Hacker News: redm

Apple Confirms Mac Pro Is Dead, No Future Models Planned

redm — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:14:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/26/apple-discontinues-mac-pro/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47592840

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by redm in "Data centers are transitioning from AC to DC"

redm — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:22:19 +0000

I guess we've come full circle. It was just 20 years ago that my datacenters gutted DC in favor of AC.

New comment by redm in "Show HN: Atomic – Self-hosted, semantically-connected personal knowledge base"

redm — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 23:06:26 +0000

This is pretty cool!

What's holding me back from AI repos and agents isn't running it locally though. Its the lack of granular control. I'm not even sure what I want. I certainly don't want to approve every request, but the idea of large amounts of personal data being accessible, unchecked, to an AI is concerning.

I think perhaps an agent that focuses just on security, that learns about your personal preferences, is what might be needed.

New comment by redm in "I'm OK being left behind, thanks"

redm — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:51:53 +0000

I agree with the sentiment of this article.

Sadly, I'm still disagreeing while crypto kiddies are driving past me in lambo's. If its the future of money, yes we'll get there eventually, but like every technology shift, there's a lot of money to be made in the transition, not after. *

* I sold all crypto a few years ago and I'm a happier person :D

New comment by redm in "Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act"

redm — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 13:39:17 +0000

The question I keep coming back to regarding the recent debate around age verification is "Why now?"

I'm 47, and I started using the internet in my early teens through BBS gateways. I've seen every age of the Internet, and there's always been widely available pornographic materials. Why all of a sudden is this a crisis?

Perhaps I'm missing something?

Agent.email: A Landing Page for Agents

redm — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:16:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.agentmail.to/blog/agent-email

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47404293

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Early look at upcoming vibe design tool from Google

redm — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:29:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.testingcatalog.com/exclusive-early-look-at-upcoming-vibe-design-tool-from-google/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47398765

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

BitNet: Inference framework for 1-bit LLMs

redm — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:27:15 +0000

Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.11453

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47334694

Points: 370

# Comments: 167

Anthropic Sues Pentagon over 'Supply Chain Risk' Label

redm — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 12:15:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/technology/anthropic-defense-artificial-intelligence-lawsuit.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47322184

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Manus Agents in Chat

redm — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:30:05 +0000

Article URL: https://manus.im/blog/manus-agents-telegram

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47047868

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

xAI raises $20 billion to expand Grok AI models and enterprise tools

redm — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 13:01:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.testingcatalog.com/xai-raises-20-billion-to-expand-grok-ai-models-and-enterprise-tools/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46525932

Points: 2

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New comment by redm in "Cloudflare was down"

redm — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:23:38 +0000

SLA’s usually just give you a small credit for the exact period of the incident, which is arymetric to the impact. We always have to negotiate for termination rights for failing to meet SLA standards but, in reality, we never exercise them.

Reality is that in an incident, everyone is focused on fixing issue, not updating status pages; automated checks fail or have false positives often too. :/

New comment by redm in "Cloudflare was down"

redm — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:06:51 +0000

Im much more concerned with customer sites being down which indicates are not impacted. They are.. :/

New comment by redm in "Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2025"

redm — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 16:57:41 +0000

I've been following this report for many years, but Backblaze, as a backup service (traditionally), has very different IO patterns than many users. They originally started with consumer drives, which we found to be far too unreliable. In my experience, the BER and write cycles have a dramatic impact on overall drive performance. The MTBF declines sharply as write cycles increase, both as a percentage of IO and overall IO.

Backblaze changed IO patterns with B2, but that would be the key data for me to make this more useful: failure rate as a percentage of bytes read/written, etc.