Hacker News: jeffwask

New comment by jeffwask in "Discovery of Cold War-era rare Eastern Bloc computers in a German hangar"

jeffwask — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:14:09 +0000

It's a pretty monumental effort to transport, store, refurbish and show these massive computers. There aren't a lot of organizations even willing to put in the effort which is why most of this stuff gets landfilled or sent to the recycler. I would assume they asked around and no one else was interested.

New comment by jeffwask in "Amazon Cognito now supports multi-Region replication"

jeffwask — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:45:33 +0000

I recall complaining about this with one of my architects who was looking to implement Cognito round about 2019.

New comment by jeffwask in "Amazon Shuts Down Internal AI Leaderboard After Employees Cheated"

jeffwask — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:46:55 +0000

LOL, reminds me of when we had bonuses tied to test coverage at a company and one enterprising dev wrote a single test that flagged as 100% coverage.

New comment by jeffwask in "Having your insulin pump die while you're on vacation"

jeffwask — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:41:01 +0000

The thing that struck me most was that for 25 of 27 years, they have relied entirely on machines and computers to manage the condition which means every hard-earned lesson you have experienced they did not and the author likely has very little person knowledge and experience on how to do anything off the pump.

It's the AI argument in a nutshell. We are handing things off to machines and losing the knowledge to do it ourselves.

Imagine if this were a systemic catastrophic failure, that lasted months... how many people would perish just because they weren't taught or never learned how to manage without the machine.

New comment by jeffwask in "The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid"

jeffwask — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:26:04 +0000

The Mad Men AI upscale was such trash. You could see cameras, crew, equipment, etc. total mess that showed no care for the material.

New comment by jeffwask in "Airbnb host alleges $12k in damages after SF startup tested a robot in his house"

jeffwask — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:22:34 +0000

Go fast; Break things

New comment by jeffwask in "Valve raises Steam Deck prices"

jeffwask — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:46:11 +0000

I think I've lived through three separate RAM boom cycles at this point. Two for sure...

New comment by jeffwask in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"

jeffwask — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:46:36 +0000

People have reported a decrease in ROI from spending on Google ads already when they no longer control all the eyes and where you rank in what those eyes see when they search, that ROI will drop even more. People will stop paying for Google ads when the ROI is higher on other platforms.

Couple that with the fact that a lot of folks have moved their search to GPT or Claude once those platforms start taking in ad money... that budget will come from somewhere and that's likely existing Google ad buy dollars shifting.

New comment by jeffwask in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"

jeffwask — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:31:58 +0000

They only dominate Ads because they dominate search if everyone leaves Search the ad business grinds to a halt as well. These are the ying and yang of Google.

New comment by jeffwask in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"

jeffwask — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:30:18 +0000

> it's not Google Search

...and it really hasn't been for a good number of years now. I left a while ago when results were all SEO copy pasta blogs this is just a final nail in the coffin.

New comment by jeffwask in "Bank boss sorry after describing workers as 'lower value human capital'"

jeffwask — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:16:53 +0000

My first tech job coincided with the first season of South Park.

New comment by jeffwask in "Bank boss sorry after describing workers as 'lower value human capital'"

jeffwask — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:58:13 +0000

These articles always make me think of the South Park BP Oil episode. "We're sorry. So sorry..."

New comment by jeffwask in "Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods"

jeffwask — Thu, 21 May 2026 20:34:14 +0000

We had one do this in San Antonio too. Right across the well labeled low water crossing and whoosh.

New comment by jeffwask in "Advice for 2026 commencement speakers: Don't bring up AI"

jeffwask — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:00:29 +0000

Woz is one of the good one.

New comment by jeffwask in "Tesla Cybertruck driver arrested after driving into lake to use 'wade mode'"

jeffwask — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:54:30 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skZXrY-9qf0

New comment by jeffwask in "Tesla Cybertruck driver arrested after driving into lake to use 'wade mode'"

jeffwask — Thu, 21 May 2026 13:56:38 +0000

I mean, it is an amphibious exploring vehicle, so it should be fine, right?

New comment by jeffwask in "Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE"

jeffwask — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:27:59 +0000

I would like to congratulate Meta on this day as they layoff more people for AI. I hope all your platforms burn to ash.

New comment by jeffwask in "Discord Incident"

jeffwask — Fri, 08 May 2026 20:47:49 +0000

It was one AZ. Kinda surprised those guys are built in a way where a single AZ failure takes them down.

New comment by jeffwask in "Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off"

jeffwask — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:32:41 +0000

The original vibe engineering

New comment by jeffwask in "Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

jeffwask — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:19:06 +0000

Fixed it for you.

Also looks pretty bad their whole platform was compromised by the same hacker group again.