Hacker News: msy

New comment by msy in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

msy — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:36:32 +0000

You don't have to trust the AI to do it with Rust, you just have to ensure certain conventions are followed and you can formally prove you're 'safe' from certain classes of issue, no AI magic dice-roll.

A lot of people are very excited by the idea that now language capabilities (and almost every other technical nuance) somehow don't matter but much like gravity they will continue to assert themselves whether you believe in them or not.

So far humans have proven unable to write large apps in C without those issues, given their work is the training basis for LLMs this creates two problems, one being that they don't 'know' what a safe app looks like either and any humans reviewing the outputted code will be unable to validate that either.

New comment by msy in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

msy — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 22:48:20 +0000

'rewrite in C, make sure there are no memory leaks'. You first.

New comment by msy in "Car Seats as Contraception"

msy — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:25:47 +0000

Minivans cause minivans?

New comment by msy in "Car Seats as Contraception"

msy — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:58:08 +0000

Or cars usually fit 2 child seats because that's the common number they get from customer research.

New comment by msy in "Goodbye to Sora"

msy — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:41:36 +0000

Oh there's a huge (and wildly depressing) market for people endlessly scrolling video slop, it's just the barriers to entry and expectations of the market are so low you can't really differentiate with 'slightly better branded slop'.

New comment by msy in "Palantir extends reach into British state as gets access to sensitive FCA data"

msy — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:09:57 +0000

Don't worry, they'll buy your boss's boss nice dinners and box seats at sports games until they see the light.

New comment by msy in "Oil hits $100 a barrel despite deal to release record amount of reserves"

msy — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 05:24:37 +0000

Absolutely agree there's both some dubious suppositions and hand-waving there. The real question is I suspect how much pressure the GCC can withstand and how much pressure they can apply to Trump directly given business ties etc. If they lose a serious chunk of desalination capacity for example the situation becomes dire extremely quickly. For Dubai simply not having a decent supply of fresh food would alone be an economic catastrophe, every day this drags on is doing reputational damage that'll take years to fully recover from long after the hotel facades are patched up.

New comment by msy in "Oil hits $100 a barrel despite deal to release record amount of reserves"

msy — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 04:23:10 +0000

This theory of how the US loses in Iran is looking increasingly likely: https://kasperbenjamin.substack.com/p/why-the-us-will-lose-t...

It's going to be incredibly difficult to stop Iran being able to kneecap both the global economy and in particular the gulf states, who are going to be motivated to put maximum pressure on the US to sue for peace. Incredible hubris and a lobotomised diplomatic and intelligence infrastructure in the name of ideological purity, quite the combination.

New comment by msy in "Flash media longevity testing – 6 years later"

msy — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:54:12 +0000

Consumer? Apple or Google Photos or 'drive' functionality of either. The only real risk then is losing your account and Apple Photos has an option to keep them all locally on disk.

New comment by msy in "Claude is an Electron App because we've lost native"

msy — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 22:32:13 +0000

The thing people miss is isn't not that there aren't downsides (power, memory, disk size, dependency ecosystem size etc etc) it's that they're still completely outweighed by the upsides of write-once-ship-all for authors.

New comment by msy in "Judge finalizes order for Greenpeace to pay $345M in ND oil pipeline case"

msy — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 22:57:41 +0000

Exactly. I mean look what happened when we worked out CFCs were destroying the ozone layer through rigorous scientific research and public disclosure.

New comment by msy in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

msy — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 22:56:23 +0000

Have you seen them in the wild? They're notably chunky and have an obvious hole where the lens is. You might not notice it in passing but if someone's talking to you it's hard not to notice. I wonder how many of their owners realise how much they're affecting every interaction they have with another human.

New comment by msy in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

msy — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 22:52:41 +0000

I suspect what'll kill these is the same thing that kill google glass - social ostracisation. It's so, so wildly adversarial to effectively shove a recording device in the face of everyone you're interacting with you might as well wear a emergency orange t-shirt with 'verified asshole' written on it.

New comment by msy in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

msy — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 22:50:34 +0000

You would have to have been hiding under an extremely large rock not to assume this given the technology involved and Meta's overtly and consistently anti-privacy stances and history.

New comment by msy in "Judge finalizes order for Greenpeace to pay $345M in ND oil pipeline case"

msy — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:55:32 +0000

Blaming oil companies for the extremely well documented history of suppression of research and action into the impact of climate change is not childish.

New comment by msy in "Smartphone market forecast to decline this year due to memory shortage"

msy — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:36:16 +0000

All the more reason to hope that company crashes and burns.

New comment by msy in "US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives"

msy — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 21:48:07 +0000

The patrons are doing an excellent job of adding to the 'more difficult' list.

New comment by msy in "[dead]"

msy — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 03:14:32 +0000

Decades to centuries of phenomenal, thoughtful, unique, creative kids stories that can be curated to introduce whole worlds of ideas. And you want to replace it with cookie-cutter AI slop and give them the world's worst case of Main Character Syndrome, how utterly depressing.

New comment by msy in "We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science"

msy — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 01:26:59 +0000

This is a lagging indicator, it is still one of the top no question, but the point is that is shifting materially.

New comment by msy in "We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science"

msy — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 01:24:27 +0000

They're to migrating to America any more either, that's the point. So no, the US has no advantage, on current trajectory it'll increasingly only have 'native' talent and some of that may choose to move elsewhere.