Hacker News: loxodrome

New comment by loxodrome in "Rayfish, Peer-to-peer mesh VPN with no server to trust"

loxodrome — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:14:51 +0000

This is cool, I'd like to try it, but how can I use it to connect peers over the public internet?

New comment by loxodrome in "Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension"

loxodrome — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:25:29 +0000

I will definitely not be signing up on GCP because of this.

New comment by loxodrome in "I’ve joined Anthropic"

loxodrome — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:37:52 +0000

I can't help but feel like someone with Karpathy's experience and financial resources would start their own company if they had real creativity and vision.

New comment by loxodrome in "Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI"

loxodrome — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:00:48 +0000

I recognize the value of the statute of limitations, but it is a technicality, and unfortunately, the central legal questions of this case were not addressed.

New comment by loxodrome in "Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI"

loxodrome — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:01:27 +0000

Ending a trial over a bureaucratic technicality is not good justice.

New comment by loxodrome in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

loxodrome — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:53:32 +0000

For the past decade or longer, top PhD programs in the US have systematically favored foreign applicants over Americans, particularly American men. It's high time for that to end.

New comment by loxodrome in "How Semiconductors Were Made in America"

loxodrome — Tue, 05 May 2026 19:58:05 +0000

Bell Labs was primarily funded by AT&T, a private company. Like I said, an environment with low taxes and real freedom is the source of prosperity, creativity, and innovation.

New comment by loxodrome in "How Semiconductors Were Made in America"

loxodrome — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:23:31 +0000

All the key people in CS, EE, and Physics needed to invent transistors where in America at the time.

Why? Mostly because America has true individual freedom and low taxes, unlike Europe.

New comment by loxodrome in "The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy"

loxodrome — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:14:35 +0000

At the end of the day, it doesn't matter what tools are used. Is that output good? Do people find it useful? Consider nothing else.

New comment by loxodrome in "Waymo says can't avoid bike lanes because riders want to be dropped off in them"

loxodrome — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:47:55 +0000

Bicycles and automobiles should not share the same roads at all.

New comment by loxodrome in "Tesla: Failure of the FSD's degradation detection system [pdf]"

loxodrome — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:34:11 +0000

The introduction of self-driving technology at scale will inevitably result in a few accidents no matter how many sensors are used. It's the same with every new technology deployed in high-risk situations, including motor vehicles themselves. Even malfunctioning airbags have caused fatalities. The important thing is to identify the issue early so the company can address it before more people get hurt, which the ODI in this case is thankfully doing.

New comment by loxodrome in "A flawed paper in management science has been cited more than 6k times"

loxodrome — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 12:02:45 +0000

Do people actually take papers in "management science" seriously?

New comment by loxodrome in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

loxodrome — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 23:47:21 +0000

Thanks for the info. Tricky situation because we have a kid who has dual citizenship, and we are not in the US, but want to move back.

New comment by loxodrome in "Why we built Lightpanda in Zig"

loxodrome — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 20:14:33 +0000

I just want Zig with classes, Zig++. :(

New comment by loxodrome in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

loxodrome — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 20:00:36 +0000

Can a US citizen with a foreign spouse bring the spouse to the US on a tourist VISA and adjust status? What if they already filed the i-130 with consular processing?

New comment by loxodrome in "Airbus A320 – intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical for flight"

loxodrome — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 09:12:21 +0000

Thanks for the link. This line in particular is concerning.

"This identified vulnerability could lead in the worst case scenario to an uncommanded elevator movement that may result in exceeding the aircraft structural capability."

New comment by loxodrome in "Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division"

loxodrome — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 20:02:07 +0000

I totally get it Yann LeCun and FAIR want to focus on next gen research, but they seem almost proud of their distance from product development at Meta. Isn't that a convenient way to avoid accountability? Meta has published a ton of great work, but appears to be losing economically in AI. It's understandable that the executive team wants change.

New comment by loxodrome in "Populism and economic prosperity"

loxodrome — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 21:05:07 +0000

This article is a classic example of bogus and misleading statistical analysis published by a leftist academic.

New comment by loxodrome in "Income Inequality Depresses Support for Higher Minimum Wages [pdf]"

loxodrome — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 23:29:23 +0000

Median disposable income is a key statistic describing the distribution of wealth… half the population makes more and half makes less, so it tells you the central tendency, that is, how the middle class is doing.

New comment by loxodrome in "Income Inequality Depresses Support for Higher Minimum Wages [pdf]"

loxodrome — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 17:52:46 +0000

By that logic it’d be okay to have everyone making the minimum wage if it was high enough. Do you realize what a communist distopia that would be?