Hacker News: mitjam

New comment by mitjam in "The EU Open Source Strategy"

mitjam — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:11:55 +0000

A challenge they forgot to mention is EU‘s very own new Product Lianility Directive.

Although the Directive exempts free and open-source software (OSS) from strict product liability, it does so only if the software is developed or provided outside the course of a commercial activity.

As soon as a company integrates OSS into its own commercial product or uses it for economic purposes, the company becomes liable for any potential defects in the open-source component.

Looks Like fun for freelancers and companies who get Clients thanks to their Open Source projects, for example.

New comment by mitjam in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

mitjam — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 06:36:09 +0000

This Spec Driven Development Short course on DeepLearning by Paul Everitt is a nice 2-Hour walkthrough: https://www.deeplearning.ai/courses/spec-driven-development-...

New comment by mitjam in "Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation"

mitjam — Fri, 29 May 2026 06:07:33 +0000

Enterprise accounts pay per token.

New comment by mitjam in "Claude Opus 4.8"

mitjam — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:13:21 +0000

A failure mode I see more, recently is that it gives superficially correct answers but after digging deeper, I get answers that contradict the superficial answers - really an important thing to be aware of, in my point of view, and it often leaves me wondering if I dug deep enough.

New comment by mitjam in "Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200"

mitjam — Fri, 22 May 2026 21:14:16 +0000

Interesting that nobody mentioned SAR in this thread, yet.

SAR benefits from space compute by reducing the strain on downlinks (pre-process, detect in space). A large-ish (think 6k sat) constellation of much bigger sats (2-2,5 ton) than current Starlink sats can run inference on board, distribute load to nearby sats, and enable full round-the-clock surveillance of the whole world.

The nominal compute capacity is in ballpark range of a modern AI data center, but it's only about 20% used on average due to duty cycles. An indestructible, global eye.

The big Starship launch vehicle is perfect platform to bring them into orbit, can maybe bring 40 at a time into orbit, so 150 launches for 6k. Maybe even fewer sats are needed, depends mostly on electrical efficiency of the components.

New comment by mitjam in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

mitjam — Fri, 15 May 2026 21:48:06 +0000

For a start, invert - ask about the exact opposite in a separate session.

New comment by mitjam in "The other half of AI safety"

mitjam — Thu, 14 May 2026 06:48:34 +0000

I have run the piece through an impromptu stylistic device detector. It found 15 different, each used multiple times and likened the writing style as a mix of Ezra Klein, Hannah Arendt, Zeynep Tufekci, George Orwell (“especially in the contrastive clarity”).

A) I certainly don’t see enough of the tells.

B) what happens to our language if everything is written as if it’s competing for a Pulitzer’s Price?

New comment by mitjam in "The other half of AI safety"

mitjam — Thu, 14 May 2026 06:21:35 +0000

… and “That’s not x. That’s y.” Certain LLMs wield powerful stylistic devices all the time to a point where they become irrelevant and cringe.

I see it as a good sign that we can learn to recognize the pattern and adapt but there are probably more subtle things we don’t see.

New comment by mitjam in "The other half of AI safety"

mitjam — Thu, 14 May 2026 06:05:32 +0000

Wow. The “That’s not x. That’s y. / You’re not x. you’re y.” rhetoric is already cringe in other contexts. This brings it on a whole new level.

New comment by mitjam in "Apple Says Mac Studio and Mac Mini Will Be in Short Supply for Months"

mitjam — Fri, 01 May 2026 14:42:40 +0000

You need Mac hardware for this but I run a MacOS VM on Parallels, not connected to my iCloud account. I think it’s nice for OpenClaw and CI.

New comment by mitjam in "AI's economics don't make sense"

mitjam — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:14:05 +0000

I would be curious to see a calculation backwards from TAM. Napkin: 50M developers worldwide (SlashData, 20M in China and India). If every developer had a $200/month subscription, that‘s $10B / Month. I think, many developers are expected to pay much more than that.

New comment by mitjam in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

mitjam — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:42:28 +0000

I am and I see it as stopping the music at a party when you want everyone to go home without telling them to go home. There is also the offer to quit with prorated refund for the remaining time. I think I am going to take it.

New comment by mitjam in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

mitjam — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:34:56 +0000

I understand it like : the 10 usd is for handling the business record, maybe also the harness, I get a few coins to kick tires, but to use it for anything real it’s pay as you go by the tokens list price.

New comment by mitjam in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

mitjam — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:20:49 +0000

I was always curious how they can sustain a request based pricing model when requests can range from tiny to huge with all the modalities GH Copilot offers. Was a steal for agentic coding that turned out to be too good to be true, in the end. Still: Thank you for the ride.

New comment by mitjam in "Adding a team was the wrong strategic decision"

mitjam — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:02:23 +0000

Yes and the org models look funny, too - a platform team for one other team, a second team bolted on that’s then merged back into the one team, but still a separate platform team. In one sentence it was mentioned that the distributed architecture created many of the problems in the first place. I think the system architecture followed the org chart in this case.

New comment by mitjam in "The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code"

mitjam — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 17:04:47 +0000

This is not true, since the 1990 the us was strongly opposed on the eu building or relying more on own defense industry and more closely aligned defence policy, even threatening end of NATO. Lookup the "three Ds" articulated later by Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: No Duplication of NATO assets, No Decoupling of European security from the US, and No Discrimination against NATO members who were not in the EU.

New comment by mitjam in "I'm done making desktop applications (2009)"

mitjam — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 13:04:37 +0000

And today there is a new 0: The user has and sits at a desktop computer, at all.

New comment by mitjam in "GPT-5.5"

mitjam — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:04:35 +0000

The difference between sub and api price makes it hard to create competitive solutions on the app level.

New comment by mitjam in "The RAM shortage could last years"

mitjam — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:27:35 +0000

Yes, it's interesting that HBM was invented by a collaboration between AMD and SK Hynix. It seems, HBM is the way to go for GPUs, anyway.

The GB202 die that's in the GDDR7 based RTX 5090 and RTX 6000 Pro literally needed to be this big to support the 512bit memory bus. It's probably only getting worse with smaller node sizes. (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCwgAGG2sZQ&t=65s).

BTW: The 1TB/s is matched by RTX4090 and surpassed by the RTX5090 (1,79 TB/s).

New comment by mitjam in "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner"

mitjam — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:31:43 +0000

I assume a vm on DO is HA protected. Also storage might live on a Cluster. Did you consider a socond dedi or do you just accept the risk of longer failover time and data loss time (RPO) for recovering to a newly provisioned server? Would love to know your thoughts on this especially as the migration was well designed and executed.