Hacker News: metrix

New comment by metrix in "Is this the new cyber normal?"

metrix — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:41:10 +0000

I think that even worse is that AI might choose just to write something, and skip using a library that is well maintained

New comment by metrix in "What’s getting pwned right now"

metrix — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 15:01:09 +0000

This may be a side conversation, but wondered how far away we are to a small LLM being prompted to turn itself into a worm that uses all exploits it knows, and prompts other LLM's when it has access.

New comment by metrix in "The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve"

metrix — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 23:58:28 +0000

What do they do with the brine when they fill it back up with oil?

And do they use fresh water?

New comment by metrix in "The Human Cost of DOGE's War on USAID"

metrix — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:57:44 +0000

Yes.. Add the term transgender and obviously it needs to go.

I don't know the specifics, but i'm sure it's like canceling (and calling) a hospital in a small town a trans clinic because they happen to have a trans patient

New comment by metrix in "Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card"

metrix — Fri, 22 May 2026 22:54:47 +0000

I don't know th- AAAAHHHH

New comment by metrix in "SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017)"

metrix — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 14:35:42 +0000

So authoritative!

You had me for a second :)

New comment by metrix in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

metrix — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:56:13 +0000

Being trans, I feel this so much.

On a side note, it was interesting after Trump was elected where some of my co-workers wanted to use old pronouns after some laws changed _in meetings_ and I realized the only thing stopping them was the awkwardness it would have been for _them_ in that situation

New comment by metrix in "Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops"

metrix — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:04:04 +0000

They're using the analogy of mining for gold. the cost of a shovel/pitchfork goes up when the price of gold goes down - which is a double whammy

New comment by metrix in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

metrix — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:57:45 +0000

It's by design.

New comment by metrix in "Can I run AI locally?"

metrix — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 01:56:45 +0000

use openrouter, and call it a day. auto switching between providers, connectivity to all clouds and even works with free models

New comment by metrix in "US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says"

metrix — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:22:43 +0000

I don't see it as adding fuel to the fire. I see it as helping the market price companies correctly

New comment by metrix in "Dr. Oz pushes AI avatars as a fix for rural health care"

metrix — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 19:03:09 +0000

So we get so worked up over this stuff, and for good reason. But personally I'm taking another stance...

let them..

It's not my choice to make someone understand what's best for an individual or as a group. Let them make these decisions, and learn for themselves. Will this cause issues where I am at risk of getting measles? Or that kids could get sick over non pasteurized milk? yes, but we're back in a place where people have to feel the pain.

That's not to judge, or belittle or put anyone down. There's people who have views and values that conflict and that's OK.. Even if it's not the best for us a whole.

New comment by metrix in "Vim 9.2"

metrix — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 18:57:18 +0000

I'm right there with you, and to be honest Lua just works. I helped with Neovim when it started ~10 years ago, and didn't understand the big deal about implementing lua.. But now that it's here, I can't believe it wasn't forked and implemented sooner

New comment by metrix in "Vim 9.2"

metrix — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 18:53:33 +0000

Totally worth it. I tied it to openrouter.ai so that I could use 'all the AI's' (TM)

Totally worth it

New comment by metrix in "Hard Rust requirements from May onward"

metrix — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 15:15:18 +0000

While I get your view, I think examples would help to move the conversation along in a more constructive manner

New comment by metrix in "SQLite concurrency and why you should care about it"

metrix — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 15:12:27 +0000

I'm curious what your suggest mmap pragma would be.

New comment by metrix in "ADS-B Exposed"

metrix — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 17:02:09 +0000

what's going on around colorado springs with these shapes?

https://adsb.exposed/?dataset=Planes&zoom=9&lat=38.2165&lng=...

New comment by metrix in "South Korean workers detained in Hyundai plant raid to be freed and flown home"

metrix — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 14:19:36 +0000

I don't quite understand what happened other than "deported by ICE".

New comment by metrix in "What makes Claude Code so damn good"

metrix — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 03:00:45 +0000

I have thought the same thing. How is it created? is it an idea by an LLM to make the language, or a dev to create a language designed for an llm.

How do we get the LLM to gain knowledge on this new language that we have no example usage of?

New comment by metrix in "Margin debt surges to record high"

metrix — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 12:15:42 +0000

you're right, but it brings up an even bigger question in my mind -

If farms where wiped out we a huge percentage of the population would no longer exist, yet they 100% are a commodity with low margins.

We don't value things based on long term risk/need