Hacker News: tailscaler2026

New comment by tailscaler2026 in "DeepSeek Introduces Vision"

tailscaler2026 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:03:50 +0000

Just my two cents: I have coworkers who use AI to drive basically all their communication in Slack and I absolutely hate them with a deep passion. I actively avoid meetings, conversations, and exclude them from everything possible.

If you use AI to drive your communication with other humans, you suck.

New comment by tailscaler2026 in "Why Can't Walnut Creek Build 3 Bedroom Apartments with a Playground?"

tailscaler2026 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:57:11 +0000

the world today is banning kids from the internet largely to prevent them from talking to strangers online. i think a scenario where the pedophiles can use waymo to snatch up kids from summer camps might encounter some resistance.

New comment by tailscaler2026 in "OpenAI mulls slashing prices as it competes with Anthropic for users"

tailscaler2026 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:01:50 +0000

OpenAI is full of Trump/MAGA supporters and actively encourages using AI to kill people.

More than happy to watch them lose the global consumer market while they compete with Palantir for DoD contracts.

New comment by tailscaler2026 in "Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup"

tailscaler2026 — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:22:06 +0000

for me personally it's two reasons:

1) Brockman ($25M) and Altman ($1M) both personally donated to Trump/MAGA.

2) Anthropic pushed back against DOD's demand for unrestricted use of AI to kill people while OpenAI eagerly said "please use ours!".

New comment by tailscaler2026 in "Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation"

tailscaler2026 — Thu, 28 May 2026 23:05:26 +0000

dumping ground because they spent the last 20 years convincing everyone with a 401k it belonged in index funds.

index funds will be the cause of the next catastrophic collapse

New comment by tailscaler2026 in "Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation"

tailscaler2026 — Thu, 28 May 2026 23:03:53 +0000

not really. just a capacity planning issue on that side. much harder challenge is continuing to train better models.

New comment by tailscaler2026 in "Valve hikes Steam Deck prices by more than 40%, blaming rising costs"

tailscaler2026 — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:50:04 +0000

> It's really hard to justify $1000 for it when the Switch 2 is $450

For someone without an existing library, sure, but if you have a massive existing Nintendo/Switch1 or Steam library, that's going to drive your decision making far more than the price tag.

New comment by tailscaler2026 in "Valve hikes Steam Deck prices by more than 40%, blaming rising costs"

tailscaler2026 — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:47:52 +0000

apparently not high enough. already OOS.

New comment by tailscaler2026 in "Valve raises Steam Deck prices"

tailscaler2026 — Wed, 27 May 2026 22:05:31 +0000

steam summer sale > looking for jobs

New comment by tailscaler2026 in "Cloudflare Flagship"

tailscaler2026 — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:52:25 +0000

I think feature flags, remote configs, and experiments are all the same thing. Semantically they differ in how you're applying the config and interpreting the outcomes.

New comment by tailscaler2026 in "Stop throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations"

tailscaler2026 — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:45:56 +0000

I don't think redis existed back when this industry was called IT

New comment by tailscaler2026 in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"

tailscaler2026 — Thu, 14 May 2026 19:20:51 +0000

I know it's not disclosed. That's why I left this as a warning to others. I can show screenshots of the conversations with AWS support?

New comment by tailscaler2026 in "AI is making me dumb"

tailscaler2026 — Thu, 14 May 2026 19:18:35 +0000

Of course it writes a lot of code. It gets paid per token. That's guaranteed future income every additional line of technical debt.

New comment by tailscaler2026 in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"

tailscaler2026 — Sun, 10 May 2026 17:00:26 +0000

Anyone considering leaving AWS and thinking they'll transfer all their data for free [1], I've got news for you: It's a lie.

AWS takes as long as possible (for me it was a month) to respond to the initial DTO request, then require you to submit a multi-page form answering a barrage of questions about why you're leaving, where you're going to, what services you used, and estimated data egress. A week or so later, if they approve the request, you're not allowed to begin DTO until 60 days after the approval.

By the time you can egress your data for "free", you've been stuck on AWS for 3-4 months since you first made the decision to leave.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/free-data-transfer-out-to-i...

New comment by tailscaler2026 in "AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved"

tailscaler2026 — Fri, 08 May 2026 22:30:25 +0000

us-east-1 is down? shocking! stop putting SPOF services there. this location has had frequent issues for the past 15 years.

New comment by tailscaler2026 in "Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2"

tailscaler2026 — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:17:49 +0000

Can you show me where I can purchase a Steam Deck? They're out of stock except overpriced auction sites.

New comment by tailscaler2026 in "Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

tailscaler2026 — Fri, 08 May 2026 07:10:43 +0000

Discord is just chat, I wouldn't call it mind-numbing, reminds me perfectly of IRC from a utility perspective.

That said, it's a commercial closed-source single point of failure.

New comment by tailscaler2026 in "AI slop is killing online communities"

tailscaler2026 — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:46:34 +0000

Online communities that allow upvoting / downvoting have been effectively dead for a long time because it's easy to manipulate conversations by elevating and punishing comments to fit a narrative. This is especially true on HN.

New comment by tailscaler2026 in "Alberta voter list leak is a potential public safety disaster"

tailscaler2026 — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:31:04 +0000

I can't wait for our full biometrics to be leaked every week due to every website and app trying to meet the rampant rise of global age-verification legislation.

New comment by tailscaler2026 in "GitHub Is Down"

tailscaler2026 — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:27:51 +0000

> Co-authored by Co-pilot