Hacker News: gitfan86

New comment by gitfan86 in "Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock"

gitfan86 — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 10:18:19 +0000

I don't understand why you assume that the government is following all the laws when it comes to cell phones and cloud data but won't when it comes to ring data?

New comment by gitfan86 in "Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock"

gitfan86 — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 10:12:24 +0000

To all the people talking about government surveillance do you not realize the government already can track you by your cell phone?

New comment by gitfan86 in "Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at SFO"

gitfan86 — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 00:36:39 +0000

Waymo cannot scale. So for most people it's irrelevant.

Tesla FSD makes driving 90% less taxing mentally. It does 99.9% of the driving perfectly. And its getting better. We are quickly approaching a situation where people who don't drive Teslas are like people who cut their grass with Sickle as compared to people who have driving lawn mowers

New comment by gitfan86 in "Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at SFO"

gitfan86 — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 00:33:25 +0000

LOL

New comment by gitfan86 in "The treasury is expanding the Patriot Act to attack Bitcoin self custody"

gitfan86 — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 21:22:32 +0000

LOL, the BTC people who thought "Digital Gold" was a good slogan are going to learn what happened to self custody of gold and the gold standard.

BTC is in a much worse situation than gold was in 1970. The government has the technology to follow transactions and require BTC transactions to be done on their chain with their BTC equivalent GBTCs. That is until the government decides to issue print more BTC equivalents

New comment by gitfan86 in "Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage. Our team is investigating"

gitfan86 — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 20:41:21 +0000

Config error, being rolled back now

New comment by gitfan86 in "OpenAI claims gold-medal performance at IMO 2025"

gitfan86 — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 20:20:10 +0000

AI sceptics are on a trajectory towards philosophy.

New comment by gitfan86 in "OpenAI claims gold-medal performance at IMO 2025"

gitfan86 — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 19:34:24 +0000

This is such an interesting time because the percentage of people who are making predictions about AGI happening on the future are going to drop off and the number of people completely ignoring the term AGI will increase.

New comment by gitfan86 in "AI capex is so big that it's affecting economic statistics"

gitfan86 — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 19:29:39 +0000

Nails are not zero sum. You can get a bunch of nails without limiting how many nails I have.

Social status is zero sum and as more of the economy gets automated that becomes all that is left that is scarce

New comment by gitfan86 in "AI capex is so big that it's affecting economic statistics"

gitfan86 — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 01:06:02 +0000

The counterintuitive part of automation is that it removes parts of the economy rather than making the economy bigger. You end up with more goods but the value people assign to them goes down as they don't provide additional social advantage.

For example at one point nails were 0.5% of the economy and today owning a nail factory is a low margin business that has no social status.

Similarly the percentage of the economy and social status associated with frontend software dev will get automated and become a smaller percentage of the economy.

Since social status is a zero sum game people increase spending in other areas where social status can be helped.

New comment by gitfan86 in "GLP-1s Are Breaking Life Insurance"

gitfan86 — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 03:20:34 +0000

Not really, they can just stop insuring people who take them at all.

New comment by gitfan86 in "Breaking Git with a carriage return and cloning RCE"

gitfan86 — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 02:59:58 +0000

Many people use IE 11. Still an edge case.

New comment by gitfan86 in "Breaking Git with a carriage return and cloning RCE"

gitfan86 — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 23:45:32 +0000

Just using git isn't the vulnerability. The vulnerability is that you clone a repo that an attacker was able to put this in. 90% of the time this would happen it would be due to an attacker creating a PR on a public repo.

New comment by gitfan86 in "Breaking Git with a carriage return and cloning RCE"

gitfan86 — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 23:41:39 +0000

Those people won't be vulnerable to this attack, since this attack is only useful in supply chain attacks. The people vulnerable to this would be maintainers of open source repos who could end up approving a malicious PR.

New comment by gitfan86 in "Breaking Git with a carriage return and cloning RCE"

gitfan86 — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 15:58:27 +0000

You can always find edge cases in security. Someone somewhere is running Internet Explorer 10 but that doesn't mean Chrome fixing bugs doesn't dramatically reduce effectiveness of attacks

New comment by gitfan86 in "Breaking Git with a carriage return and cloning RCE"

gitfan86 — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 20:49:14 +0000

This seems easy for GitHub to block

New comment by gitfan86 in "Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to kick-start superintelligence lab"

gitfan86 — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 16:49:10 +0000

Sam Altman is a huge risk to META. He has similar morals to Zuck and a much better technical team. If OpenAI turns on the slop generator, they could hit Facebook and Instagram hard. Wang is probably smart enough to help navigate that risk.

New comment by gitfan86 in "AI makes the humanities more important, but also weirder"

gitfan86 — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 21:42:30 +0000

Quality rises to the top organically.

New comment by gitfan86 in "AI makes the humanities more important, but also weirder"

gitfan86 — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 14:32:50 +0000

For every Quinton Tarantino there are dozens of people who could make amazing films but never had the opportunity for a wide variety of reasons that now mostly go away.

New comment by gitfan86 in "OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B"

gitfan86 — Wed, 07 May 2025 12:28:21 +0000

The entire reason OpenAI has a high valuation is the expectation that AI will get a lot better in the next few years. If that happens, building a clone of Cursor/windsurf should be trivial. The only reason you would buy windsurf today is to either pump up the bubble OR use it to increase your market share of developers by taking users away from claude