Hacker News: intrasight

New comment by intrasight in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

intrasight — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:04:54 +0000

I told my GF over dinner tonight that historians in 1000 years will look back to Nov 2023 as a pivotal fork where humans lost.

Without missing a beat, she said " If humans loss was that complete, there would be no historians.

I responded that I never said they were human historians.

New comment by intrasight in "Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice"

intrasight — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:01:29 +0000

I would love to visit a Tokyo store with mechanical keyboards!

My solution is to buy a mech keyboard from some well respected vendor and try it out. I return the vast majority.

New comment by intrasight in "Intel 486 CPU announced April 10, 1989"

intrasight — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:20:20 +0000

My boss then - who's still a very dear friend - purchased a work computer to play Doom. He was already mentally checked out of that job and was looking for his next opportunity. Spent a lot of time at work playing Doom and got quite good at it.

I think it was 1994. It was a loaded 486 with the best 17" CRT monitor money could buy at the time. I think he spent over $7000.

New comment by intrasight in "Small Engines"

intrasight — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:41:02 +0000

http://lambert-modellturbinen.de/html/english.html

55mm diameter

New comment by intrasight in "Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

intrasight — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:15:52 +0000

It may not be useful but we'll do it anyway. And then it may come to have utility.

New comment by intrasight in "Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

intrasight — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 22:58:14 +0000

Same. I watched Apollo 11 launch in 1969 when I was four. Watched on our neighbor's TV. We didn't have one.

Imagine what we could accomplish if we didn't suck.

New comment by intrasight in "SpaceX files to go public"

intrasight — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 22:50:52 +0000

> very disruptive to SpaceX

And to most everything else

New comment by intrasight in "Good CTE, Bad CTE"

intrasight — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:45:38 +0000

I just wish that SQL Server had a materialize keyword like Postgres.

I'll write some nice clean CTEs and then have to refactor it to temp tables due to the lack of materialization.

New comment by intrasight in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

intrasight — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:37:22 +0000

I went looking and have to agree. There's no legit news source with any real numbers.

Perhaps this will be higher than the standard 10% cull, but I suspect not that much higher.

New comment by intrasight in "I tried to prove I'm not AI. My aunt wasn't convinced"

intrasight — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 01:14:30 +0000

I don't know why any sane human would think we've come anywhere close to passing the Turing test.

A human that can't tell a machine from a person has issues.

New comment by intrasight in "Seeing like a spreadsheet"

intrasight — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 01:08:49 +0000

I wrote my first AI agent (well a backpropagation model, LOL) in Excel on Mac in 1988. It could only handle several thousand parameters. But it was very cool to see the model in operation.

New comment by intrasight in "Make macOS consistently bad unironically"

intrasight — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:31:45 +0000

> compared to Windows

I never said that

New comment by intrasight in "Make macOS consistently bad unironically"

intrasight — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:01:56 +0000

I disagree as it shows a fundamental flaw in terms of separation of concerns that's probably manifest throughout the operating system.

Or to stay it another way, if we see shit like this then we know the whole thing is a hack.

New comment by intrasight in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

intrasight — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:06:56 +0000

I came here to say the same. Even with my student discount price of $1000, that's over 3K in today's dollars.

We are so freaking spoiled by the cheap cost of compute now.

New comment by intrasight in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

intrasight — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:24:50 +0000

I get that. But it's also the case that they can justify this by claiming that they have to do it for each verification.

New comment by intrasight in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

intrasight — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:20:46 +0000

Isn't part of this Microsoft preparing for the requirement to do age verification in the OS?

New comment by intrasight in "We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do"

intrasight — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:07:27 +0000

I agree. Don't bar anyone.

But do require KYC on all customers and require their profiles and wagers to be public. The societal values of prediction market data would be an order of magnitude more valuable this way.

And use of illegal insider info would cease.

New comment by intrasight in "Show HN: A plain-text cognitive architecture for Claude Code"

intrasight — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:14:30 +0000

What tools do you use to sync project docs with code?

New comment by intrasight in "Supreme Court Sides with Cox in Copyright Fight over Pirated Music"

intrasight — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:03:31 +0000

This is about moving bits through the pipes and not the resources that those pipes are moving.

New comment by intrasight in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"

intrasight — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:45:35 +0000

Forget about the stated reason for the laws. The fact is that it makes sense that people using a service are age-appropriate. And there is no market mechanism (I mean tort law) because of Section 230.

Now the easiest law change - that wouldn't required anyone to change anything - would be to revoke Section 230. This would make service providers liable. Everything else is a band-aid. I doubt that this verdict will survive appeal (due to Section 230). But if it does, then again there is no need for any new regulations. The tort lawyers will solve the problem for us.

If we do have device age verification, then it still doesn't shield Meta. The lawyers will sue everyone involved, and disclosure will show if Meta had data that will have shown that user should have been blocked.

The purpose of age verification is to avoid all this. Of course the current proposals suck and won't achieve this. The market will not accept an approach that would work - which would be for anything with a screen or speaker to be permanently tied to an individual user. "OS verification" cannot succeed - it must be one-time hardware attestation. Even a factory reset wouldn't remove the user assignment.