Hacker News: gbriel

New comment by gbriel in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

gbriel — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 19:36:01 +0000

If you’re a U.S. citizen: CBP cannot deny you entry to the United States merely because you refuse to unlock the phone. If you’re a non-citizen seeking admission: refusal is much riskier.

The important wrinkle is that CBP’s published policy expressly guarantees that a person being admitted as a U.S. citizen won’t be denied entry solely because CBP couldn’t inspect the device. It doesn’t give lawful permanent resident (green card holders) that same explicit statement. Instead, it says refusal by a “foreign national” can be considered in an admissibility determination.

New comment by gbriel in "Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up"

gbriel — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 08:19:52 +0000

Reality is probabilistic, not branching. Before measurement, multiple outcomes are possible; after collapse, only one becomes real.

New comment by gbriel in "The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics"

gbriel — Fri, 22 May 2026 07:03:59 +0000

Regulation is dead under this current US administration (unless you pay a bribe). It's so weird this is where we are right now and most of the tech leadership has to play along even though it's technically illegal?

New comment by gbriel in "At least 25 Flock cameras have been destroyed in five states since April 2025"

gbriel — Sun, 17 May 2026 18:33:14 +0000

So Americans (plural) is true, since there are > 1 people smashing cameras. (:

I would love to use AI to re-write article headlines into non-ragebait slop.

New comment by gbriel in "Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs"

gbriel — Tue, 05 May 2026 18:01:21 +0000

This is a good solution, instead of everyone blowing tokens on repeating the same computer use task, come up with a way to share the workflows. I think you'd need to make sure there aren't workflows shared that extract user information (passwords).

New comment by gbriel in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

gbriel — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:26:05 +0000

Music player, organizer, discovery tool that will load history and subscriptions from streaming services and discogs, last.fm etc and allow you to query it with AI.

https://prettygoodmusic.app

A work in progress.

New comment by gbriel in "British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time"

gbriel — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 06:25:41 +0000

My dream is everyone has a personal clock based on their GPS location and solar noon is always when the sun is highest overhead wherever they are. Go to sleep and wake up based on this clock and use it for nothing else.

New comment by gbriel in "British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time"

gbriel — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 06:22:42 +0000

Start school later. I understand people also have jobs, start those jobs later. I understand people have expectations about when stores open. They can figure it out that stores open when the sun comes up. If they need to plan they can ask when sunrise is.

New comment by gbriel in "Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state"

gbriel — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 21:52:13 +0000

- Jan 6, the day the votes are certified by Congress.

- The goal was interrupting the peaceful transfer of presidential power, a foundational element of U.S. constitutional governance.

- Force was used to disrupt lawful governmental authority.

- Part of a larger conspiracy to use alternate slates of electors to dispute the election and send it back to state legistatures (see Eastman memo and resulting lawsuits).

New comment by gbriel in "Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state"

gbriel — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 17:03:00 +0000

Reminder: Glen Greenwald doesn’t think Jan 6 was an insurrection and now aligns with people like Tim Pool and Alex Jones.

New comment by gbriel in "Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state"

gbriel — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 16:53:57 +0000

His ideology is “America bad”, which leads to some alignment with foreign influence and arguably leads to him spreading propaganda

New comment by gbriel in "AI is killing B2B SaaS"

gbriel — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 06:05:51 +0000

You're assuming that code in the future will need to be unvibed. Either the code will be good, or AI will be good enough to unvibe it. That might be awhile in the future but it will happen.

New comment by gbriel in "Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode"

gbriel — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 20:10:24 +0000

"custom versions of Claude"

New comment by gbriel in "The Codex App"

gbriel — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 07:56:06 +0000

Majority of devs > 60% in the valley use MacOS for development. Apple hardware is best in class. It's unix like. Cost isn't an issue. Macbooks look cool. Many reasons.

New comment by gbriel in "xAI joins SpaceX"

gbriel — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:34:05 +0000

As long as they stay below Van Allen belts and deal with weaker magnetic shielding in sun synchronous orbit (high latitudes).

I would say they probably something a little beefier than consumer hardware and just deal with lots of failures and bit flips.

But cooling is a bigger issue probably?

New comment by gbriel in "Roam 50GB is now Roam 100GB"

gbriel — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:19:22 +0000

Look at Elon's X replies

New comment by gbriel in "Roam 50GB is now Roam 100GB"

gbriel — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:18:19 +0000

The vast majority of the international community, including the United Nations, the United States, and the European Union, recognizes Crimea as a sovereign part of Ukraine. :)

New comment by gbriel in "Palantir could be the most overvalued company that ever existed"

gbriel — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 09:09:05 +0000

The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.

New comment by gbriel in "High-income job losses are cooling housing demand"

gbriel — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:02:58 +0000

Doesn't it seem ingenuine how everything good is socialism and everything bad is communism? Also if socialism can't compete with capitalism then it's doomed. Socialism must make capitalism illegal in order to succeed and I don't want to be in a place where capitalism is illegal. And "market socialism" is not socialism either.

New comment by gbriel in "John Giannandrea to retire from Apple"

gbriel — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 23:59:26 +0000

Everyone is struggling to create AI tools. And just because you don't approve of how they spend time to make their UI look "fancy", doesn't really mean much. You are not a normal user/customer.