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New comment by mk12 in "Backblaze Announces Five-Year Multi-Exabyte Agreement with CoreWeave"

mk12 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 17:09:36 +0000

> Backblaze, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLZE), the cloud storage platform for the AI era, today announced an agreement with CoreWeave, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRWV), The Essential Cloud for AI™.

This will be great for storing my AI data in the AI era of AI.

New comment by mk12 in "The Jqwik Anti-AI Affair"

mk12 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:02:21 +0000

If this prompt injection doesn’t work then what’s the big deal? If it does work, then what on earth is the whole industry doing feeding untrusted documents to LLMs?

New comment by mk12 in "Embryos shape their limbs: a key discovery of "genetic brakes""

mk12 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:17:22 +0000

HN title mangling strikes again. “How embryos shape their limbs” and “Embryos shape their limbs” are completely different titles for a discovery.

New comment by mk12 in "Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI"

mk12 — Thu, 21 May 2026 03:22:17 +0000

And there are basic things that shouldn’t be subjective at all but that the IRS refuses to give a clear answer to, like if/how the SALT cap affects deduction for NIIT. There are at least 3 possible interpretations and no consensus.

New comment by mk12 in "Mercurial, 20 years and counting: how are we still alive and kicking? [video]"

mk12 — Sun, 17 May 2026 21:04:21 +0000

The Mercurial project has been incrementally rewriting core operations in Rust for several years now. As Pierre-Yves says in the talk, you can do an hg status on a million-file repo in 100ms. I rewrote hg annotate (aka blame) in Rust last year.

New comment by mk12 in "Taxpayers May Be Eligible for Significant Tax Refunds – If They Act by July 10"

mk12 — Sun, 10 May 2026 15:36:39 +0000

> A Practical Challenge: Paper Is Still the IRS’s Kryptonite

Please just give us the prompt.

New comment by mk12 in "Zig 0.16.0 Release Notes"

mk12 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 03:04:30 +0000

Programming languages take a long time to build. Zig is a more ambitious project than most. I see lots of progress in these release notes and I'm happy to "give a pass" for the fact that it's not finished.

No one's been giving passes bewildering or otherwise for sweeping issues under the rug, because that didn't happen. The 0.16 release notes are linking to plenty of GitHub issues. If you have additional information to post on an issue then you can copy it to Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig/issues/30027

New comment by mk12 in "Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others"

mk12 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:30:01 +0000

Glad I switched from their personal computer backup to using restic + B2 a while ago. Every night my laptop and homelab both back up to each other and to B2. It takes less than a minute and I have complete control over the exclusions and retention. And I can easily switch off B2 to something else if I want.

New comment by mk12 in "We have a 99% email reputation, but Gmail disagrees"

mk12 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 02:13:30 +0000

I recently tried disabling notification in LinkedIn. The designers and engineers working there who created the notifications settings are truly evil. You have to go through 14 categories. Some of them let you toggle the whole category at once, some don't. Some categories are split into 8 more subcategories.

New comment by mk12 in "I rebuilt the same project after 15 years: What changed in web development"

mk12 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:21:55 +0000

Slop article about a slop redesign.

New comment by mk12 in "Type resolution redesign, with language changes to taste"

mk12 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 11:33:20 +0000

No, that’s a different thing. “noreturn” is like Rust’s “never” type (spelled as an exclamation mark, !). Also known as an “uninhabited type” in programming language theory.

New comment by mk12 in "Switch to Claude without starting over"

mk12 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 13:01:19 +0000

I took the current events as an opportunity to try switching to Claude and I actually like it much better so far.

New comment by mk12 in "Obsidian Sync now has a headless client"

mk12 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:42:22 +0000

I use Syncthing (with Synctrain client on iOS) and it works great.

New comment by mk12 in "Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you"

mk12 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:43:34 +0000

I’ve seen Starbucks employees in the US do this often.

New comment by mk12 in "Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants"

mk12 — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 11:50:56 +0000

It does not, at all. Forming that judgment because of “Enter X” is ridiculous. I recognize my friend Claude in disguise all the time on HN and this is not one of those cases.

New comment by mk12 in "Reliable Signals of Honest Intent"

mk12 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 01:19:31 +0000

Notice the “quiet” at the end. LLMS love to shoehorn “quiet” or “quietly” into their writing. I learned this from Sam Kriss’s NYT piece and I keep noticing it now.

New comment by mk12 in "Reliable Signals of Honest Intent"

mk12 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 01:53:40 +0000

This is one of the best posts on I’ve read on this topic in the years since ChatGPT launched. Was hoping it would have gotten more discussion here!

New comment by mk12 in "Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back"

mk12 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 05:57:48 +0000

How do we know if newcomers are real? I thing bigDinosaur is reacting to the fact that OP’s entire post and replies appear LLM generated.

New comment by mk12 in "Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back"

mk12 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 01:14:21 +0000

The "knowledge base" at the bottom is 100% slop. Why? Why inflict this on people?

New comment by mk12 in "Believe the Checkbook"

mk12 — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 05:39:37 +0000

This has been happening a lot recently, where an article immediately sets off all my AI alarm bells but most people seem to be happily engaging with it. I’m worried we’re headed for a dystopian future where all communication is outsourced to the slop machine. I hope instead there is a societal shift to better recognize it and stigmatize it.