Hacker News: natch

New comment by natch in "Qwen 3.8 27B"

natch — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:49:55 +0000

Apart from model performance, what harness are people using to come close to Claude Code or Codex workflow styles with tool use, conversations, loops, remote control, etc.?

New comment by natch in "Mea Culpa – Dark Hours"

natch — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 22:34:33 +0000

Sure, glad to clarify. The value is to point out something that I’ve noticed a lot of people miss as conversations about App Store rejections tend to take a knee-jerk negative attitude toward Apple. Considering the opposite possibility would clear up a lot of false conceptions and raise the quality of discussions.

New comment by natch in "Mea Culpa – Dark Hours"

natch — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 16:58:52 +0000

I’ve noticed that when a developer cries foul over an Apple App Store rejection, it often seems to be a red flag that there is something fishy about that developer. Gruber, not to his credit, often does not give Apple the benefit of the doubt on these matters. imho he bears some responsibility if he feels duped.

New comment by natch in "Stowaway – take the window seat on any plane or satellite overhead"

natch — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:08:43 +0000

Nice work! I got lost in a clouds only view after setting my location but I’m sure I’ll figure it out, the first couple flights were over an unfamiliar area but worked fine.

New comment by natch in "AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog"

natch — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:13:47 +0000

Are you saying nobody should ever do anything with any tool if they cannot reasonably do it without the tool?

I mean personal blogs I agree the writing portion should be personal but does that go for everything? Maybe the author should take the emoji off his page(??!!)

New comment by natch in "Zitron: "Everyone Has Been Sold a Lie" on AI [video]"

natch — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 03:05:10 +0000

He seems to be saying the cloud provider revenue has something wrong with it because it stems from serving training and inference. It doesn’t follow.

New comment by natch in "An LLM-assisted security review of GlobaLeaks: 41 findings for $3,140"

natch — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:24:38 +0000

Title should not use a minus sign before the dollar amount, that’s super confusing.

New comment by natch in "An LLM-assisted security review of GlobaLeaks: 41 findings for –$3,140"

natch — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:23:14 +0000

Sorry for the meta comment but: Why is such a useful comment “flagged dead” on what appears to be an interesting and pertinent post?

dang, any comments on what could be going on here?

I get it that there may be some indirect promotion happening but that’s natural when information is shared and this doesn’t seem like egregious spam.

New comment by natch in "Starlink from 1984"

natch — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 08:04:37 +0000

In the “the name got reused” section the article missed the Subaru usage of it.

New comment by natch in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

natch — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:44:11 +0000

Bezos and others will balance Elon. Be glad it’s Elon and not Walz or Hans Dieter. And AIs will be in place doing who knows what, so all our current governance will probably be out the window.

New comment by natch in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

natch — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 02:48:44 +0000

Perhaps a public company then? The symbol could be SPCX. Maybe give some shares to US citizens, like in special accounts maybe? This is sounding oddly familiar.

New comment by natch in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

natch — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 16:11:34 +0000

Looks like you stopped reading after the first sentence.

Or if not, what am I missing?

New comment by natch in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

natch — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 16:08:47 +0000

So, communism?

New comment by natch in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

natch — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 13:41:05 +0000

No. We’ve tried that for decades now and it hasn’t worked out very well for getting the world connected. The entire rural earth has been neglected. Even in silicon valley my neighborhood only got fiber this year and its saddled with crappy TV bundle deals, bad mobile apps built with wrapped web pages, poor service, and we-will-sell-your-data anti privacy provisions. Starlink has none of that.

New comment by natch in "Show HN: Microsoft releases Flint, a visualization language for AI agents"

natch — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 07:57:21 +0000

Since it isn’t mentioned on the page, I’ll mention that accessibility is a really important thing to design in when creating data visualizations.

This podcast (I only have a spotify link) has a really good short interview on this:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/18dHTAxCCeIaLOTch6tRld

The interview is with Frank Elavsky who seems to be a rock star in the field (and no, I don’t know him and am not him) and made a project called Chartability relating to this which has heuristics, principles, and guidelines for a11y audits:

https://chartability.github.io/POUR-CAF/

New comment by natch in "Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

natch — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:18:17 +0000

They need Lehane or… since OpenAI got him, what is Fabiani up to these days?

New comment by natch in "Feds Killed Polestar and Spared Volvo"

natch — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 16:18:50 +0000

Having spent some time in California and seen things town by town at a very granular level, I think woke voters are the ones driving Volvos.

So while I didn’t quite follow that reference, it’s true that if Trump were to ban them for simply being owned by China, then he’d be kind of screwed because he’d then have to ban all his own merch like the Trump phone and his made-in-China MAGA hats.

New comment by natch in "Feds Killed Polestar and Spared Volvo"

natch — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 03:39:40 +0000

It's hard to parse this without concluding that you are perhaps unaware that Volvo is Chinese.

New comment by natch in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"

natch — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:52:17 +0000

Yes Gruber's comment about not making Ternus debut with a shit sandwich was right on the money, so I wondered why that alone didn't sway him to think that Apple would do the price increase sooner.

New comment by natch in "How many of the 170k English words do you know?"

natch — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 03:47:10 +0000

This is great. I look forward to going through it after some of the suggested tweaks are applied! 100 seems daunting though.