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New comment by ern in "Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery"

ern — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 01:16:49 +0000

I've heard that Strange New Worlds was the best of Nu-Trek, so that's disheartening. Star Trek seems to have lost its way from the start of Enterprise (the prequel series) onward.

New comment by ern in "Bill to Ban Private Equity from Owning Medical Practices"

ern — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:12:15 +0000

That's for hospitals though, in one state.

Approximately 45% of GPs in Australia work in practices owned by private companies

https://www.monash.edu/business/che/impact-and-engagement/re...

New comment by ern in "AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran"

ern — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:28:49 +0000

The minute you cross borders you run into data sovereignty concerns. No idea if it applies at the subnational level (US states, Emirates in the UAE etc) but it wouldn't surprise me if it did in some cases.

New comment by ern in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

ern — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:26:37 +0000

Would agents be able to exfilttrate themselves and become intelligent worms, living off stolen compute? Or is this implausble?

What about hiding information or code in generated code, Agents.md files etc by infiltrating future model training data?

Australia risks missing out on AI economic boom due to 'slow' business uptake

ern — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:04:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-31/ai-could-boost-australias-economy-treasury-flag-slow-uptake/107099934

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49510652

Points: 2

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Risk averse Australians not 'having a go' in a culture of compliance (2019)

ern — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:02:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/risk-averse-australians-not-having-a-go-in-a-culture-of-compliance-20190922-p52trp.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49510627

Points: 2

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New comment by ern in "Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI"

ern — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 21:28:45 +0000

I have to admit, I am unsure if this article was some sort of parody.

New comment by ern in "Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak"

ern — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 22:19:25 +0000

I actually find that the less I fuss over a steak, the more optimal the result. I do use a thermometer, but apart from that, cooking it with salt and pepper or some steak spice on a cheap pan (stainless steel) and cutting it when it hits temp (resting seems to be BS) gets me tasty results and immense pleasure.

Similarly, the less I fuss over modern AI tools, the better the results. My personal productivity is through the roof, but I find that outdated processes, mythology and trying to overcontrol sap the benefits of AI on larger pieces of effort involving others.

New comment by ern in "Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024)"

ern — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 22:45:27 +0000

A significant number of phishing attempts would be thwarted if email apps had the option to expand the links next to URLs on platforms without mouseover, like mobile.

New comment by ern in "Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024)"

ern — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 22:32:52 +0000

The phishing in Australia came from uncontrolled SMS gateways which allowed for sender impersonation, not physical phones with SIM cards. They've recently partly closed the loophole by requiring providers to register sender names.

New comment by ern in "Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter"

ern — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 06:53:32 +0000

I still find people trying to run sprints when working with agents, but then saying things like "my sprint length went from 10 days, to 5 days to 3 days", but they balk at the notion that maybe sprints aren't fit for purpose anymore.

New comment by ern in "Learning to code is still worthwhile"

ern — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 23:37:16 +0000

2016: "the median developer is too stupid to do FizzBuzz correctly"

2026: "the median developer is a craftsman whose work is being replaced by AI slop"

New comment by ern in "Why does paper fold so well?"

ern — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:35:22 +0000

I'm not from the UK, but the soft power of BBC Radio 4 in the late 90s and early 2000s (the Real Player era) made the UK seem like an advanced nation to my young and intellectually curious self. If lived in the UK at the time, I'd have been immensely proud of the quality of the programming.

New comment by ern in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

ern — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 07:34:42 +0000

Holy crap, I didn't realize that some many people had been killed, over 200 according to a New York Times report: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/world/americas/us-boat-st...

New comment by ern in "US Government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

ern — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:45:32 +0000

Am I missing something, but given that it flows through Anthropic’s servers I would have thought the US would just have used it to Hoover up the data of foreign users? Now overseas users have an incentive to use local models or those hosted elsewhere?

New comment by ern in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

ern — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 01:42:36 +0000

Don’t legally serious second Amendment supporters regard “arms” as things that can be carried, and are evolved from/analogous to their 18th century hand-carried guns?

It would be hard to classify AI (or tanks, artillery, missiles, aircraft) as “arms” that can be “borne” in that sense.

New comment by ern in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

ern — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:05:12 +0000

Something I hate about ChatGPT is that it assumes I want my text to be rewritten instead of engaging with the content.

I like my writing style. Sure it may leave some sort of linguistic fingerprint and it may not meet some LLM’s idea of what “good” looks like, but I don’t care.

What’s worrying is that the rewrite-by-default behavior is probably there because most users want it.

New comment by ern in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

ern — Sat, 23 May 2026 19:16:47 +0000

I know this is going to. be contentious, but US mainstream discourse seems to have completely eliminated the distinction between illegal and legal immigration, in the last 10 years. Everyone seems to be a "migrant".

New comment by ern in "Tesla Solar Roof is on life support as it pivot to panels"

ern — Mon, 18 May 2026 07:24:58 +0000

Tesla’s Solar Roof uses string inverters rather than micro-inverters or power optimizers, which means that partial shading on any section of the roof can shut down production for that entire string. This is a significant design limitation that competing solar installers address with panel-level optimization technology from companies like Enphase and SolarEdge.

This seems to be overblown. I've seen plenty of string inverters around without issues, I'm not sure why this being used against Tesla in particular.

New comment by ern in "Mercurial, 20 years and counting: how are we still alive and kicking? [video]"

ern — Sun, 17 May 2026 20:10:55 +0000

The clean linear history thing is something I never really got, despite using git for 12 years now. I worked with some smart developers whose rule was "rebase if you want, but if too complicated, just merge", and it didn't hurt the delivery or maintainability of the code they wrote.