Hacker News: punchmesan

New comment by punchmesan in "Quad9 to exit France"

punchmesan — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 17:26:58 +0000

Probably. They will want to do everything possible to be able to prove that they took all measures at their disposal to stop serving the French market on top of taking all measures to have their business operations be outside of French jurisdiction.

New comment by punchmesan in "Iranian campaign planted fake articles in real U.S. publications using ChatGPT"

punchmesan — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 15:56:50 +0000

Only since Bezos. I used to actually pay for WaPo pre-bezos. It was fine for a while and then he started clearly messing with editorial decisions and I bailed. It's now a garbage source.

New comment by punchmesan in "GitHub has not removed malicious imitation software after 3 weeks"

punchmesan — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 01:17:47 +0000

Like, philosophically? Because companies on Microsoft's scale can move heaven and earth to accomplish whatever they please regardless of difficulty. If it's difficult that just means it costs more money. Microsoft is planning to put ML infrastructure in space, but you're saying that building a support org, which Microsoft is very familiar with, is too hard because they're so big?

New comment by punchmesan in "AP: Avoid language that gives [AI] human characteristics"

punchmesan — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 05:17:01 +0000

Well, dumb-ness is subjective. On one hand, it's hard to call someone like Richard Dawkins "dumb" in a broad sense, but as a man of science he knows what it means to study and research something before drawing conclusions... And you do not need to be a computer scientist to understand the basic principles of an LLM. In that sense, Richard Dawkins is displaying a side of him that is almost willfully dumb when he's waxing poetic about how "Claudia" is sentient.

New comment by punchmesan in "Haiku R1/beta6 has been released"

punchmesan — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 21:08:58 +0000

Windows has gotten more stable, that's for sure, but I have seen BSOD's on every single edition of Windows, and that's only on my personal life. In my time in corporate IT I can tell you that Windows is generally much more problematic than MacOS for a variety of reasons, though modern MacOS certainly has its share of issues. But again, that's in a corporate IT environment, not regular consumer usage. Not sure how you got away with no crashing in your Windows experience, but congratulations!

New comment by punchmesan in "Steam Machine launches today"

punchmesan — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:14:59 +0000

Luck of the draw is very different from having the capital to invest in bots and buying up units to resell at higher prices. You could say they're lucky to have that capital, but economic privilege isn't necessarily luck either. Scalpers do not add value to the market no matter how you slice and dice it, they aren't a consumer of the product they're merely capitalizing on demand to create greater scarcity than there otherwise would have been so that they can demand higher prices. A pretty clear value detraction.

New comment by punchmesan in "Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable"

punchmesan — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:46:31 +0000

Considering that this is a brand new release of a frontier model that Anthropic is hyping hard, I'm not sure that the conclusion to draw from their repeated attempts to use it is that it's impressive... Anthropic is promising that it's impressive and we're all trying to test it out.

I, for one, have tried using it several times today and the guardrails kept switching the model back to Opus, so I have no clue if it's impressive or not.

New comment by punchmesan in "Motorola effectively bricked its entire line of WiFi routers without explanation"

punchmesan — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 16:34:09 +0000

The point he's making is that a QR-based flow that doesn't require downloading and installing an app, and instead uses the already-installed web browser, is even lower friction and can be used by ordinary folks just as well, if not better, thanks to having fewer friction points. Requiring an installed proprietary app to manage a physical device that would otherwise be manageable via a web interface is not a net improvement to the usability or accessibility of the product. Especially if it's something you set and forget, "normies" are not going to go back to that app for a very long time and likely will forget about it. Hard requiring app setup for a router is a play to sell usage and location data, it is not looking out for those that aren't "computer people".

New comment by punchmesan in "Electrobun 2.0 will be decoupled from Bun due to the Rust rewrite"

punchmesan — Sat, 23 May 2026 15:14:52 +0000

They're two completely different codebases... even if they are 100% feature parity, it's 100% different code. They should absolutely be separate from each other, with different issues lists. Clean separation of two different codebases isn't a strange concept...

New comment by punchmesan in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

punchmesan — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:01:11 +0000

Ever hear of SLi (now called NVLink)? It's a GPU interconnect that's been available for a good long while now on high-end Nvidia GPU's. I believe AMD's implementation is called Crossfire.

GPU interconnect speeds are a big bottleneck today for GPU's in AI applications. Data can't move between them fast enough.

New comment by punchmesan in "Spirit Airlines is filing for bankruptcy"

punchmesan — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 02:24:29 +0000

https://archive.is/fy78P

New comment by punchmesan in "Kagi Update: AI Image Filter for Search Results"

punchmesan — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 02:41:57 +0000

I search a lot. Heavy heavy searching. Kagi's no-BS approach to search gets me to relevant results much faster than any other search engine. And the ability to down-rank or block unreliable sources only sharpens that experience.

I have used, and continue to try on occasion to keep my opinions updated, all the big search engines. DDG, Bing, and Google. The search experience is really not there for me in those 3. Bing consistently produces poor results, DDG is a bit better but I still have to manually sift through poor quality results to get what I want, and Google makes me scroll past a lot of bloat and ads first to get to quality results, with more ads interspersed throughout.

I like being able to search, get my quality results, and move on with my life. That's worth paying for to me.

New comment by punchmesan in "Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant shift from road to rail"

punchmesan — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 20:46:15 +0000

So then if the government buys pens and reams of paper, then it's the government subsidizing office supply stores? But it's not a subsidy if a corporation spends money on the same supplies?

My employer does business with the DoD and with private corporate entities. Both the government and the private sector spend the same money and receive the same products and services. I appreciate that you have a different perspective, but I have a hard time considering my employer "subsidized by the US government" just because the government purchases our product.

New comment by punchmesan in "Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant shift from road to rail"

punchmesan — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 22:38:03 +0000

A contract isn't a subsidy... A subsidy would be giving them dollars without any particular strings attached except perhaps to use those funds to develop the product. If the contract is to provide money in exchange for services, that's called a transaction.

New comment by punchmesan in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2024)"

punchmesan — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 20:01:12 +0000

Location: San Jose, CA, US Remote: Open to it Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: VMWare, Proxmox, KVM, Docker, LXC, Kubernetes, Terraform, Pulumi, AWS, GCP, Azure, CircleCI, Jenkins, Okta/OneLogin/Entra, SIEM, vulnerability management, Windows Server, Linux, many more. Résumé/CV: https://scarlow-my.sharepoint.com/:w:/g/personal/me_scottcar... Email: me@scottcarlow.com

I'm probably not the typical resource someone may scour HN for, but it can't hurt to throw my hat in the ring!

I'm a senior-level IT Infrastructure Engineer. I've spent the past 8 or so years helping startups transform their early-stage IT, slapped together with duct tape and glue, into enterprise-grade scalable systems and processes. I've seen startups through numerous SOCII and ISO 27001 audits, penetration tests, NIST 800-171 assessments, and FINRA audits. I've migrated on-premises workloads in the cloud, built a businesses entire IT infrastructure (office networking gear excluded) to the cloud. I've even worked hand-in-hand with DevOps teams to improve and troubleshoot CI, engineering access to backend services, and IAM architecture. And I loved every minute of it.

That's why I'm posting here on HN; I like a fast-paced environment where I can re-imagine how things are done!

My linked resume is for leadership, as I've recently made that shift, but nearly my whole career is as an IC and my accomplishments in my resume are overwhelmingly accomplished as an IC or small team lead. I'm happy to be an IC again for the right opportunity.

New comment by punchmesan in "BookStack: Simple and Free Wiki Software"

punchmesan — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 16:57:35 +0000

BookStack is great if you're small. There's no file locking/conduct management when two people are editing the same page and there's no co-authoring. I used it for docs at a startup I was in around 2018 and this lack of feature really got in our way once we grew to more than 10 people.

The feature is still missing today, I get email updates from the same ancient GitHub issue often of people asking for it and the dev responding that they don't like the idea of systematically preventing conflicts. Which is fair, if I had the skill and inclination I would have forked the project and just done it myself. But I'm not a software engineer, so I had no choice but to use different software that fit my needs.

If you're a really small shop BookStack has a very nice and clean UI and is a great wiki-type offering. At any kind of scale the cracks start to show, though.

New comment by punchmesan in "Scramble: Open-Source Alternative to Grammarly"

punchmesan — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 15:51:23 +0000

Assuming for the moment that they aren't saying that with their fingers crossed behind their back, that doesn't change the fact that they store the inputs they receive and swear they'll protect it (Paraphrasing from the Content section of the above link). Even if it's not fed back into the LLM, the fact that they store the inputs anywhere for a period of time is a huge privacy risk -- after all a breach is a matter of "when", not "if".

New comment by punchmesan in "Independent directors of 23andMe resign from board"

punchmesan — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 15:33:43 +0000

Ancestry does more than genetic analysis. Their claim to fame is their tools to search through old public records to help one build their genealogy/family tree.

New comment by punchmesan in "Microsoft Account to local account conversion guide erased from Windows 11 guide"

punchmesan — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 13:23:39 +0000

Pro can still get around it, as Pro is not actually a consumer edition. To get around it with business editions of Windows you select the option to add the computer to a domain. The domain join process doesn't happen during OOBE, so you're prompted to make a local account. Then you can just carry on without joining a domain.

New comment by punchmesan in "Asus refunds Zenfone buyer for failing to provide bootloader unlock tools"

punchmesan — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 15:25:42 +0000

For some people, the ability to use wired headphones/earphones while charging has a lot of value. Additionally, some invest in quality earphones or IEM's and replacing those with the lower-quality limited selection of USB-C earphones is not desirable. Likewise with Bluetooth.

The 3.5mm audio connection is nowhere near dead yet.