Hacker News: grosswait

New comment by grosswait in "Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives"

grosswait — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:48:05 +0000

I disagree. The human brain reinforces circuitry that is used often, meaning the human brain is generally quite adaptable. Ancient (and modern) hunters sit still and silent for hours waiting for game, with their brains ready to take over in an instant on the rare occasion something happens.

New comment by grosswait in "Kimi K3 (2.8T) at 1 token/s on a MacBook Pro, streamed from four SSDs"

grosswait — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 22:14:30 +0000

So if this all streamed from the internal NVME would you expect better performance?

New comment by grosswait in "A/I shuts down"

grosswait — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 13:06:57 +0000

What conversation do you think we would be having? Would we be debating the laws that January 6 attendees are passing in the chambers? What alternate outcome do you think was likely, or even possible?

New comment by grosswait in "Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone"

grosswait — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 11:56:11 +0000

On the plus side, I learned about some interesting projects from that GitHub query.

New comment by grosswait in "Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns"

grosswait — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 11:18:43 +0000

No different than an uncurated Reddit profile. You’ll get bombarded with garbage until effort is placed into the curation.

New comment by grosswait in "Understanding ChatGPT Work"

grosswait — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:35:05 +0000

Because some people don’t have their own ChatGPT subscription to plug such a query into?

New comment by grosswait in "Animal Size Comparison"

grosswait — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 21:36:42 +0000

There are - I saw cardinals, chickens and bison. For elephant class, there is a mammoth species as well

New comment by grosswait in "Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative"

grosswait — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:48:31 +0000

How is it illegal if it is in the ToS? (I didn't check)

New comment by grosswait in "Closing Canario Terminal source code"

grosswait — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:33:57 +0000

From TFA “The Canario source code is still there in the older versions of Rio. People can fork that if they want to. All good from my side.”

New comment by grosswait in "The Silicon Valley Founder Meat Grinder"

grosswait — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 03:31:50 +0000

I think there is room for arguing children raised in the high flying city have been robbed of something as well. Can’t have it all and one is not objectively better than the other if you look at the full picture.

New comment by grosswait in "National Security Determination Threat Posed by Foreign-Produced Robotic Devices [pdf]"

grosswait — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 11:40:55 +0000

How do you think a responsible administration, members of your party of choice, would differ on this matter? Or EVs?

New comment by grosswait in "Flux 3"

grosswait — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:17:24 +0000

Add in time zone of the commenter and potentially some really interesting data emerges.

New comment by grosswait in "Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM"

grosswait — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:02:53 +0000

Respectful of liberty. A spear is also a tool for killing. Respect for life is not an expectation of the tool.

New comment by grosswait in "SpaceX stock erases all its gains and slides below IPO price in intraday trading"

grosswait — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:03:34 +0000

Because anti-Elon thinking is a thing that really seems to impact the judgement of some people and this kind of news really gets them to engage

New comment by grosswait in "Unsolved Problems in MLOps"

grosswait — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:21:03 +0000

Thanks, appreciated. I read about 2/3 or the article. I like the content, and appreciate that it doesn’t scream “written by AI”, but it did get long winded in places.

New comment by grosswait in "I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets"

grosswait — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:22:37 +0000

Then you set up a shared directory with common group permissions

New comment by grosswait in "I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets"

grosswait — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:21:25 +0000

Why would you allow devUser sudo?

New comment by grosswait in "Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring"

grosswait — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 11:43:35 +0000

I thought we were all aware by now that being on an Epstein list doesn’t automatically mean anything?

New comment by grosswait in "Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future"

grosswait — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:35:40 +0000

I lasted about 25 seconds on that site. Way too much friction for me to endure just trying to figure out what it is

New comment by grosswait in "Grok 4.5"

grosswait — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 01:26:46 +0000

Former beneficiaries of USAID funds created some studies you say?