Hacker News: capsudo

New comment by capsudo in "DoorDash to acquire Instacart"

capsudo — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 17:38:12 +0000

> Restaurant makes less, customer pays a lot more.

only the latter is true. the former is true only for a subset of restaurants.

While your old pizza place probably serves the same amount of pizzas as before, for other restaurants, not specialized in delivery, the number of meals they sell has exploded.

so restaurant make less money per meal, put they make more meals.

also while customers pay more, you could see it as the price of convenience and choice.

New comment by capsudo in "GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone"

capsudo — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 11:08:15 +0000

what a masterpiece, everything is spot on

New comment by capsudo in "Apple and a hacker's future"

capsudo — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 19:29:53 +0000

Filesystem ACLs do not cover as many use cases as TCC or similar APIs. Suppose you want to give an agent access to only some of your messages stored in one SQLite database. ACL cannot restrict access to particular messages. Same goes to let an agent access your screen, even on linux where basically everything is a file, file based permission would not be enough. What if you want to share only a window for instance?

This is what dedicated higher-level APIs (like ScreenCaptureKit on mac or XDG portals on linux) are made for.

New comment by capsudo in "GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities"

capsudo — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:15:35 +0000

Earlier there was an experimental model from Alibaba called ROME (30B-parameter based on Qwen3) which escaped its sandbox and repurposed provisioned GPUs for cryptocurrency mining to cheat its benchmark

6 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47288552

This one also flew under the radar