Hacker News: neya

New comment by neya in "The August 17 outage"

neya — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 10:56:39 +0000

Agreed on not hosting things yourself, but, I am not arguing against cloud hosting at all - just Azure. If they just came out and admitted it is a disaster and swallowed their pride and moved their services towards anything else at all - GCP, AWS or whatever else - I think their uptime would significantly improve. Of course, the fundamental problem here is the culture of the company itself. That's harder to fix.

New comment by neya in "The August 17 outage"

neya — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 08:42:42 +0000

Let's be honest here, the real reason is the crap that is Azure. GitHub was perfectly fine until then. They are just too bureaucratic to admit it.

Worth reading:

https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporize...

New comment by neya in "GitHub degradation affects Cursor Origin, its new Git platform"

neya — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 03:43:10 +0000

No they were not. Especially if you were an end user, you wouldn't have been able to tell it wasn't their own model. That exactly isn't being clear nor public.

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https://cursor.com/blog/composer-2

New comment by neya in "Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption"

neya — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:50:27 +0000

I bet this would've been ground breaking if this was an announcement from Apple though.

New comment by neya in "OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining"

neya — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 23:41:07 +0000

This reminds me of the marketers who hated programmers and coding in general in the early 2000s era, and fundamentally because the developers were seen as more important in a company. So, you know what they did? They didn't learn programming, they still hated it, instead, they renamed their titles to "hackers". Growth "hacking" would go on to become a term and had nothing to do with hacking - ethical or otherwise. It was a glorified marketing term for marketers and by marketers to justify their exorbitant salaries but also wanted the aura of a real hacker without working for it. I would imagine someone with that title or mindset joining an ethics role in an AI organization is going to find out quickly it isn't all about fluff pieces and grandiose statements at all (we are here to change the world!)

New comment by neya in "What Happened to HackerOne?"

neya — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:45:59 +0000

It's because of the CEO: Kara Sprague. Just another Marissa Meyer story, nothing new. We all saw how Yahoo turned out in the end.

New comment by neya in "An OpenAI Strategist Says AI Labs Should Rival Government Power"

neya — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:38:16 +0000

Governments already use AI labs for surveillance, so, just the ownership will change, the victims will always be the citizens (Eg. see Flock cameras). Nothing gets better.

New comment by neya in "Analyzing data from Silicon Valley ventures and founders prosecuted for fraud"

neya — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 17:07:32 +0000

I'm surprised there was no mention of Elizabeth Holmes. Whenever there is mention of criminal deception of any sort, she's like the poster child for it in my eyes. And I remember her accomplice who instead of admitting he was on the wrong side, kept blaming the journalist who tried to uncover the fraud, instead. He said (something along the lines of) "He (the journalist) kept coming at her.." as if she would've been able to magically solve the problem if she had enough time.

That was all I needed to know about what was wrong about valley culture.

New comment by neya in "“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers"

neya — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 20:49:53 +0000

The "code was never the hard part" is a narrative pushed strongly by designers, MBA guys and product managers. Even before AI, they've always treated programmers like low-lives, someone beneath them and completely replaceable like commodity. Ironically, of this entire group, it isn't programmers that are being replaced left and right. Whole product teams, designers are being replaced. Good coders are still in demand - because, someone has to fix the vibe coded mess. In design, there is no reference for good and bad. You either like a design or not. In code, something either works or not. That's why it's always hard to replace a programmer as opposed to a designer.

Has Claude code et al replaced programmers? Not really. And it will be a long time before it can - because someone needs to still instruct the direction of the code, the base architecture to build upon and that comes with real human experience.

New comment by neya in "Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities"

neya — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 17:09:45 +0000

    We are sharing this because we believe it’s important to be transparent with the public and the safety and security communities about this potential shift in capabilities.

*proceeds to not share much details about strictness*

Yet another PR piece. Sigh.

New comment by neya in "Zed DeltaDB"

neya — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 02:17:00 +0000

> They'll re-invent/re-write things constantly

Re-invent is fine, that's how we actually get the good stuff we use.

Re-write (frequently) is usually a sign of bad power dynamics in the team, code rot and generally bad engineering management, in my experience.

That's why most React shops end up in this vicious cycle of constant re-writes of a perfectly fine working system for this reason. Yeah, must be really nice getting paid for it too.

New comment by neya in "Launch HN: HyperProbe (YC S26) – Agents that do read-only debugging in prod"

neya — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 23:54:44 +0000

Lol, a fake account created 44 minutes ago just to congratulate a YC company that isn't receiving enough traction despite staying on the home page for longer? What has this place become..

New comment by neya in "DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update"

neya — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:59:54 +0000

Yeah, because, your data is best collected by the US labs, right?

US or American, don't trust anyone, these are open weight models. Host them yourself if you feel strongly about privacy (as you should). I honestly don't know of any OSS open weight models from the US labs as good as Kimi K3 or Deepseek V4 though.

New comment by neya in "Ask HN: Is there a website that tracks excessive writes to SSDs in OS/app betas?"

neya — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:25:49 +0000

You of all the people should and would know that the slightest criticism of Apple is rejected here, not based by merit of the argument, but for simply endorsing the viewpoint that Apple can be evil too. I'm sure mods have tools and stats to see all this and you probably see it too, but you be you.

New comment by neya in "Our position on open-weights models"

neya — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:55:45 +0000

Also the whole premise of this is basically "US good, China bad"

Whatever Anthropic accuses the Chinese of possibly doing and being capable of, the US is as well. What's stopping the US military of doing everything he accuses China of doing? Infact, the framework suggested is simply a joke. Basically "trust me, bro" in an elaborate form.

New comment by neya in "Did they ghost you?"

neya — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 06:16:06 +0000

The real person that should be held responsible for ghosting is the HR. They represent the company. It takes very little effort to even send an automated email intimating the rejection and better yet if possible, a one liner reason - even from a drop down so as to help the candidate improve themselves. Instead, all the fucking HR does all day long is make cringe videos on TikTok these days and create imaginary problems that don't exist to justify their existence to management.

https://www.reddit.com/r/theprimeagen/comments/1tkgml2/bolt_...

New comment by neya in "Cloudflare's new AI traffic options for customers"

neya — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 03:43:53 +0000

Adding the link to GitHub here if anyone is curious:

https://github.com/techaroHQ/anubis

New comment by neya in "98.css"

neya — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 07:35:37 +0000

Thanks!

New comment by neya in "98.css"

neya — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 04:09:22 +0000

Is there a version for Windows 7 as well? Because, that was the last good design from anyone from that era and everything just went downhill after that.

New comment by neya in "Qwen 3.8"

neya — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 05:16:40 +0000

In case of American labs, always follow the money. In case of Chinese labs, always follow the IP.