Hacker News: gnerd00

New comment by gnerd00 in "Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US sanctioned territory [pdf]"

gnerd00 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:35:56 +0000

wait until you find out about Facebook!

New comment by gnerd00 in "Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'"

gnerd00 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:23:06 +0000

except the courts are somewhat functional, and the law has a lot of pro-privacy and pro-consumer basis. It is not so simple as "lie" but, the clay feet of the idol are showing today.

New comment by gnerd00 in "Massachusetts bans sale of precise location data in new privacy rights bill"

gnerd00 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:03:13 +0000

it's out of Committee in the House and passed a House vote.. not done yet

New comment by gnerd00 in "Surveillance is not safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf]"

gnerd00 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:08:47 +0000

Twitter people expressly started their company with the idea of crowd-friendly semi-anonymous msgs on demand.

The game of GO delivers an idea where a very large construct can be built then in one move the entire thing flips to a different purpose... seems relevant somehow..

New comment by gnerd00 in "Vitamin D3 During Pregnancy and Cognitive Performance at 10 Years"

gnerd00 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 16:14:35 +0000

add night time lighting of all kinds..

New comment by gnerd00 in "Communities of Not"

gnerd00 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 18:07:23 +0000

> An influencer without children becomes a parent, an urban bike commuter by choice buys a Porsche, a respected developer tries LLMs, and the community feels betrayed

wow - certain tech people live in an alternate world. I feel like this group with these problems are like a social anti-matter at this time of history: Isolated in a bizarre network tech, too much money and time, outrage in a teacup, constantly self-referential, untouchable by many.. go live in space suits then.. bye

New comment by gnerd00 in "Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground"

gnerd00 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:52:32 +0000

> do writers and authors still really care about AI

it is demographics.. there is no single answer, you are talking about millions of people with varying amounts of this JOB description

> most people are completely put off by AI slop

this is almost pathological.. most people consume media not produce it. Those in the business of media have been eliminating people for thirty years, and this AI tooling has multiplied that effect

> the value of XXXX writing or image generation generation is basically zero

yes - bingo.. the average capable person now can expect to be paid ZERO for their ability to personally produce writing or image generation.. and, if you don't start somewhere, you will never get to ascend the ladder of success in those fields, by definition

> I suspect that the cloud will pass on math too

consistent with the other statements here, this is 180 degrees false.. substantiation? the content of the letter signed by world class mathematicians, who are visibly quite concerned

New comment by gnerd00 in "A 10 year old Xeon is all you need"

gnerd00 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:39:08 +0000

Xeon is a group of products with really varying specs. There is no indication of which XEONs. Also new consumer CPUs often have really small internal caches.

New comment by gnerd00 in "The Melancholy of Slaying Monsters"

gnerd00 — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:58:07 +0000

I knew a Buddhist monk in Berkeley in the 1990s who was very interested in "games" to teach Dharma.. Games in those days did not look like they do in the last ten years.. Obviously what is now called AAA games are very much the opposite of Dharma talks..

New comment by gnerd00 in "NTSB pulls docket after AI recreates dead pilots' voices"

gnerd00 — Fri, 22 May 2026 21:21:01 +0000

you are correct - I coded this in the late 1980s with digital sound domain experts

New comment by gnerd00 in "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence"

gnerd00 — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:17:18 +0000

agree but it is military thinking that makes him smug like that

New comment by gnerd00 in "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence"

gnerd00 — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:45:46 +0000

Tim Cook Apple with Palo Alto money and constant surveillance does not jibe with jovial intellectual prankster.. do tell

New comment by gnerd00 in "BBEdit 16"

gnerd00 — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:48:55 +0000

So great to see this -- the last version of BBedit I paid for is the gold standard for me, for editors... I mean compared to twenty other editors of various kinds on desktop Linux and elsewhere..

New comment by gnerd00 in "Claude for Legal"

gnerd00 — Thu, 14 May 2026 22:52:37 +0000

the look on the face of the Court administrator upon hearing someone describe the "paperclip maximizer" problem.. ominous!

New comment by gnerd00 in "The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization"

gnerd00 — Thu, 14 May 2026 16:59:44 +0000

> funding the best people

that brought surveillance capitalism? this analysis needs a lot of refinement

New comment by gnerd00 in "Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent"

gnerd00 — Thu, 14 May 2026 00:45:05 +0000

I dont know what it means, but you missed an important category that was mentioned elsewhere ... brutal, even sadistic levels of work to filter students. I was in these kind of classes in my undergrad.

New comment by gnerd00 in "Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent"

gnerd00 — Wed, 13 May 2026 23:59:10 +0000

don't know about the phone era, but previously schools were widely separated by reputation and practice. "lazy or too slow son of a wealthy family" went to certain schools that had that element. The really competitive and state-of-the-art schools really did not do that "directly". There were approaches for example sports, and niche majors that were easier for sure. Another observation is that some advanced students were into specific and dedicated cheating in order to win. Others had a "party" orientation and just did not do as much schoolwork. A criticism based on "rich kid" also does not ring true as a general statement about University in the USA to me.

New comment by gnerd00 in "Testing Mac OS on the Apple Network Server 2.0 ROMs"

gnerd00 — Tue, 05 May 2026 03:18:32 +0000

the "two face" logo.. the reference was, the logo could be a single face, or a face in the distance with a second as profile in front. IIR

New comment by gnerd00 in "Utah to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs"

gnerd00 — Sun, 03 May 2026 15:39:48 +0000

LOL - its just "the right" eh?

New comment by gnerd00 in "Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app"

gnerd00 — Fri, 01 May 2026 13:55:49 +0000

here is a clue delivered -- money does not make software better, and lots of money often results in worse.. it makes no sense? actual experience begs to differ.

Classical homework assignment -- the Mythical Man Month and related essays