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New comment by master_crab in "AI companies are shredding rare books"

master_crab — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:05:07 +0000

It can be the case that everyone in “a fight” is wrong.

New comment by master_crab in "Judge halts Paramount's $111B purchase of Warner Bros. in win for US states"

master_crab — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:34:07 +0000

That’s not good either. It’s the same with poultry, many types of fruit, etc. This just makes the case further.

New comment by master_crab in "Judge halts Paramount's $111B purchase of Warner Bros. in win for US states"

master_crab — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:11:22 +0000

They don't have a monopoly on any meaningful product category.

By that reasoning I could have a monopoly on peanuts and it’s alright because consumers can choose from hundreds of other foods.

New comment by master_crab in "US gas prices hit an average of $4 a gallon again"

master_crab — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:01:21 +0000

I wonder what happens to that gas price once the SPR can no longer be drawn from?

https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=W...

New comment by master_crab in "TLS certificates for internal services done right"

master_crab — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 11:52:50 +0000

Apologies. Not trying to come across as a prick.

But at least we both agree private dns =/= split brain. :)

New comment by master_crab in "TLS certificates for internal services done right"

master_crab — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:36:07 +0000

Bless your sweet heart if you think private DNS servers are split horizon. :)

New comment by master_crab in "TLS certificates for internal services done right"

master_crab — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:30:25 +0000

Because I was responding to this comment you had made:

So what's your solution when you have a wholly private service that will never have a public v4 address, nor a publicly routable v6? How do clients get the address for a nice domain name without the addresses in public DNS?

Which, if you claim you use private DNS, you know you can indeed solve by only having the private records sit on your private DNS service that can only be hit by clients on the internal network. Without the architectural bad practice of implementing split horizon.

New comment by master_crab in "Apple's rumored M7 Ultra targets 1.5TB and Blackwell-class AI performance"

master_crab — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:57:49 +0000

The M-series are ARM chips based on the A series from the iPhones. Therefore Apple had ten years of chip design (plus the prior decades of ARM history) to rely on. The GPUs and modems were a much more recent effort.

(My take. happy to be corrected by someone with chip design experience who can comment.)

New comment by master_crab in "Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future"

master_crab — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 16:06:47 +0000

100%. Orchestrating multiple sub agents is a key requirement for many workflows. If only because it minimizes context sprawl (amongst multiple other reasons).

There is probably a middle ground though. Something like a main thread agent (say a local model for Hermes) orchestrating cloud based sub agents.

New comment by master_crab in "TLS certificates for internal services done right"

master_crab — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 15:56:12 +0000

You don’t. You avoid split horizon because of the silent (usually failure) mechanics it introduces.

New comment by master_crab in "GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, Claude, and Muse Spark build the same 4 apps"

master_crab — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:01:18 +0000

A lot of these are visual-heavy tests that often require first person sight to confirm results. Considering GLM isn’t multimodal, that might explain why it did better on the calculator question and not much else.

New comment by master_crab in "TLS certificates for internal services done right"

master_crab — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:37:52 +0000

Wait…what? You have a fully internal service and you dont have an internal DNS server? I guess those exist in theory, but not in practice. :)

If you have a heavy enough tech stack to run fully internal services, than you can also run an internal DNS service (even pihole is enough) and load internal only entries there.

Or add everything to your hosts file if you have a central config service.

New comment by master_crab in "TLS certificates for internal services done right"

master_crab — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 09:41:56 +0000

Split brain =/= done right.

This introduces all sorts of aberrant behavior. Most notably that clients will get different responses depending on their query and route that you now have to test for. It also is a “silent” deviation for audiences that may not be aware of.

I’m not sure what problem that is trying to be solved here? That the OP wanted internal users seeing a different site than external users? Or using a different route in? In both those cases the correct user behavior is to use a different DNS record.

New comment by master_crab in "Why American ambulance rides are so expensive"

master_crab — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 09:34:42 +0000

He’s a lightning rod only because some people get unnecessarily triggered by facts that don’t fit their world view.

New comment by master_crab in "Meta Is Building a Cloud Business to Sell Excess AI Compute"

master_crab — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:01:37 +0000

So short meta?

New comment by master_crab in "Historical memory prices 1960-2026"

master_crab — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 10:58:50 +0000

Containers is often the reason. You start a container and you are immediately pulling in a quarter to half a gig or more (often the latter).

How Saarinen and Eames Imagined Airport Operations and Influenced Dulles

master_crab — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 11:51:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C3iKBJhgZM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48697442

Points: 1

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New comment by master_crab in "2026 vs. 1996 Chevrolet Blazer IIHS crash test"

master_crab — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 10:25:17 +0000

Does the IIHS have a an Indiana Jones style warehouse where they keep 30 year old forgettable vehicles like the Blazer in storage for just this special occasion?

New comment by master_crab in "Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot has died in a plane crash"

master_crab — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 16:00:48 +0000

“Doctor killer” for a reason.

It can be monotonous and degrading, but commercial air is the safe way to travel.

New comment by master_crab in "21 years and counting of 'eight fallacies of distributed computing' (2025)"

master_crab — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:36:10 +0000

There needs to be a distinction - because people are making an honest conflation - between distributed computing and cloud computing. The list in the article applies to both, but the limits and performance variability can apply quicker - and with more effect - in the cloud.