Hacker News: compounding_it

New comment by compounding_it in "Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones"

compounding_it — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 05:09:26 +0000

So for third party apps this seems like if you do e2e then along with this bug fix your texts are safe. E2E apps could be independently verified by a third party let’s say.

But what about iMessage. The source code will never be available for neither the servers nor the app.

New comment by compounding_it in "macOS 27 won’t be supporting Intel anymore"

compounding_it — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:08:19 +0000

>They are great heavily supported Linux machines though.

Since the release of Touch Bar based Macs (which contain apple silicon) this has not been the case. The Macs that are well supported by linux and work very well were abandoned long time ago.

New comment by compounding_it in "FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account"

compounding_it — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:40:55 +0000

The example was given to say you could be a gsuite customer and have 10k emails a week be very normal. Something that wouldn’t trigger any alarms unless set. The alarms would probably be set on a curve. Something unusual would be far off the curve.

New comment by compounding_it in "FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account"

compounding_it — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:00:06 +0000

What if someone (Google) used Google suite to send 10k emails to fire people. Wouldn’t that be considered normal for the server for a day let alone a week. Yes I know I could have come up with a better example.

New comment by compounding_it in "Internet Protocol Version 8 (IPv8)"

compounding_it — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 05:51:34 +0000

The solution to the solution to solve a problem is to create a new problem.

New comment by compounding_it in "Claude Code Routines"

compounding_it — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 07:16:03 +0000

A year ago everyone was so hyped on LLMs even on HN. A year later I see frustration and disappointment on HN. It’s very interesting because this is the case with every new technology and the ‘next thing’

New comment by compounding_it in "Amazon to acquire Globalstar and expand Amazon Leo satellite network"

compounding_it — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 07:12:31 +0000

I think America in general is moving to a service based economy where you don’t own anything anymore. Everything from cars (lease) to homes (rentals) to electronics to insurance etc comes at a monthly cost. This kind of model works when the central government is trusted (or at least perceived to be trusted) to keep the wheel churning. I think the current government took some of the power back from big tech and people didn’t like it. Very interesting because the whole argument was private companies having too much power. Now the argument is government having too much power.

New comment by compounding_it in "What have been the greatest intellectual achievements? (2017)"

compounding_it — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 11:32:07 +0000

Be modest. A lot was accomplished before you were born.

Humans are incredible. Leaving the planet and taking a trip on the moon and possibly mars someday is no small feat.

We just need to fix our planet. Or to be honest, stop ruining it so it heals itself.

New comment by compounding_it in "Apple update looks like Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user"

compounding_it — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:42:35 +0000

They do. It’s just that the people using these devices won’t go public with it. I’ve seen so many bizarre bugs in my own experience but I’ve gotten zero articles on them by popular tech journals.

This bug got popularity that’s all.

New comment by compounding_it in "I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack"

compounding_it — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:38:40 +0000

Given how much revenue depends on the experience of a web app and loading times, I’d be happy to pay 100$ a month on that revenue if I don’t have to sacrifice a second of additional loading time no matter how clever I was optimizing it.

New comment by compounding_it in "I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack"

compounding_it — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:33:47 +0000

What do you do about ipv4 ? Do you also use a routing VM to manage all that ?

It’s very interesting how people rent large VMs with a hypervisor. I’m wondering if licenses for VPS have any clauses preventing this for commercial scale.

New comment by compounding_it in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

compounding_it — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 03:49:08 +0000

I’d suggest if you are going to do this to your MacBooks to get the silver one. The silver one is actually aluminum and no one would notice.

New comment by compounding_it in "LLM may be standardizing human expression – and subtly influencing how we think"

compounding_it — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:48:02 +0000

People are unloading the cognitive load onto the LLM. Probably because life stress is causing them to rely on technology to bring relief. It may not necessarily be a great choice.

New comment by compounding_it in "The Last Quiet Thing"

compounding_it — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:30:23 +0000

Newer stuff is more efficient. For example washers and dryers have a direct drive technology with gears that help it use less power and maybe even less water.

New comment by compounding_it in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

compounding_it — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:49:38 +0000

Engineering or marketing ? I doubt Zuckerberg or Altman have much involvement in engineering after their products took off. After a certain point they were no longer engineers of their products.

New comment by compounding_it in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

compounding_it — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:45:51 +0000

I think Charlie Munger or Warren Buffet said once about an iPad for reading that : it would be terrible to read on a device where it was so easy to get distracted with the internet on your fingers.

E readers work for a reason. You aren’t distracted (the slow browser in it is hardly a distraction)

New comment by compounding_it in "CEO of largest public hospital says he's ready to replace radiologists with AI"

compounding_it — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:42:11 +0000

If hospitals are so concerned about cutting costs, getting sued is probably worse. However they are all insured against malpractice. I would be careful about insurers who could default if they find too many malpractice claims.

New comment by compounding_it in "New Apple Silicon M4 and M5 HiDPI Limitation on 4K External Displays"

compounding_it — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 03:54:11 +0000

The ideal work/coding resolutions and sizes for macOS that I would suggest if you are going down this rabbit hole.

24 inch 1080p 24 inch 4k (2x scaling) 27 inch 1440p 27 inch 5k (2x scaling) 32 inch 6k (2x scaling)

Other sizes are going to either look bizarre or you’ll have to deal with fractional scaling.

Given that 4k is common in 27/32 inches and those are cheap displays these kinds of problems are expected. I have personally refused to accept in the past that 27 inch 4k isn’t as bad as people say and got one myself only to regret buying it. Get the correct size and scaling and your life will be peaceful.

I would recommend the same for Linux and Windows too tbh but people who game might be fine with other sizes and resolutions.

New comment by compounding_it in "New Apple Silicon M4 and M5 HiDPI Limitation on 4K External Displays"

compounding_it — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 03:46:46 +0000

Their suggestion : get an Apple monitor that we just launched.

New comment by compounding_it in "Building a Mostly IPv6 Only Home Network"

compounding_it — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:53:38 +0000

I haven't experienced this. For me it's statically assigned but my guess is that the PON serial and/or MAC is being used or the customer ID. I think the ISPs have gotten very automated these days and everything seems to be some sort of SDN. It saves lot of labour hours in troubleshooting like customer forgetting their wifi passwords to their routers.