Hacker News: cmeacham98

New comment by cmeacham98 in "Fear and denial in Silicon Valley over social media addiction trial"

cmeacham98 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 02:29:31 +0000

So if social media removed personalization from their algorithms and only applied them broadly across large demographic groups you'd be fine with them? (Genuine question I'm curious)

New comment by cmeacham98 in "Shall I implement it? No"

cmeacham98 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 04:03:45 +0000

Is this a troll comment? How could the dialogue in the OP possibly be unclear under any context?

New comment by cmeacham98 in "Intel Demos Chip to Compute with Encrypted Data"

cmeacham98 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 22:08:38 +0000

KYC is generally a force for good because it prevents fraud. While it is not reasonable for Discord to collect your identity that is a fair requirement for a bank account because money laundering is a serious problem worth preventing.

The reason the 'Epstein class' are able to get away with crimes is because in recent US elections the US voted to elect politicions that intentionally are not investigating those crimes and even pardoned some criminals convicted of them.

New comment by cmeacham98 in "Fire the CEO, Introducing the AxO's"

cmeacham98 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 20:52:33 +0000

What you're describing is called a "worker cooperative" and they are somewhat rare but do exist already in real life.

New comment by cmeacham98 in "We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk"

cmeacham98 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 05:15:31 +0000

An LLM can neither understand things nor value (or not value) human life. *It's a piece of software that predicts the most likely token, it is not and can never be conscious.* Believing otherwise is an explicit category error.

Yes, you can change the training data so the LLM's weights encode the most likely token after "Should we kill X" is "No". But that is not an LLM valuing human life, that is an LLM copy pasting it's training data. Given the right input or a hallucination it will say the total opposite because it's just a complex Markov chain, not a conscious alive being.

New comment by cmeacham98 in "FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me"

cmeacham98 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 04:56:52 +0000

What? No. An LLM cannot reason, at least not what we think of when we say a human can reason. (There are models called "reasoning" models as a marketing gimmick.)

TFA describes a port of a Linux driver that was literally "an existing example to copy".

New comment by cmeacham98 in "Rathbun's Operator"

cmeacham98 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 02:33:24 +0000

While the operator did write a post, they did not come forward - they have intentionally stayed anonymous (there is some amateur journalism that may have unmasked the owner I won't link here - but they have not intentionally revealed their identity).

Personally I find it highly unethical the operator had an AI agent write a hitpiece directly referencing your IRL identity but choose to remain anonymous themselves. Why not open themself up to such criticism? I believe it is because they know what they did was wrong - Even if they did not intentionally steer the agent this way, allowing software on their computer to publish a hitpiece to the internet was wildly negligent.

New comment by cmeacham98 in "Billing can be bypassed using a combo of subagents with an agent definition"

cmeacham98 — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 17:47:15 +0000

We cannot know for sure but I think it's reasonably likely (say 50/50). Regurgitating an LLM for 90% of your comment does not inspire trust.

New comment by cmeacham98 in "Billing can be bypassed using a combo of subagents with an agent definition"

cmeacham98 — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 17:35:39 +0000

It's not a peer review it's just AI slop. I do agree they don't seem to be intentionally posing as an MS employee.

New comment by cmeacham98 in "Show HN: Morph – Videos of AI testing your PR, embedded in GitHub"

cmeacham98 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 23:00:20 +0000

While the product sounds mildly interesting, I see it as a major red flag you think it's ok for either a submitter or reviewer to not even read the code they are working with and ship thousand line diffs of LLM-generated code.

That's the lack of professionalism I give my random PoC personal projects where the only user I can break is myself - at work I am reading every line of every PR I submit or review, even if I used an LLM to assist writing the code.

New comment by cmeacham98 in "Punkt. Unveils MC03 Smartphone"

cmeacham98 — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 17:41:06 +0000

Financing a phone is dumb for most people imo, but at least it has an explicit end where you own the phone outright.

This phone requires a subscription in perpetuity, on top of the full purchase price.

New comment by cmeacham98 in "Mesa shuts down credit card that rewarded cardholders for paying their mortgages"

cmeacham98 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 04:30:44 +0000

Bilt is allegedly launching a new version with rewards for paying mortgages lol

New comment by cmeacham98 in "Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental"

cmeacham98 — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 12:57:44 +0000

Didn't Hector step down essentially as a direct result of that behavior? https://www.phoronix.com/news/Asahi-Linux-Lead-No-Upstream

Do you have an example of other R4L maintainers harassment? Because you've spammed the same single example 3-4 times on this post alone.

New comment by cmeacham98 in "Framework Sponsors CachyOS"

cmeacham98 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 21:09:29 +0000

If it was just a few days ago, maybe they had already added the logo but hadn't posted the announcement yet?

New comment by cmeacham98 in "TSA's New $45 Fee at U.S. Airports Unfairly Punishes Families in the Fine Print"

cmeacham98 — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 18:45:51 +0000

Am I missing something obvious? What's the "fine print" that punishes a family of 4 more than a group of 4 friends?

I can't find that information anywhere in the article despite it being the entire point of the headline.

New comment by cmeacham98 in "ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web"

cmeacham98 — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 03:01:40 +0000

Where do I cut the $10/month? No like seriously, I'd easily pay $10/month to never see another ad, cookie banner, dark pattern, or have my information resold again. As long as that $10 is promised to never increase, other than adjustments for inflation.

But I can't actually make that payment - except maybe by purchasing a paid adblocker - where ironically the best open source option (uBlock Origin) doesn't even accept donations.

New comment by cmeacham98 in "KDE celebrates the 29th birthday and kicks off the yearly fundraiser"

cmeacham98 — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 14:59:52 +0000

You're misunderstanding - the point is that current (supported) versions of KDE support hardware manufactured in 2015, and current (supproted) versions of Windows will stop doing that very soon.

New comment by cmeacham98 in "JIT: So you want to be faster than an interpreter on modern CPUs"

cmeacham98 — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 14:43:56 +0000

Source? Is there any non-Apple app that has this entitlement?

New comment by cmeacham98 in "I played 1k hands of online poker and built a web app with Cursor AI"

cmeacham98 — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 12:01:37 +0000

Not alone, but presumably the online casino also has some sort of anti-botting measures, and if your bot gets banned you can't re-use your identity.

New comment by cmeacham98 in "Longhorn – A Kubernetes-Native Filesystem"

cmeacham98 — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 22:18:49 +0000

I tried longhorn on my homelab cluster. I'll admit it's possible that I did something wrong, but I managed to somehow get it into a state where it seemed my volumes got permanently corrupted. At the very least I couldn't figure out how to get my volumes working again.

When restoring from backup I went with Rook (which is a wrapper on ceph) instead and it's been much more stable, even able to recover (albeit with some manual intervention needed) from a total node hardware failure.