Hacker News: mayneack

New comment by mayneack in "NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook"

mayneack — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:46:32 +0000

I've seen this sort of thing happen when something starts small and no one cares and then it gets traction. Eg: If you have a tiny toy project that the engineers call one thing, you might publish it under that name. If it then gets the attention of some higher level marketing team, you might rebrand it to align with the rest of the company.

No idea if that happened here or in google generally.

New comment by mayneack in "How we can reduce traffic congestion"

mayneack — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 04:39:59 +0000

The relative price of those cramped urban centers where this is true suggests that at least a few more people would choose this path if it were cheaper.

New comment by mayneack in "Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets"

mayneack — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 13:19:56 +0000

A settlement can be in favor of apple still

New comment by mayneack in "Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets"

mayneack — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 01:09:14 +0000

this will settle before it gets to discovery I bet

New comment by mayneack in "Supreme Court upholds broad conception of birthright citizenship"

mayneack — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:22:48 +0000

Either laws work the way they're written and 4 members of the court disagree or they work the way the Supreme Court says they work and a worse ruling could threaten those citizens.

New comment by mayneack in "They are looting your life savings"

mayneack — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 21:58:30 +0000

> And just like that—surprise!—one AI company bails out another AI company's grift. Google agreeing to rent compute from xAI (cough, "SpaceX") magically makes them eligible for inclusion in the S&P500.

> Americans, they are looting your life savings, the ones you earned through labour that they are gleefully replacing. Your descendants will never have the chance you had.

> https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/05/google-will-pay-spacex-920...

Trump administration, OpenAI discussing possible government stake in the startup

mayneack — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:58:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/05/trump-open-ai-altman-stake.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48418910

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by mayneack in "Project Glasswing: An Initial Update"

mayneack — Fri, 22 May 2026 22:23:17 +0000

Daniel has been posting for months (years?) about how much scrutiny he gets from security researchers and various automated tools. I wouldn't expect curl to be the average case for mythos.

New comment by mayneack in "How to convert between wealth and income tax"

mayneack — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:35:14 +0000

> It's clear that politicians don't get this from the way they talk about a "mere 1%" wealth tax. None of them would speak of adding a "mere 20%" to the income tax rate, even though that's mathematically the same thing. [2]

This is the wrong way of thinking about it. It's not adding 20% to an already taxed entity, it's adding taxes where there weren't before. Adding 20% on top of the income tax would indeed be controversial. In his framing the rate of return is effectively untaxed income, so it would be more accurate to say that this is like adding income tax to a currently untaxed income stream.

New comment by mayneack in "Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets"

mayneack — Tue, 19 May 2026 22:34:43 +0000

Arguing over implementation details is a pretty common thing for laws to do. Maybe it would weaken the logical consistency of their laws, but that's not really a thing that matters.

Why do states allow hunting some animals and not others? Why do states distinguish between different forms of income to tax? It's all implementation details.

New comment by mayneack in "AI didn't delete your database, you did"

mayneack — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:55:49 +0000

I think the "black box" framing that it uses neatly applies the same theory to organizations and ais. It doesn't matter whether there's technological or organizational reasons inside the black box to dodge accountability, the outcome is the same.

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

mayneack — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:17:38 +0000

There's a whole industry of hiking gear that has been steadily trading weight for durability. I only hike in running shoes (altras) which only last me 400 or so miles. It's way less durable than my old boots.

I doubt this sort of thing will translate, but I wouldn't put it past hikers to opt for something less durable to shave a few grams.

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

mayneack — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:01:44 +0000

Why stop there. Why not deny them modern medicine or nutrition?

New comment by mayneack in "OpenAI Privacy Filter"

mayneack — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 03:13:07 +0000

Curious how this compares to presidio which mixes regex with a model: https://microsoft.github.io/presidio/

New comment by mayneack in "Hacker compromises A16Z-backed phone farm, calling them the 'antichrist'"

mayneack — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 05:34:27 +0000

A16Z was (is?) up to their eyeballs in crypto as well.

New comment by mayneack in "Every plane you see in the sky – you can now follow it from the cockpit in 3D"

mayneack — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:28:19 +0000

Pretty sure it does https://flight-viz.com/cockpit.html?lat=34.026608&lon=-118.3...

New comment by mayneack in "Kagi Product Tips – Customize Your Search Results with URL Redirects"

mayneack — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:54:45 +0000

This is useful for redirecting x to xcancel

New comment by mayneack in "EFF is leaving X"

mayneack — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:02:16 +0000

Neither of those controls their ecosystem. Truth Social runs on Activity Pub.

New comment by mayneack in "EFF is leaving X"

mayneack — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:30:30 +0000

Yes. If you're just making arbitrary choices on each instance you're not a free speech zealot you're just making judgement calls like everyone else.

New comment by mayneack in "EFF is leaving X"

mayneack — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:29:07 +0000

In what world is twitter the least censored site? The big 3 federated sites are much more open if you want it to be and X is a walled garden.