Hacker News: mcculley

New comment by mcculley in "A Dynamic and Distributed Virtual GPU Cloud Built on Idle Apple Silicon Devices"

mcculley — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:34:31 +0000

As with all similar SETI@home approaches, this paper does not address the energy cost.

Yes, we can distribute tasks to idle machines in homes and on office desktops, but it is often much more expensive than sending it to a data center where power is cheaper and the hardware is more efficient.

New comment by mcculley in "SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today"

mcculley — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:29:49 +0000

I think the use of “nazi” is simply sloppy thinking, but if you are genuinely interested in problematic quotes from Musk, he posts to Twitter very often.

New comment by mcculley in "WaveDigger: Dig into wireless signals to discover their physical locations"

mcculley — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 22:52:53 +0000

I get that this is how iMessage works, as I understand it. I am wondering what tradeoffs make Apple decide to use the Secure Enclave versus more mundane certificate infrastructure and how they would make it hard for us to get at this with a debugger if they chose that route.

New comment by mcculley in "WaveDigger: Dig into wireless signals to discover their physical locations"

mcculley — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 19:56:15 +0000

Are you imagining some certificate unique to each device? What would prevent someone copying it?

New comment by mcculley in "WaveDigger: Dig into wireless signals to discover their physical locations"

mcculley — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 19:46:24 +0000

Why would it be cut off? Doesn’t Apple use this on devices?

New comment by mcculley in "Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy"

mcculley — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:10:59 +0000

Yes, and it makes sense to add the stylus/pencil after app developers had to learn how to deal with finger taps only. Apple did the same thing with the original Mac. There were no arrow keys on the first model, so that developers were forced to accommodate the mouse.

New comment by mcculley in "Warren Buffett Steps Down as Berkshire Chairman, Names Son to Replace Him"

mcculley — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 13:25:20 +0000

I appreciate this correction as I had misremembered his dual roles.

New comment by mcculley in "Warren Buffett Steps Down as Berkshire Chairman, Names Son to Replace Him"

mcculley — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 13:25:11 +0000

I appreciate this correction as I had misremembered his dual roles.

New comment by mcculley in "Warren Buffett Steps Down as Berkshire Chairman, Names Son to Replace Him"

mcculley — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 13:41:50 +0000

Evolutionary psychology is stronger than whatever they thought previously.

New comment by mcculley in "Warren Buffett Steps Down as Berkshire Chairman, Names Son to Replace Him"

mcculley — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 13:01:11 +0000

A lot of rich men, when younger, say that they will not leave so much of the wealth to their children. Then they get older and realize what other old men realized.

New comment by mcculley in "Warren Buffett Steps Down as Berkshire Chairman, Names Son to Replace Him"

mcculley — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 12:56:31 +0000

But we have been told for a long time that Buffett was a very active Chairman.

New comment by mcculley in "Astra for Law"

mcculley — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 12:55:39 +0000

When it can imagine real risks and not hallucinations, I am sure it will be better than having a human lawyer write the agreement. I am not convinced that we are there yet.

New comment by mcculley in "Astra for Law"

mcculley — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 23:17:42 +0000

In my experience, those expensive specialists help me protect against things me and the counterparty cannot even imagine when making an agreement. Do you mean that this would be fixed by AI or by making simpler agreements?

New comment by mcculley in "OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems"

mcculley — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:11:53 +0000

No. The reason Guantanamo Bay is used as a prison is because we don't have a legal framework to handle some individuals in the United States. The use of Guantanamo Bay for domestic criminals would be a failure of the justice system.

New comment by mcculley in "Stop making swap partitions–use swap files instead"

mcculley — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:33:55 +0000

It would be nice if the VFS had a hook for providing swap pages, making this manual futzing less necessary.

New comment by mcculley in "iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max"

mcculley — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:22:40 +0000

Long ago there was a Usenet over satellite feed: http://www.art.net/lile/pagesat/netnews.html

New comment by mcculley in "iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max"

mcculley — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:29:24 +0000

Will they figure out how to fit the new C2 cellular modem into a MacBook Pro?

New comment by mcculley in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

mcculley — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 15:54:46 +0000

Every time I click a stupid cookie notice I wonder why the company serving it up chose to make me go through that rather than not track me.

New comment by mcculley in "Indirect Calling of Nested Functions on GCC Without Executable Stack"

mcculley — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 16:35:04 +0000

Not just security. Instruction caches must also be aware of self-modifying code.

New comment by mcculley in "Starbase, LA"

mcculley — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 17:29:34 +0000

More of Musk's ventures need a Gwynne Shotwell. Imagine what Tesla could do with a full-time adult at the helm.