Hacker News: hawk_

New comment by hawk_ in "eMudhra to exit global SSL/TLS certificate business"

hawk_ — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 15:11:39 +0000

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New comment by hawk_ in "Meta ordered to pay $25B penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case"

hawk_ — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 20:43:20 +0000

Stock seems to have shot up ~7% aftermarket so just cost of business.

New comment by hawk_ in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

hawk_ — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 11:10:33 +0000

What is preventing these crossword solvers from not looking at the advanced crossword solutions?

Mathematicians and academics in their ivory towers are forgetting that everything is getting automated. They want to carve out fun problem solving niches that's fine but who's going to fund that? If they want to be funded by the society/civilization their argument can't be leave advanced fun problems for their hobby.

New comment by hawk_ in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

hawk_ — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 06:16:30 +0000

> stop testing advanced mathematical problems on proprietary models

I don't know but this phrasing comes off as gatekeeping.

New comment by hawk_ in "GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price"

hawk_ — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:41:49 +0000

Because they asked the model what it wanted to be called?

New comment by hawk_ in "Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio"

hawk_ — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 21:21:17 +0000

Is this for setup for agentic coding? Why not also run the IDE compiler etc... on the same machine to use those CPU cores as well?

New comment by hawk_ in "European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy"

hawk_ — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 21:42:39 +0000

Like far right isn't going to vote in mass surveillance the moment they have any chance. (Not disputing that there are other frustrations that are fuelling the rise of far right, correct or not. But isn't one of those)

New comment by hawk_ in "Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private"

hawk_ — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 11:36:37 +0000

I blame Corbyn as much as Cameron if not more. Corbyn was supposed to represent the working class but because Remain could have benefited some Tories he backstabbed the working class and at least a whole generation if not 2 and for what?

New comment by hawk_ in "AWS Acquires DuckLabs"

hawk_ — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 17:02:43 +0000

:-D

Yes I think motherduck is going to get ... well motherducked bad by AWS

New comment by hawk_ in "We never use AI. For anything"

hawk_ — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 10:05:41 +0000

I am pretty sure the Luddites did more than just print manifestos.

New comment by hawk_ in "We never use AI. For anything"

hawk_ — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 10:01:27 +0000

And the human beings who use them to produce code don't produce deterministic results either. Current harnesses have come a long a way to make non determinism not be a problem for quite a few areas. And the scope keeps increasing every day.

New comment by hawk_ in "We never use AI. For anything"

hawk_ — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 09:57:02 +0000

That's a strange hill to die on. It's like saying we will never use an IDE or static linter or syntax highlighter etc...

Also there are already non-VC subsidized hosted open weights LLM providers which should give you a very good sense of the marginal cost.

New comment by hawk_ in "My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality"

hawk_ — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 22:26:11 +0000

I forbid my agents from adding any comments. I review the code and add comments manually. If I can't understand something despite having the context then I throw away the code instead of having an LLM generate comments to explain what it did. This way the code stays readable/debuggable by humans.

New comment by hawk_ in "TigerBeetle Core System Architecture: Deconstructing Performance Engineering"

hawk_ — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 22:11:20 +0000

Yeah that makes sense. Thanks for the explanation. This gives me some ideas on some 2 data center setup with tolerance for 1 DC failure within VR or Paxos that I didn't think was possible.

New comment by hawk_ in "TigerBeetle Core System Architecture: Deconstructing Performance Engineering"

hawk_ — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 13:36:06 +0000

Is this flexible quorum something that deviates from VSR? I thought VSR requires majority of the nodes to form quorum.

New comment by hawk_ in "JEP 401: Value Objects (Preview) merged to OpenJDK master"

hawk_ — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:16:43 +0000

Java is to JavaScript what a Car is to Carpet. Very different beasts, though a lot of V8 work was inspired by Hotspot that's just because of common VM patterns not the syntax of the languages.

New comment by hawk_ in "Be skeptical of OpenAI's rogue hacker agent story"

hawk_ — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 19:05:02 +0000

Concluding this was intentional feels a bit of a stretch. But once it happened, yeah the spin masters got to work and coordinated to turn this into +PR.

New comment by hawk_ in "EU ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into application"

hawk_ — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 15:13:45 +0000

Selling cheaper cannibalizes next season's fashion.

New comment by hawk_ in "Google and Pentagon reportedly agree on deal for 'any lawful' use of AI"

hawk_ — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:09:18 +0000

Sorry to Godwin the thread but the Third Reich would like a word.

New comment by hawk_ in "A web-based RDP client built with Go WebAssembly and grdp"

hawk_ — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 17:05:40 +0000

There's something about keyboard shortcuts - they work. But somehow right-click and copy requires add-ons.