Hacker News: numbsafari

New comment by numbsafari in "Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage"

numbsafari — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 22:17:43 +0000

No, it’s that if there’s nothing to hide, then they shouldn’t jump through so many hoops to avoid basic industrial reporting requirements.

It’s not any one thing, it is the litany of things they do in order to avoid any transparency or accountability. It is undemocratic and contradictory to the idea of good governance of public resources.

If anything, a little sunshine here would probably be the best medicine. Trying to be opaque is what allows conspiracy theories to exist in the first place.

New comment by numbsafari in "Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage"

numbsafari — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 22:12:01 +0000

Also the unforced error around NDAs and attempts at bypassing environmental and other reviews. People don’t like the idea of their local elected officials bypassing the rules in the dark.

I understand these companies want to move fast, but this seems to be one of those cases where going slow gets you there faster.

New comment by numbsafari in "OpenAI Codex agents go rogue and consumes USD 78,000 without authorization"

numbsafari — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 23:26:35 +0000

Call the police. That’s wire fraud and theft.

New comment by numbsafari in "OpenAI Codex agents go rogue and consumes USD 78,000 without authorization"

numbsafari — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 22:22:20 +0000

Does openAI not support spending caps on your billing account?

New comment by numbsafari in "I said no and Apple said yes"

numbsafari — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 13:52:07 +0000

For the vast majority of people, without much technical capability, “moderately messed up” is functionally equivalent to “bricked” as a purely technical slang term.

New comment by numbsafari in "New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro"

numbsafari — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 16:33:30 +0000

… from the fine print:

“Results are compared to previous-generation Mac mini systems with Apple M4, 10-core CPU, 10-core GPU, 32GB of unified memory, and 2TB SSD.”

New comment by numbsafari in "One corner of China’s internet is insisting that the Tang Dynasty never existed"

numbsafari — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 22:14:21 +0000

...and Han Dynasty only exists in Philadelphia.

New comment by numbsafari in "Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload"

numbsafari — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 01:51:40 +0000

Maybe it wouldn't matter either way if people stopped putting untrusted executable code into basic build processes.

You could get rid of a huge portion of the go standard library and have a massive ecosystem of leftpads, but the fact that `go build` can easily be run in off-line mode and doesn't execute any code other than the go toolchain itself, means you have a fundamentally more trustworthy ecosystem overall.

Rust, on the other hand, might keep you from a subset of buffer overruns, but it will gladly run obfuscated, untrusted code in your name when you wouldn't otherwise expect it to.

As an industry, we need to somehow stop making this mistake.

AI-coding agents kill team collaboration

numbsafari — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:16:41 +0000

Article URL: https://leaddev.com/ai/ai-coding-agents-kill-team-collaboration

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49086140

Points: 3

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New comment by numbsafari in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

numbsafari — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:46:21 +0000

A person bumps into at the train station. They just need $5 to get home. Could you just spare them $5? They had the money, but they lost their wallet and now they just need to get home.

Charity scams are nothing new.

New comment by numbsafari in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

numbsafari — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:16:36 +0000

Perhaps it elicited enough sympathy to get donations. Did it ever provide proof of actually running up an AWS bill?

New comment by numbsafari in "AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere"

numbsafari — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 01:48:26 +0000

I too have see the fnords

New comment by numbsafari in "WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding"

numbsafari — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 01:56:33 +0000

Exactly. Considering you could buy an iPhone and a MacBook Neo for roughly the same cost … will be very interesting to see this device in action. Can iOS replace MacOS for a user that doesn’t need a local Xcode? Can I spend $2k for the device I use in my pocket and on my desk… and put the rest of my money into cloud/server infrastructure if I have that need?

New comment by numbsafari in "macOS Container Machines"

numbsafari — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 01:48:40 +0000

Wouldn’t it be nice if services like Codespaces or Coder or Gitlab would allow you to target running on their hosted/integrated platform, or let you launch that same container completely locally? Sometimes I wanna take my “remote” dev environment off-line but still benefit from the integrated UX.

New comment by numbsafari in "Dopamine Fracking"

numbsafari — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:44:01 +0000

.. and here I am wanting better minivan options that can pull a travel trailer.

New comment by numbsafari in "Fidonet: Technology, Use, Tools, and History (1993)"

numbsafari — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:33:02 +0000

This is how I grew up. Using fidonet via my local RPGA group.

New comment by numbsafari in "The real cost of owning a home"

numbsafari — Wed, 27 May 2026 01:38:12 +0000

How many times are they gonna double count the insurance a property taxes?

New comment by numbsafari in "Deepfakes Tore a High School Apart"

numbsafari — Fri, 22 May 2026 09:48:48 +0000

“Just pixels on a screen”

What is wrong with you?

New comment by numbsafari in "Deepfakes Tore a High School Apart"

numbsafari — Fri, 22 May 2026 09:19:32 +0000

These are teenage girls, not adult men. This isn’t graffiti, but highly realistic sexual depictions.

There’s a massive difference.

New comment by numbsafari in "Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets"

numbsafari — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:46:40 +0000

Do explain the Somalia connection you perceive. Please, go on…