Hacker News: m348e912

New comment by m348e912 in "Your ePub Is fine"

m348e912 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:29:14 +0000

Love or hate Steve Jobs, his insistence of not supporting Flash on the iPhone (in favor of HTML5) accelerated Flash's demise dramatically.

New comment by m348e912 in "A PDF that changes based on how its read"

m348e912 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:11:09 +0000

I don't even know how to export as PDF/A. Seems like we'd be better off saving the PDFs as gifs and uploading them to LLMs at this point.

New comment by m348e912 in "FBI arrests CIA official with $40M in gold bars in his home"

m348e912 — Thu, 28 May 2026 02:25:28 +0000

There might be a mix up on the details.

The FBI raided the home of John Bolton who was a former National Security Advisor for the first Trump administration. (not directly part of the NSA and definitely not the director of the NSA). Bolton has become a vocal critic of Trump since he was fired in Sept 2019.

Trump's DOJ has a track record of prosecuting Trump's vocal critics. eg. Former FBI director James Comey and New York attorney general Letitia James

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecution_of_John_Bolton

There has been no legal action taken against current NSA director General Joshua M. Rudd or his recent predecessor, William J. Hartman

New comment by m348e912 in "Two EA-18 fighter jets collide at Mountain Home airshow, pilots ejected safely"

m348e912 — Mon, 18 May 2026 02:52:22 +0000

You're not wrong, but exorbitant deficit spending has its own dire consequences. (eventually) Not that I am telling you anything you don't already know.

New comment by m348e912 in "The social contract between the user and the OS is broken"

m348e912 — Wed, 13 May 2026 02:15:31 +0000

>With Tesla cars, "Full" Self Driving does not include a crash; when the system determines a crash to be unavoidable it takes its hands off and "returns control to the driver" in the moment of impact, such that Tesla can deny liability in the episode.

I didn't know about this one, interesting

New comment by m348e912 in "Do teachers need advanced degrees?"

m348e912 — Tue, 12 May 2026 21:17:43 +0000

Teaching salaries start at $48,112 on average. If schools want advanced degrees the industry needs to pay more, and that's beyond whatever adjustment the provide for holding an advanced degree.

The social contract between the user and the OS is broken

m348e912 — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:23:26 +0000

Here are just some of the social contract rules that have been reneged upon:

* Hitting the X means close/quit the app.

* Close/quit means end the task/program, not minimize it and run in the background.

* Searching allows you to search for a file or a program quickly and directly.

* No ads on an OS that the user paid for

* Clicking "No" means stop asking, not "remind me later"

* User's data should remain user's data

* If a user backs up files to the cloud, it doesn't mean they automatically get removed from the users machine without permission

* AI shouldn't be shoehorned into all apps unless enabled by user

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48113999

Points: 4

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New comment by m348e912 in "eBay Rejects GameStop's $56B Takeover as Not Credible"

m348e912 — Tue, 12 May 2026 16:26:22 +0000

You guys might not have seen the recent interviews (last week) with gamestop CEO Ryan Cohen. Gamestop has already pivoted, game and console sales are cyclical and hard to base a business upon. They have leaned hard into collectables as a way to expand their business and retail model.

I am unsure how a Gamestop/eBay storefront would do. Physical manifestations of "eBay stores" have existed in the past and none of them did very well long term.

New comment by m348e912 in "Venom and hot peppers offer a key to killing resistant bacteria"

m348e912 — Mon, 11 May 2026 21:51:33 +0000

Cabbage juice is very promising in helping with number of gut related issues due to it's anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, and anti-inflammatory properties. Organic green cabbage, freshly juiced seems to be the most effective, but wow does it create a stink and doesn't taste great. I am not sure how someone take it regularly without crashing out and giving up.

New comment by m348e912 in "The One Dollar Counterfeiter"

m348e912 — Sun, 10 May 2026 13:31:19 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcuDTEbR8CE. Mr 880, a movie loosely based on the case.

New comment by m348e912 in "You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE)"

m348e912 — Sun, 10 May 2026 01:09:15 +0000

You're kind of making my point. Perhaps we will see a trend where support for many things are not available by default and need to be installed as needed. Linux doesn't need to come with support for this and that (like AX.25) when it can be installed in seconds if truly needed. Doesn't OpenBSD already take this approach?

New comment by m348e912 in "Apple, Intel Have Reached Preliminary Chip-Making Agreement"

m348e912 — Sat, 09 May 2026 16:19:59 +0000

Not when they have TSMC they don't.

New comment by m348e912 in "You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE)"

m348e912 — Sat, 09 May 2026 16:19:12 +0000

I was reading similar comments about AF_ALG which lead to the copy-fail exploit. Could we see a trend of moving away from less used tools/modules that expand the vulnerability footprint?

New comment by m348e912 in "Apple, Intel Have Reached Preliminary Chip-Making Agreement"

m348e912 — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:57:32 +0000

I was surprised to read this. Apple has managed to develop chips that run faster, cooler, and with less power. I can’t figure out why they need Intel.

New comment by m348e912 in "Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race"

m348e912 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:37:57 +0000

I have no evidence of this at all. I did thing it was interesting the demeanor of Sebastian Sawe and second place finisher Yomif Kejelcha, both of whom finished under 2 hours.

If you watch Kelvin Kiptum break the world record at the 2023 Chicago Marathon and Eluid Kipchoge break the world record in the 2022 Berlin Marathon, you see the joy and exasperation of their achievement.

That joy was missing in the winners of the London marathon. It's not evidence, but it's an interesting data point. Another data point: Not only did the first two finishers break two hours, the third place finisher, Jacob Kiplimo, broke the world record.

New comment by m348e912 in "How Short-Form Clips Took over the Internet"

m348e912 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 22:30:48 +0000

It's interesting how Youtube decided to push shorts to their user base without the ability to turn it off without the use of a browser plugin. They did add an option on the mobile app to block them, which is a step in the right direction.

New comment by m348e912 in "Bring Your Agent to Teams"

m348e912 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 04:35:38 +0000

>> Your users live in Teams.

> No, I assure you, we do not

This absolutism is tiring. I can assure you there are plenty of companies who use teams as their sole messaging platform. My company uses slack, teams, and zoom. Which one you use the most depends on the person or the team they are on. (Although zoom is being phased out to the chagrin of some folks).

Teams isn't without it's issues, it's annoyingly slow, and startup takes so long I have missed a meeting or two because of it. But, the conferencing experience is pretty decent, and I think you're just being contrarian for the sake of it.

New comment by m348e912 in "I ran Gemma 4 as a local model in Codex CLI"

m348e912 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:28:39 +0000

AI models like gemma4 are available in different quant "sizes", think about it as an image available in various compression levels.

The best image is the largest, takes up the most memory when loading, and while it is large and looks the best, it uses up much of your system resources.

On the other end of the spectrum there is a smaller much more compressed version of that same image. It loads quickly, uses less resources, but is lacking detail and clarity of the original image.

AI models are similar in that fashion, and the parent poster is suggesting you use the largest version of the AI model your system can support, even if it runs a little slower than you like.

New comment by m348e912 in "TSA lines are so out of control that travelers are hiring line-sitters"

m348e912 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 03:49:18 +0000

My understanding is that flight security protocols and cockpit hardening introduced after 9/11 made it significantly harder to replicate what happened that day.

New comment by m348e912 in "TSA lines are so out of control that travelers are hiring line-sitters"

m348e912 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 14:59:55 +0000

I'm not the first to suggest this, but I think "fly at your own risk" airlines would be popular with some people. Keep the cockpit door reinforced, and maintain a gentleman's agreement among travellers on what to do if a passenger threatens a flight. Airport security is now reduced to 10 seconds.