Hacker News: luketaylor

New comment by luketaylor in "Anthropic acquires Stainless"

luketaylor — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:41:19 +0000

in what sense did Anthropic “kill” Bun?

New comment by luketaylor in "Anthropic acquires Stainless"

luketaylor — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:35:36 +0000

No, the generator itself is being made source-available for previous customers

New comment by luketaylor in "The MacBook Neo"

luketaylor — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 04:47:55 +0000

The indicators are controlled along with sensor access at a very low level within a secure “exclave” from the main kernel; this is how the on-screen indicators have worked on iPhones for a few years. The indicator is rendered within the display controller at the firmware level, so can’t be affected by anything in _either_ user mode or kernel mode. [1][2]

1: https://randomaugustine.medium.com/on-apple-exclaves-d683a2c...

2: https://asahilinux.org/2021/08/progress-report-august-2021/#...

New comment by luketaylor in "Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston"

luketaylor — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:30:05 +0000

WSJ published a video yesterday with the first pictures of those servers: https://twitter.com/yiningkarlli/status/2026176857541075274

New comment by luketaylor in "WiFi DensePose: WiFi-based dense human pose estimation system through walls"

luketaylor — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 04:42:51 +0000

This whole repository is a bunch of vibe-coded boilerplate that doesn’t include almost any of the core thing it claims to do. The README is generic slop and the “performance metrics” (“Pose Detection Accuracy”; “Person Tracking Accuracy”) appear to be completely invented / hallucinated. In other words, it isn’t real.

New comment by luketaylor in "Mexico to US livestock trade halted due to screwworm spread"

luketaylor — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 16:54:57 +0000

The current plan was announced here a few weeks ago: https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2025/06/...

New comment by luketaylor in "AI comes up with bizarre physics experiments, but they work"

luketaylor — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 03:27:58 +0000

Referring to this type of optimization program just as “AI” in an age where nearly everyone will misinterpret that to mean “transformer-based language model” seems really sloppy

New comment by luketaylor in "Optimizing a WebGPU Matmul Kernel for 1 TFLOP"

luketaylor — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 21:37:36 +0000

Source?

Edit: I just pressed “Reset All to Defaults” under “WebKit Feature Flags” on my device running 18.2 beta, and the switch for WebGPU is on!! <3

New comment by luketaylor in "'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza"

luketaylor — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 15:42:53 +0000

Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism.

I do not believe that “Jews as a collective” are “bribing and blackmailing the whole Western world.”

I do believe that American lobbying groups—including but not limited to those that support Israel—use money as a tool to influence American politics in a manner akin to bribery, including in the few examples I linked about AIPAC.

Your casual conflation “Israel (Jews)”—as if the two were a single group with congruent interests—is misleading, dangerous, and antisemitic. Not all Jews are Israeli, and not all Jews are pro-Israel.

New comment by luketaylor in "'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza"

luketaylor — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 21:50:56 +0000

This article falls under “reported pieces,” not “op-eds and critical essays”

New comment by luketaylor in "'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza"

luketaylor — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 18:47:09 +0000

The IDF uses Palantir’s technology, and Palantir is outspoken about its support for the state of Israel:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-10/palantir-...

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/13/palantir-ceo-says-outspoken-...

New comment by luketaylor in "'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza"

luketaylor — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 18:19:59 +0000

On AIPAC in the US:

1. “How the Israel lobby moved to quash rising dissent in Congress against Israel’s apartheid regime”

2. “Top Pro-Israel Group Offered Ocasio-Cortez $100,000 Campaign Cash”

3. “Senate Candidate in Michigan Says He Was Offered $20 Million to Challenge Tlaib”

[1]: https://theintercept.com/2023/11/27/israel-democrats-aipac-b...

[2]: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ocasio-cortez-aipac-offer-con...

[3]: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/22/us/politics/hill-harper-r...

New comment by luketaylor in "[dead]"

luketaylor — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 17:51:46 +0000

The original thread has now been restored by mods

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39918245

New comment by luketaylor in "'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza"

luketaylor — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 16:21:41 +0000

Now removed from the front page even without being labeled as flagged.

New comment by luketaylor in "'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza"

luketaylor — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 16:20:31 +0000

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/972-magazine/

New comment by luketaylor in "Apple allows some iOS apps to track user locations via lists of nearby SSIDs"

luketaylor — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 16:38:08 +0000

Not an exaggeration—Apple’s primary “location services” API, used on iOS/macOS, is just a lookup table for wireless APs’ MAC addresses. [1]

WiFi scanning is much less power intensive than GPS, much more reliable indoors, and often (in dense areas) more accurate even outdoors. iirc the iPhone only connects to “real” GPS in specific situations, such as when visible wifi signals are insufficient (e.g. highway driving).

[1]: https://www.appelsiini.net/2017/reverse-engineering-location...

New comment by luketaylor in "Desmos 3D graphing calculator"

luketaylor — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 16:57:17 +0000

It’s WebGL, not WebGPU

New comment by luketaylor in "QGIS is the mapping software you didn't know you needed"

luketaylor — Sat, 11 Feb 2023 18:12:45 +0000

Looks like they have Github sponsors set up too: https://github.com/qgis/QGIS

New comment by luketaylor in "Ask HN: Why haven't bookmarks been re-invented?"

luketaylor — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 19:09:17 +0000

I’ve been loving https://mymind.com/, which brings a lot of new innovations to a product that’s more or less bookmarking.

It tries to do a lot of curation and organization automatically, and it does a very good job at resurfacing what I’m looking for, given that I just throw things in there with minimal hand-categorization effort.

Tesla’s data advantage. Can Apple, or others, keep up?

luketaylor — Sun, 21 Feb 2021 21:24:31 +0000

Article URL: https://scobleizer.blog/2021/02/21/teslas-data-advantage-can-apple-or-others-keep-up/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26217366

Points: 2

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