<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: computably</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=computably</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:44:41 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=computably" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by computably in "Stockfish 19"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The post literally says<p>> against Stockfish 18, this new release brings an Elo gain of up to 44 points, and wins more than three times as many game pairs as it loses.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:24:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49648191</link><dc:creator>computably</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49648191</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49648191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by computably in "We Must Return to the Office to Use AI in Person"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ah yes because copy-paste plagiarism is equivalent to writing original work...</p>
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<p>> Nothing to do with some CEO's evil plans, but more to do with the hundreds/thousands of mid-level "not my job" or "doing my best" workers who are actually in charge of handling my data.<p>The CEO is responsible for what their company does. If a major breach can occur through the oversight or "incompetence" of one worker, the CEO has already failed, whether through negligence or malice.</p>
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<p>? That's a complete non sequitur.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 02:15:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49582673</link><dc:creator>computably</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49582673</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49582673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by computably in "Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> How much do you think an organization like Google would spend on, for example, AI tokens or compute to detect this internally before it was found and exploited in the wild?<p>On average, probably not that much. What's the amortized cost of all testing, static analysis, and audit / code review, per "prevented potential bug"?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 23:28:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49571385</link><dc:creator>computably</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49571385</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49571385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by computably in "Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you ballpark it as a single 3 hour downtime window per week and iid Poisson, then overlapping downtime probability of 2 providers is approximately the expected occurrence rate per 3 hours, 1/56. Not particularly surprising at all.</p>
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<p>The law could make mergers executed provisionally for up to X years, with a binding plan to "unmerge" that must be updated every Y months. The FTC already half-does this with post-merge divestiture requirements.</p>
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<p>> There’s only one way to interpret this.<p>In any context, this is about as trivially false as any non-tautological statement can be.</p>
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<p>Well, for one thing, you brought up the monster truck first. :) Anyways, I do agree that Nubank's growth is impressive.</p>
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<p>It's based on the interpretation of "unreasonable" and while the current rules may be far from perfect I don't think interpreting routine border searches as categorically "unreasonable" is better.</p>
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<p>> Not attributing their success to their tech stack is just not knowing the facts.<p>Touche. Though that's context you could've also included.<p>> Arguing against Nubank's achievement is like insisting on a flat Earth.<p>I'm not denying their achievement, I'm putting it in perspective. Having 100 clients for a consumer product doesn't mean a more successful business than 20 clients for an enterprise product. It is apples to oranges, for sure, but you're comparing startup growth in an underbanked region to the literal largest (by assets, outside China) bank in the world.</p>
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<p>Uh, no? I highly doubt that a non-occluding watermark on screenshots is even in the top 100 gripes most people have with X. And I don't use either platform. If anything your argument is an accusation of bias without any discussion of merits.</p>
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<p>Security is never absolute, it always "merely" raises barriers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:55:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49339786</link><dc:creator>computably</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49339786</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49339786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by computably in "Squeak 6.1"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Nubank (the largest digital bank in the world) using Clojure as their primary driver grew from ~12M customers in 2019 to 131M in 2025 - almost 1000% growth in less than a decade. JPMorgan that has about 80M customers took around 150 years and dozens of acquisitions.<p>- There's not much correlation between tech stack and product quality, let alone market share.<p>- JPMC has ~$4.4T in assets vs. Nubank $75B ($0.075T).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 23:34:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49324904</link><dc:creator>computably</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49324904</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49324904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by computably in "Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Their SWEs will all have Repetitive Strain Injuries long before they hit Recursive Self Improvement, I'm sure.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 01:30:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49252246</link><dc:creator>computably</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49252246</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49252246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by computably in "New Orleans is testing Carbyne’s AI-powered Emergency Call Triage software"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Likely yes, as you learn cooking now only by repeatedly cutting carrots the same way you always did but expanding your horizons to new cooking techniques and socializing in the niche will yield much bigger growth.<p>You are not engaging in good faith. Obviously the point of the argument is that if you hire a personal chef, you are outsourcing the actual cooking and investing little to no time yourself on improving at cooking. Interpreting it as having more freedom to cook, and your contractor providing a service being your friend/teacher, is absurd.<p>And even in your contrived hypothetical, there's two basic issues. First, mastery can be highly specialized. Second, if you only ever did the trivial and repetitive to begin with, you never intended to improve.<p>> This Bruce Lee level misconception of "practice the same kick for a thousand times" is extremely outdated perspective on how people actually progress effectively.<p>This is another straw man. Nobody is promoting this meme that the only thing you need for self-improvement is mindless repetition. That doesn't even make sense, considering the actual topic is thinking for yourself instead of only using AI. The point is you can't get better at something without actually practicing, and "difficult" or "tedious" doesn't equate to "unimportant."</p>
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<p>> Did I not become better at raking leaves?<p>Only in a sense which is obviously not at all what's being discussed. If you hire a personal chef, have you gotten better at cooking? What about a nanny, have you gotten better at raising your children?<p>Of course automating some cognitive processes can free your time for other, more fulfilling aspects. But there's certainly no guarantee that that's the case.<p>> People are not calculators - all these simplistic takes are frankly insulting to human capability.<p>Funny example. Which do you think is more common, people who are innumerate because they believe using a calculator is sufficient, or people who are highly numerate and believe learning arithmetic was a waste of time?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 08:18:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49207368</link><dc:creator>computably</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49207368</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49207368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by computably in "Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"There is a view in some philosophical circles that anything that can be understood by people who have not studied philosophy is not profound enough to be worth saying. To the contrary, I suspect that whatever cannot be said clearly is probably not being thought clearly either."</p>
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<p>That sounds superficially reasonable. The supply chain should be trustworthy and reliable.</p>
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<p>The title says "The coolest use for the Vision Pro," not "The Vision Pro is the coolest way to..." or even "The Vision Pro is worth the money."</p>
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