Hacker News: samcat116

New comment by samcat116 in "Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out"

samcat116 — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 04:12:35 +0000

I think this a popup for their shopping research promotion feature they added last week. I guess its a first party ad for their own new feature, but I don’t think its the third party ads that this article is talking about.

New comment by samcat116 in "OpenAI signs $38B cloud computing deal with Amazon"

samcat116 — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 18:10:01 +0000

I would imagine they couldn't offer models through Bedrock. I think this means training and traditional computing workloads for their products (such as the workspaces for Codex cloud)

New comment by samcat116 in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

samcat116 — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 15:28:21 +0000

This is the difference between “partitions” and “regions”. Partitions have fully separate IAM, DNS names, etc. This is how there are things like US Gov Cloud, the Chinese AWS cloud, and now the EU sovereign cloud

New comment by samcat116 in "Smartphones and being present"

samcat116 — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 17:15:20 +0000

Related but if you want a less algorithmic YouTube experience, I'd recommend the Play app on Apple platforms. It uses each channels RSS feed to rebuild YouTube in a much nicer and less distracting native app.

Unlike a lot of people on this site I really enjoy the YouTube algorithm to discovery new topics/videos, but it can definitely become a rabbit hole.

New comment by samcat116 in "Let's Not Encrypt (2019)"

samcat116 — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 14:19:49 +0000

Thats most articles posted to HN

New comment by samcat116 in "Modern Linux tools"

samcat116 — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 11:43:35 +0000

For some people the "uphill battle" is the fun part

New comment by samcat116 in "The AI emperor has no clothes"

samcat116 — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 15:32:56 +0000

I think we’ll start to see a bunch of fintech companies use stablecoins for things, but as more of an implementation detail and not really a speculative market like it was before.

New comment by samcat116 in "Apple Debuts iPhone 17"

samcat116 — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 23:19:10 +0000

US Mobile is really good. You can also get on any carrier you want via it (and multiple if you are really inclined)

New comment by samcat116 in "iPhone Air"

samcat116 — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 21:27:50 +0000

> You need to go through your provider to transfer, which requires calling them and verifying your identity.

I don't think this is true for all providers. I've never had to do this for T-Mobile for instance, it just activated without intervention.

New comment by samcat116 in "Orion Browser"

samcat116 — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 16:24:35 +0000

I was using Orion for a while, but it was so hopelessly buggy that I had to go back to Arc. Hope that changes in the future.

Content and Community

samcat116 — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 14:27:34 +0000

Article URL: https://stratechery.com/2025/content-and-community/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44635499

Points: 5

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New comment by samcat116 in "ApplePay vs. Alternative Payment Services"

samcat116 — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 16:53:58 +0000

> Would the EU allow Visa or Mastercard to impose such exclusion rules on merchants who want to accept their credit cards? Definitely not.

I mean Costco has been doing this for many years and people seem ok with it? It's somewhat annoying but I get enough value out of Costco that myself and I think many are happy with the tradeoff.

New comment by samcat116 in "Figma spends $300k on AWS daily"

samcat116 — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 13:46:55 +0000

Am I the only one that finds that not that crazy?

New comment by samcat116 in "Remote MCP Support in Claude Code"

samcat116 — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 21:35:23 +0000

> I can’t see a way around that except to have some kind of sandboxing or a concept of untrusted or tainted input rather than treating all tokens as the same. Maybe a way of detecting if the response of a tool is within a threshold of acceptability within the definition of the MCP (which is easier with structured output), which is used to force a manual confirmation or straight up rejection if it’s deemed to be unusual or unsafe.

I think we are starting to see these remote agent environments where each agent session gets its own sandbox environment to run things in. I bet thats where this is going.

New comment by samcat116 in "Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc"

samcat116 — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 02:12:29 +0000

> Is this the first time Apple has offered something substantial for the App store fees beyond the SDK/Xcode and basic app distribution?

They've offered 25hrs/mo of Xcode Cloud build time for the last couple years.

New comment by samcat116 in "Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc"

samcat116 — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 20:42:46 +0000

The api looks like "give it a string prompt, async get a string back", so not tied to any particular UI Framework.

New comment by samcat116 in "Ask HN: Alternatives to NAT gateways for EC2 instances"

samcat116 — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 03:53:25 +0000

The ideal answer is IPv6 subnet with an egress only internet gateway

New comment by samcat116 in "My AI skeptic friends are all nuts"

samcat116 — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 15:09:50 +0000

I find the opposite, I can stay in flow state much longer than I could before because tabbing out to an LLM is a tighter loop than me going out to google and searching through sites for smaller tidbits that I have to assemble and get through, rather than a full solution that might not be 100% correct, but most of the time I can get to the working solution quicker.

New comment by samcat116 in "My AI skeptic friends are all nuts"

samcat116 — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 14:19:22 +0000

FWIW Adobe makes a lot of noise about how their specific models were indeed trained on only licensed work. Not sure if that really matters however

New comment by samcat116 in "Open-sourcing OpenPubkey SSH (OPKSSH): integrating single sign-on with SSH"

samcat116 — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:02:11 +0000

I can't tell the benefits of this vs running an SSH CA that supports OIDC. In that scenario, the server just needs to trust the CAs key, rather than running some sort of verifier.