Hacker News: systemvoltage

New comment by systemvoltage in "Claude Fable 5"

systemvoltage — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:14:23 +0000

It's interesting that we are seeing a time when subscriptions are not preferred and usage-based billing is.

Pay-as-you go isn't a common thing in SaaS. For example, except for AWS SES, all email providers are bulk-subscription based.

New comment by systemvoltage in "GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation"

systemvoltage — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:14:43 +0000

Any recommendations for a trustworthy registrar?

New comment by systemvoltage in "An update on recent Claude Code quality reports"

systemvoltage — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:42:13 +0000

Interesting. All 3 seems like they’re obviously going to impact quality. e.g, reducing the effort from high to medium.

So then, there must have been an explicit internal guidance/policy that allowed this tradeoff to happen.

Did they fix just the bug or the deeper policy issue?

New comment by systemvoltage in "Vercel April 2026 security incident"

systemvoltage — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:24:59 +0000

I am not following the logic. If you’re a hobbyist, sure.

But the argument is if you’re using Vercel for production, you’re paying 5-10x what you’d pay for a VM, with 4gb.

So then what’s the rationale? You can’t be a hobbyist but also “it’s pay time” for production?

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

systemvoltage — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 08:00:00 +0000

What do you do if not AWS?

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

systemvoltage — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 07:58:17 +0000

workos is down too, timing is highly correlated with AWS outage: https://status.workos.com/

That means Cursor is down, can't login.

New comment by systemvoltage in "Anthropic signs a $200M deal with the Department of Defense"

systemvoltage — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 21:05:32 +0000

What changed? 2017 HN would be very different on this take.

New comment by systemvoltage in "Hypercapitalism and the AI talent wars"

systemvoltage — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 21:03:35 +0000

No, I can’t find a single article praising wealth concentration.

New comment by systemvoltage in "Hypercapitalism and the AI talent wars"

systemvoltage — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 10:03:28 +0000

Not trolling. It has served me better than most heuristics.

If there is something subjective and if you cannot find a critique of it, it’s usually a super power to assume the opposite is true barring obvious exceptions.

New comment by systemvoltage in "Hypercapitalism and the AI talent wars"

systemvoltage — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 07:40:27 +0000

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New comment by systemvoltage in "Grok 4 Launch [video]"

systemvoltage — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 08:55:59 +0000

It encourages the 80% into group think. Flagging is a signifier that “you should not dare to think that was a good comment. Move on and don’t think for yourself”.

New comment by systemvoltage in "OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive"

systemvoltage — Wed, 21 May 2025 18:38:14 +0000

I agree somewhat, you can feel the tension on HN with respect to labor vs capital. Which is funny because the entire premise of YC is to infuse capital and get a huge leverage over bootstrappers.

New comment by systemvoltage in "Gukesh becomes the youngest chess world champion in history"

systemvoltage — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 17:24:02 +0000

Chess engines should come with another metric bar: "The twitchy-ness" of the position aka the gradient of primary eval metric as you pareto the possible moves from best to worst. The stronger this gradient, the more risky it is to play, and more changes to make a mistake.

New comment by systemvoltage in "Artemis moon suit designed by Axiom Space and Prada revealed in Milan"

systemvoltage — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 23:58:24 +0000

Great article by Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-10-17/michae...

New comment by systemvoltage in "SSL certificate lifetimes are going down. Dates proposed. 45 days by 2027"

systemvoltage — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 08:49:43 +0000

:-D Nice. The future we deserve. Now only if there was a company that was into one drop blood testing!

New comment by systemvoltage in "SSL certificate lifetimes are going down. Dates proposed. 45 days by 2027"

systemvoltage — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 08:05:30 +0000

We need more safetyism culture. We need to ban root access completely by 2030. 10-factor security for login. 256 digit OTP and you must insert a drop of blood to login.

At least, we’ll be super secure!

New comment by systemvoltage in "Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]"

systemvoltage — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 17:38:11 +0000

https://x.com/marionawfal/status/1845351598874120662

I dug into it, found this clip. Elon says that it’s those two tiny knubs! Saw a few pictures and yes, I confirm, it’s not the grid fins.

New comment by systemvoltage in "Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]"

systemvoltage — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 14:59:15 +0000

Do you know what the entire booster is hanging off of? It can't be the fins. How is the load transferred to the arms?

New comment by systemvoltage in "Starship Flight 5 [video]"

systemvoltage — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 14:23:13 +0000

Insane!

New comment by systemvoltage in "Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]"

systemvoltage — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 14:14:58 +0000

Need to remove regulations instead and fast track SpaceX.

Every fucking time we don't need to increase the size of the Government. It only gets bigger. Never smaller.