Hacker News: mwest217

New comment by mwest217 in "I switched from VSCode to Zed"

mwest217 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 03:22:14 +0000

Vim, neovim, and helix all handle multiple-GB files fine!

New comment by mwest217 in "Nano Banana Pro"

mwest217 — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 07:45:01 +0000

This exists, the standard is called C2PA, Google added support for it in the Pixel 10. I was surprised and disappointed that Apple didn’t add support for it in the most recent iPhone! A few physical cameras are starting to support it too (https://yawnbox.eu/blog/c2pa-camera/)

New comment by mwest217 in "Gemini 3.0 spotted in the wild through A/B testing"

mwest217 — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 19:00:44 +0000

Gemini 3.0 isn't broadly available inside Google. There's are "Gemini for Google" fine-tuned versions of 2.5 Pro and 2.5 Flash, but there's been no broad availability of any 3.0 models yet.

Source: I work at Google (on payments, not any AI teams). Opinions mine not Google's.

New comment by mwest217 in "Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account"

mwest217 — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 06:05:59 +0000

Both possible and trivially easy. Just don’t sign into an Apple account.

New comment by mwest217 in "Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite"

mwest217 — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 18:44:06 +0000

ChatGPT and Claude are mistaken if they think it is incorrect. The parallelism in verb tenses is between "continuing to deliver" and "improving the efficiency". It's a bit wordy, but definitely not wrong.

New comment by mwest217 in "Diet, not lack of exercise, drives obesity, a new study finds"

mwest217 — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 19:16:23 +0000

For high level endurance athletes, eating enough can be a difficult task. I wouldn’t quite categorize diets like the one described in https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/23/sports/olympics/cross-cou... as “a bad diet”, but it’s certainly a quantity and density of calories that would make it a bad diet for most people with a normal energy expenditure.

An anecdote from my experience with long trail hiking is that essentially everybody loses weight hiking long trails for months. Turns out when you’re hiking 25-30 miles / day, it’s awfully hard to not be in a calorie deficit (especially when you’re also trying to optimize for lightweight food)

New comment by mwest217 in "Gemini CLI: your open-source AI agent"

mwest217 — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 05:46:37 +0000

https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/api-key

New comment by mwest217 in "Cloud Run GPUs, now GA, makes running AI workloads easier for everyone"

mwest217 — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 12:43:12 +0000

Disclaimer: I work at Google but not on cloud. Opinions my own.

I think the reason this doesn’t get prioritized is that large customers don’t actually want a “stop serving if I pass this limit” amount. If there’s a spike in traffic, they probably would rather pay the money to serve it. The customers that would want this feature are small-dollar customers, and from an economic perspective it makes less sense to prioritize this feature, since they’re not spending very much relative to customers who wouldn’t want this feature.

Maybe if there weren’t more feature requests to get prioritized this might happen, but the reality is that there are always more feature requests than time to implement them, and a feature request used almost exclusively by the smallest dollar customers will always lose to a feature for big-dollar customers.

New comment by mwest217 in "Ask HN: Share your AI prompt that stumps every model"

mwest217 — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 18:09:21 +0000

Gemini 2.5 Pro gets this right:

https://g.co/gemini/share/7ea6d059164e

New comment by mwest217 in "Ask HN: Share your AI prompt that stumps every model"

mwest217 — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 18:08:13 +0000

Gemini 2.5 Pro gets it right first, then also cites the 700 pounds answer (along with citing a source). https://g.co/gemini/share/c695a0163538

New comment by mwest217 in "Gemini 2.5 Flash"

mwest217 — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 20:26:51 +0000

Gemini has had 4 families of models, in order of decreasing size:

- Ultra

- Pro

- Flash

- Flash-Lite

Versions with `-Preview` at the end haven't had their "official release" and are technically in some form of "early access" (though I'm not totally clear on exactly what that means given that they're fully available and as of 2.5 Pro Preview, have pricing attached to them - earlier versions were free during Preview but had pretty strict rate limiting but now it seems that Preview models are more or less fully usable).

New comment by mwest217 in "Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries"

mwest217 — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 18:57:59 +0000

Import to another country then the US?

New comment by mwest217 in "Amazon's killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books"

mwest217 — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 15:53:08 +0000

It has DRM and there is no way to read books from there except on their iOS and android apps and maybe the website (ereaders are excluded entirely at least for now - i think they’re hoping to add Kobo support eventually)

New comment by mwest217 in "App Should Have Been a Website (and Probably Your Game Too)"

mwest217 — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 18:10:26 +0000

Strongly disagree that Facebook games were the peak. To me that was classic flash games like nitrome.com

New comment by mwest217 in "20 years of Google Scholar"

mwest217 — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 19:33:41 +0000

All the time, it is incredibly useful to send a doc for comments, which can be attached to the relevant piece of text. I use shared editing less often, but I find it's especially useful in incident response where there may be multiple investigation workstreams, and the incident commander needs to be able to see all of them.

New comment by mwest217 in "All political ads running on Google in the US"

mwest217 — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 19:40:36 +0000

Why in the world is a generic NY Times ad categorized as a political ad?

New comment by mwest217 in "FTC announces "click-to-cancel" rule making it easier to cancel subscriptions"

mwest217 — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 19:13:08 +0000

I don't disagree that disregarding the Supreme Court is essentially a type of coup. However, the power which is being contested here is a power that the Supreme Court invented for itself out of whole cloth: judicial review was born in 1803 when Chief Justice John Marshall ruled that an act of congress was unconstitutional. That's honestly a bigger coup than what is being suggested here, and is only perceived as legitimate because a) it's been around for a long time, and b) the Supreme Court has mostly backed down from its most unpopular opinions.

New comment by mwest217 in "Launch HN: Firezone (YC W22) – Zero-trust access platform built on WireGuard"

mwest217 — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 18:18:46 +0000

How does this compare with e.g. Tailscale?

New comment by mwest217 in "In-App Browsers: The worst erosion of user choice you haven't heard of"

mwest217 — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 14:17:55 +0000

I would love if this were implemented. For one thing it would prevent insane App Store rejections like [this](https://mastodon.social/@vandal/112167322002780991) which actively requires using an in-app browser. I wish there were a setting to never use an in app web browser on iOS.

New comment by mwest217 in "Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it a 'threat' to iOS"

mwest217 — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 23:09:54 +0000

Also not a lawyer, but my understanding is that in order to have standing to sue, you must be able to show that you were damaged by the behavior you are trying to file suit against.