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New comment by dmazin in "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence"

dmazin — Fri, 22 May 2026 12:11:23 +0000

The point of a graduation speech like this is to get students hyped up about themselves and their future. Surely you see the merit in, amongst a backdrop of a horrible job market, telling students that they have, inherent in them, the stuff of greatness, just as people did (checks watch) 3 years ago before vibe coding?

New comment by dmazin in "Every AI Subscription Is a Ticking Time Bomb for Enterprise"

dmazin — Sun, 17 May 2026 13:39:56 +0000

As a few commenters already pointed out, IME enterprises aren't paying for subscriptions. They're paying per token.

But also... is this shit AI written? I'm so tired of this.

New comment by dmazin in "Steve Jobs Next Computer: His Forgotten Exile Years"

dmazin — Fri, 15 May 2026 12:57:57 +0000

Yeah, that's definitely my favorite book about Apple/Steve Jobs.

New comment by dmazin in "Steve Jobs in Exile – New book on his years at NeXT Computer"

dmazin — Fri, 15 May 2026 11:40:04 +0000

If you want more on this, I recommend Steve Jobs and the Next Big Thing by Stross. I’m not sure, but it might be the only extensive book about Next other than this new one.

Though it’s essentially a long hit piece. The author really had it out for Jobs.

In fact it’s a completely uncharitable book now that I think about it. Hopefully this new book will be a lot less biased.

New comment by dmazin in "SFO Quiet Airport (2025)"

dmazin — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 07:31:05 +0000

Yeah, 1/1 is one song I always keep downloaded to my phone for this reason!

Thanks for that article, love to read about well intended design being poorly received.

New comment by dmazin in "SFO Quiet Airport (2025)"

dmazin — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 07:27:43 +0000

Was it in that kind of touristy area filled with children? I didn’t think to go in.

Is this a regular thing?!

New comment by dmazin in "SFO Quiet Airport (2025)"

dmazin — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:07:00 +0000

Has anyone actually heard Eno at the airport? What is it like? Does it actually calm you?

New comment by dmazin in "Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again"

dmazin — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 05:32:52 +0000

I got sick of the inconsistency caused by Anthropic tinkering with Claude Code and had canceled my 20x. My plan was to switch to Codex so I could use it in Pi.

I am specifically talking about switching because of the harness, not model quality. Anyone else match my experience?

I wonder how many other people recently did the same. It would be prudent of Anthropic to let people use Pro/Max OAuth tokens with other harnesses I think. Even though I get why they want to own the eyeballs.

New comment by dmazin in "NASA Force"

dmazin — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:39:58 +0000

Agreed.

That said if this bothers you I highly recommend not looking up how many Space Shuttle missions are classified.

New comment by dmazin in "The beginning of scarcity in AI"

dmazin — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:45:27 +0000

Constraints can lead to innovation. Just two things that I think will get dramatically better now that companies have incentive to focus on them:

* harness design

* small models (both local and not)

I think there is tremendous low hanging fruit in both areas still.

New comment by dmazin in "StepFun 3.5 Flash is #1 cost-effective model for OpenClaw tasks (300 battles)"

dmazin — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:43:18 +0000

why do half the comments here read like ai trying to boost some sort of scam?

New comment by dmazin in "Artemis II is not safe to fly"

dmazin — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 07:09:52 +0000

Maciej now has a Mars newsletter, which I obviously subscribed to immediately: https://mceglowski.substack.com/

I didn’t even have a strong interest in space before the dude started writing about it. Maciej could write about literal rocks and make it worthwhile to read.

New comment by dmazin in "Show HN: I put an AI agent on a $7/month VPS with IRC as its transport layer"

dmazin — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:44:15 +0000

Well, it should only update what it says: security updates (from official Ubuntu sources) unless you change the configuration.

New comment by dmazin in "A rogue AI led to a serious security incident at Meta"

dmazin — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:09:58 +0000

This is a lot less of a story than it seems.

It makes it sound like a rogue AI hacked Meta.

Instead, the "wild" thing here is that someone let an agent speak on their behalf with no review. The agent posted inaccurate instructions which someone else followed.

Those instructions lead to a brief gap in internal ACL controls, sounds like. I'm sorry, but given that the US government gave 14 year olds off incel Discords full access to Social Security data, this is not shocking by comparison.

To be clear, it is dumb and rude to let an agent speak on your behalf _without even reviewing it_.

This will eventually lead to a bigger snafu, of course. Security teams should control or at least review the agent permissions of every installation. Everyone is adopting this stuff, and a whole lot of people are going to set it up lazily/wrong (yolo mode at work).

New comment by dmazin in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

dmazin — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 07:41:02 +0000

Me: “I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?” Opus 4.6, without searching the web: “Drive. You’re going to a car wash. ”

In the Age of AI, Don't Let Your Skills Atrophy

dmazin — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 05:08:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cyberdemon.org/2023/03/29/age-of-ai-skill-atrophy.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47031116

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by dmazin in "A brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks (2024)"

dmazin — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:00:24 +0000

If you can get your hands on it, I recommend Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook by the same author. She covers barbed wire as well as many other ways to communicate. The book itself is gorgeous.

Medieval Widowhood

dmazin — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:57:48 +0000

Article URL: https://medievalmarginalia.substack.com/p/on-medieval-widowhood

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946645

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by dmazin in "Best Gas Masks"

dmazin — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 18:50:14 +0000

While NYT etc mostly stand back as the U.S. crosses the rubicon, what started as a freaking gadget review site seems to employ nearly all the journalists with actual gusto left in America.

New comment by dmazin in "New YC homepage"

dmazin — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 22:00:28 +0000

Wow – thank you for that.