Hacker News: mey

New comment by mey in "OpenClaw privilege escalation vulnerability"

mey — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:41:01 +0000

Thank you for the reality check. I like to assume people are coming from a certain baseline on HN, but I sometimes forget that certain topics have a passionate user base represented.

New comment by mey in "OpenClaw privilege escalation vulnerability"

mey — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:32:04 +0000

More than 25% of users seems like a pretty accurate "probably".

New comment by mey in "HP trialed mandatory 15-minute support call wait times (2025)"

mey — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:27:09 +0000

Personally switched from VZW to Google Fi. It's on TMOs network. As you can imagine, when engaging with Google's support was hilarious when there was something I needed, but overall I don't miss Verizon and pay drastically less.

New comment by mey in "Ramtrack.eu – RAM Price Intelligence"

mey — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:53:35 +0000

While the .eu should make that more obvious, the text is pretty small/low contrast. Also specifically indicates it's the Dutch market.

https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/ may be more interesting to US users.

New comment by mey in "Pentagon asks for $200bn for Iran War"

mey — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:54:25 +0000

Unless laws are enforced, the laws don't matter.

New comment by mey in "Sunsetting Jazzband"

mey — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 19:57:20 +0000

I don't know how many maintainers that are impacted by this, or what they are getting from Jazzband (I was not previously familiar), but the Apache foundation may be something to look into.

https://apache.org/

New comment by mey in "Someone needs to go to jail"

mey — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:24:39 +0000

This is not an either or issue. There are policy issues all around. The "left" isn't creating an magical "other" in the form of panic about "woke"/"immigrants"/"terrorists cells"/"trans people"/"welfare queens"/"libs"/"gay agenda" etc.

The US government in general is not prioritizing the reality and needs of the people, it is supposed to be in service to. Instead it is serving the needs of the few, but there are many many fronts of injustice, as there are many different people in power with their own agenda. It's not necessarily a single unified agenda.

Edit: The astro-turfing in this thread is going to be interesting based on the bot comment just below my comment...

New comment by mey in "I Don't Like Magic"

mey — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 01:47:59 +0000

Why do you have to remind us that Java Card exists?

New comment by mey in "Tesla has to pay historic $243M judgement over Autopilot crash, judge says"

mey — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:33:09 +0000

Ask the CEO? Based on recent incentives and acquisitions, are they planning to remain a car company?

New comment by mey in "Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database"

mey — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:54:03 +0000

That is a critical point that AI companies want to remove. _they_ want to be the system of record. Except they _can't_. Which makes me think of LLMs are just really bad cache layers on the world.

New comment by mey in "SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation"

mey — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:21:12 +0000

Or Google is failing you lately. Seems like it's not a recent event, which Google is also REALLY bad at these days.

https://current.org/2016/03/wned-and-rrkidz-trade-lawsuits-o...

New comment by mey in "Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas"

mey — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 19:09:50 +0000

But do you (or MSFT) trust it to do that correctly, consistently, and handle failure modes (what happens when the meaning of that button/screen changes)?

I agree, an assistant would be fantastic in my life, but LLMs aren't AGI. They can not reason about my intentions, don't ask clarifing questions (bring back ELIZA), and handle state in an interesting way (are there designs out there that automatically prune/compress context?).

New comment by mey in "Walmart exec: 'I've never believed in the term work-life balance'"

mey — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 03:02:49 +0000

Some addition perspective questions I would have.

What is her compensation ratio vs the minimum paid employee?

Are exempt employees compensated (stock?) in some capacity for being available at any time?

How do you monitor that managers are being good role models and/or helping to set boundaries? Without a company plan/objective, the only people holding the company to account is the individual, and they only power they have at the end of the day is to leave.

New comment by mey in "Bring bathroom doors back to hotels"

mey — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 04:15:23 +0000

Then why offer twin beds?

New comment by mey in "Asus Ascent GX10"

mey — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 18:34:23 +0000

Why not burn down some tree's and show the wrong information instead of putting a simple table?

New comment by mey in "Washington Post editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties"

mey — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 19:31:31 +0000

Thank you for your concern, but there is thankfully more to life than fake internet points.

New comment by mey in "Washington Post editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties"

mey — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 15:20:20 +0000

Is the Whitehouse fit for purpose in the modern age? Probably not. Is it a symbol of the country? Yes. Messing with that symbol on what seems to be a whim funded by corporate interests rather than doing something public and methodical is disgusting. Especially with a government shutdown.

We aren't even getting bread and circuses, just Nero at this point.

New comment by mey in "A sharded DuckDB on 63 nodes runs 1T row aggregation challenge in 5 sec"

mey — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 17:11:38 +0000

So how would that compare to DynamoDB or BigQuery? (I have zero interest in paying for running that experiment).

In theory a Zen 5 / Eypc Turin can have up to 4TB of ram. So how would a more traditional non-clustered DB stand up?

1000 k8s pods, each with 30gb of ram, there has to be a bit of overhead/wastage going on.

New comment by mey in "Self-hosting email like it's 1984"

mey — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 22:01:15 +0000

> treat self-hosting like a hobby and learn to enjoy it.

This is why I have stepped away from a lot of my self hosting. I have turned my attention/time elsewhere. Apparently though the time/money balance is shifting a bit again, so it may be worth it to go back.

My biggest hesitance to self hosting email specifically is dealing with spam. What does that look like these days and do you have any pointers to share?

New comment by mey in "Windows ML is generally available"

mey — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 20:29:17 +0000

Which should also make it pretty easy to drop Java JNI on top of it.