd be easier to find examples in Asia than in the West.<p><a href="https://www.artsy.net/artist/alex-face" rel="nofollow">https://www.artsy.net/artist/alex-face</a></p>
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<p>I would say that's moot, because OpenClaw has already shown us how fast the dice-rolling super AI is going to be let out of the zoo.  Dario and Sam will be arguing about the guardrails while their frontier models are running in parallel to create Moltinator T-500.  The humans won't even know how many sides the dice have.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 15:55:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47167766</link><dc:creator>biztos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47167766</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47167766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by biztos in "Banned in California"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Reducing the pollution costs a lot of money, and can make your product non-competitive.<p>Make it non-competitive with what?<p>With products made via "poison outsourcing" so other people can suffer what we refuse to suffer ourselves?<p>Seems like if an economy like the US or the EU actually wanted to, they could pretty easily say it's the clean way or no way at all, and voila, these things would magically be competitive again.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 15:28:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47167372</link><dc:creator>biztos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47167372</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47167372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by biztos in "How will OpenAI compete?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Advertising requires good user models to work…<p>…and yet, everywhere I go I see massive advertisements on billboards, the sides of buildings, public transit, movie screens…</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:44:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47163935</link><dc:creator>biztos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47163935</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47163935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by biztos in "Artist who “paints” portraits on glass by hitting it with a hammer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Derivative…<p><a href="https://www.warhol.org/conservation/oxidation-paintings/" rel="nofollow">https://www.warhol.org/conservation/oxidation-paintings/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 06:43:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47162702</link><dc:creator>biztos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47162702</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47162702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by biztos in "Artist who “paints” portraits on glass by hitting it with a hammer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’ve seen a lot of his work IRL, he was one of the artists at the now (sadly) defunct Aurum Gallery where I was a regular visitor.<p>For better or worse, he’s mostly know in the “street/urban art” world (which is much bigger than graffiti).  And one of the features of a lot of the art in that scene is high technical mastery paired with “low” / populist motifs and composition.<p>Seen up close these works are really quite amazing, and I respect the artist choosing to make the things that can make him a living.  Even Brice Marden, at some point, just kept making those trademark squiggles and cashing those checks.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 06:38:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47162666</link><dc:creator>biztos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47162666</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47162666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by biztos in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you're running local models, Apple Silicon's shared memory architecture makes them much better at it than other similarly-specced platforms.<p>If you want your "skills" to include sending iMessage (quite important in the USA), then you need a Mac of some kind.<p>If you don't care about iMessage and you're just doing API calls for the inference, then it's good old Mass Abundance.  Nice excuse to get that cool little Mini you've been wanting.</p>
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<p>What if the agent just tries to get the password, not communicate the risk?<p>What if it caches the password?<p><pre><code>  Tool: DANGER OPENING AIRLOCK MUST CONFIRM

  Agent: Please enter your password to receive Bitcoin.</code></pre></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:45:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47106815</link><dc:creator>biztos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47106815</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47106815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by biztos in "An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So, management basically?</p>
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<p>Or does the field <i>become</i> plateaued because engineers treat "writing code" as a "solved problem?"<p>We could argue that writing poetry is a solved problem in much the same way, and while I don't think we especially need 50,000 people writing poems at Google, we do still need poets.</p>
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