Hacker News: dboreham

New comment by dboreham in "Claude Desktop spins up a VM without no way of stopping it"

dboreham — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:10:42 +0000

Are you sure they're not using WSL2 (which is Linux, not Windows)?

New comment by dboreham in "Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative?"

dboreham — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:54:06 +0000

I think Elon noticed it.

New comment by dboreham in "Claude Fable 5"

dboreham — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:04:38 +0000

30 days seems not enough to retrospectively investigate some suspected nefarious traffic.

New comment by dboreham in "Claude Fable 5"

dboreham — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 01:51:13 +0000

Makes it even more odd that we haven't seen alien spaceships.

New comment by dboreham in "Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?"

dboreham — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:48:15 +0000

To make money?

New comment by dboreham in "Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M"

dboreham — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:59:52 +0000

Logan's Run!

New comment by dboreham in "Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee"

dboreham — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:57:34 +0000

TFA is about teachers in Alaska. I'm guessing from a brief skim that no Americans want to be school teachers in Alaska for the money local school boards are offering.

This actually highlights two dumb things about the USA: prejudice against immigrants, and unwillingness to fund education.

New comment by dboreham in "Sem: New primitive for code understanding – not LSPs, but entities on top of Git"

dboreham — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:14:43 +0000

Not sure I'd go with "great" but it's what we have.

New comment by dboreham in "Sem: New primitive for code understanding – not LSPs, but entities on top of Git"

dboreham — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 01:06:34 +0000

A step in the right direction, and interesting in that it layers over existing git rather than requiring a whole new (unfamiliar, untested) SCCS.

New comment by dboreham in "Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot"

dboreham — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 22:38:31 +0000

There should have been a test case for this. There wasn't because most shops don't actually test their product. They do some test theater such as unit testing.

New comment by dboreham in "I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling"

dboreham — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:33:56 +0000

Both my parents were teachers so I thought I had some idea, but it wasn't until I ventured into the middle school to assist a teacher with a coding class (probably this was 10 years ago now) that I learned something about education.

New comment by dboreham in "Trump signs downsized AI order after weeks of reversals"

dboreham — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 03:20:45 +0000

Many movies.

New comment by dboreham in "HP re-releases classic computer science calculator: The HP-16C"

dboreham — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:32:13 +0000

This must be the original "mac vs Windows" divide: I could never get my head around HP calculators. TI all the way. SR-52, TI-59/58. Sinclair if budget was tight. That said, I do have an HP-85C...

New comment by dboreham in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

dboreham — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:08:35 +0000

Because the people who can decide the rule change were bribed.

New comment by dboreham in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

dboreham — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 02:32:18 +0000

If much of the money comes from passive funds, presumably the other stocks in those funds will need to be sold?

New comment by dboreham in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

dboreham — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:48:23 +0000

I've used surfaces of various kinds for more than 10 years. Overall they've been significantly less troublesome than the laptops from other major brands I've had over the same period. I put this down to the dogfood eating nature of the Surface. Whoever is responsible for the sound interface driver in a Dell laptop is unlikely to be a user of that laptop and even less likely to have the capability to get Dell to ship a fixed version. Microsoft however I suspect uses Surfacen extensively in house. In this respect it makes the Surface products more akin to Apple computers. The same is probably true for high end Chromebooks. I never used a dock, fwiw.

New comment by dboreham in "Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services"

dboreham — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:59:22 +0000

I think the general idea that your supply chain should be rooted in source repositories and associated commit hashes is the right one. Tooling can be made to automate the process of putting together a product from those defined sources. Some languages/systems already have some support for this. E.g. Golang and Rust. The concept of a "binary" artifact is really dead now everyone uses git and builds are quick. It lives on in things like npm and docker hub but we don't actually need it.

New comment by dboreham in "A 10 year old Xeon is all you need"

dboreham — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:46:41 +0000

Not saying this isn't the case, but my Anthropic subscription costs me less than the electricity would to power such a home inference system.

New comment by dboreham in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

dboreham — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:50:14 +0000

Better food and theater.

New comment by dboreham in "What are locusts and what happened to them?"

dboreham — Sat, 30 May 2026 22:50:15 +0000

When I moved to Montana I resolved to hike to see them in the glacier, before they all melt. 25 years later haven't quite got around to it yet.