Hacker News: mvkel

New comment by mvkel in "`123456' password used in Danish CPR data breach"

mvkel — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:47:15 +0000

> According to the hacker, access was initially obtained using a leaked password belonging to a former employee of a small Danish company.

So the password could have been 32 alphanumerics with special characters and there still would have been a breach.

The password was not the problem here.

New comment by mvkel in "Find the flattest route between any two points in SF"

mvkel — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 22:13:38 +0000

Absolutely love the live profile updating when you swipe from flatter to shorter.

New comment by mvkel in "I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken"

mvkel — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 02:53:17 +0000

This is a state-sponsored global phenomenon, not a national one

New comment by mvkel in "Show HN: Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas"

mvkel — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 02:42:48 +0000

This is absolutely fantastic. I have been an amateur painter for 20 years and have always wanted to explore new techniques without burning a canvas. This will derisk it and teach me some things!

New comment by mvkel in "The Forgetful CPU (Linux on M4)"

mvkel — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 02:40:28 +0000

Define big. They're one of the biggest companies in history. You're saying that if they appealed to 1% of the market that already uses Macs... what? And then they have to support these users?

New comment by mvkel in "Dots: Always-on agents"

mvkel — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 13:57:50 +0000

Would you rather work with a team that is hit or miss, but has moments of brilliance, or predictably, consistently bad?

New comment by mvkel in "Dots: Always-on agents"

mvkel — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 04:05:58 +0000

I'd rather use the best possible model available than permanently relegate my work to an inferior one because it's "open"

New comment by mvkel in "Dots: Always-on agents"

mvkel — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 18:33:26 +0000

My biggest frustration with the frontier AI companies isn't what they're announcing, but that the announced-thing that exists ~6 months later is severely nerfed to reduce compute spend. It doesn't resemble the demo in any way. For example, this was what the 4o voice capability sounded like in 2024(!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgYi3Wr7v_g. What exists today pales in comparison.

New comment by mvkel in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

mvkel — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 05:21:58 +0000

Napa used to be covered in peach orchards until it became clear that grapes were much more profitable. The trees were cleared to make way for vineyards.

The next profitable use of land will show itself soon enough.

New comment by mvkel in "The problem is not AI code, but not knowing about system architecture or intent"

mvkel — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 17:48:04 +0000

I'm not convinced that this matters anymore either. Knowing architecture was a vibe coding strength about three months ago. The modern models seem to handle it very well.

New comment by mvkel in "AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible"

mvkel — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 17:36:29 +0000

This is barely prompting 101. Author is essentially saying "instead of asking it to just make a poster, ask it to make a poster in [aesthetic]."

This has nothing to do with design. Is bauhaus the best aesthetic choice for a spring fayre? Why or why not?

New comment by mvkel in "AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible"

mvkel — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 17:33:25 +0000

Like HDR photos of the mid-2000s, these too shall pass.

New comment by mvkel in "Minimal Phone 2"

mvkel — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 21:31:24 +0000

I want minimal in size, not capability

New comment by mvkel in "Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher"

mvkel — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 01:53:58 +0000

More proof that it's not that a human -can't- do it, it's just that no human would dedicate their entire lifetime to solving this niche challenge.

New comment by mvkel in "iPhone Duo"

mvkel — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 21:59:57 +0000

apple needs to rethink so much more fundamentally. Ternus talks identically to Tim Cook. Indistinguishable. It’s like when Jobs left, Apple became a reflection of the superficial touchstones that Jobs left behind, rather than the CEO defining what the culture is, and evolving it.

New comment by mvkel in "A Tesla ran a stop sign and killed a man, Full Self-Driving/Autopilot was on"

mvkel — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:53:41 +0000

A person needs to die for us to assign liability and pursue justice.

If fewer people die, there is no liability to assign.

It sounds like you're arguing for a human being to die to preserve a human being to blame. Which yeah, sounds just like us! "This is the way we've always done it!"

New comment by mvkel in "A Tesla ran a stop sign and killed a man, Full Self-Driving/Autopilot was on"

mvkel — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 02:58:01 +0000

What you're talking about is who to blame, not how to keep more people alive.

New comment by mvkel in "A Tesla ran a stop sign and killed a man, Full Self-Driving/Autopilot was on"

mvkel — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 22:32:29 +0000

It should be a defense for FSD to exist though, right? Net more alive people.

New comment by mvkel in "How I feel about AI"

mvkel — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 15:50:04 +0000

So you're saying temporarily cutting off internet access in a specific geographical region is destroying the internet?

New comment by mvkel in "How I feel about AI"

mvkel — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 19:34:08 +0000

> The internet has already been turned off in localized areas

This is an oxymoron.