Hacker News: stetrain

New comment by stetrain in "Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI"

stetrain — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:35:24 +0000

Unless you're betting that a thing he has said will happen will actually happen when he said it would. Or even 10 years later.

New comment by stetrain in "What we lost the last time code got cheap"

stetrain — Fri, 08 May 2026 20:48:48 +0000

We don't like LLMs throwing giant walls of code in PRs at repos and expecting devs to read and respond to all of them.

That's kind of similar to written content being posted and linked. There's an expectation that you are asking someone to take time to read it, and with LLMs now the cost to generate things to be read is a lot lower but our attention and capacity to read them remains the same.

New comment by stetrain in "BYD overtakes Tesla and Kia as the best-selling EV brand in key overseas markets"

stetrain — Wed, 06 May 2026 19:13:16 +0000

They're all over the place in Mexico City. It'll be interesting as these EVs start to show up along the northern and southern borders traveling within the US.

New comment by stetrain in "Ask HN: How much trouble do you have with GitHub?"

stetrain — Wed, 06 May 2026 18:46:23 +0000

Well currently commenting on PRs isn't working. I'd say we notice this kind of issue once every few weeks or so. It's not the end of the world but also not great for a service that we pay for and which used to be more reliable.

New comment by stetrain in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

stetrain — Wed, 06 May 2026 17:13:52 +0000

As far as I know there's nothing preventing third parties from building and selling hardware with SteamOS or a similar software stack.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SteamOS

They aren't going to let you advertise them as Steam-branded hardware without an agreement, but there are multiple handhelds that have done so to be branded officially Steam Compatible.

New comment by stetrain in "Clarification on the Notepad++ Trademark Issue"

stetrain — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:02:03 +0000

In this case, the issues under dispute are the cases where the trademark was used outside of the GPL-covered code.

Specifically the port author using the Notepad++ name and logo on their website, in addition to the photo and bio of the original Notepad++ author, in a way that could mislead others to think that this was part of the original Notepad++ project.

A post with screenshots is here: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/npp-trademark-infringemen...

Hosting a copy of the GPL'd Linux code, represented as such, and making a website claiming to represent Linux or the Linux Foundation with Linus's face and name on it are different things.

New comment by stetrain in "Clarification on the Notepad++ Trademark Issue"

stetrain — Tue, 05 May 2026 18:54:16 +0000

You're having a hard time seeing the side where one side has a trademark on the project name and logo, and the other side is using those without permission?

New comment by stetrain in "“Kitten Space Agency”, a Spiritual Successor to “Kerbal Space Program” (2025)"

stetrain — Mon, 04 May 2026 19:44:05 +0000

'Kapybara Space Program' has actually already been done as an April Fool's post by the previous studio that worked on Kerbal Space Program 2:

https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/topic/216143-kapybara-s...

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

stetrain — Fri, 01 May 2026 13:55:55 +0000

You're absolutely right!

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

stetrain — Fri, 01 May 2026 13:48:43 +0000

Not sure "sitting out" is the right way to put it. They've been publicly trying to ship a next-gen Siri for years and haven't been able to get something good enough to release. The latest plan is to base it on Gemini so we should be seeing progress on that next month at WWDC.

New comment by stetrain in "Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?"

stetrain — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:00:03 +0000

To some extent yes. Your output at work is based on a combination of inputs from others in your organization, and is being paid for by your employer, so the organization owns the copyright on what you make for them.

I think from this view it makes sense that an LLM is a tool, and the operator of that tool (or their employer) can own the output.

The tricky part is when you squint and view an LLM with training input and prompted output as a machine that launders copyrighted input into customized output that is now copyrighted by a new owner.

A machine that vacuums up film reels and splices them according to a set of instructions by the user to create a compilation of recent animated Disney movies with the Shrek soundtrack superimposed would probably not pass legal challenges if the user of the tool attempted to claim full copyright on the output.

New comment by stetrain in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

stetrain — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:38:24 +0000

They could add rollover balances and be back to cell phone plans in the early 2000s.

New comment by stetrain in "Canva apologizes after its AI tool replaces 'Palestine' in designs"

stetrain — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:37:10 +0000

When a company packages this tool up and makes it part of their product they are taking some of that responsibility. The end user isn't supposed to need to know what an LLM is or how it works, that's what they're paying Canva for.

New comment by stetrain in "Another Day Has Come"

stetrain — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:33:11 +0000

I don't know whether the newer electrically-releasing battery adhesives would count, but they do allow cleanly removing and replacing the battery without proprietary tools.

New comment by stetrain in "Another Day Has Come"

stetrain — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:32:25 +0000

Reading some articles about the EU law, which is more complicated than the seemingly popular interpretation that all phones are now going to have tool-free battery doors on the back like it's 2005 again.

New comment by stetrain in "Another Day Has Come"

stetrain — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:39:14 +0000

As far as I know it should be pretty easy for Apple to comply with the regulation. The battery needs to be replaceable with standard or freely available tools and without adhesives. Many of Apple’s devices already meet this standard.

Edit: I'm not sure on the adhesives part. Apple uses an electrically-releasable adhesive in some of their newer products. The MacBook Neo doesn't use battery adhesive at all.

There are considerations in the law for water proofing, device safety, and battery durability (maintaining 80% capacity at 1000 cycles, which Apple already does). They do not require a pop open battery door on every device like it's 2005 again.

Apple already provides repair tools, guides, and replacement parts both to end users and third party technicians.

These regulations are complicated, but they aren't new and Apple isn't being blindsided with some catastrophe here.

New comment by stetrain in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

stetrain — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:40:55 +0000

> Everything that isn’t a MacBook will be more expensive than a MacBook

Imagine telling this to someone in 2010 or 2015.

New comment by stetrain in "As oceans warm, great white sharks are overheating"

stetrain — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:48:19 +0000

And their investors.

New comment by stetrain in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

stetrain — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:44:06 +0000

You think that officially supporting Asahi linux would double their laptop share?

New comment by stetrain in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

stetrain — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:11:00 +0000

This has been reported by Mark Gurman at Bloomberg since 2024. Those other outlets are likely directly or indirectly referencing this reporting.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-08/apple-s-n...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-10-05/who-wi...