Hacker News: lucasay

New comment by lucasay in "Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta"

lucasay — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:38:01 +0000

non-disparagement clauses doing a lot of heavy lifting here

New comment by lucasay in "EmDash – a spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

lucasay — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:31:58 +0000

Cool idea, especially the plugin security angle, but WordPress’s real strength is its ecosystem. That’s going to be hard to replicate.

Show HN: I analyzed 100 viral YouTube videos – here are the patterns I found

lucasay — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:25:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cre8virals.com/blog/youtube-viral-patterns

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47602151

Points: 2

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New comment by lucasay in "Is BGP safe yet?"

lucasay — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:19:52 +0000

RPKI makes BGP safer, not safe. It helps prevent some hijacks, but attackers can still mess with routing paths. Feels like we’re patching a trust-based system rather than fixing it.

New comment by lucasay in "Bird brains (2023)"

lucasay — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:44:28 +0000

“More neurons = intelligence” always felt like an oversimplification. If that were true, we wouldn’t be surprised by birds or octopuses anymore.

New comment by lucasay in "How to turn anything into a router"

lucasay — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:41:12 +0000

“Just use OPNsense” is great advice for production, but terrible advice for learning. This article is valuable precisely because it shows how little magic is actually involved in routing.

New comment by lucasay in "Building a Mostly IPv6 Only Home Network"

lucasay — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:59:41 +0000

IPv6 isn’t that compelling on a simple home network, but avoiding NAT and easier end-to-end connectivity are pretty real advantages.

New comment by lucasay in "Say No to Palantir in Europe"

lucasay — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:54:11 +0000

Petitions don’t do much on their own, but they’re often how pressure starts. And ‘not European issues’ feels off when these companies operate globally anyway.

New comment by lucasay in "Make macOS consistently bad unironically"

lucasay — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:58:59 +0000

The pill tabs are what get me too. I can ignore most visual changes after a while, but those somehow manage to feel both more distracting and less informative at the same time.

New comment by lucasay in "ARM AGI CPU: Specs and SKUs"

lucasay — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:34:35 +0000

Not sure how to feel about this. Does this mean ARM is slowly moving from just licensing IP to actually competing with companies building on top of it?

New comment by lucasay in "Autoresearch on an old research idea"

lucasay — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:31:58 +0000

Partially—but science also questions the hypothesis and the metric. This mostly assumes both are correct and just optimizes within that box.

New comment by lucasay in "Autoresearch on an old research idea"

lucasay — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:05:27 +0000

This feels less like automated research and more like structured trial and error with a decent feedback loop. Still useful, but I think the real bottleneck is how good your eval metric is. If that’s weak, the whole loop just optimizes for the wrong thing faster.

New comment by lucasay in "Passengers who refuse to use headphones can now be kicked off United flights"

lucasay — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 19:50:50 +0000

Feels less like malice and more like people just not thinking about others. Still, on a plane you’re stuck for hours—rules like this make sense.

New comment by lucasay in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

lucasay — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:45:27 +0000

The goal seems to be breaking the real-time guidance scammers rely on. 24h probably works, but it feels like a heavy tradeoff for legit users.

New comment by lucasay in "Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology (2019)"

lucasay — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:56:03 +0000

I’m more curious about how robust this is against modern systems. A lot of newer facial recognition models are trained on occlusions, masks, and heavy makeup — so this might be less effective than people assume.