Hacker News: murderfs

New comment by murderfs in "Tesla Roadster"

murderfs — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 22:03:11 +0000

It's not legal because it's unsafe for pedestrians, not for people inside the car.

New comment by murderfs in "More on Anthropic's Scion ripping off Mononoke"

murderfs — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 20:55:02 +0000

To be clear, I don't believe either of these were wrongs. In my opinion, this is just a symptom of Facebook's PSC process training people to clout chase and demand recognition.

New comment by murderfs in "More on Anthropic's Scion ripping off Mononoke"

murderfs — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 20:23:32 +0000

There's a certain irony in the fact that Facebook did basically exactly the same thing when they made their post here: https://developers.secure.facebook.com/blog/post/2022/11/15/...

I see zero mention of srcfs or blaze.

New comment by murderfs in "Why is every rationalist blog post way too long?"

murderfs — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 22:06:41 +0000

> Mainstream medical science along with common sense point to nicotine being addictive and bad for you.

Gwern's article cites many, many peer reviewed journal articles (aka mainstream medical science) about how nicotine's addictiveness is overblown, and you're citing three tweets.

Common sense points to you being clueless in all of your writing, even though I haven't read it, and I don't really feel the need to interrogate that view.

New comment by murderfs in "Grace Hopper Celebration Cancelled"

murderfs — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 07:00:24 +0000

They were advertising tickets three days before they announced everything was cancelled: https://archive.ph/Uimqj

> What happens to my in-person or virtual registration fee?

> Information regarding GHC registration and other financial matters will be communicated to you promptly once we obtain a clearer understanding of AnitaB.org ’s financial condition.

Incredible.

New comment by murderfs in "Has the Autonomous Trucking Revolution Arrived?"

murderfs — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 04:34:13 +0000

If someone crashes into a bus stop at 75 mph and kills a family, who gets sentenced to jail?

(The answer is no one: https://abc7.com/post/mary-fong-lau-crash-driver-killed-fami...)

New comment by murderfs in "Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage"

murderfs — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 11:54:30 +0000

Something like 1% of corn grown in the U.S. is used to feed people directly. The majority of it is used to inefficiently make gasoline (via ethanol) or plastic, because farm subsidies make it profitable.

New comment by murderfs in "Everyone's Packing Up"

murderfs — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 21:36:56 +0000

This doesn't look like a particularly thriving platform: https://mastodon-analytics.com/#:~:text=Mastodon%20Active%20...

New comment by murderfs in "Meta's Muse is fantastic for web scraping"

murderfs — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:39:38 +0000

The answer is that no one gives a shit: just look at people's views on adblock.

New comment by murderfs in "TiddlyInstall: A universal, reusable, install system"

murderfs — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 02:38:13 +0000

> Designed by Matthew Roberts and implemented by Claude. If you like this software why not hire me?

Why would I hire you when I could pay $17 for a Claude subscription?

New comment by murderfs in "C++26: Trivial infinite loops are no longer undefined behaviour"

murderfs — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 01:56:09 +0000

Correct. See N1528: "Why undefined behavior for infinite loops?" https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1528.htm

New comment by murderfs in "Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP"

murderfs — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 20:10:49 +0000

> If Samsung and everyone else said "sorry Google', or even a large majority, you're out. Gone. Nada.

The OEMs are incapable of writing a competent operating system, and don't particularly care to.

> Google is also getting more and more pushy with Chrome. What if everyone depending upon that backend, shrugs and says "Sorry Google, we're hard-forking Chrome and we'll all maintain it".

With what maintainers?

https://chrome-commit-tracker.arthursonzogni.com/organizatio...

New comment by murderfs in "TSMC revealing details about next gen A14 node"

murderfs — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 04:11:12 +0000

"Ã�14" does have a nice touch to it.

New comment by murderfs in "AI safety is mostly a sex cult"

murderfs — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 22:40:43 +0000

That would be a reasonable argument if it were indeed their private lives, and they didn't go around offering to throw gangbangs for AI safety researchers.

New comment by murderfs in "An update on Wayback Machine access"

murderfs — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 03:06:51 +0000

That's not even the fundamental problem. Even if the payload runs optimally in the browser, the cost of CPU is so small that it's basically irrelevant.

If you waste your user's time with something that would take a full minute to run on a datacenter core, you're costing the scraper something like $0.000005: 360 W TDP on a 128-core EPYC 9754 * $0.10/kWh. In reality, it'll be substantially less than that, because CPUs don't use 0W at idle.

The only way this would make any sense is if there were many more scrapers than users and scrapers cared more about latency than real users, but that's the exact opposite of reality. The entire endeavor is so fundamentally misguided that it almost seems like a psyop.

New comment by murderfs in "XCancel service is suspended until further notice"

murderfs — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 23:41:01 +0000

It seems pretty easy? Someone viewing it through a mirror isn't going to see ads.

New comment by murderfs in "I Added a Non-Wi-Fi Mitsubishi AC to Home Assistant"

murderfs — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 07:02:10 +0000

Most new construction with heat pumps are going to use similar thermostats, both because of improved efficiency since the outside unit wants to know how much heating/cooling load is being requested, and more importantly, because builders are lazy and would rather use a battery-powered wireless option than run thermostat wires.

Off the top of my head, Mitsubishi, Rheem, Lennox, and Carrier all have similar default options, with converter boxes for retrofits to 24V controls.

New comment by murderfs in "Show HN: Copperhead – Cursor for circuit boards"

murderfs — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 03:22:15 +0000

> Somewhat functional in the trivial problem domains, and always useless where design choices mattered.

This is laughable when you consider that semiconductor design is the least "trivial" problem domain, and it happens entirely in RTL. There's basically zero human intervention when it comes to layout: even floorplanning is being automated nowadays.

New comment by murderfs in "Just Bury Your Trash"

murderfs — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:35:05 +0000

I interpret "can be cleaner than X and similar to that of Y" to mean "inferior to that of Y, but kinda close". Otherwise, it would be "cleaner than X and Y".

New comment by murderfs in "How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?"

murderfs — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:20:24 +0000

Have they actually announced that they're charging less than the marginal cost of inference, or that the revenue they're taking in doesn't make up for the cost of training each newer and better model?

The former does not pass the smell test when there are random providers selling tokens for competitive open weight models.