Hacker News: mgraczyk

New comment by mgraczyk in "Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome"

mgraczyk — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:49:47 +0000

I remember in 2023 jpeg xl was dropped from Chrome for reasons I assumed at the time to be political

This had a cascading effect, where we immediately (within hours) dropped support for jpegxl on Pixel Camera and various other Google products

New comment by mgraczyk in "GPT-6 Astra"

mgraczyk — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 20:15:41 +0000

this is needlessly pedantic

first, they are certainly not instructions so that is a much worse name

but more importantly, we use words in new contexts all the time. Do you object to calling the computer device "mouse" because it's not a mouse? how about "neural network"? "ignition" on an electric vehicle?

"cot" is no more misleading than thousands of words you use every day.

New comment by mgraczyk in "How AI text watermarking works"

mgraczyk — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:49:01 +0000

no, this is false. watermarking will not enforce anything like this

New comment by mgraczyk in "Does creatine make you smarter?"

mgraczyk — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:57:00 +0000

5g/day

New comment by mgraczyk in "Does creatine make you smarter?"

mgraczyk — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:46:27 +0000

I also started sleeping measurably better when I started taking creatine, but the broader evidence strongly suggests this was some kind of coincidence

New comment by mgraczyk in "Claude Code is steganographically marking requests"

mgraczyk — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:05:16 +0000

"got caught"

to clarify, this behavior was announced with the model release

New comment by mgraczyk in "Confidential submission of draft S-1 to the SEC"

mgraczyk — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:46:50 +0000

The numbers are public now, this is obviously false

New comment by mgraczyk in "Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute"

mgraczyk — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 15:40:23 +0000

For your math to make sense, Google would have to sell its stake this year

There may be more to it than buying compute but what you're saying does not make sense for Google. More likely Google wants a good relationship with SpaceX and possibly to buoy the stock, but it's a bad NPV trade

New comment by mgraczyk in "Claude Opus 4.8"

mgraczyk — Fri, 29 May 2026 02:09:05 +0000

dangerous thing to believe IMO The models will get better, you will notice, everyone will notice. They will get better at coding and everything else. You should plan around that.

New comment by mgraczyk in "Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS"

mgraczyk — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:51:36 +0000

CSS is badly designed and uses a confusing, separate DSL with arbitrary rules designed before the Internet was widely used, before web apps existed, before smartphones etc

It's trash and throwing it out is good. Not learning it is good. Tailwind is a solution to a real problem.

More importantly, AI is good at it already and it's unlikely humans will need to understand HTML/CSS at all within a year or two. There's no reason to spend time learning how the gears work, just put the cover back on

New comment by mgraczyk in "The sigmoids won't save you"

mgraczyk — Sat, 16 May 2026 02:22:47 +0000

Don't bet on the sigmoid flattening out any time soon. I don't know when it will flatten, but it definitely won't be within the next 2 years

New comment by mgraczyk in "Claude Opus 4.7 costs 20–30% more per session"

mgraczyk — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:42:15 +0000

This will probably happen but I wouldn't plan on it happening soon

New comment by mgraczyk in "Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent"

mgraczyk — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:41:47 +0000

What are you talking about, in what way is this supposed to be an argument about ads? It sounds like your dryer broke

New comment by mgraczyk in "Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent"

mgraczyk — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:26:26 +0000

It's not a good reason to be skeptical about cars as a technology (and by analogy brain computer interfaces)

New comment by mgraczyk in "Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent"

mgraczyk — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:12:35 +0000

I've never seen an ad delivered through any of these things. On smartphones I mean the phone/OS itself

It would be very easy to deliver ads via electricity. The utility could require you watch an ad before using more

New comment by mgraczyk in "Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent"

mgraczyk — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:01:18 +0000

I didn't list fridges because I've seen ads there, but these seem to have gone away in newer models (people don't like ads)

New comment by mgraczyk in "Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent"

mgraczyk — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:54:32 +0000

Except this hasn't happened with electricity, cars, washing machines, smartphones, smart watches, Bluetooth headphones, ...

Not all technology is bad

New comment by mgraczyk in "Delve removed from Y Combinator"

mgraczyk — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:59:55 +0000

I don't understand in what sense they faked the process. What I've heard described is substantially similar to other SOC2 processes I've seen

And yes SOC2 is fake. Have you ever heard of a startup failing to get soc2 or doing more than a few hours of work to get into compliance?