Hacker News: felixgallo

New comment by felixgallo in "Quick impressions: A week of using Codex more than Claude"

felixgallo — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:43:02 +0000

Speaking of crimes, the guy behind Grok not only manipulates it for propaganda purposes, but also he's the guy responsible for this: https://www.doge-impact.org/

Anyone using Sam Altman's OpenAI is making a poor ethical decision, but anyone using Grok is, objectively, supporting a monster.

New comment by felixgallo in "As Wisconsin cities flee Flock, its shared camera network loses value"

felixgallo — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:57:16 +0000

https://www.politico.com/2024-election/results/wisconsin/

New comment by felixgallo in "Show HN: Live Claude Usage HUD for a $38 Thermalright Trofeo Vision LCD"

felixgallo — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 23:17:57 +0000

What is tough about /usage or settings usage?

New comment by felixgallo in "The Legend of the Novell NE2000 [video]"

felixgallo — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:38:29 +0000

3c509

New comment by felixgallo in "Delphi 13 Community Edition Is Now Available"

felixgallo — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:16:07 +0000

Unfortunately, if you intend on using Delphi, that will be $1200 plus $399 a year for the basic commercial license, and if you also intend on using databases, that will be $4600 plus $1399 a year. Or, you could use .NET, which is $0, and overwhelmingly better supported at this point.

Embarcadero is milking a shrinking captive market, VMWare style. It makes perfect financial sense given the asset, but it's unfortunate for those of us with happy memories of Delphi 6 and 7.

New comment by felixgallo in "Seedance 2.5"

felixgallo — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 22:40:31 +0000

Only if you don’t think about it for more than two or three seconds. Then you remember deepfake revenge porn and elon musk style child sexual material.

New comment by felixgallo in "DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis"

felixgallo — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 20:02:10 +0000

Claude is about the least spendy thing a software engineer can use. If you can't afford $200 a month, you're probably not working professionally (which is ok, no value judgement, but then being on the premium business plan is a little strange).

New comment by felixgallo in "DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis"

felixgallo — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:51:23 +0000

what plan are your 'fellow software engineers' using? I have a hard time even using up the Fable part of my allowance in a week of coding.

New comment by felixgallo in "The growing vigilante movement to knock out Flock surveillance cameras"

felixgallo — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 20:56:23 +0000

the right to free speech has nothing to do with what social media companies do. Social media companies are not compelled by anything, in law or otherwise, to amplify your particular post.

New comment by felixgallo in "FreeBSD 16 Retires the Last of Its GPL Code from Its Base System"

felixgallo — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:45:07 +0000

As an example, I had a headless devuan instance that took an extra ~50s to ssh to today, repeatably. Checked to see if it was DNS -- wasn't DNS. Checked to see if it was misconfigured ssh -- wasn't misconfigured ssh. Eventually it turned out to be that /etc/pam.md/common-session was misconfigured by installation default to have 'pam_elogind.so' set up, which was trying to do some cockamamie dbus bullshit to communicate with some linux desktop nonsense that wasn't even installed, and there were a bunch of extremely poorly configured timeouts (!) (!!!) which eventually caused ssh to hang.

Each of these components was obviously written by some deeply incompetent junior developer at IBM working on a jira ticket as part of the continuing effort to slather enough janky nonsense on top of linux that it might maybe behave one day enough like windows 95 to be usable as a desktop environment by normal people. And then the default was set by some deeply incompetent environment package maintainer and accepted by some deeply incompetent debian committee.

This lumbering corporate enshittification of what at the core used to be a simple and comprehensible system is why things like freebsd and alpine (and, to a certain extent until today, devuan) are a breath of fresh air to use. When the system is not being actively undermined by a bunch of new grads with jira tickets and no understanding of the entirety of the system, it's amazing what you can get done.

New comment by felixgallo in "Demis Hassabis has a plan to harness AI safely"

felixgallo — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:32:12 +0000

Unfortunately this is not just precarious, it's extremely vulnerable to changing political conditions. Many of the food bank services in my state have lost significant funding owing to the use of words like 'women' or 'black' in their grants, which were duly grepped for and shut down.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Cuts-t...

Civilization can't rely effectively on systems that are this fragile.

New comment by felixgallo in "DOGE is done. What happened to its records?"

felixgallo — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:31:54 +0000

Do you mean something like the longstanding Government Accountability Office, which was formed by the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921?

New comment by felixgallo in "Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke"

felixgallo — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 10:37:44 +0000

People have got to stop falling for exaggerated rage bait.

New comment by felixgallo in "Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets"

felixgallo — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 23:00:25 +0000

Do you know who the CEO is?

New comment by felixgallo in "30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech"

felixgallo — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 23:46:46 +0000

'they' is doing a lot of work. This guy wasn't even there.

New comment by felixgallo in "Gossamer: a Rust-flavoured language with real goroutines and pause-free memory"

felixgallo — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 20:38:36 +0000

you know what's even worse than slop? Zero-effort 'is this maybe slop can someone tell me' posting.

New comment by felixgallo in "Federal agents track down woman, demand she remove Instagram post about ICE"

felixgallo — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:25:43 +0000

You don't have to 'hear' anything. If you watch the video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNbHlmZVmAw for example (0:55), you see that the tires are turned completely away from the murderer, who fires shots directly into her even though he is obviously not in danger of being seriously harmed.

New comment by felixgallo in "Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place"

felixgallo — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:55:56 +0000

You're going to have to show your work on that one. Western democracies are suffering not because they are failing, but because they have been chipped away at for decades by fanatical right wing billionaires intent on eliminating taxes and securing their place in a perpetual oligarchy.

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

felixgallo — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:10:44 +0000

Claude has been involved in the planning of a war crime, for sure. But 'Anthropic has had zero issue with it' is an unfounded assertion that you are making up.

Fielding a fully autonomous kill bot is absolutely a war crime under the IHL; specifically, there is no current universe under which a bot can reliably tell a combatant from a non-combatant, or a civilian target from a military target, or act in a proportional manner.

New comment by felixgallo in "Anthropic's Safety Superpower"

felixgallo — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:26:17 +0000

it's a pretty ridiculous stretch to attribute them thinking that OpenAI wasn't taking safety seriously enough (which is, among other things, a little bit evident from the fact that they no longer have a safety team at all) into asserting that they want to control the US government.