Hacker News: davidham

New comment by davidham in "Goodbye to Sora"

davidham — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 01:37:45 +0000

I an Jack’s complete lack of sympathy.

New comment by davidham in "Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics (2000)"

davidham — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 03:04:33 +0000

I’m team old folks on this, youngun

New comment by davidham in "Corrosion"

davidham — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 14:35:29 +0000

Looks like it always has, to me.

New comment by davidham in "Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts"

davidham — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 13:46:09 +0000

I used kustomize to build an ArgoCD install at a previous company, and I was impressed at how powerful it was. Our setup was pretty involved, and kustomize was able to handle all the per-environment differences easily, and the code was easy to work with.

New comment by davidham in "Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts"

davidham — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 13:41:16 +0000

I work at Grafana, and Jsonnet powers our whole k8s infrastructure. It can get a little baroque sometimes but overall it’s tremendously powerful, and it’s fun to work with.

New comment by davidham in "OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive"

davidham — Wed, 21 May 2025 22:11:33 +0000

Apple Watch was and is a huge hit.

New comment by davidham in "X’s director of engineering, Haofei Wang, has left the company"

davidham — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 13:47:32 +0000

Musk is different from the other people in Trump’s orbit. Trump can’t afford to throw Musk aside or turn him into an enemy. Not yet anyway.

This is not to say that there won’t be a breakup, there may yet be. But it seems like Musk was able to parlay his Twitter investment into tremendous direct influence over the government, a pearl without price. I don’t know that he ever cared whether Twitter made money or not.

New comment by davidham in "X’s director of engineering, Haofei Wang, has left the company"

davidham — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 13:29:07 +0000

Are you sure? He used it to help get Donald Trump elected, and now Musk has an unassailable position in government and tremendous power to steer government spending to his businesses, and to cripple the agencies that regulate them.

New comment by davidham in "The Pain That Is GitHub Actions"

davidham — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 15:17:56 +0000

I'm with you! I kind of love GitHub Actions, and as long as I keep it to tools and actions I understand, I think it works great. It's super flexible and has many event hooks. It's reasonably easy to get it to do the things I want. And my current company has a pretty robust CI suite that catches most problems before they get merged in. It's my favorite of the CI platforms I have used.

New comment by davidham in "Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino"

davidham — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 17:15:11 +0000

Yes, as an end-user I didn't really care about Apple Intelligence, and had to disable it because it kept suggesting dumb responses in Messages, which I use many times a day. As an observer of and investor in Apple, it's very concerning. Announcing and hyping products that don't exist is a serious breach of their brand promise, and as Gruber rightly observes, signs of serious rot in their culture.

New comment by davidham in "Ask HN: Is there any place on the internet capable of freedom of speech?"

davidham — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 20:10:52 +0000

Yes, that's my point: it's the X model because Musk bought the platform so he can amplify himself and censor whomever he likes.

New comment by davidham in "Ask HN: Is there any place on the internet capable of freedom of speech?"

davidham — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 16:33:50 +0000

This is the X model. Nobody moderates Musk!

New comment by davidham in "Ask HN: Is there any place on the internet capable of freedom of speech?"

davidham — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 16:04:33 +0000

In America, the First Amendment guarantee of 'freedom of speech' only protects you from the government restricting your speech. It doesn't oblige any other entity to provide you with a platform, and it doesn't free you from the consequences of your speech. You can (and should!) host your own servers, but unless you buy ads on a search platform they are not obliged to prioritize, or even index, your content.

New comment by davidham in "Ask HN: Is there any place on the internet capable of freedom of speech?"

davidham — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 15:59:58 +0000

The platforms don't decide what is legal, but they do have the right, and in many cases the obligation, to moderate their platforms. They can be held liable for allowing CSAM for example. And these platforms have business goals that can be in conflict with, say, allowing anti-LGBTQ or Nazi content.

New comment by davidham in "NASA Graphics Standards Manual (1975)"

davidham — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 12:08:18 +0000

I have a copy of this from the original Kickstarter, and it’s a gorgeous book. Very high quality, very well done.

New comment by davidham in "GPT-4o"

davidham — Mon, 13 May 2024 22:23:32 +0000

OK neither GPT-4o nor myself is great at counting apparently

New comment by davidham in "GPT-4o"

davidham — Mon, 13 May 2024 21:11:00 +0000

Its first answer of 12 is correct, there are 12 _unique_ characters in https://google.com.

New comment by davidham in "U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly"

davidham — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 16:44:37 +0000

(Thank you for the reply by the way, I didn't know that about the 0.15%!)

New comment by davidham in "U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly"

davidham — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 16:43:44 +0000

That seems...fair to me? Apple makes a phone a lot of people want to buy, and adds NFC to it to enable mobile payment, and they provide security guarantees for the end user and the card issuer alike. I don't know why they should be obligated to provide this functionality to the card issuers for free.

New comment by davidham in "U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly"

davidham — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 16:14:14 +0000

Regarding the Apple Wallet: what about it is uncompetitive? I can add credit cards from many providers to it, and as far as I can tell Apple doesn't get anything if I add my Chase card and use it with Apple Pay. I don't think banks have to pay Apple anything for their cards to be used in the Apple wallet. Nor do non-financial cards like memberships.