Hacker News: computomatic

New comment by computomatic in "YC startups are abandoning .com"

computomatic — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:04:53 +0000

Perhaps they finally finished their migration off .su

New comment by computomatic in "I obtained Claude Opus 5 system prompt"

computomatic — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 21:15:42 +0000

The web app system prompts are published publicly by Anthropic: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/release-notes/system-pro...

Interestingly, doesn't include the text in TFA (doesn't cover copyright at all). Not sure if hallucinated or referring to a system prompt at another layer.

New comment by computomatic in "PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works"

computomatic — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 02:33:06 +0000

Try the tour. It’s exactly that.

New comment by computomatic in "Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)"

computomatic — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:09:33 +0000

I purchase almost exclusively from mobile websites and the Amazon app. I'm likely to abandon a purchase if it doesn't work smoothly on mobile - there's really no excuse in this day and age. Also a mid-80's kid. I hate having to pull out my laptop for anything. Different strokes for different folks as they say.

New comment by computomatic in "Unexpected Solidlike Fracture in Simple Liquids"

computomatic — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 06:29:57 +0000

Well, the mainstream adoption of plastics following World War II happens to coincide with an unprecedented period of relative global stability known as the “Long Peace.” So there’s at least some version of “thriving” that was, in fact, not previously achieved. Correlation does not imply causation but in this case it’s difficult to disentangle which innovations have lead to the relative global prosperity that has enabled this, and I think plastics are on the shortlist.

New comment by computomatic in "PlayStation can delete all your digital games after 3 years of inactivity (EU)"

computomatic — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 19:28:48 +0000

5(1)c seems far more relevant than e. “Data minimization” is what’s relevant here. And the article is sufficiently vague that the onus is on companies to decide what is absolutely minimal - that includes, implicitly, removing inactive accounts. Unless the courts have made a judgement to the contrary.

New comment by computomatic in "PlayStation can delete all your digital games after 3 years of inactivity (EU)"

computomatic — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:39:37 +0000

Is there evidence that European courts have sided with that? “We’re holding onto all your data indefinitely just in case you log in again several years from now” seems to be the antithesis of GDPR and I can’t discern the difference between that and what you’re suggesting.

I believe EU has dug their own hole here. And the best move would be to pass more legislation to explicitly require the retention (and transfer, ideally) of purchased digital goods.

New comment by computomatic in "You can't unit test for taste"

computomatic — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:23:48 +0000

Wasn’t it introduced on Tahoe? (Perhaps my memory is failing me here.) Do you mean it still persists on Golden Gate? They seem to have addressed the majority of issues I heard about - unless you mean the issue is that rounded corners exist at all.

New comment by computomatic in "F3"

computomatic — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:32:34 +0000

It seems like the WASM is simply a fallback if no other decoder is available. If the data source is untrusted, simply don’t run the WASM decoders.

“Some code is untrusted” does not mean code should never be executed. There are more use cases with trusted sources than untrusted.

New comment by computomatic in "Claude Fable 5"

computomatic — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:19:40 +0000

Didn’t Anthropic famously refuse to work with the US gov on military applications that would violate its safeguards?

https://apnews.com/article/anthropic-pentagon-ai-hegseth-dar...

New comment by computomatic in "'Sloppenheimer:' Amazon employees mock the company's AI on Slack"

computomatic — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:15:10 +0000

Enterprise GTM for these behemoths relies on offering everything a customer needs so they don’t shop around. It’s Microsoft’s playbook and AWS copies it for the same market. That’s why they each offer a “good enough” (but objectively garbage) solution for everything under the sun.

New comment by computomatic in "'Sloppenheimer:' Amazon employees mock the company's AI on Slack"

computomatic — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:18:28 +0000

It’s all relative. Kiro is second to Claude Code, but Amazon isn’t really competing with Anthropic. They need something better than Microsoft/Github Copilot and that is a low, low bar.

New comment by computomatic in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

computomatic — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:58:26 +0000

Brand new email. Behaviour stopped when I disabled spam filter.

Good point about working with support. I’ll keep this in mind if I get around to re-enabling spam filters and experience the same behaviour.

New comment by computomatic in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

computomatic — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 05:41:41 +0000

Ironically my experience with Fastmail was that every email ended up in spam. This included emails from myself, others from my own gmail, and even replies from people I'd emailed first. It was literally sending 100% of emails to spam. The spam filter setting was set to the most basic level, nothing aggressive, so I was forced to disable spam filtering completely. Luckily it was a new email so spam hasn't been an issue but that has slowly been changing.

I still love fastmail though. Top choice. But they do have quirks to work out even this many years in.

New comment by computomatic in "Canada losing top talent as workers head to the U.S."

computomatic — Tue, 26 May 2026 00:09:54 +0000

And to simplify, there’s also really only two reasons to move:

1) more interesting work opportunities; and

2) more money

And the delta on (1) has never been smaller thanks to remote work post-covid (even after all the RTO).

So basically, at some point, you start asking if the extra money is worth it.

(Depending where you come from in Canada, lifestyle in SF might be better overall - but then you can just move back to somewhere else in Canada and have it all.)

New comment by computomatic in "Project Glasswing: An Initial Update"

computomatic — Sat, 23 May 2026 04:11:44 +0000

I’m trying to reconcile this with TFA. Because the article says that the majority of vulns found by Mythos are being reported by independent researchers after validation. They never said those reports inform that mythos was involved - and I suspect they don’t. So did any of these 11 CVEs come from that channel?

New comment by computomatic in "Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored"

computomatic — Thu, 21 May 2026 22:07:32 +0000

And each of those technologies is 70+ years old now (assuming you count V-2 rockets as spaceships). All, in fact, from the same period of history as far as I understand.

New comment by computomatic in "Apparently Google hates us now"

computomatic — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:32:14 +0000

A wiki with only 11 pages?

Perhaps they will investigate why 541,000 pages aren’t being indexed. In my experience, Google provides adequate tools for identifying and resolving indexing issues.

Google won’t serve pages it hasn’t indexed. Seems they left a lot of relevant details out of that tweet.

Edit: and the most likely answer would be that their current robots.txt disallows virtually all indexing. I’m no SEO expert but entries like this seem like footguns:

   User-agent: Google-Extended
   Disallow: /

Edit 2: there’s more info in the full thread but that was only viewable via the xcancel link someone else shared (despite having the X app installed - deeplinks don’t work today). A helpful example of why X is not the best platform for sharing multi-post threads. Seems robots.txt was considered but ruled out.

New comment by computomatic in "Waymo updates 3,800 robotaxis after they 'drive into standing water'"

computomatic — Fri, 15 May 2026 19:19:25 +0000

Is ultrasound less expensive than a moisture sensor?

The problem with both is they effectively require the vehicle to be in the water already. They need something that can tell depth before the vehicle has to slow down.

New comment by computomatic in "U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app"

computomatic — Fri, 15 May 2026 19:12:19 +0000

My guess: they want to make the case that illegitimate use cases are indeed the primary use case. Their approach is to randomly sample all users and show that the vast majority use it to defeat emissions, undermining the app maker’s defence.

I don’t think that justifies the overreach. As you said, if they don’t have a case already, they shouldn’t be allowed to violate user privacy on speculation that some statistical evidence might hypothetically fall out of the data. But the legal system may disagree.