Hacker News: storus

New comment by storus in "Think of the children: How to force real ID for all internet traffic (2023)"

storus — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 02:15:50 +0000

Self-destruct drones with mesh node transmitters? Radiowave reflectors placed at strategic spots blended with the surroundings? IR multicast transmitters?

New comment by storus in "The Harajuku Moment (2024)"

storus — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:52:24 +0000

2000 calories is also a laughable threshold. Is anyone saying that a 4'9" needs equal amount of energy to a 6'8"?

New comment by storus in "Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly"

storus — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:34:56 +0000

I couldn't even get new Outlook to sync with some email accounts. And my Office 2019 licenses will stop working next month due to a cert expiry Trojan horse baked in by Microsoft. Why does MS think I will ever want to pay them for anything ever again?

New comment by storus in "Midjourney Medical"

storus — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 02:50:32 +0000

Can one buy it anywhere? At what cost? Would be cool for real-time biohacking and immediate feedback.

New comment by storus in "Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users"

storus — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:40:09 +0000

Just use the speed reported by your GPS. Most navigation apps show the GPS-based speed.

New comment by storus in "Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?"

storus — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 02:42:47 +0000

Computer Science is the science of solving (hard) problems in general. If you automate CS, you trivially automate most of other professions. The only ones that won't budge are the regulated ones like lawyers, MDs and similar that have ways to prevent AI from wrecking their fields. Product/Project PMs are easy pickings. We'll also see wreckage coming to highly paid actors in the near future.

New comment by storus in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

storus — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:32:45 +0000

Dunno, Cursor's agents are now more-less equal to Claude Code, just the workflow is slightly different. I like the IDE integration for some projects, allowing me to quickly inspect/review/change/search code, while running Claude Code/Codex/OpenCode/Pi/Hermes on different projects often with local models and it's mostly a question about your personal development style instead of inherent tool capabilities.

New comment by storus in "Running local models is good now"

storus — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:31:31 +0000

They are working hard on you not being able to run a thing locally. OpenAI buys all RAM on the spot market, causing the rise of RAM/VRAM prices 6x, making GPUs and decent computers unreachable for the majority of the population. OK, some richer folks might be able to get a 512GB MacStudio or a single RTX Pro 6000 for 13k and be able to run some decent local models, but the vast majority will need to use API. And at some point Nvidia might say: "We don't sell that many 6000s, so let's just cancel them altogether as we can gain 4x profit on datacenter-only GPUs" and then they'll become unobtainium and no private person would ever be able to run anything decent (~1 year behind the frontier) locally.

New comment by storus in "Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?"

storus — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:49:24 +0000

You can already get Opus 4.6 level of performance on subtasks with some local models. So you need to pick a proper code writer, plan writer, code tester etc. model that matches your target expectations and use a coding tool that allows calling different LLMs for different subtasks. For example, people use StepFun 3.x or DeepSeek4-Flash for planning, Qwen3.6-27B for coding.

New comment by storus in "Improvement in advanced Alzheimer’s disease following high-dose psilocybin"

storus — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:07:01 +0000

So is this about temporarily overclocking some cells that would then return to a healthy baseline before collapsing back after the overclocking agent is gone? Why not just do 500mg B1 HCl IV then for a comparison to see if this was just a metabolic block?

New comment by storus in "Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass"

storus — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 02:59:21 +0000

Things can always get worse; everyone has a threshold in what level of dirtiness is still okay. As Android security director he might have seen some incoming things he can't ignore any longer.

New comment by storus in "Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency"

storus — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:54:13 +0000

Is this Moonshot.ai's attempt to replicate Composer 2.5 (coding fine-tune of Kimi 2.5) from Cursor IDE?

New comment by storus in "Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows"

storus — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:00:32 +0000

Kids are overloaded by homework, why would they want to do any "pleasure" reading in addition?

New comment by storus in "Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass"

storus — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 23:10:15 +0000

Is he a canary in the coal mine, announcing things that are coming?

New comment by storus in "I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA"

storus — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:33:21 +0000

It might be somewhat cynical yet it seems to be fitting what is happening right now at Meta and previously happened at Amazon.

New comment by storus in "I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA"

storus — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:16:02 +0000

Wouldn't simple (political) ponerology describe why does this happen to companies? It's the source of "hard times produce strong people, strong people produce good times..." cycle, and the observation that people who want to live easy lives embracing dark triad patterns slowly rise to the top, gaming perf stats, "playing the game", transforming the company/society underneath in the process.

New comment by storus in "AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models"

storus — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:22:28 +0000

This smells like an advanced version of corporate espionage. Assuming most companies will use their AI in the future, this will be fed directly to an Echelon-like network that will be leaking "interesting info" to friendly parties, like the Boeing vs Airbus scandal that was first widely reported and then swept under the rug officially.

New comment by storus in "MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second"

storus — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:42:18 +0000

No, US models have alignment. Only Chinese models have censorship.

New comment by storus in "The curious case of low-protein diets"

storus — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:48:11 +0000

So people are pushed to their limits at work, but a university neuroendocrinologist suggests living a relaxing life that would require blander diet. What a wonderful solution!

New comment by storus in "Home alone: Remote work, isolation, and mental health"

storus — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:49:10 +0000

Not sitting in a noisy open office surrounded by colleagues that hate and backstab each other but instead at home seems to me like a major mental health win. Instead we got "remote work bad" study... Feels like another soft science "desired outcome" result.