Hacker News: matthewfcarlson

New comment by matthewfcarlson in "Laguna XS.2 and M.1"

matthewfcarlson — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:28:43 +0000

My phone is in grayscale to make it less interesting (I still watch way too many videos in grayscale but it helps) so I’m right with you

New comment by matthewfcarlson in "Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years"

matthewfcarlson — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:23:53 +0000

I’ve started to see bug bounty programs put flags into the product (see apples target flags https://security.apple.com/bounty/target-flags/).

I wonder if it’s partially to make it easier to validate from an AI perspective

New comment by matthewfcarlson in "The Australian government has announced gambling advertising reforms"

matthewfcarlson — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 23:04:17 +0000

Today it’s a ban on gambling ads, but tomorrow it’s a ban on mosquitos, cancer, and discrimination.

Listing a bunch of things a lot of people don’t like isn’t a winning argument.

How flat is your name

matthewfcarlson — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 03:25:34 +0000

Article URL: https://matthewc.dev/musings/baby-names/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47560133

Points: 1

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New comment by matthewfcarlson in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

matthewfcarlson — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 21:13:46 +0000

Yes- that's what I referring to. Basically the virtualization framework supporting handing a specific PCIe device off to a VM. Link management is still handled by macOS but the actual PCIe packets are handled by the VM (which could be windows or linux, which would have a GPU driver)

New comment by matthewfcarlson in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

matthewfcarlson — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 21:09:56 +0000

Hardware generally isn't allowed outside of lockdowns. There are things you can do with dev fused hardware to remotely control it which make life easier. But most devs just come into the office since being there in person is nicer.

New comment by matthewfcarlson in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

matthewfcarlson — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 03:16:47 +0000

WSJ recently did a thing about it but details were rather light

New comment by matthewfcarlson in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

matthewfcarlson — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 03:14:30 +0000

They did come out with a new XDR. It’s just not 32”.

New comment by matthewfcarlson in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

matthewfcarlson — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 03:09:46 +0000

As someone who worked on the M2 Mac Pro and has a real soft spot for it, I get it. It’s horrendously expensive and doesn’t offer much benefit over a Mac Studio and a thunderbolt pci chassis. My personal dream is that vms would support pci pass through and so you can just spin up a Linux vm and let it drive the gpus. But at that point, why are you buying a Mac?

Opinions are my own obvs.

New comment by matthewfcarlson in "Apple Business"

matthewfcarlson — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:08:10 +0000

The reality is that every business unit needs to justify its existence and when asking for headcount, it’s easier to point to a revenue stream you’re tied to rather than “we help sell some things to businesses”

New comment by matthewfcarlson in "Microsoft's "Fix" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating"

matthewfcarlson — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:25:49 +0000

It seems like another tragedy of the commons. Consumers ultimately have the final say in climate impacts by above companies. That isn’t to say consumers are guilt free, but the power of an individual is pretty small

New comment by matthewfcarlson in "Apple's intentional crippling of Mobile Safari"

matthewfcarlson — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:17:19 +0000

Like most people (at least on this thread). I’m okay with the vast majority of these things not supported in mobile safari. But man, Bluetooth would be nice. I often provision esp32 devices for various things and either I need an app or a laptop when my phone is perfectly capable.

New comment by matthewfcarlson in "Chest Fridge (2009)"

matthewfcarlson — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 02:54:13 +0000

$800 a month for rent is pretty good

New comment by matthewfcarlson in "SBCL Fibers – Lightweight Cooperative Threads"

matthewfcarlson — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:43:42 +0000

I personally like the name fiber better than green threads. But everywhere I’ve worked in user space cooperative threads, it’s always been green threads.

New comment by matthewfcarlson in "Ageless Linux – Software for humans of indeterminate age"

matthewfcarlson — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 23:29:15 +0000

Oh nice! I’ve been wanting to ask someone of your age, how was the Middle Miocene Climate Optimum?

New comment by matthewfcarlson in "Claude March 2026 usage promotion"

matthewfcarlson — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 23:24:37 +0000

I need something in between pro and max (about 2-3x pro not 5x). Really hoping this usage promotion is a permanent fixture. I have Claude through work and more tokens than I know what to do with. But on personal projects, I tend to want a lot of tokens all at once at late hours.

New comment by matthewfcarlson in "The MacBook Neo"

matthewfcarlson — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:26:38 +0000

There is a ton of fascinating work to make the "software" camera in use indicator just as secure if not more secure than an LED attached to the power lines of the camera. Apple hasn't publicly talked about it much but here are two sources that aren't terrible.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09272 https://randomaugustine.medium.com/on-apple-exclaves-d683a2c... https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/03/19/on-apple-exclav...

We've seen a few examples on HN lately (Coruna iOS Exploit Kit) of nation state level exploits in the hands of financially motivated organizations. I'm not free of bias here but the industry is quickly headed towards a reckoning in terms of security over the next few years.

New comment by matthewfcarlson in "Building a Procedural Hex Map with Wave Function Collapse"

matthewfcarlson — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 20:39:06 +0000

I started on a simple coop top-down pirate game yesterday when this popped up. I will probably switch the map generation to be using something like this tbh

New comment by matthewfcarlson in "Effort to prevent government officials from engaging in prediction markets"

matthewfcarlson — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 22:20:10 +0000

To the people downvoting you, you just said the administration is bringing corruption into the public view. Some people believe they are exposing and some believe they are currently doing it. Either way, corruption and profiting off of a political position is certainly top of mind for many Americans atm.

New comment by matthewfcarlson in "A Homemade Robot Nag"

matthewfcarlson — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 18:55:49 +0000

I like habitica and used it back in the 2010s for a few years. But the RPG elements didn’t quite click with me. I enjoyed taking down a boss with friends because it made my friends happy. Not because I liked the rpg itself