Hacker News: michaelje

New comment by michaelje in "French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data"

michaelje — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:43:50 +0000

The overreach on access and then storage will be a meaningful issue we will have to reckon with more and more. Companies are acquired, companies die. What happens to your data in 5, 15, 50 years? It doesn’t just disappear.

From a few months back: https://mjeggleton.com/blog/your-data-never-dies

New comment by michaelje in "Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7"

michaelje — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 18:28:47 +0000

Open models keep closing the eval gap for many tasks, and local inference continues to be increasingly viable. What's missing isn't technical capability, but productized convenience that makes the API path feel like the only realistic option.

Frontier labs are incentivized to keep it that way, and they're investing billions to make AI = API the default. But that's a business model, not a technical inevitability.

New comment by michaelje in "The beginning of scarcity in AI"

michaelje — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:37:12 +0000

Absolutely. Pricing exposure is the quiet story under all the waves of AI hype. Build for convenience → subsidise for dependence → meter for margin is a well-worn playbook, and AI-dependent companies are about to find out what phase three feels like.

Hyperscalers are spending a fortune so we think AI = API, but renting intelligence is a business model, not a technical inevitability.

Shameless link to my post on this: https://mjeggleton.com/blog/AIs-mainframe-moment

Rented intelligence: AI's mainframe moment

michaelje — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:33:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.mjeggleton.com/blog/AIs-mainframe-moment

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47750131

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Reshape, not replace: What AI is changing about our work today

michaelje — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:07:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.mjeggleton.com/blog/the-work-to-do-the-work

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47679096

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Your Data Never Dies

michaelje — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 13:15:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.mjeggleton.com/blog/your-data-never-dies

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47554304

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by michaelje in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

michaelje — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 12:43:47 +0000

https://sorso.app/

A fresh PWA to log / improve your coffee brewing process. We use it to see what we are all drinking, find new coffees, explore new cafes, and understand what we like / don’t like.

It’s primarily used by our group of friends, so if you see a rough edge somewhere please reach out!

New comment by michaelje in "Why conventional wisdom on health care is wrong (a primer) (2020)"

michaelje — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 22:15:41 +0000

Every other country appears to have the “bread” at a reasonable price. Ironically, it’s the US which has the same bread for 100x the cost.

New comment by michaelje in "U.S. is said to open criminal inquiry into Boeing"

michaelje — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 13:56:12 +0000

Not sure medicine is the best example given the same profit seeking culture is driving decisions where care takes a back seat

New comment by michaelje in "100 Years of Rent Control in Sweden"

michaelje — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 21:57:53 +0000

>> critics argue that it reduces the supply of rental apartments and creates housing shortages

I don’t follow the logic. It doesn’t destroy the property or take it out of supply, it just means someone might not purchase it specifically to rent it out. Which in turn means less demand buying houses overall, which means more opportunities for people to buy (if they want?)

New comment by michaelje in "2013 Airbus A380 for sale in Rolling Hills Estates, California"

michaelje — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 17:53:10 +0000

I assume the people in the market for an a380 already know what it looks like

New comment by michaelje in "Canada's population is booming – access to family doctors hasn't kept pace"

michaelje — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 15:55:25 +0000

More consumers to consume

New comment by michaelje in "You do need a technical co-founder [video]"

michaelje — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 18:50:16 +0000

Or a technical audience is not the market

New comment by michaelje in "Canada has fewer entrepreneurs today than it did 20 years ago"

michaelje — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 10:12:10 +0000

Wrt who is happy to exploit TFWs: is it Canadians, or the Canadian government at the request of Canadian big business?

Who stands to gain? Without TFWs the minimum wage (or the amount actually paid for workers) would have to rise - supply and demand.

New comment by michaelje in "Canada has fewer entrepreneurs today than it did 20 years ago"

michaelje — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 10:06:43 +0000

Or maybe the issue is regulatory capture of government, not government itself?

‘Government intervention’ isn’t the same as a government who works to support the needs of citizens.

New comment by michaelje in "iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus"

michaelje — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 03:43:26 +0000

Agree - I’ve been using a set of Eve (from memory) power plugs that are thread enabled - my understanding is it doesn’t connect directly to the internet (ie you don’t connect it to your wifi) but you connect to a border hub (ie an Apple TV, or maybe now an iPhone 15.)

So I guess if you trust apple, you can sorta trust these devices as their access to the outside world would be through an apple device.

New comment by michaelje in "Wall Street scooped up a third of Texas single family homes sold last year (2022)"

michaelje — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 03:45:54 +0000

It doesn’t have to be a good or bad investment. It can be something you pay for and use, and it provides actual utility. We could make owner occupiers first class citizens in our own society, having housing as primarily for housing people, with investment purposes secondary.

New comment by michaelje in "Wall Street scooped up a third of Texas single family homes sold last year (2022)"

michaelje — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 03:42:04 +0000

Increasing mortgage rates is a poor mechanism for countering inflation. It only directly impacts a minority of the economy and private companies (banks) earn the profit.

New comment by michaelje in "Banks as collateral damage in a class war"

michaelje — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 13:56:09 +0000

Why should controlling inflation be used to transfer wealth from individuals to a for-profit third party (banks)?

Also, it doesn’t target the entire population fairly - surely there is a better way?

I found this a thought provoking starting place: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/abc-news-daily/id13495...

New comment by michaelje in "Maybe treating housing as an investment was a mistake"

michaelje — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 20:20:12 +0000

This was a thoughtful read - but found the conclusion avoided the biggest challenge of all - that housing is not *just* a financial decision - but rather, people require housing to live their lives.