Hacker News: rossjudson

New comment by rossjudson in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

rossjudson — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:30:40 +0000

Seems like you've just agreed with "concentrated in the hands of a few" -- it's just a different "few" than before AI.

New comment by rossjudson in "447 TB/cm² at zero retention energy – atomic-scale memory on fluorographane"

rossjudson — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:23:16 +0000

Perhaps you could clarify your definition of "remote assistance", or describe scenarios.

New comment by rossjudson in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

rossjudson — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:27:38 +0000

I find it odd that you simultaneously declare AI-assisted bioweapons to be scaremongering, while noting you don't know anything about it.

The other side of the scaremongering coin is improbable optimism.

Consider reading the CB evaluations section, which covers what they did pretty extensively (hint: many domain experts involved).

New comment by rossjudson in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

rossjudson — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:16:43 +0000

Security by obscurity is over. The security vs usability balance is about to get a hard reset.

I think a number of black swan events are imminent, and it will substantially change the financial calculus that decides to put security behind revenue.

Any hole will be found, and any hole will be exploited. Plug as many holes as you can, and make lateral movement as painful as possible.

New comment by rossjudson in "OpenClaw privilege escalation vulnerability"

rossjudson — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:24:44 +0000

With respect...Security through obscurity is dead. We are approaching the point where only formally verified (for security) systems can be trusted. Every possible attack will be attempted. Every opening will be exploited, and every useful combination of those exploits will be done.

LLMs are patient, tireless, capable of rigorous opsec, and effectively infinite in number.

New comment by rossjudson in "Parrots pack twice as many neurons as primate brains of the same mass"

rossjudson — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:39:10 +0000

You've just described most of the information economy.

New comment by rossjudson in "Goodbye to Sora"

rossjudson — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:59:22 +0000

"Sora, generate a video of Mickey Mouse beating up Sam Altman."

New comment by rossjudson in "The Resolv hack: How one compromised key printed $23M"

rossjudson — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 04:53:25 +0000

Crypto is how you can invest in crime without doing crime.

New comment by rossjudson in "Grafeo – A fast, lean, embeddable graph database built in Rust"

rossjudson — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:43:36 +0000

I guess it all depends on the meaning of the word "handle", and what the use cases are.

New comment by rossjudson in "How BYD got EV chargers to work almost as fast as gas pumps"

rossjudson — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:17:51 +0000

+1000. Who cares. It's good enough.

New comment by rossjudson in "How BYD got EV chargers to work almost as fast as gas pumps"

rossjudson — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:16:53 +0000

Where does "20 years" come from? What's wrong with "10 years"?

At the 200,000 mile mark battery life is expected to be ~85%. That's what actual data shows. 200,000 is 13 years of driving 15,000 miles a year.

https://recharged.com/articles/tesla-model-y-battery-degrada...

New comment by rossjudson in "Western carmakers' retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance"

rossjudson — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 20:49:37 +0000

Gas powered cars can't fully replace EVs either.

After three years and 50k miles with a Model X, the idea of buying a non-EV seems ridiculous.

New comment by rossjudson in "BYD's bet on EVs is paying off as drivers ditch gas amid rising oil prices"

rossjudson — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:11:26 +0000

I see no reason to downvote this, so I upvote it.

I think you're missing something. This war is an inflection point. Consumer behavior is likely to change after it.

So yes, this is just a transient thing...but I think the effects will be permanent.

New comment by rossjudson in "Waymo Safety Impact"

rossjudson — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:37:36 +0000

The number of people who think they're top tier drivers never ceases to amaze me.

New comment by rossjudson in "Waymo Safety Impact"

rossjudson — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:30:16 +0000

You drive an ambulance? Or a fire truck?

New comment by rossjudson in "Java 26 is here"

rossjudson — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 03:56:33 +0000

And yet Java outruns pretty much all of them, because it doesn't actually allocate everything on the heap all of the time. And you've been able to declare and work with larger structures in raw memory for ... 20 years? You mostly don't need to, but sometimes you want to win benchmark wars.

And of course it's getting value types now, so it'll win there too. As well as vectors.

New comment by rossjudson in "Java 26 is here"

rossjudson — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 03:42:09 +0000

No idea what you are talking about. Google internally has a massive amount of code based on JDK 21, and the (amazing and completely transparent move) to JDK 25 is nearly complete.

That's the full OpenJDK @ Google, and it has been for a very long time.

New comment by rossjudson in "Java 26 is here"

rossjudson — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 03:36:04 +0000

GWT was a huge success, and eventually became obsolete -- which is not the same as "failing horribly".

It took a long time for the web ecosystem to build up the capabilities that removed the need for GWT.

For a while, it was quite a good way to build and heavily optimize certain kinds of web client applications.

New comment by rossjudson in "Java 26 is here"

rossjudson — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 03:32:56 +0000

Different tools for different purposes...which is good/right.

TypeScript is a superior programming environment for the browser, for sure. Using it on the server? Why not, if you're not trying to scale (in capacity, or functionality).

Language-agnostic serialization exists for a good reason. It's not always right, but it's almost always the right thing to do.

New comment by rossjudson in "Java 26 is here"

rossjudson — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 03:20:44 +0000

Tell me you haven't looked at Java in 15 years without telling me.

Given that the vast majority of non-GC language code does a terrible job of managing memory, it's not difficult at all for the JVM to win out on efficient, reliable systems.