Hacker News: organsnyder

New comment by organsnyder in "Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test"

organsnyder — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:36:58 +0000

He runs the largest, most prominent company in the field, so it's not like it's off-topic.

New comment by organsnyder in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"

organsnyder — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:20:07 +0000

There are so many pieces of that step 3 in trying to navigate a school system that isn't accustomed to working with lower-income students.

New comment by organsnyder in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"

organsnyder — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:01:00 +0000

Actually, I can more than imagine it. I have friends that are in those situations, and help out when I can.

New comment by organsnyder in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"

organsnyder — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:18:07 +0000

It's not just giving a shit: it's also the capacity to act on giving a shit. I'm exhausted at the end of the day after getting the kids to bed, and I'm fortunate to be in a stable marriage, live in a large home that my wife and I own, and work a well-paying WFH job. I can only imagine how tiring it must be to not have those advantages.

There are the parents doing heroics that I can hardly imagine, and they should be celebrated. But we need to design a system that provides a sufficient level of support for those families that only have an average level of capacity.

New comment by organsnyder in "Cloudflare Flagship"

organsnyder — Wed, 27 May 2026 12:50:06 +0000

Getting those booleans to the right place at the right time reliably isn't trivial.

New comment by organsnyder in "Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police"

organsnyder — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:48:50 +0000

That's actually a very logical stance: China is much less interested in what you're doing as an individual citizen—and much less able to act on what they know—than the United States is. For the same reason, Chinese citizens should trust the United States with their data more than China.

New comment by organsnyder in "GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension"

organsnyder — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:34:00 +0000

Given the attack vector, it's possible that the impacted repos were ones that see more activity.

New comment by organsnyder in "Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier"

organsnyder — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:23:32 +0000

It is possible to get real work done with LLMs. There are plenty of ethical concerns, and they're definitely over-hyped, but they are exceptionally useful tools when used well.

New comment by organsnyder in "New York to tax luxury second homes in NYC"

organsnyder — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:29:20 +0000

I'm guessing it would be tough to make the numbers work demolishing a 4-story building and building one that's only 2-2.5x the square footage, especially with today's interest rates.

New comment by organsnyder in "Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

organsnyder — Fri, 08 May 2026 21:07:59 +0000

I'd assume they have a botnet to parallelize it. Though depending on where you live (not that they'd be using their own machines) fast pipes are fairly common—I have a 5gbps symmetrical fiber connection to my home in Michigan.

New comment by organsnyder in "Apple, Intel have reached preliminary chip-making deal"

organsnyder — Fri, 08 May 2026 21:01:07 +0000

Always has been.

New comment by organsnyder in "AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures"

organsnyder — Fri, 08 May 2026 20:06:31 +0000

Finding a vulnerability by looking at the diff that fixed it is very different than just looking through the code.

New comment by organsnyder in "Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense"

organsnyder — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:21:09 +0000

You'd risk amplifying every fluctuation. It's often impossible to know what's a shift vs. what's noise until it's well under way (if not over).

New comment by organsnyder in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

organsnyder — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:58:28 +0000

One of my vehicles is a 2009 Civic. It continues to amaze me that with minimal maintenance, that 17-year-old vehicle will fire right up with the turn of a key, with hundreds (thousands?) of parts moving in a specific way, many of them with tolerances in tiny fractions of an inch.

New comment by organsnyder in "CATL's new LFP battery can charge from 10 to 98% in less than 7 minutes"

organsnyder — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:15:11 +0000

The battery in my PHEV (Chrysler Pacifica) showed no appreciable degradation in eight years (and >100k miles) before being replaced under recall for a manufacturing fault last year.

New comment by organsnyder in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

organsnyder — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:57:39 +0000

Agreed. I have a work MBP 14" and a Framework 13, and I didn't realize until just now that they weren't the same screen size. The Framework 13 is very comfortable to use.

New comment by organsnyder in "OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS"

organsnyder — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:51:19 +0000

Windows 95 was still based on DOS, and didn't offer a lot in the way of isolation or other security features. Win98 and ME were similar. It wasn't until all Windows versions used the NT kernel (XP being the first consumer-focused release) that this changed.

New comment by organsnyder in "OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS"

organsnyder — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:49:01 +0000

Home computers weren't normally networked, but enterprise computers (such as the Walmart example given) absolutely were.

New comment by organsnyder in "Codex for almost everything"

organsnyder — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:21:14 +0000

The Framework Desktop has a Ryzen 395 chip that is able to allocate memory to either the CPU or GPU. I've been able to allocate 100+gb to the GPU, so even big models can run there.

Most recently I used it to develop a script to help me manage email. The implementation included interacting with my provider over JMAP, taking various actions, and implementing an automated unsubscribe flow. It was greenfield, and quite trivial compared to the codebases I normally interact with, but it was definitely useful.

New comment by organsnyder in "Codex for almost everything"

organsnyder — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:03:08 +0000

I've found qwen3 to be very usable on my local machine (a Framework Desktop with 128gb RAM). I doubt it could handle the complex tasks I throw at Claude Opus at work, but it's more than capable of doing a surprising number of tasks, with good performance.