Hacker News: isatty

New comment by isatty in "OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)"

isatty — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 16:46:49 +0000

People who say stuff like that are unhinged chronically online trolls. Best not to feed them.

New comment by isatty in "First human trials of designer protein therapies stun US neuroscientists"

isatty — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 20:24:38 +0000

Not even close to the same level as China.

What’s up with whitewashing China on all online platforms these days? You, on hacker news, should know better.

New comment by isatty in "Why tech bosses keep sharing their manifestos about AI"

isatty — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 20:16:20 +0000

Isn’t the answer just: money?

New comment by isatty in "Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion"

isatty — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:13:16 +0000

This is spectacular marketing.

New comment by isatty in "LLM Usage in Debian: Three Proposals"

isatty — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 03:29:30 +0000

This tracks with what I do too (also a gentoo power user). My personal overlay is much healthier thanks to LLMs, but I don’t use it for writing code for personal use. It’s just not fun.

New comment by isatty in "Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber"

isatty — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:42:18 +0000

Yeah I don’t get it. It tells me which model can draw an svg of a pelican riding a bicycle. It does a great job at that and the presentation is good.

But why is this an indication of literally anything else?

New comment by isatty in "Kaiser nurses say AI, surveillance are making their jobs and patient care worse"

isatty — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 20:21:47 +0000

Indeed, I’m definitely in a privileged position.

New comment by isatty in "Kaiser nurses say AI, surveillance are making their jobs and patient care worse"

isatty — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 03:31:34 +0000

Likewise. I basically

- will not see a “provider”. A doctor (MD/DO) only please.

- will not see a doctor who uses LLM tools (or therapists for that matter)

- Make it abundantly clear that if you do then we’re not a match.

- Will pay significantly more/go out of my way for for this.

New comment by isatty in "I also filed the corners off my MacBook"

isatty — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:49:16 +0000

Most BMWs should be using Bosch ECUs (Di-Motronic).

New comment by isatty in "Mysteries of Telegram Data Centers (2022)"

isatty — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:08:28 +0000

Signal and WhatsApp are bloated and slow in comparison.

New comment by isatty in "Mysteries of Telegram Data Centers (2022)"

isatty — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:04:30 +0000

- Telegram has exemplary fast, native clients on most platforms I’ve used it on

- Cat stickers

- Did I mention it has the best native clients out of all the messaging apps? It boggles the mind why other companies can’t get this done.

New comment by isatty in "TS-2026-009: Insecure argument handling in Tailscale SSH permitted root access"

isatty — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 02:10:49 +0000

Convenience for the most part but in general, I agree. I like having it as an option.

New comment by isatty in "Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)"

isatty — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:25:32 +0000

A football field is by far a better measurement than 3300 one pound bags of sugar.

New comment by isatty in "Alternate clock designs and time systems"

isatty — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:28:34 +0000

The Pi clock is excellent.

New comment by isatty in "Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests"

isatty — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 03:18:59 +0000

Been a meme for a while now. I avoid that noise on principle.

New comment by isatty in "Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests"

isatty — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 03:12:16 +0000

Very smart. I like it.

New comment by isatty in "Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone"

isatty — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:22:44 +0000

Nonsense. MDM is usually for devices owned by the company or opt in by you personally. There is no way to attack or transparently MDM a personal phone that I know of.

New comment by isatty in "Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter"

isatty — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 02:35:43 +0000

Lame.

New comment by isatty in "No more than 100 000 faint satellites should orbit Earth"

isatty — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 18:35:18 +0000

Well, if you build too many satellites in the swarms, at some point you will lose the ability to see or go to the stars.

New comment by isatty in "Claude Code is steganographically marking requests"

isatty — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:30:33 +0000

You can't trust any of the big AI labs as far as you can throw them, and most definitely not Anthropic. They may have a good model, but they've shown time and time again that they're not trustworthy. The CEO has recently started taking a stance against local AI. That must tell you something: local AI is the future. If you want to preserve privacy and be ready for the rug pull, you need to run things locally. Unfortunately, that means that you're going to need Google or the Chinese labs to constantly release open models.

If anything, I'll trust Google more than any of the other labs just because the infrastructure that stores and protects user data was built over decades ago pre-AI craze.