Hacker News: cowsandmilk

New comment by cowsandmilk in "Wikimedia Foundation refuses union recognition, hires union-busting law firm"

cowsandmilk — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 12:28:06 +0000

Both halves of the title are true statements.

New comment by cowsandmilk in "Show HN: Elevators"

cowsandmilk — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 17:57:16 +0000

> If it was a camera, security issue

What security issue? Many hotel elevators already have cameras.

New comment by cowsandmilk in "Everyone should know SIMD"

cowsandmilk — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 02:23:05 +0000

I always must ask, why isn’t your compiler doing this for you? I know they often aren’t because I’ve seen speed ups from writing SIMD or using the vector functions in MKL, but this is something I really think the compilers should do for us in the simple case.

New comment by cowsandmilk in "Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke"

cowsandmilk — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:39:42 +0000

The bun team made no mention of compile times in their post. The author of this post points to other work by bun that was hardly making a big fuss. It was just a Twitter post about parallelizing some things to make builds faster.

New comment by cowsandmilk in "Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July"

cowsandmilk — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 23:38:05 +0000

How is this relevant? No one shot at the plane.

New comment by cowsandmilk in "A way to exclude sensitive files issue still open for OpenAI Codex"

cowsandmilk — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 13:26:23 +0000

If you’re already running codex as a different user to limit its file permissions, why would you add it to the docker group?

New comment by cowsandmilk in "A way to exclude sensitive files issue still open for OpenAI Codex"

cowsandmilk — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 13:23:58 +0000

100% this. The idea that Codex should enforce this is putting the security boundary at the wrong layer. If you don’t want codes to access something, make it so it doesn’t have access.

New comment by cowsandmilk in "Elastic lays off 7% of employees"

cowsandmilk — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 02:50:57 +0000

It’s been five years since they changed their license. Today’s layoffs cannot be blamed on AWS and GCP. It’s been years and they have differentiated products now.

New comment by cowsandmilk in "Caddy compatibility for zeroserve: 3x throughput and 70% lower latency"

cowsandmilk — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 21:07:42 +0000

Why does jit compilation here scare you? eBPF has had a ton of research on how to limit its resource usage and how to sandbox it.

New comment by cowsandmilk in "Honda Civics and the Evil Valet"

cowsandmilk — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 11:37:59 +0000

I’ve had my civic coupe valeted at hotels and wasn’t doing staying anywhere special. Business trip where I drove the 100 miles to Baltimore and stayed at the hotel my company put me up in. Also, I’ve had medical appointments places where they valeted your car for free.

I feel like having your car valeted was something special when I was a kid, but now it doesn’t really take something special.

New comment by cowsandmilk in "Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos"

cowsandmilk — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:13:00 +0000

Why can’t they have trained the classifier on internal red teaming?

New comment by cowsandmilk in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

cowsandmilk — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:44:21 +0000

The zoning for that lot would allow a grocery store. Not being able to walk to the grocery store isn’t a zoning issue in this case.

New comment by cowsandmilk in "macOS Container Machines"

cowsandmilk — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:25:08 +0000

Use this because docker has very problematic licensing on MacOS.

New comment by cowsandmilk in "Siri AI"

cowsandmilk — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:06:30 +0000

I’m sorry, but the DMA is mandating Cambridge Analytica-type access to data. That whole scandal was people on Facebook granting a third party access to all the data they had access to. And Cambridge Analytica lied about how they were going to use it.

Facebook got roasted for this, but now the EU wants the same open data policy from every big tech company.

New comment by cowsandmilk in "Siri AI"

cowsandmilk — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:56:48 +0000

15 Pro Max is supported…

New comment by cowsandmilk in "APC–2 – A professional record cutter for producing original playback discs"

cowsandmilk — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 02:32:47 +0000

> frequently opening boxes, but not constantly.

If you are frequently opening boxes, that spring-loaded mechanism is going to cause repetitive stress injuries. No competent workplace health and safety employee would approve it.

Also, if you are using a utility knife frequently, you likely have a depth you want to keep it. Say I’m installing carpeting. I want to set the razor at a depth for the shag of carpet I’m working on today and have my blade at that depth until I’m done. With a spring load, the only depth that can easily be set is fully out where I’m pushing it all the way. Any intermediate depths will result in me shaking back and forth trying to hold a constant intermediate pressure.

This is a utility knife for someone rich who uses it for the day’s amazons packages because they think using the blade from their scissors is beneath them.

New comment by cowsandmilk in "Show HN: Helios – what plug-in solar could generate for any address in Britain"

cowsandmilk — Sat, 30 May 2026 17:51:19 +0000

> I'm often impressed by the quality of the UK's open data.

The ordnance survey not being open data is a bad look though.

New comment by cowsandmilk in "Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country"

cowsandmilk — Wed, 27 May 2026 02:04:07 +0000

I mean, why was OpenStreetMap created?

New comment by cowsandmilk in "Ferrari Luce"

cowsandmilk — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:18:00 +0000

These doors are designed for being chauffeured, not for you to get in at the same time as your driver.

New comment by cowsandmilk in "Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses"

cowsandmilk — Sat, 23 May 2026 12:18:59 +0000

This, if you’re high performing, the company won’t question your use of tokens. If they want to limit it, they have ways to set limits on spend and usage.