Hacker News: midtake

New comment by midtake in "App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours"

midtake — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 20:44:35 +0000

But then you're lying. Why not add the comment "no tarot function" without reference to whether it existed in the past? A bit confusing because it's a trivial and seemingly unrelated statement but at least then you wouldn't be lying.

New comment by midtake in "Adults over 65 will outnumber children by 2029"

midtake — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 17:53:48 +0000

If that were true, US policy and trends would reflect that. Instead, as groups, we are seeing earning potential decreased in the young and wealth increase in the old. This is a dysgenic shift. Coupled with AI, which when viewed as a force against labor is a product that reduces the earning potential of the young cohort as a group, this is not sustainable. The lack of stability and opportunity for young people is the sort of stuff that leads to revolution.

New comment by midtake in "GPT-5.6"

midtake — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:29:41 +0000

You shouldn't know too much about biology, stupid human. You might live your life in an unexploitable way.

New comment by midtake in "Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered in-person final; scores fell 50%"

midtake — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 23:55:04 +0000

I agree that they are intelligent, just don't know about the "definition" part. A typical Ivy Leaguer isn't a dumbass. What's wrong with calling one intelligent?

Try visiting a Walmart and interacting with literally anyone. That's the average. Let's not allow our egos to gatekeep who we consider intelligent, fellow HNians.

New comment by midtake in "Separating signal from noise in coding evaluations"

midtake — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 21:48:15 +0000

This guy builds

New comment by midtake in "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Video Lectures (1986)"

midtake — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:15:13 +0000

Reading SICP was some of the best advice I got from /g/

New comment by midtake in "Show HN: Foreman, a self-hosted LLM gateway for cost aware model routing"

midtake — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:13:07 +0000

Name collision with Foreman, the provisioning/patching tool.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreman_(software)

New comment by midtake in "We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code"

midtake — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:12:35 +0000

> We have senior engineers review the actual functionality and none of them have read any more than a few lines of code.

A senior engineer should be able to efficiently read thousands of lines of code per day. Maybe this is what you meant by "a few"?

New comment by midtake in "Microsoft Can Track Users via a Windows Device ID"

midtake — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:55:19 +0000

Poster might mean that the TPM gives you some degree of non-repudiation since the TPM can cryptographically sign stuff.

New comment by midtake in "Microsoft Can Track Users via a Windows Device ID"

midtake — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 09:44:29 +0000

To me this indicates that Microsoft has some sort of traffic analysis performed on endpoints, then linked to GDID. I'd guess this is part of Defender's real time protection or MAPS.

Fun fact, Microsoft Defender MAPS was previously named SpyNet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Active_Protection_Se...

The GDID identifier seems software in nature though. They could be more aggressive and tie it to the baseboard's serial number the way some games do. Then the hardware is tracked throughout its entire lifecycle, not just per instance of Windows install.

New comment by midtake in "Have you restarted your computer this week?"

midtake — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 01:09:13 +0000

Desktop for gaming and Macbook get shut down when I'm not using them, the Mac Minis stay on.

New comment by midtake in "Claude Sonnet 5"

midtake — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 01:02:43 +0000

5 as in 5 times more likely to tell you that you can't edit your driver INF files because that enables DRM circumvention and is dangerous!

New comment by midtake in "Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days"

midtake — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 18:42:54 +0000

You can just download the zip over HTTPS

New comment by midtake in "Microsoft 0-day feud escalates as researcher threatens another exploit dump"

midtake — Fri, 29 May 2026 21:10:56 +0000

Sorry not sorry

New comment by midtake in "Please Use AI"

midtake — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:32:28 +0000

Examples like yours and the author's don't convince me. It seems like a lot of what people are "missing" from the AI process is the social aspect which is largely a side effect in these examples. For instance, finding out that someone's relative had cancer after asking for help with a recipe.

Getting an internet recipe from AI doesn't stop you from reaching out to your friend and finding out if they are going through anything, if anything it frees you up to do exactly that.

Same with this t-shirt slogan example. What you miss is the group activity and the spontaneity. But you can still do this without it being a side effect of a business objective. You can still talk to your friends, and with AI making everything faster you can talk to them even more now.

New comment by midtake in "Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier"

midtake — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:42:39 +0000

> This

I don't think it's changing after this administration.

New comment by midtake in "Flipper One Tech Specs"

midtake — Wed, 20 May 2026 21:48:42 +0000

Two ethernet ports, this is lethal af

New comment by midtake in "GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension"

midtake — Wed, 20 May 2026 21:43:43 +0000

Microsoft is the inverse hand of Midas, turns everything into shit.

New comment by midtake in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

midtake — Wed, 20 May 2026 21:41:42 +0000

You have a good point about the human rate of mathematical discovery, but Ayer was an idiot and later Witt contradicted early Witt. For the "already implicit" claim to be true, mathematics would have to be a closed system. But it has already been proven that it is not. You can use math to escape math, hence the need for Zermelo-Frankel and a bunch of other axiomatic pins. The truth is that we don't really understand the full vastness of what would objectively be "math" and that it is possible that our perceived math is terribly wrong and a subset of a greater math. Whether that greater math has the same seemingly closed system properties is not something that can be known.

New comment by midtake in "U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app"

midtake — Fri, 15 May 2026 19:35:39 +0000

This "car-tinkering app" is used as a glorified GameShark for deleting factory emissions controls, I don't feel sorry for anyone who uses this to roll coal or whatever. Instead of investigating everyone on the list of users of this app, should the government instead ban diesel engines knowing their emissions controls software will be defeated? Should environmental regulations be relaxed? What is really the solution here?