Hacker News: pram

New comment by pram in "Tesla Wall Connector bootloader bypasses the firmware downgrade ratchet"

pram — Fri, 15 May 2026 02:00:54 +0000

They shouldn’t be able to do it through the charging cable though lol

New comment by pram in "How Fast Does Claude, Acting as a User Space IP Stack, Respond to Pings?"

pram — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:41:00 +0000

Agreed it’s pretty pro at deciphering logs, it figured out some weird NAT thing for me.

New comment by pram in "How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be?"

pram — Sat, 02 May 2026 19:02:06 +0000

container is really good, ive been using it to sandbox some CLI tools and it starts up in less than a second

New comment by pram in "Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app"

pram — Fri, 01 May 2026 15:53:09 +0000

There have been many metaphorical and literal logo change moments in Apple’s 50 years champ

New comment by pram in "Iran caused more extensive damage to U.S. military bases than publicly known"

pram — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 17:39:19 +0000

One thing I noticed in the videos on Twitter of quadcopter type drones being flown into US bases in Iraq, is there doesn't seem to be any current defense. They were flying around with impunity, taking their time looking for a target. It's definitely scary.

New comment by pram in "I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support"

pram — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:54:37 +0000

I’ve noticed most of the complaints are about the Pro plan. Anecdotally I pay for the $200 Max plan and haven’t noticed anything radically different re: tokens or thinking time (availability is still a crapshoot)

I am certainly not saying people should “spend more money,” more like the Claude Code access in the Pro plan seems kind of like false advertising. Since it’s technically usable, but not really.

New comment by pram in "Atlassian enables default data collection to train AI"

pram — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:44:59 +0000

I worked there and the answer is the engineering talent isn't great, in addition to being very unfocused, and tons of pointless org churn. Bitbucket pipelines/workers was originally implemented, essentially, by two guys (I know, because I sat 2 rows of desks apart from them!) if that tells you anything. I doubt there was more than one person actively maintaining it for the past decade, if they didn't get laid off recently. That office doesn't even physically exist anymore, and the people are long gone.

New comment by pram in "macOS 27 won’t be supporting Intel anymore"

pram — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:10:30 +0000

Apple seems to slightly care about supporting Codeweavers/CrossOver from things I've seen, which indirectly makes Wine, Rosetta 2, and GPTK "important enough to support" since they're important features

New comment by pram in "The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker"

pram — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 03:25:00 +0000

Semi-related but people should look at the Sprint missile if they're interested in this, it goes so ridiculously fast the warhead begins to glow.

https://youtu.be/kvZGaMt7UgQ

New comment by pram in "Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning"

pram — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 03:55:14 +0000

I've had it turned off since Sequoia, and this I truly appreciate. It hasn't nagged me once to turn it or Siri on, and it isn't mandatory.

When I open up JIRA or Slack I am always greeted with multiple new dialogues pointing at some new AI bullshit, in comparison. We hates it precious

New comment by pram in "Sam Altman's Coworkers Say He Can Barely Code and Misunderstands Basic Concepts"

pram — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 01:01:19 +0000

I am amused at how pissy he can get in interviews. Who thought it was a great idea to have this guy doing PR?

New comment by pram in "Porting Go's strings package to C"

pram — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:37:20 +0000

Early Go was the first time I ever saw the Plan 9 compiler/linker used in action:

https://9p.io/sys/doc/compiler.html

New comment by pram in "Drop, formerly Massdrop, ends most collaborations and rebrands under Corsair"

pram — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:09:42 +0000

Agreed. As someone who spent thousands of dollars at early Massdrop, when they switched to 'basically just a store' + their branded products the goods weren't as appealing and I eventually just stopped visiting. And that makes sense if you think about it: if a group buy gets fully funded people obviously want it.

They ended up having a lot of non-group buy things like extremely esoteric keycaps probably only a couple dozen people on earth are willing to spend money on.

New comment by pram in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

pram — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:44:35 +0000

What an absolutely pointless thing to get pedantic about. Put "spokane washington" into Google images and tell me if that looks like a desert to you.

New comment by pram in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

pram — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:23:59 +0000

Washington indeed has a giant desert but it's in the middle fwiw, the SERE school is in Spokane

New comment by pram in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

pram — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:35:54 +0000

TBH I went through SERE school (aircrew) and I questioned its value, since the training is in eastern Washington/northern Idaho area mountainous woodland environment and all the evasion they showed us relied on that kind of cover and "bushcraft"

And you know, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iran are definitely not eastern Washington lol

New comment by pram in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

pram — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:40:35 +0000

I think our navy is mostly designed for prestige too, but it seems like you could use the current carriers to transport like a million disposable drones?

New comment by pram in "Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview"

pram — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:02:14 +0000

M4 Max is going to be faster.

New comment by pram in "Make macOS consistently bad unironically"

pram — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:51:12 +0000

I'm not a fan of the look in Tahoe (especially Apple Music wtf happened there) but most of it I can totally ignore, and don't even notice anymore. Except for the tabs. I have Sequoia and Tahoe machines, and the tabs in Tahoe are so unbelievably bad in comparison. Like this ugly pill shape. I rarely hear this get brought up but they're astonishingly ugly, worse than the previous design in every way.

New comment by pram in "Apple Just Lost Me"

pram — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:39:49 +0000

it’s sarcasm