Hacker News: mey

New comment by mey in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

mey — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:51:46 +0000

Somewhere between ~15-75+ billion USD. Higher end if you want to include the hardware R&D/etc, which is arguably core to their metaverse concept. I love the idea that they don't even have a product _called_ metaverse. Most of the VR content developer acquisitions costs by Occulus Labs are undisclosed.

https://www.fool.com/investing/2024/04/01/meta-platforms-has... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_Labs#Acquisition_by_Fa... ~1.6 billion

New comment by mey in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

mey — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:52:21 +0000

Narrator: The AI was not infact infallible.

New comment by mey in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

mey — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 06:08:29 +0000

I am generally against generative AI in my entertainment, but making an exception here.

New comment by mey in "MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble"

mey — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:37:00 +0000

When I spec'd a M1 air for my partner back in the day, even though she didn't really need it, I made sure to get the 16gb model for the longevity. Devices shouldn't be disposable toys. Apparently I had better foresight than expected...

New comment by mey in "Just Use Go"

mey — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:00:52 +0000

Where my brain went.

New comment by mey in "Spirit Airlines Is Winding Down All Operations"

mey — Sat, 02 May 2026 07:40:33 +0000

Low cost carrier. Think Ryanair. Competition from the rest of the market and bad management put them in a bad position, with the most recent war causing unsustainable fuel issues. Other airlines may be able to double/triple their prices in the short term. Spirit's customers may simply choose to not fly.

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/02/nx-s1-5807933/spirit-airlines... describes this in more detail.

New comment by mey in "Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign"

mey — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:29:47 +0000

Looks like Bitwarden has a statement here, https://community.bitwarden.com/t/bitwarden-statement-on-che...

New comment by mey in "Kernel code removals driven by LLM-created security reports"

mey — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:46:03 +0000

Now if only I could get the product team to fully understand that implication.

New comment by mey in "Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything"

mey — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 02:11:14 +0000

I honestly want to follow you around for a day. I am reserved with how I engage with technology. It needs to be making my life better, not extracting value from me. Tech for tech alone is no longer exciting to me as it once was.

New comment by mey in "Tindie store under "scheduled maintenance" for days"

mey — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:45:15 +0000

The scenarios I have taken extended downtime for. When an OLTP's DB needed a serious overhaul for some reason and it was cheaper for rollout to plan operational downtime than risk loosing data or inconsistent transactions. Generational platform migration to complete system rewrites (something I am generally against, but that is its own soapbox). Migrating from on-prem to cloud infra, which required design changes. In all cases data integrity/consistency is the critical aspect. Migrating from one db technology to another (MySQL -> PostgreSQL).

In all those cases there is serious planning done before the migration, checklists, trial runs/validations, and validation procedures day off. If something isn't working, the leadership group evaluates the the issue and determines rollback vs go forward. Rollback needs to also be planned for, and your planned downtime window should be considered.

I agree with you, this wording implies they are making changes after this change. This could've been bad planning, a bad call day off, etc.

In one scenario, we _had_ to go forward while resolving several blockers on the fly. We had planned ahead of time developer rotation shifts. Pulling people off the line after 8-12hrs. At some point, you aren't thinking clearly understress. Don't know how big the team is over there is, but I hope they are pacing themselves, during what I am sure is a horrible moment of crisis to them.

My advice to them is, consider a roll back if needed/possible. Split responsibility between who is managing the process and dealing with specific problems. Focus on MVP. Don't try to _fix_ and replace at the same time, if something was broken before business wise, log it in your bug tracker and deal with it later. Pull people away if needed to get rest. Get upper management away from people doing the work, have them only talking to the group handling the process management.

Edit: I am also making a good faith assumption that this is planned and not an emergency response, either way, it doesn't change my general advice.

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.