Hacker News: fma

New comment by fma in "PHP2Shell: AI uncovers critical RCE in PHP"

fma — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 18:02:02 +0000

WSJ reports Calif used 6.1 Sol

New comment by fma in "Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days"

fma — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:30:46 +0000

I have a smart plug that can turn on and off...I have my coffee maker switched on, and it only switches on when my wifi plug is on. So I can have the water heating before I come down stairs. Whether it's better than a smart coffee maker or not I'm not sure - but at least I have a popular device that has more eye. Not sure how many people are looking at niche coffee makers.

New comment by fma in "Plan mode is dead"

fma — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 20:04:16 +0000

The person who grows the wheat understands how to grow the wheat. The person who grist the flour understands how to grist the flour.

And I would understand how to bake bread from scratch.

Now in the entire chain, we will get to a point where no one knows anything.

New comment by fma in "Tutoring company tells parents to save their money and 'use AI instead'"

fma — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:10:19 +0000

That's great but you're not an 8 year old.

New comment by fma in "Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX"

fma — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 11:25:55 +0000

>we'd already be seeing vibed stuff succeeding everywhere, and pricing out incumbents, but I guess I'm not seeing this? Like at all?

As a small business owner I see this. Random people contacting me to sell a software where I can instantly tell it is vibe coded. Subscription prices half or 1/4th of incumbents. Domain names registered in the last few months.

New comment by fma in "Two German airport workers die of malaria after 'mosquito arrives on plane'"

fma — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:10:45 +0000

Kind of similar to rabies. If you get bit by a rabid animal in an area with lots of rabies, the doctors know what to do and you get meds immediately for cheap.

In the US it's a few thousand dollars for the treatment.

New comment by fma in "AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain"

fma — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 23:09:58 +0000

I remember for math tests in high school/college it was easier for me to derive formulas than to remember it.

New comment by fma in "Glaciers on the Climate Dashboard"

fma — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:48:35 +0000

Can we be more specific and say it was Trump who pulled the US out of the Paris Accord, twice.

New comment by fma in "Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone"

fma — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:26:47 +0000

My comment got a lot of traction but for context my kids are early in elementary school, far from their teenage years.

The intention of the iPad was to watch some educational videos, check out books, magazines from the library.

They still have occasional access but only with direct active supervision (i.e we are next to them vs we are making dinner).

As they get older, we will revisit.

New comment by fma in "Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds"

fma — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:05:30 +0000

Fall behind what. How long does it take to learn how to use AI.

I would rather my kids have the intelligence to know when to figure out AI is wrong than to start using Ai at an early age.

New comment by fma in "Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone"

fma — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:06:10 +0000

>children have quickly found workarounds for such measures, such as asking friends to message them links, which can bypass restrictions when opened

I was very surprised of this by my own kids find workarounds like l33t hackers. Apple's restrictions are a joke. The app store is full of things they can mess with. My daughter mentioned some way to get around screen time.

I've ended up just taking the iPads away.

New comment by fma in "LongCat-2.0, a large-scale MoE model with 1.6T total and 48B Active"

fma — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:55:12 +0000

I don't listen to Dwarkesh but I'm aware of who is and his influence. I was baffled that he could not understand it...Don't know if he had his own agenda or just not intelligent (which is scarey for someone with influencec), but I sensed the frustration in Jensen Huang for something that is fairly obviously.

The same scenario happens all the time when the US takes away something from China and China doubles down, gets into survival mode and then beats the US.

New comment by fma in "U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations"

fma — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 13:53:58 +0000

May have an overlap of which political campaign they donate too.

New comment by fma in "A man was gifted his dream car by Kevin Mitnick, who he helped put in prison"

fma — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 04:29:44 +0000

Why hack a password when you can get the employee to just tell you.

New comment by fma in "Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school"

fma — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 22:00:13 +0000

>using LLMs for massive parts of the jobs they grow up to do

These are elementary school kids...if they start using AI in 6th grade, they have 6 years to learn AI before graduating high school.

New comment by fma in "Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything"

fma — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:32:23 +0000

I bought a returned, "Like New" laptop for my wife. Some Lenovo, higher end consumer laptop. The onboarding process was terrible. Something like, the wifi drivers were not included. I had to create a local account to download the drivers. But there's no ethernet port. Luckily had a USB to Ethernet dongle.

I thought to myself...yeah no wonder someone returned this.

New comment by fma in "GoPro warned it may not survive"

fma — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:53:29 +0000

I assume you refer to the Go Pro MAX2...I bought one because per reviews it was actually pretty solid. Costco sold it so I could return if I didn't like it. My prior camera was the Samsung 360 - which is discontinued. Been fairly happy with the Max 2 - I do mostly outdoor shooting. I can't compare it to the Insta360 or DJI but the reviews says Go Pro MAX2 is superior in outdoors, daylight which is my main use case.

Since everything is processed on camera/phone I hope I can still use it even if they go under.

New comment by fma in "An AI Hate Wave Is Here"

fma — Mon, 18 May 2026 00:58:54 +0000

It may not be as big as tech layoffs but my wife negotiated a relocation. We used a broker and a lawyer for the first time. We did consultation with a new set of brokers and lawyers. My wife felt they were not aggressive enough. She negotiated EVERYTHING with the landlord (a very large regional landlord). She got more than what she would get and everything was in her favor.

Not only did she gain $50k more in tenant improvement/free rent/et and other freebies that the brokers/lawers she did not get, but easily saved $10k to paying these "professionals".

New comment by fma in "Ted Turner, cable TV visionary who created CNN, dies at 87"

fma — Wed, 06 May 2026 15:58:08 +0000

I still use it to see of my Internet connection still works. It's only 3 letters and likely won't be serving me cached content from my browser.

New comment by fma in "California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws"

fma — Sat, 02 May 2026 20:06:15 +0000

>Why not require breathalyzers in cars before starting them?

FYI Cars will soon detect if you are impaired.