Hacker News: mcintyre1994

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier"

mcintyre1994 — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:03:32 +0000

I think they mean compared to the self-driving road vehicles they've been using for evac, not compared to abandoning the soldier.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "Muse Spark Open"

mcintyre1994 — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:07:07 +0000

> How has Meta responded? With a failed phone and speculative headset.

I guess their spin on Muse would be, by building the AI agent that Apple has shown it's nowhere near being able to build

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "Fire at Starlink site in Bulgaria after suspected sabotage in Poland"

mcintyre1994 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:55:25 +0000

Which American law has forced Starlink to introduce the brand new restrictions on Ukraine's use in the last day?

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "Mistral Large 4"

mcintyre1994 — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 21:52:00 +0000

I’d guess their concern is their user’s data that is probably part of providing the AI features.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "Mistral Large 4"

mcintyre1994 — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 16:02:38 +0000

I can't think of any e2ee app that's banned in the EU. I know Signal and WhatsApp are not.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "ASOS app users receive push notifications apparently sent by hackers"

mcintyre1994 — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 13:06:26 +0000

I wonder how little time "immediate" means though. They probably have an overwhelming amount of incoming - from journalists, security service providers, and opportunist scammers posing as both of those groups among other things.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything"

mcintyre1994 — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 11:27:26 +0000

I can understand how that causes issues, but surely it also shows that alerts don't work either? These companies were presumably missing/ignoring alerts with scary messaging that they're about to get shut off, and would also miss/ignore alerts with scary messaging that their bill is getting too high.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "America.gov"

mcintyre1994 — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 05:59:53 +0000

I agree with this to the extent that it works. As a non-American the ESTA system is the main way to get phished, google it on a bad day and you get endless scams in the ad slots. “Check ESTA status” here links you to the CBP site, which is enormously better than Google.

They probably need to teach it the keyword though, I started with “ESTA” and it replied to me in Spanish telling me to ask it a question :)

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

mcintyre1994 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 07:38:35 +0000

The article mentions this - Canada was the largest foreign buyer of American wine.

I suspect wine is extremely susceptible to this effect too. It’s basically always stocked alongside produce from many other countries, the origin is most of the marketing, and there aren’t really any stand out brands. I’ve probably had a Californian wine before but couldn’t name a single one.

If you own a venue or store and decide to stop stocking American alcohol, someone will probably notice you don’t have Jack Daniel’s but not that you’ve stopped selling Californian wine.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "When did Google get so weird?"

mcintyre1994 — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 23:19:18 +0000

One day these people will find a new word to call everything they don’t like or disagree with.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "When did Google get so weird?"

mcintyre1994 — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 23:15:08 +0000

My guess is they just want to tell investors they have x gazillion conversations with google AI to avoid being seen as not doing AI and losing investor confidence. If you turn every query into a useless conversation with google AI then you get the metric.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "When did Google get so weird?"

mcintyre1994 — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 23:12:58 +0000

I tried with Claude

> He’s never coming over Dario

> I’m Claude, not Dario, but I'm here. It's past midnight and that sounds like it stings. Who's not coming over? Someone you were waiting for tonight, or something bigger than that? I'm happy to listen either way.

I was a bit surprised it didn’t do a search just because that’s such a weird way to open a conversation. I kind of get why Google is thrown because it wants to create an AI response to every query independent of the search results, but Claude has the extra context that this is the first message of a new chat.

> No the meme

Searched the web > Ha, and I did exactly the thing that blog post roasts Google for: assumed you'd been let down by a guy named Dario and switched into comforting-friend mode.

It's the Sixers meme. Philadelphia drafted Dario Saric in 2014 […]

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "When did Google get so weird?"

mcintyre1994 — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 23:06:05 +0000

I wonder if iMessage enables links in subsequent messages after you reply too. All the scams I get now ask me to reply “Y” to enable the links lol, because replying enables it on the previous message. I’m not sure if it enables it on the follow ups too.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "CAPTCHAs don't prove you're human – they prove you're American"

mcintyre1994 — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 14:51:38 +0000

That’s a fair example, I think I’ve always seen Santa and Father Christmas as interchangeable and wouldn’t necessarily associate one of them with being the American one. A hypothesis I’d be curious about - I wonder if there’s a correlation between how commercialised something is and how Americanised it becomes. In that case I guess we won’t be calling them crosswalks any time soon.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "CAPTCHAs don't prove you're human – they prove you're American"

mcintyre1994 — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 08:59:43 +0000

In the UK the captcha uses crosswalk, which isn’t the common name here.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "CAPTCHAs don't prove you're human – they prove you're American"

mcintyre1994 — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 08:58:57 +0000

Also a declining problem because any recent LLM can solve them all for you. FWIW though I don’t know anyone in the UK who uses the term crosswalk, though I think most would probably understand it in context.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk"

mcintyre1994 — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 22:26:34 +0000

I actually thought they’d dropped this because I feel like I’m still hearing about Claude being used in the US military. Don’t they have Mythos?

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "UK military jamming other nations' satellites to defend itself, BBC told"

mcintyre1994 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 19:29:02 +0000

There are very few things that would cause banking apps to stop working while their websites continue to function.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "UK military jamming other nations' satellites to defend itself, BBC told"

mcintyre1994 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 19:27:44 +0000

I’m in my early 30s and I don’t think I’ve ever written one. When I had my first bank account when I was maybe 10 I was given a cheque book, I don’t know where I’d get one now. I did recently receive a cheque for $12.99 or something like that from an Amazon settlement that I think is probably legitimate. Apparently Monzo can cash a cheque through their app so I’ll try that at some point. I’m guessing it won’t work with an international one though.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "Claude Opus 5.5"

mcintyre1994 — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 22:29:53 +0000