Hacker News: october8140

New comment by october8140 in "CarPlay Is Additive"

october8140 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 02:00:37 +0000

CarPlay is bad for the car manufacturer and is far worse than the modern car software. People who complain about loosing CarPlay are not using the new software but reacting in fear thinking the old car software will come back.

The author acts like manufacturers get CarPlay for free when it has a high cost, high constraints, and gives over most or all of the dash over to another company.

New comment by october8140 in "For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides"

october8140 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:15:33 +0000

This is really cool. But I dislike the dialog where because step 1 happened people talk like steps 2-100 are not inevitable.

New comment by october8140 in "Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators"

october8140 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 01:03:59 +0000

Is this fraud?

New comment by october8140 in "South Korean forums will need to scan every images with AI censorship tools"

october8140 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 03:54:21 +0000

The future is self hosted private invite only communities of vetted real life humans, likely done in person.

New comment by october8140 in "1-Click GitHub Token Stealing via a VSCode Bug"

october8140 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 03:37:24 +0000

If you like VSCode but don't like Microsoft, try Zed (zed.dev).

New comment by october8140 in "Mini Micro Fantasy Computer"

october8140 — Wed, 27 May 2026 12:22:30 +0000

Also check out Pico8 and Picotron.

https://www.lexaloffle.com/

New comment by october8140 in "From Rust to Ruby"

october8140 — Wed, 27 May 2026 02:07:03 +0000

The fact that it doesn't end with what happens when they run `rails server` makes me think they did it and didn't like the results.

New comment by october8140 in "From Rust to Ruby"

october8140 — Wed, 27 May 2026 02:05:53 +0000

I'm not sure any language + framework prioritizes developer happiness as much as Ruby on Rails.

New comment by october8140 in "Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country"

october8140 — Wed, 27 May 2026 02:01:42 +0000

I take it you don't live next to a data center.

New comment by october8140 in "There's no earthly way of knowing which direction we are going"

october8140 — Wed, 20 May 2026 08:26:52 +0000

Hank Green has had the best take I've heard which is AI is definitely something but everyones still figuring out what it is. It will likely end up being nothing like it is today.

New comment by october8140 in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

october8140 — Mon, 11 May 2026 07:03:32 +0000

They will never let us have enough RAM every again. RAM will be kept behind locked doors in the name of national security and only trusted corporations will be aloud to run AIs and "safely" run them in the cloud and sell them to us.

New comment by october8140 in "New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming"

october8140 — Sat, 02 May 2026 13:15:59 +0000

Hypnospace

New comment by october8140 in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"

october8140 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 08:32:20 +0000

The bubble is so big.

New comment by october8140 in "Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans"

october8140 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:56:04 +0000

If they don’t give refunds I can just do a charge back. It’s not what I paid for.

New comment by october8140 in "Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans"

october8140 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:53:14 +0000

So can I just have my credit card do a charge back? This fundamentally changes the thing I paid for.

New comment by october8140 in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

october8140 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 02:20:23 +0000

SpaceX is going to have an AI coding "oops" in space.

New comment by october8140 in "Figma's woes compound with Claude Design"

october8140 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:25:22 +0000

I’ve tried it. It’s useless.

New comment by october8140 in "Salesforce Stopped Paying for Salesforcefoundation.org"

october8140 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:23:30 +0000

https://help.heroku.com/VF2KIQ5S/does-heroku-offer-non-profi...

Salesforce Stopped Paying for Salesforcefoundation.org

october8140 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:22:05 +0000

Salesforce stopped paying for salesforcefoundation.org and now it's a gambling site. They still link to it in documentation.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47831955

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New comment by october8140 in "Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock"

october8140 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 03:41:57 +0000

If this were a concern for me the better choice is shutting down the laptop to encrypt the drive and disable biometrics. This does nothing since the drive is still unencrypted.