Hacker News: mjhay

New comment by mjhay in "GLM-Legal"

mjhay — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 22:53:54 +0000

Machines can’t be held accountable, which is problematic in law particularly.

New comment by mjhay in "The state of AI in 2026: On the road to ROI"

mjhay — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 13:35:51 +0000

Yeah, you’re right about that. They view IT as a “cost center” to be cut to the bone (despite being essential to their product and strategy in most cases), while they have no problem with paying consultants astronomical hourly rates for nonsense like this.

I get that these companies (airlines, widgets, whatever) don’t see IT as a thing that generates revenue, but it’s like having electricity or running water. You don’t think about it much, but if you don’t have it, you’re fucked.

New comment by mjhay in "US sanctions Italian hosting provider Autistici Inventati"

mjhay — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 19:28:32 +0000

Beyond parody

New comment by mjhay in "The state of AI in 2026: On the road to ROI"

mjhay — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:40:43 +0000

The ROÍ will be happening any day now, we promise. Please hire more McKinsey consultants who say they’re AI experts.

New comment by mjhay in "Where did all the public bathrooms go?"

mjhay — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:30:22 +0000

Around where I live, they first shut down during covid with the excuse of preventing transmission. Of course they just never opened up again. Ditto water fountains.

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

mjhay — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 18:52:49 +0000

I had 512 in my desktop a decade ago

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.