Hacker News: mjhay

New comment by mjhay in "Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months"

mjhay — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:41:48 +0000

I have some bad news about how closely Econ 101 resembles the real world…

New comment by mjhay in "Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative"

mjhay — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:25:46 +0000

I was just thinking how I wished GitHub was part of a csam generation company owned by a Nazi. This sounds great!

New comment by mjhay in "As Wisconsin cities flee Flock, its shared camera network loses value"

mjhay — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:20:18 +0000

Flick doesn’t just do license plate readers. They do all kinds of surveillance cameras.

New comment by mjhay in "Every Fucking Website (2020)"

mjhay — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:54:16 +0000

Sounds like that feature would really cut into their overdraft fees.

New comment by mjhay in "Dear people who work at the airport"

mjhay — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:24:33 +0000

There’s been a bunch of airline IT meltdowns in recent years, some much much worse than what you described. Airlines just decided IT is a “cost center” and decided not to maintain it.

New comment by mjhay in "Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo"

mjhay — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:26:04 +0000

Sure. Reasonably reliable backup power is a very good thing, but losing power isn’t necessarily a catastrophe.

New comment by mjhay in "Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo"

mjhay — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 11:39:19 +0000

They’re assuredly checkpointing, which is SOP for any long training. Lots of things can go wrong besides power loss.

New comment by mjhay in "Atomarine: Nuclear Data Centers at Sea"

mjhay — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 11:28:18 +0000

So I take it you’re a marine engineer or similar?

New comment by mjhay in "Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment"

mjhay — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 17:59:45 +0000

Drug companies spend more on marketing than R&D

New comment by mjhay in "Big Tech Isn't Hiding $1.65T of Debt"

mjhay — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:23 +0000

If there’s anyone I can trust to give an accurate and unbiased assessment of AI company finances, it’s surely an outfit selling a “finance CLI for your trading agent”

New comment by mjhay in "Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns"

mjhay — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:42:08 +0000

Pictures aren’t mandatory. Most restaurants don’t have them.

New comment by mjhay in "Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns"

mjhay — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:11:23 +0000

In the US, some of those apps were generating gross nonsense like showing an image of a pizza with a sweet pie filling (because the menu said “pizza pie”).

I don’t get how AI images like this don’t open them up to false advertising lawsuits

New comment by mjhay in "SPCX is now Wall Street's most shorted new stock"

mjhay — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:03:43 +0000

It must be some 5-dimensional chess he’s playing, it couldn’t be that he’s just an edgelord Nazi whose brain has been liquefied by ketamine abuse

New comment by mjhay in "Linux 0.11 rewritten in idiomatic Rust, boots in QEMU"

mjhay — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 22:27:15 +0000

I shouldn’t have been so negative. I still very much like Rust, but hearing about these AI rewrites constantly is tiresome.

New comment by mjhay in "Linux 0.11 rewritten in idiomatic Rust, boots in QEMU"

mjhay — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 22:20:42 +0000

I used to like rust, but I feel like I’m being Pavlovian-conditioned to recoil at its mention now.

New comment by mjhay in "What does Jeff Bezos think is going to happen?"

mjhay — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:13:44 +0000

I assure you they would be more than happy to order it for you.

New comment by mjhay in "GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse"

mjhay — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:31:37 +0000

The behavior of a single model and version can and does change. There’s not only built-in stochasticity, but closed hosted models like Claude are tweaked and changed all the time.

New comment by mjhay in "What does Jeff Bezos think is going to happen?"

mjhay — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:19:46 +0000

Buying the physical book from Amazon isn’t a great way to stick it to Bezos. Just have your local bookstore order it for you, it’s easy.

New comment by mjhay in "Weird Al Yankovic Pulled Out of AI Ad Deal: 'I Can't Be the Poster Boy for AI'"

mjhay — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 18:46:28 +0000

He’s such a good guy

New comment by mjhay in "Data centers trigger voter backlash"

mjhay — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 21:56:11 +0000

wow, that’s crazy that OpenAI is saying that negative opinion against them is actually a nefarious foreign conspiracy, and does not actually indicate people hate them