Hacker News: guidedlight

New comment by guidedlight in "Leaving VMware just got harder after Broadcom pulled VDDK downloads"

guidedlight — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 23:36:54 +0000

I blame Broadcom. They behave like an aged care home for software, who actively engages in financial abuse.

New comment by guidedlight in "Micron, SK Commit Billions to RAM Capacity, but Almost Nothing Lands Before 2028"

guidedlight — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:04:13 +0000

They have to expand capacity, Chinese company CXMT is scaling fast; Micron and SK need to protect their market share even if they risk trading at a loss in 2028.

New comment by guidedlight in "Who Owns Commodore? The Retro PC Brand Still Exists, but a Lot Has Changed"

guidedlight — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:42:06 +0000

I think what was meant is that Amiga’s market share was predominantly in the home computer space. And its software catalog consisted primarily of video games rather than productivity software. In that sense it was low end.

It was wedged between game consoles and PC’s, and it eventually couldn’t compete against neither.

New comment by guidedlight in "Plug-in solar is coming. Plug-in batteries should follow"

guidedlight — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 04:03:42 +0000

I thought plug-in solar was coming 10+ years ago.

New comment by guidedlight in "Jellyfish Undersea Roundabout"

guidedlight — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 09:41:44 +0000

The population of the Faroe Islands is just 56,210, how can they possibly afford this massive network of tunnels.

The website suggests the tunnel will cost 260m euros, how can that possibly be true?

New comment by guidedlight in "The science behind Qantas' bet on 20-hour flights"

guidedlight — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 23:09:13 +0000

Give it a few years, I’m under no illusion that when faced with competition Qantas will ditch the wellness zones and extra legroom.

London-Sydney is only a bit further than London-Perth.

New comment by guidedlight in "How many of the 170k English words do you know?"

guidedlight — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 21:41:50 +0000

It was clearly built with AI.

New comment by guidedlight in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

guidedlight — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:49:37 +0000

Does anyone here think Cursor is overvalued? It's just packaging up what already exists, it has no moat or IP.

New comment by guidedlight in "Morningstar values SpaceX at $780B, half its IPO target"

guidedlight — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:54:51 +0000

There are competitors to Starlink arriving now.

For example, the Australian government has selected Project Kepler (now called Amazon Leo) to provide broadband services to the Australian Outback.

https://www.nbnco.com.au/corporate-information/media-centre/...

And geopolitical shenanigans in Ukraine with Musk and Starlink means that it may not be a reliable partner.

New comment by guidedlight in "Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion"

guidedlight — Sun, 31 May 2026 11:09:24 +0000

I think you are missing the point.

It’s about software preservation and abiding by the implied expectations at the time of sale.

New comment by guidedlight in "Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion"

guidedlight — Sun, 31 May 2026 03:35:33 +0000

This has been happening with Video Games for a while. There is a major initiative called "Stop Killing Games" which was triggered when Ubisoft bricked "The Crew" when servers were shutdown.

https://www.stopkillinggames.com/

There has been some success. There is new legislation in California which has passed the Assembly. https://www.invenglobal.com/articles/22330/stop-killing-game...

And there is a citizens initiative in Europe which the the European Commission must respond to: https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/20...

New comment by guidedlight in "Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection"

guidedlight — Fri, 29 May 2026 10:58:22 +0000

Part 2 is here: https://youtu.be/cxZPfj8AlmY

New comment by guidedlight in "Is AI Profitable Yet?"

guidedlight — Sat, 23 May 2026 03:56:24 +0000

The US “loses” $1T every ~150 days on delivering basic government services, and every US citizen is on the hook for that, not just investors.

New comment by guidedlight in "Project Glasswing: An Initial Update"

guidedlight — Fri, 22 May 2026 22:43:51 +0000

> The bottleneck in fixing bugs like these is the human capacity to triage, report, and design and deploy patches for them. Finding them in the first place has become vastly more straightforward with Mythos Preview.

This has always been the bottleneck. Automated tools love to flag vulnerabilities, but almost all are false positives. These need to be triaged and evaluated by humans. This is okay. I’d rather close a false positive after a careful review than miss it altogether.

I don’t think it’s appropriate for calling out humans as a bottleneck. They are an essential part of the process, I’m sure Mythos will also become a catalyst in the process.

New comment by guidedlight in "Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS"

guidedlight — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:11:27 +0000

> Name, city, state, ZIP, email, phone

Does this work for anyone outside the US as well? e.g. Will it work for an Australian?

New comment by guidedlight in "America's Most-Spoken Languages After English and Spanish"

guidedlight — Mon, 18 May 2026 07:34:04 +0000

You know there are 34 countries in America other than the United States.

Desire Paths

guidedlight — Sat, 16 May 2026 06:16:36 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_path

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48157333

Points: 1

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New comment by guidedlight in "'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Package Manager Where This Regularly Happens"

guidedlight — Sat, 16 May 2026 02:32:21 +0000

Security issues aside, they are a nightmare in enterprise environments where internet and OS access is heavily restricted.

New comment by guidedlight in "Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message"

guidedlight — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:23:59 +0000

They should probably go back to the original invite only flow they used when Gmail launched.

Every account having the ability to invite an only small finite number of new accounts is one way to thwart scammers.

New comment by guidedlight in "I'm writing a history of Visual Basic, Chapter 1 is up"

guidedlight — Sun, 10 May 2026 07:26:28 +0000

I remember the form designer was a standout feature. Microsoft added a complete UI framework into VB for DOS based on the standard ASCII character set.

VB for DOS really needed a version 2.0, but it never got it.