Hacker News: deelowe

New comment by deelowe in "Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring"

deelowe — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 04:53:30 +0000

Had the pleasure of having dinner with Vint one evening. Such an amazing person. So incredibly humble and one of the most genuine people Ive ever met. As an aside, I asked him directly about the Al Gore internet meme and he said point blank that if it weren't for Als work in Washington the Internet wouldn't exist in its current form.

But yeah, just an awesome guy all around. One of the few people I consider to be a source of inspiration for me.

New comment by deelowe in "Exapunks (2018)"

deelowe — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 18:59:22 +0000

I wish Zach would start making games again. :-(

New comment by deelowe in "Nvidia Halos"

deelowe — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:30:12 +0000

> What does this even mean?

It means over 18,600 engineering hours have been spent working on vehicle safety. This is a pretty common metric.

New comment by deelowe in "Bird brains (2023)"

deelowe — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:47:41 +0000

This reminds me of being told dogs don't feel emotions by someone who never owned one. Parrots most definitely can talk. Their language is extremely primitive but if you've ever been around a grey and it's owner for some time, they definitely talk to each other. The parrot will readily communicate observations and desires.

New comment by deelowe in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

deelowe — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:31:37 +0000

There were plenty of them around when I worked at Nvidia. They definitely exist.

New comment by deelowe in "Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage"

deelowe — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 12:23:46 +0000

I don't expect the ram situation to get any better soon if that's what you're asking.

New comment by deelowe in "Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings"

deelowe — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 08:15:56 +0000

Sometimes it's because the original mix was for theater surround sound and lower mixes were generated via software.

New comment by deelowe in "Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help"

deelowe — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:58:53 +0000

Never thought I'd say this, but I kinda miss Jobs.

New comment by deelowe in "Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files"

deelowe — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:05:00 +0000

That's not how ethical disclosure works. Both parties should publish and we, the wider tech industry should see this as a good thing both for the hacker and the company that worked with them.

New comment by deelowe in "OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race"

deelowe — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:38:48 +0000

Not exactly. Infra will win the race. In this aspect, Google is miles ahead of the competition. Their DC solutions scale very well. Their only risk is that the hardware and low level software stack is EXTREMELY custom. They don't even fully leverage OCP. Having said that, this has never been a major problem for Google over their 20+ years of moving away from OTS parts.

New comment by deelowe in "A graph explorer of the Epstein emails"

deelowe — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 19:58:04 +0000

Bubba was allegedly a nickname for clinton.

New comment by deelowe in "Sustainable memristors from shiitake mycelium for high-frequency bioelectronics"

deelowe — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 16:06:32 +0000

I don't recall this in snow crash

New comment by deelowe in "Poker fraud used X-ray tables, high-tech glasses and NBA players"

deelowe — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 13:16:40 +0000

It's been like that forever. Makes it very hard to take the NBA seriously.

New comment by deelowe in "Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock"

deelowe — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 01:47:16 +0000

> The only real solution is strong privacy laws around gov usage and strong courts willing to enforce it.

I don't think this is a solution, personally.

New comment by deelowe in "Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs"

deelowe — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 11:26:18 +0000

Can a pi achieve the same iops? I'd be highly suspecious of any such claims.

New comment by deelowe in "Cursor 1.7"

deelowe — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 16:12:21 +0000

VScode has a bit of a history now of quickly deprecating competitors who innovate in this space. It already has good options for code completion, AI chat bots, and more features on the horizon. I'm not sure what cursors moat is. Seems to me like Microsoft could easily implement any new feature cursor comes up with.

New comment by deelowe in "Sora 2"

deelowe — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 19:26:45 +0000

Wow. What an intelligent take. I would have never expected this from Ben Affleck. He seems extremely familiar with the technology and it's capabilities and limits.

New comment by deelowe in "That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus"

deelowe — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 20:17:25 +0000

Thank you for sharing. I recall blackice. I'm not seeing anything here would lead me to believe he's an expert in this particular domain though, which is more about nation state intelligence operations than it is anything technical.

New comment by deelowe in "That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus"

deelowe — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 18:05:16 +0000

And what exactly makes "Robert Graham" such an expert in this particular domain? I don't know who this person is or why I should trust their personal blog over the NYT. The article itself is rather hand-wavy in it's assessment of the report. The thesis is essentially "bot farms use lots of sims & this is an example of using lots of sims, therefore this is a bot farm and not espionage."

New comment by deelowe in "That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus"

deelowe — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 18:00:19 +0000

> the programs he has written.

This is authority bias. Being a great programmer does not make one an expert in political propaganda, the inner workings of government, or the media.