Hacker News: jazzyjackson

New comment by jazzyjackson in "IRCv3"

jazzyjackson — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 23:41:46 +0000

This is not what you wanted but it may not be far off, if it controls Spotify through an API I don’t see why you couldn’t extend it to control a background process for local audio.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49990730

New comment by jazzyjackson in "Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them"

jazzyjackson — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 23:33:26 +0000

> You're never going to be locked out because …

Yeah and neither will anyone else!

New comment by jazzyjackson in "The RAM shortage is bringing back DDR4"

jazzyjackson — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 21:05:29 +0000

Assuming demand does not asymptote as we approach singularity.

Which it to say, if models eventually do useful work, demand for substrate will continue to outpace production. I don’t envy the fabs that have to forecast how much memory the world will desire in 2030

New comment by jazzyjackson in "OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results"

jazzyjackson — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 09:07:56 +0000

I’m curious if ACL2 is in the running

New comment by jazzyjackson in "3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit"

jazzyjackson — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 08:36:35 +0000

Agreed it’s small potatoes, and as a sibling mentions you will still have infrastructure exposed that poses a target to disable the data center, unless you were to drill geothermal and find an underground river to cool it.

Just wanted to make the point you don’t have to pay to excavate the cave :)

New comment by jazzyjackson in "3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit"

jazzyjackson — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 08:33:30 +0000

You don’t suppose it harms the billionaire oligarch shareholders more than the pizza shop that happens to run a website?

New comment by jazzyjackson in "3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit"

jazzyjackson — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 08:28:15 +0000

The bunkers are already out there e.g. limestone mines in US, Italy,

https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/build-design/safer-under...

New comment by jazzyjackson in "3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit"

jazzyjackson — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 08:22:32 +0000

I suppose they’re mixing up deaths with injuries

  From the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022 to December 2025, 14,999 Ukrainian civilians were killed and 40,601 injured, according to the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU).

https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2026/country-chapters/ukrai...

New comment by jazzyjackson in "Nix wrote half of my debugger"

jazzyjackson — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 23:42:14 +0000

The configuration can be sloppy and vibed, as long as it behaves the same every time nix retains its power :)

New comment by jazzyjackson in "Bitwarden Dual License Model"

jazzyjackson — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 17:38:06 +0000

Can’t relate. If you’re worried about you’re own reliability to keep it online, just keep paper backups

New comment by jazzyjackson in "Bitwarden Dual License Model"

jazzyjackson — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 17:37:13 +0000

What’s wrong with self hosted vaultwarden ? I guess there isn’t a FLOSS extension client/app?

New comment by jazzyjackson in "Anger as man sentenced to death for Facebook comment"

jazzyjackson — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 05:48:58 +0000

It’s weird that Trump bought a yacht from Kashogi’s dad, huh

New comment by jazzyjackson in "Jev-Driven SRE Diagnosis: What Worked and What Failed"

jazzyjackson — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 01:20:20 +0000

Consider looking at ChatScript for these kind of formulaic language matching -> variable extraction. It’s deterministic and instantaneous compared to any LLM

New comment by jazzyjackson in "Across the Globe, People Increasingly Say Social Media Is Harming Democracy"

jazzyjackson — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 17:53:44 +0000

Mailing lists were and are fine. The algorithmic feed took over because it’s more addictive, simple as.

New comment by jazzyjackson in "America Turned on Data Centers"

jazzyjackson — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 17:51:51 +0000

> no small part

How can you possibly determine the efficacy of this operation?

Is it not more likely that there is a grassroots rejection of building the infrastructure to replace labor, with no upside to the American worker? And a few hundred Chinese sock puppets join in the online fray, but this conversation is not just happening online, and Chinese propaganda is not raising electricity rates or burning illegal natural gas generators.

New comment by jazzyjackson in "Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage"

jazzyjackson — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 03:09:07 +0000

While ethanol requirements are a hand out to corn farmers, it’s false to say the majority goes into gas and plastic, an equal share (~40%) goes to animal feed.

New comment by jazzyjackson in "OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects"

jazzyjackson — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:25:05 +0000

I’m pretty sure it’s within OAI’s infrastructure capabilities to just keep a clone of archive.org offline for their bots to play with.

New comment by jazzyjackson in "Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge"

jazzyjackson — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 23:50:10 +0000

It’s also an option to just not use chatbots

New comment by jazzyjackson in "Find the flattest route between any two points in SF"

jazzyjackson — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 23:45:49 +0000

“genuine bug in the parser” -> red flag for slop for those keeping track at home

New comment by jazzyjackson in "LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents"

jazzyjackson — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 19:36:29 +0000

Well said, I suppose I’m strawmanning, or, just making a distinction between different kinds of doomsayers.

From your position, catastrophes will be the fault of whoever was dumb enough to put a probabilistic system in charge of critical infrastructure. Totally different fear than runaway intelligence and takeover.