Hacker News: mey

New comment by mey in "S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past"

mey — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 23:46:48 +0000

Not that deep archive isn't a valid option for the appropriate work load, but it has different effective costs.

New comment by mey in "Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space"

mey — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 21:11:19 +0000

To build on the economic/practical issues.

The useful life of cutting edge AI server hardware will require constant rotation of equipment to potentially remain competitive with more accessible solutions.

Heat management ( https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-w6G7VEwNq0 )

Hardening of equipment for the environment. ECC isn't going to be enough. I would have to defer to experts about the best way to manage it, but it either means custom hardware, weight, or both.

Repairs are impossible. Hopefully a sat can degrade gracefully, but routine repairs on earth become significant outages/decreases in economic value of a sat over time.

Rocket launches have gotten much better, but are not perfect. Insurance is a thing. However, cost of equipment in a failed launch may be eye watering, rivaling a governmental military launch.

New comment by mey in "Meta VR Glasses"

mey — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:59:57 +0000

Not sure how to date this list is, but here is one way to look at it. https://vrhealth.institute/vr-ratings/

I have found VR an easy way to get moving in a fun/low friction way at the end of the day, instead of heading somewhere else. Depending on what you are doing, it isn't going to cover everything, but moving something is better than nothing.

Personally, I found Synth Riders a good way to queue up 60min continous activity that I enjoy.

New comment by mey in "Meta VR Glasses"

mey — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:51:06 +0000

Not sure what you mean. The marketing video shows pancake optical stacks and specs have mentioned OLED displays. While the marketing video attempts to play up an immersive fantastical reality, the experience will function like a Quest 3 or Apple Vision Pro, where there are external cameras that then get projected onto the internal screens.

New comment by mey in "Meta VR Glasses"

mey — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:43:26 +0000

The form factor itself is also a killer. Couldn't imagine doing anything besides using it as large private display for 2D games. You aren't going to be moving your head around quickly with just pressure on your temples to hold it in place.

Not sure where this lands functionality wise. I feel like it's most direct competition would be as a cheaper Apple Vision. You would need to pair it off with a Windows system for heavier productivity work most likely. Even though their OS is "android", it doesn't have the Google ecosystem behind it, let alone matured on that front. Media consumption on the go seems to be the other use case.

So, compare them to either XREALs plugged into a laptop/phone, or Apple Vision Pro I guess.

New comment by mey in "Unreal Agent"

mey — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:55:16 +0000

Apple? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer

New comment by mey in "I sent Google proof of a bot farm. They called it "normal user behavior.""

mey — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 22:27:28 +0000

This seems to be reflected in their recent changes in how they track views on YouTube

New comment by mey in "Steam Frame starts at $1059"

mey — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 19:51:09 +0000

Ars Technica's article put it at 1.5hrs in performance mode and over 2 in a power saving mode, but noted that the lower saving mode wasn't enjoyable. Of course it's I am sure that is going to be highly subjective to what you are doing.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/09/steam-frame-the-ars-t...

New comment by mey in "When LLM judges agree, should we believe them?"

mey — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 19:23:30 +0000

A shared blind spot as noted at the bottom needs to be considered more often. In my day job, most of my coordination with others and now LLMs, is clarifying context and requirements. Claude is very happy to make assertions without the full picture in my experience, even when I give it as much context as I can.

New comment by mey in "Apple is no longer thinking different"

mey — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:53:52 +0000

BlackBerry, Windows CE, and Symbian devices were all already around as smart phones at the time. When the iPhone initially launched, it's revolution was a streamlined form factor. Their was no app ecosystem at launch. I would say their biggest innovation was system integration and refinement. Other than blackberry, few companies were really owning the product vision from top to bottom.

New comment by mey in "216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]"

mey — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 18:19:41 +0000

How do guests/children/people in public spaces consent to it? It's a gross violation.

New comment by mey in "SK Hynix CEO sees memory chip shortage lasting until 2030"

mey — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 14:30:51 +0000

They know many things I don't. I can easily assume they have a specific reason to make a public statement that is within their interests. Without any reports/prospectus/booked contracts, it's just marketing/spin.

New comment by mey in "SK Hynix CEO sees memory chip shortage lasting until 2030"

mey — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 13:32:27 +0000

No projections/information/analysis. The statement from someone with a vested interest in this demand lasting an extended period of time (including the statement that demand will continue past 2030).

New comment by mey in "Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones"

mey — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 16:33:02 +0000

I have no desire to get either so functionally nothing.

New comment by mey in "The August 17 outage"

mey — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 23:47:46 +0000

What do you use now and what is your primary use case?

New comment by mey in "A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare"

mey — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 03:58:41 +0000

Explosions&Fire has an interesting video on this. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XHDXk9THJZM

Well indirectly about how they work and to counter them.

New comment by mey in "Every Fucking Website (2020)"

mey — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 01:14:25 +0000

People share links to Instagram with me. It isn't something I seek out myself.

New comment by mey in "Every Fucking Website (2020)"

mey — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:41:42 +0000

I have Firefox setup to not launch apps on android with permission. I don't have Instagram/Facebook/etc installed. Attempting to view a Instagram link on mobile is the most hostile thing in existence. You essentially can't, but it so aggressively routes you to the website based Google play store it's horrifying.

New comment by mey in "Build Wide, Ship Narrow"

mey — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 05:18:01 +0000

I am most proud of the code I have deleted from projects and the code I have never written.

New comment by mey in "Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD"

mey — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:46:08 +0000

There is nothing wrong with wanting to be compensated for your work, but for people like myself which use a cloud managed DB solution (GCP CloudSQL PostgreSQL) it means something like this would never be available.

I consider AGPL a poison pill in my work. That is not true with a suitable commercial license, although I expect a lot more commercial product (support/features/etc). As you note, your objective is to prevent commercialization of your software, but radically speeding up analytics is primarily a concern of large organizations so it seems like a mismatch in purpose.