Hacker News: jmount

New comment by jmount in "How to earn a billion dollars"

jmount — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:40:35 +0000

Not quite on topic. But I feel there is an issue in politics where many non-wealthy people vote as if they are "temporarily inconvenienced billionaires." That is they endorse policies that favor billionaires, as they have some hope of being one someday.

New comment by jmount in "Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails"

jmount — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:35:02 +0000

The whole arc was brilliantly evil. Once they put int the guardrails then Claude is fully un-falsifiable, and failure can be claimed intentional.

New comment by jmount in "A €0.01 bank transfer could compromise a banking AI agent"

jmount — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:34:24 +0000

I really think one needs a "Harvard architecture" for AIs (data independent of instructions). Though yes, that may not be possible.

New comment by jmount in "Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs"

jmount — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:12:02 +0000

I have to say worrying about the provenance of writing has made me a grumpier reader.

For example: "The space station is made up of Russian and US segments, and there are modules from the European and Japanese space agencies too." It feels like this sentence is inserting some points, but is lacking in authorial intent. Is the intent to say the station is largely Russian and US, or to say the station has more than two partners? Probably an okay sentence, but still feels like a stone in the shoe.

New comment by jmount in "GoPro warned it may not survive"

jmount — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:11:46 +0000

I honestly thought GoPro and FitBit had both been stomped out a long time ago, and we were just watching new companies brand-squatting.

New comment by jmount in "HP re-releases classic computer science calculator: The HP-16C"

jmount — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:15:49 +0000

HP generously gave me a 16C at the end of an internship. It was a weird beast! Amazing a simulating different types of integer arithmetic. Not at all a replacement for the 11C, 12C, or 15C.

New comment by jmount in "AI has a multiplying effect on existing technical skills"

jmount — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:25:42 +0000

Good point on "Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect."

Who's the Best Batter? Estimating Probabilities from Unevenly Collected Data

jmount — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:42:47 +0000

Article URL: https://winvector.github.io/WVExamples/blog/batting-estimation-stan/baseball_stats/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48226435

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by jmount in "Every AI Subscription Is a Ticking Time Bomb for Enterprise"

jmount — Sun, 17 May 2026 16:43:31 +0000

I think this is a good under-represented point. Again and again things that could only run on a mainframe get ported to the personal device level. However it looks like the campaign to eliminate the PC (by pre-buying all RAM) is the counter-stroke.

New comment by jmount in "AI is a technology not a product"

jmount — Sun, 17 May 2026 16:33:45 +0000

This is important to think through, does one have a product, tech, tool, or even just a feature. I given thing is not necessarily at the bottom of this stack, but also not always at the top.

New comment by jmount in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"

jmount — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:17:52 +0000

A perfect doomsday machine. Over-using tokens gets your peers laid-off before yourself.

New comment by jmount in "GitHub leaking private repositories and access? [video]"

jmount — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 16:47:21 +0000

I know it is a video and the title is a note. But the video is plausibly claiming Github recently opted private repositories into being AI training material. And there are indeed some settings around that (though it is hard to know if one has found all such controls).

GitHub leaking private repositories and access? [video]

jmount — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 16:39:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MupI-OgdZik

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47902718

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by jmount in "Affirm Retooled for Agentic Software Development in One Week"

jmount — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:09:07 +0000

Good thing that didn't require two weeks, as that is about 14 attention spans.

New comment by jmount in "The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew"

jmount — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:39:13 +0000

Like go pieces being deliberately too large for the board they are used on.

New comment by jmount in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

jmount — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:40:05 +0000

My only issue is the title. It appears they are building a replacement for GitHub of which a replacement for Git is just a component. Building a replacement for GitHub is going to need at least the sort of funding they are mentioning. So once one reads the article it makes a bit more sense.

New comment by jmount in "You can't trust macOS Privacy and Security settings"

jmount — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:11:32 +0000

Very much agree. In fact I don't remember Vista or UAC being as unreliable as the Mac now is.

New comment by jmount in "Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with the Feb updates"

jmount — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:07:42 +0000

Love your point. Instructions found to be good by trial and error for one LLM may not be good for another LLM.

New comment by jmount in "Someone at BrowserStack Is Leaking Users' Email Address"

jmount — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:51:39 +0000

And BrowserStack either doesn't know this or knows this and isn't telling. Still bad, in my opinion.

New comment by jmount in "What category theory teaches us about dataframes"

jmount — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:16:47 +0000

I like this sort of study- but it really misses the point to not give more credit for some of the observations and designs to Codd and others.