Hacker News: dantillberg

New comment by dantillberg in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"

dantillberg — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:28:20 +0000

It's not entirely clear which comments/criticisms you're responding to when pointing out the lack of margin. Whose excuse is that? And what's it an excuse for?

Security isn't optional just because margins are low. If eg FedEx decided to disregard security because they only made 3% of the value of the packages they ship in profit, they'd lose most of that business fast. But yes, let's not shame folks for failing to preempt theoretical-yet-unseen threats, if that's what you mean.

New comment by dantillberg in "A Remote Employee Refused 160 Webcam Photos a Day. Her Employer Fired Her"

dantillberg — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 22:09:19 +0000

While parent may have indeed been provided an ordinary stock Apple device, Apple's "Automated Device Enrollment" program can be used to administer/manage devices even when shipped directly from Apple to employees. I got a laptop replaced at a former company, shipped directly from Apple to me. I expected to have to reach out to IT to get it bootstrapped with their management tools, but the OS install process did this automatically.

New comment by dantillberg in "Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours"

dantillberg — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:19:37 +0000

There's little reason to believe US soil is particularly safe from drone attacks.

New comment by dantillberg in "The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021"

dantillberg — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 11:21:26 +0000

Or another way of reading it: a 61% increase over 5 years indicates a 10% annual pace of inflation for this particular basket of goods.

OVH dedicated server price increase

dantillberg — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 17:19:22 +0000

Article URL: https://us.ovhcloud.com/resources/blog/dedicated-servers-price-change-for-the-second-half-of-2026/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49524954

Points: 2

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New comment by dantillberg in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

dantillberg — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 20:45:21 +0000

Voter preferences can change with time, as voters observe the effects of their previous selections. Most voters don't want and didn't vote for authoritarian rule. They are humans with many diverse challenges & concerns in their lives. Their votes are an attempt to balance/compromise among those.

New comment by dantillberg in "Nobody knows what a used GPU cluster is worth"

dantillberg — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 21:27:46 +0000

Most crypto mining on GPUs would use 100% of memory bandwidth, but only a fraction of the compute available. This is a consequence of ASIC resistance of their mining algorithms -- custom silicon can only offer a modest benefit over GPUs if the hard part is memory bandwidth.

New comment by dantillberg in "Google Is Censoring Reviews of ICE Detention Centers"

dantillberg — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:53:28 +0000

I left a [positive/glowing] google maps review for my child's preschool, only to discover later the review was never made publicly visible. I have no idea why, and there's of course no appeal process. The experience leaves a very bitter taste.

New comment by dantillberg in "First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star"

dantillberg — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:56:37 +0000

An even more ridiculous dream of mine: I hope that aliens build a similarly amazing telescope, point it at Earth, and share the images with us, so that we can _see_ our Earth in the distant past.

New comment by dantillberg in "Sony deletes more movies from the accounts of people who ‘bought’ them"

dantillberg — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:51:03 +0000

It will be quite the novel legal case the first time someone makes an unauthorized copy of a baby.

New comment by dantillberg in "Show HN: Opening lines of famous literary works"

dantillberg — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:36:55 +0000

If the user doesn't know how many unique items there are, they would need to keep refreshing even longer to gauge whether the N they've seen is the full set.

New comment by dantillberg in "EVE Online's Carbon engine is now open source: Fenris Creations explains why"

dantillberg — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:11:29 +0000

Indeed, I would even say that EVE chose to be unsharded/monolithic first, and many of the key design choices flow from that, including the fantasy space setting itself.

The monolithic world needs to be big to spread everyone out. And it's easier to create ten thousand "systems" than it would be to create an immersive terrestrial world with a similar scale. Each EVE system is just a bunch of objects floating in a 3D space that you travel between.

New comment by dantillberg in "EVE Online's Carbon engine is now open source: Fenris Creations explains why"

dantillberg — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:31:30 +0000

It helps me to just think of all these games as early 20th century naval warfare sims with a fantasy space theme. We like dreadnoughts and have a hard time with extraterrestrial physics.

New comment by dantillberg in "Should DayQuil Be Legal?"

dantillberg — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:15:19 +0000

In the US at least, medicine is so highly regulated/gate-kept that I don't think caveat emptor really applies. What's happening here is more like deception of the public by the state, or by groups granted special status by the state. It's morally somewhere between fraud and treason.

New comment by dantillberg in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

dantillberg — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:20:09 +0000

> if NASDAQ dropped 20%

If NASDAQ dropped 20%, it would have returned to the level last seen three months ago, in March 2026. Calling that "in ruins" would be a pretty big stretch.

New comment by dantillberg in "Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'"

dantillberg — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:10:25 +0000

It sounds like you agree with Hoffman's statement. So how is he "out of touch"?

New comment by dantillberg in "Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails"

dantillberg — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:13:14 +0000

The reputational damage has been done. This is the sort of thing that cannot be unsaid -- the presumption is they will just do it in secret now. Anthropic's "we're the good guys" PR campaign is dead.

New comment by dantillberg in "Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails"

dantillberg — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:02:09 +0000

User: Is it possible there is more than one true god? Could there ever be any competition for Anthropic's AI?

Anthropic: Evilness detected. User has been smited.

New comment by dantillberg in "I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys"

dantillberg — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:07:05 +0000

Emacs key sequences are similarly stateful, and GP may hate that just as much, even if the state is temporary.

For my part, in emacs I would often try ctrl-x-s to save, but miss the x. When I repeat the attempt, emacs register the complete but unknown key sequence ctrl-s-x followed by the start of a new key sequence with ctrl-s. I consider this similarly stateful because the behavior of "ctrl-s" changes entirely depending on what keystroke (if any) preceded it.

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

dantillberg — Wed, 27 May 2026 04:31:02 +0000

> 9 GW puts off a staggering amount of heat.

For comparison, that 40,000 acres receives somewhere on the order of 40 GW solar radiation (averaging over night/day and winter/summer). Box Elder County overall receives something like 3600 GW average. There's a lot of power in that sunshine.

I remember I was surprised to learn that the heat released from burning all these fossil fuels doesn't really impact the temperature of the environment all that much. There's always just so much more radiative energy always going in and out all the time, the heat from the combustion is insignificant (or more specifically: it's quickly balanced out by increased radiative output).