Hacker News: bushbaba

New comment by bushbaba in "AWS engineer reports PostgreSQL perf halved by Linux 7.0, fix may not be easy"

bushbaba — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:01:48 +0000

Because such settings aren’t obvious to those not familiar with them. LLMs should make discoverability easier though

New comment by bushbaba in "Oracle files H-1B visa petitions amid mass layoffs"

bushbaba — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:59:33 +0000

I've worked at Google and Amazon. Both paid H-1B less than their american counterparts. In particular because the H-1B workers didn't jump companies as frequent.

New comment by bushbaba in "Oracle files H-1B visa petitions amid mass layoffs"

bushbaba — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:59:03 +0000

They should remove the lottery and make it a bidding war. Highest bidder gets the H-1B visas.

Realistically, the H-1B visa program should be terminated all together.

New comment by bushbaba in "A school district tried to help train Waymos to stop for school buses"

bushbaba — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:49:28 +0000

If a cop notices this, who gets the ticket? Asking because I’ve noticed Waymos starting to go above the speed limit now. They’re generally just matching the flow of traffic like everyone else, but it does raise the question: who gets fined? And if the fleet as a whole racks up more than 4 points in 12 months, would Waymo loose it's license similar to human drivers?

New comment by bushbaba in "DigitalOcean Seeks $800M in Funding"

bushbaba — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:26:30 +0000

The UI is simpler because the product is simpler. If all you want is 1-2 VMs in the cloud and to not think about the rest, its great. For any actual business that's moved from 'hobby'/'seed' phase, its not the right platform.

New comment by bushbaba in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

bushbaba — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:53:46 +0000

The neo is the Chromebook for education revolution. It’s cheap and better than 98%+ of windows laptops. I’d not be surprised to see further Mac penetration to the business sector

New comment by bushbaba in "Supreme Court Sides with Cox in Copyright Fight over Pirated Music"

bushbaba — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:54:27 +0000

Big tech should loose its safe harbor protection. It’s both an aggregator AND a curator. The algorithms showing you what to see is no different than a newspaper editor. Just like newspapers big tech should be liable for their “feeds” showing harmful and defamatory information

New comment by bushbaba in "Mystery jump in oil trading ahead of Trump post draws scrutiny"

bushbaba — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:10:13 +0000

That assumes the new system will be better. History tells us otherwise

New comment by bushbaba in "iPhone 17 Pro Demonstrated Running a 400B LLM"

bushbaba — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 07:39:50 +0000

This comment will age well.

New comment by bushbaba in "US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement"

bushbaba — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:11:35 +0000

Can motivate the employees to jump ship. Often time as an employee you are impacted dis proportionately on the downside than the upside.

New comment by bushbaba in "What makes Intel Optane stand out (2023)"

bushbaba — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 16:38:24 +0000

Not just capacity but SSD speeds also improved to the point it was good enough for many high memory workloads.

New comment by bushbaba in "John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists"

bushbaba — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:11:19 +0000

Google does do this. I saw it first hand while employed by Google. They sell your location data.

Yes it’s not in the raw but it is sold as part of targeted ads

New comment by bushbaba in "John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists"

bushbaba — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:34:30 +0000

It’s not free. You’re selling your data, location history, and advertising real estate in exchange for maps.

There’s a cost, it’s just not in dollars.

New comment by bushbaba in "1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6"

bushbaba — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 03:22:27 +0000

Yes. I’ve used it for data analysis

New comment by bushbaba in "Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down"

bushbaba — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:20:44 +0000

Why would Jay get the award when they didn’t actually lead or build such protocol?

New comment by bushbaba in "Silicon Valley engineers were indicted for allegedly sending secrets to Iran"

bushbaba — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:20:26 +0000

Should be charged under treason with penalty of death

New comment by bushbaba in "Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments"

bushbaba — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 02:29:13 +0000

This proves my paranoia that you should print and rescan redactions. That or do screenshots of the pdf redacted and convert back to a pdf

New comment by bushbaba in "OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been"

bushbaba — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 05:40:31 +0000

People forget that “multi touch” and “capacitive touchscreens” were not Apple inventions. They existed prior to the iPhone. The iPhone was just the first “it just works” adaptation of it

New comment by bushbaba in "Claude Code: connect to a local model when your quota runs out"

bushbaba — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 05:39:08 +0000

For many companies. They’d be better to pay $200/month and layoff 1% of the workforce to pay for it.

New comment by bushbaba in "AGENTS.md outperforms skills in our agent evals"

bushbaba — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 03:49:04 +0000

Why you try and avoid re using the same session beyond the initial task or two