Hacker News: bradleybuda

New comment by bradleybuda in "Anthropic IPO"

bradleybuda — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 17:34:23 +0000

We saw this play out in the cloud era, notably with OpenStack. Even through the core abstractions (chat for LLMs, compute and storage for clouds) can be almost perfectly abstracted over, providers will race to add niche, enterprise-y features that are harder and harder to put behind a gateway or proxy. Those features aren't the core value of the platform but they are important enough to create lock in.

New comment by bradleybuda in "Nvidia is preparing to oust Jensen Huang"

bradleybuda — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 22:42:33 +0000

If the affair were not with someone who was a CCP spy then Jensen Huang would still have his job.

New comment by bradleybuda in "Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance"

bradleybuda — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 02:25:44 +0000

I guess I should be clear that I expect everything related to the blockchain to burn and have no sympathy for any actors.

New comment by bradleybuda in "'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save UK high street?"

bradleybuda — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 02:24:54 +0000

What makes vape and nail shops uniquely able to afford these rents?

New comment by bradleybuda in "Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance"

bradleybuda — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 20:02:47 +0000

Yes, I think if you trust Binance with anything in 2026 then you deserve to lose all your money.

New comment by bradleybuda in "Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance"

bradleybuda — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 17:18:00 +0000

If you are willing to accept an asset as collateral that can be frozen, then the onus is on you as the lender to take some steps to Know who Your possible Customers are.

New comment by bradleybuda in "Securing our frontier model training environment"

bradleybuda — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 21:36:54 +0000

“Completely air-gapping this infrastructure—that is, disconnecting it entirely from external networks—isn’t currently feasible, since we need external connections in order to run and monitor experiments”

New comment by bradleybuda in "Banks are now trying to offload the AI data center debt they just underwrote"

bradleybuda — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 04:52:33 +0000

How are you harmed by your loan being sold?

New comment by bradleybuda in "Redesigning source control at Anthropic"

bradleybuda — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:27:33 +0000

The person who most famously got rich selling shovels in the Gold Rush was Samuel Brannan. You'll find the street named after him just a short walk from both the Anthropic and OpenAI HQs.

New comment by bradleybuda in "U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk"

bradleybuda — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:17:14 +0000

And crucially, the DoD, through the normal procurement process, agreed to Anthropic’s terms and made the purchase. Much later, the Secretary of Defense threw a political fit and tried to change the terms.

New comment by bradleybuda in "Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in August"

bradleybuda — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 20:16:15 +0000

My comment is what is on the tin. As a consumer, yeah, I find this annoying. But do I want to bring the full force of government regulation on it? That's quite a strong reaction

New comment by bradleybuda in "Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in August"

bradleybuda — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 19:06:22 +0000

Anthropic terms of service:

> 12. General terms

> Changes to the Services. Our Services are novel and will change. We may sometimes add or remove features, increase or decrease capacity limits, offer new Services, or stop offering certain Services.

> Unless we specifically agree otherwise in a separate agreement with you, we reserve the right to modify, suspend, or discontinue the Services or your access to the Services, in whole or in part, at any time without notice to you. Although we will strive to provide you with reasonable advance notice if we stop offering a Service, there may be urgent situations—such as preventing abuse, responding to legal requirements, or addressing security and operability issues—where providing advance notice is not feasible. We will not be liable for any change to or any suspension or discontinuation of the Services or your access to them.

You're not buying a gallon of milk or a pound of flour. You're buying hosted software that the host reserves the right to modify.

New comment by bradleybuda in "We got admin access to Baseten's production GitHub in 25 minutes"

bradleybuda — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 19:40:32 +0000

It's implied (but sadly not stated) in the post that they asked for baseten's permission before conducting this research.

What's interesting to me as someone who has sold a lot of software to a lot of software companies is that many enterprise vendor agreements explicitly allow companies to pentest their vendors with advance notice and coordination. I don't think any of our clients ever exercised that clause; I expect it's going to be exercised a lot more going forward because it's so easy to do now.

New comment by bradleybuda in "A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await"

bradleybuda — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 22:11:34 +0000

I answered the quiz and it said "you must be a Javascript developer", which is true enough - that's probably my second-most-proficient language. In fact, I'm a Ruby developer partially because I hate the idea of async/await and I'm feeling very smug about my choice after reading this.

Some of these design decisions seem indefensible to me. For example, what the authors call "Suspension":

-> Static: Await points guaranteed to suspend -- JavaScript

-> Dynamic: No guarantees on awaiting tasks -- C# · Swift · Tokio · Smol · Asyncio · Trio

What is "await" if not a synonym for "suspend"?!?

async/await is one product of a long line of thought that says "threads are too hard for programmers to get right". Threads (really, shared memory) have real usability issues for developers, but once you grok the semantics (which largely map to the physical execution model in a CPU) that knowledge is transferrable across virtually all languages and runtimes.

New comment by bradleybuda in "Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives"

bradleybuda — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:12:49 +0000

I agree. It's too easy to get a license and too hard to lose one. You should lobby your government for these things. I have; good luck.

Meanwhile, profit-driven private industry is actually out there making things better.

New comment by bradleybuda in "Long Range Wi-Fi – Pushing 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi to the limits (2019)"

bradleybuda — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 03:01:44 +0000

Not one Pringles can utilized. We have failed to pass along the ancient knowledge.

New comment by bradleybuda in "The iPhone Upgrade Program is being replaced by Apple Upgrade"

bradleybuda — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 05:26:55 +0000

Given that the median household income in the US is $83k, I don’t think that losing $1k on a busted phone is likely to put many into “spiraling debt slavery”

New comment by bradleybuda in "NYC may require landlords and realtors to disclose the use of AI in listings"

bradleybuda — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 06:02:11 +0000

Yes, but landlords are inherently evil so if you want to keep the slopulism going you gotta hit them first.

New comment by bradleybuda in "Trump Media to sell instant access to 'market-moving' social posts"

bradleybuda — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 09:37:20 +0000

Inshallah

New comment by bradleybuda in "Under federal rule, colleges must leave grads better off or lose financial aid"

bradleybuda — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 09:24:48 +0000

Is United Airlines “just about making more money”? Yes. Has it done so by offering people a valuable product and generating massive consumer surplus? Also yes.