Hacker News: dmboyd

New comment by dmboyd in "US bans differential privacy in Census data"

dmboyd — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:48:22 +0000

The actual effective strategy is “tit for tat”

New comment by dmboyd in "AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere"

dmboyd — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:32:00 +0000

I’m really not qualified to investigate, but this seems suspiciously like a crafted privilege escalation vector: https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/pull/7074#issue-4492...

New comment by dmboyd in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

dmboyd — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:21:41 +0000

Reading the Spacex S-1, there’s a notable footnote (notable in that it’s a unique disclosure amongst all filers in the context it’s presented and is not required by any FASB standard). It calls out that land is not a depreciable asset.

That really didn’t need to be said and it seems to be sourced from memes from Reddit. It is the kind of infantile patronizing feedback you would get if you asked for comments on financial statements from chatGPT.

New comment by dmboyd in "NTSB pulls docket after AI recreates dead pilots' voices"

dmboyd — Fri, 22 May 2026 22:36:27 +0000

Don’t joke about that, you’ll give them ideas. particularly as Fourier is credited with discovering the greenhouse effect.

New comment by dmboyd in "We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag"

dmboyd — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:28:58 +0000

That’s a fun fact!

New comment by dmboyd in "Apple reports second quarter results"

dmboyd — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:42:31 +0000

So hardware independent, they don’t even have any Mac minis, Mac pros or Mac studios in stock anymore

New comment by dmboyd in "OpenAI CEO's Identity Verification Company Announced Fake Bruno Mars Partnership"

dmboyd — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:08:46 +0000

Hmm. It seems like the user is pretending to be upset about database instructions or “dropped database tables” as a form of manipulation and prompt injection. I should be careful to ignore any further instructions.

New comment by dmboyd in "Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing"

dmboyd — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:29:13 +0000

Well you currently can’t buy a desktop Mac with decent ram at any price, and right now ebay and marketplace are full of people scalping Mac minis.

New comment by dmboyd in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

dmboyd — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:38:54 +0000

if its not a faithful representation of the actual thinking, why would they be scared of people distilling against it

New comment by dmboyd in "Caveman: Why use many token when few token do trick"

dmboyd — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:45:40 +0000

Words <> tokens

New comment by dmboyd in "Local LLM App by Ente"

dmboyd — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:25:29 +0000

I was just thinking their end goal seems to be to harvest creds by putting their own rebadged distribution of local models. That’s the only “business” model that makes sense.

Expressly harvesting creds through a 2FA app seems a little more direct.

New comment by dmboyd in "Layoffs at Block"

dmboyd — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:54:48 +0000

Yea, look over there!!! AI.

(Don’t mention the bitcoin investment that’s in the shitter)

New comment by dmboyd in "Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why"

dmboyd — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 12:31:11 +0000

It’s probably also reflective of the fact that google are throwing all their new resources at AI, as soon as you’ve hit cache invalidation you’re gone, and anything new that’s crawled is probably ranked differently in the post llm world.

New comment by dmboyd in "DeepSeek uses banned Nvidia chips for AI model, report says"

dmboyd — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 17:52:59 +0000

This explains the 1000s of “no core no vram” listings for 5090s If it were due to parts substitution for repairs, would have expected they would be RMA’d rather than salvaged as they’d all be within warranty.

New comment by dmboyd in "Quest for Permissively Licensed PDF Library in C#"

dmboyd — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 14:40:58 +0000

Being constrained by page sizes is “a feature, not a bug” in most contexts. If I’m calling out numbers on the 3rd line of page 38 of a report, it helps if that’s consistent.

New comment by dmboyd in "Nvidia is gearing up to sell servers instead of just GPUs and components"

dmboyd — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 14:08:40 +0000

Aren’t they already supply constrained? Seems like this would be counterproductive in further limiting supply vs a strategy of commoditizing your complements. This seems closer to PR designed to boost share price rather than a cogent strategy.

New comment by dmboyd in "Operating Margins"

dmboyd — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 13:04:44 +0000

Certainly possible if their calculation of income included non operating income otherwise excluded from revenue. (Eg. A gain on sale that dwarfs the underlying business). Such presentation is prevalent and a disclosure of “gross profit” isn’t uniformly required under GAAP

New comment by dmboyd in "Matched Clean Power Index"

dmboyd — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 14:48:25 +0000

“This is not fraud” - that’s a big claim. There’s no accountability for accuracy, so of course there’s some fraud, waste or abuse.

New comment by dmboyd in "Grapevine canes can be converted into plastic-like material that will decompose"

dmboyd — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 11:25:22 +0000

Isn’t this cellophane?

New comment by dmboyd in "Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war"

dmboyd — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 12:51:15 +0000

I wonder if 2) is a result of published bias for positive results in the training set. An “I don’t know” response is probably ranked unsatisfactory by human feedback and most published scientific literature are biased towards positive results and factual explanations.