Hacker News: natas

New comment by natas in "GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry"

natas — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:37:06 +0000

Soon there will be ads on Github, you'll see.

New comment by natas in "Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux"

natas — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:29:23 +0000

@haileys I would love to see that on ArcaOS! I bet it can't be done.

New comment by natas in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

natas — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 04:42:25 +0000

OpenAI is a few years behind Anthropic, and it's unlikely they'll catch up at this point.

New comment by natas in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

natas — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 04:40:45 +0000

Give it a year or two, and apple or any other hardware will have unified memory OR AMD will have a good offering to run all that stuff locally. It won't be as good as Claude, but it'll do for 90% of the things. It will be expensive as first, just like the first mainframes, then give it another 5 years or so, and it'll be affordable.

New comment by natas in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

natas — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 02:40:49 +0000

Microsoft will buy OpenAI for $500B, rebrand it as Microsoft AI.

New comment by natas in "TSA lines are so out of control that travelers are hiring line-sitters"

natas — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:45:36 +0000

those tote bags are the town's talk!!!

New comment by natas in "Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email"

natas — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:19:05 +0000

probably got simswapped, but personal emails should hold no work-related information, so this is not a huge deal is it?

New comment by natas in "Neovim 0.12.0"

natas — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:28:44 +0000

one cursor for you one cursor for claude code :)

New comment by natas in "John Bradley, author of xv, has died"

natas — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 05:04:16 +0000

I've used xv from the mid-nineties until now, I still have it on my desktop, it's been 30 years, there's just no viable replacement IMHO.

RIP John.

New comment by natas in "Apple Just Lost Me"

natas — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:13:43 +0000

after about 10+ years in the Apple ecosystem, I'm completely done, my next machine is linux and my next phone is android.

New comment by natas in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

natas — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 04:46:49 +0000

My company is now removing all microsoft products, all of it. Laptops are moving to OSX. Office365->Gmail+G-suite. Zoom->Google meet. Fortunately we don't use Azure or Github, so that will make the transition easier.

New comment by natas in "Zero ZGC4: A Better Graphing Calculator for School and Beyond"

natas — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:57:21 +0000

Take a look at Swissmicros' DM42n + DB48x.

New comment by natas in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

natas — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:46:07 +0000

In business, the “best” solution doesn’t win—the one that aligns with incentives does. You can argue Linux is technically better than Windows, but Windows wins in many orgs because of familiarity, vendor support, existing tooling, and lower perceived risk. Adoption beats superiority.

New comment by natas in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

natas — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:39:31 +0000

I’ve included this here because it’s highly relevant to the discussion. That said, anything not closely tied to revenue will not be prioritized, which limits the impact of this microsoft post.

New comment by natas in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

natas — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:16:48 +0000

I recently had dinner in Bellevue with an individual who holds a relatively senior position within Microsoft’s executive leadership. During our conversation, she emphasized repeatedly that Microsoft does not primarily view its offerings as consumer products. According to her, the company’s leadership is strongly focused on B2B strategy, with revenue growth driven mainly by Azure, AI, and enterprise solutions. Her perspective was that consumer-facing products are not the primary revenue drivers and, therefore, are not central to executive priorities. While this may not be surprising to some, what stood out to me was how emphatically she underscored that the company’s strategic focus is squarely on enterprise customers rather than end users.

That said, this business model has historically proven effective for companies such as IBM. Microsoft allocates its resources toward segments that offer meaningful revenue growth.

New comment by natas in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

natas — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:15:42 +0000

we've heard that before.

New comment by natas in "Despite Doubts, Federal Cyber Experts Approved Microsoft Cloud Service"

natas — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:15:10 +0000

because time to market is more important than security (at microsoft)

New comment by natas in "Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss'"

natas — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:20:27 +0000

I wonder... if microsoft can't secure a gaming console which they have full control on, from top to bottom, how do they secure "Azure Government"?

New comment by natas in "Bandit: A 32bit baremetal computer that runs Color Forth [video]"

natas — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:51:10 +0000

That video is really neat, seriously, well done!

New comment by natas in "Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act: Dangerous backdoor surveillance risks remain"

natas — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 22:43:43 +0000

Quick summary for the impatient (the original looks like an extract from Orwell's 1984):

Bill C-22 (Canada, 2026) updates laws to give police and security agencies faster and clearer access to digital data during investigations. It expands authorities to obtain subscriber information, transmission data, and tracking data from telecom and online service providers and from foreign companies. The bill also creates a framework requiring electronic service providers to support access requests.