Hacker News: tensility

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

tensility — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:11:14 +0000

Trying to figure out whether this statement was intended as sarcasm or if it's willfully blind to decades of rising surveillance capitalism as business model.

New comment by tensility in "How to earn a billion dollars"

tensility — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:39:37 +0000

The only reason it doesn't is the greed of folks who become billionaires.

New comment by tensility in "How to earn a billion dollars"

tensility — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:38:01 +0000

This...100%

New comment by tensility in "How to earn a billion dollars"

tensility — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:34:44 +0000

Guillotines are the classic method, and they are likely coming if we don't change course.

New comment by tensility in "How to earn a billion dollars"

tensility — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:32:46 +0000

Well, with the extreme levels of income stratification that we have in the US and greater world, money literally means a different thing to the few folks who've escaped the poverty trap ... just like hunting means a different thing for the hunters as it does for the prey.

New comment by tensility in "Did Anthropic ask for this?"

tensility — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:05:07 +0000

It's all interesting advertising / news; however, why does it have to constantly cost me five precious vertical lines of text worth of screen real estate in Claude Code that apparently can't be dismissed? FFS

New comment by tensility in "What keeps IoT devices running for a decade"

tensility — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 03:54:49 +0000

Certificate expiration timeline...

New comment by tensility in "Show HN: I Made a Programming Language with Python Syntax, zero-copy and C-Speed"

tensility — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:58:56 +0000

Cool. Now go check out Mojo.

New comment by tensility in "Can a Computer Science Student Be Taught to Design Hardware?"

tensility — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:56:36 +0000

SICP should probably be required reading in the CS curriculum. It's a great start at understanding register hardware simulation.

New comment by tensility in "My iPhone 16 Pro Max produces garbage output when running MLX LLMs"

tensility — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 06:23:51 +0000

Yeah, that was not at all my experience in CoreOS/SWE, where we would sometimes/often have to wait weeks for submissions to turn around in B&I to become part of "daily" builds. Glad you don't have to put up with the same ridiculous crap process.

New comment by tensility in "My iPhone 16 Pro Max produces garbage output when running MLX LLMs"

tensility — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 15:30:14 +0000

A statement which goes to show that confusing correlation with causation is all you need.

New comment by tensility in "My iPhone 16 Pro Max produces garbage output when running MLX LLMs"

tensility — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 15:23:00 +0000

The fixing of a bug at Apple is the easy and quick part. It's the submission process from then until it gets released as part of an OS update that is the ridiculously long (and too often difficult) part.

New comment by tensility in "My iPhone 16 Pro Max produces garbage output when running MLX LLMs"

tensility — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 15:11:20 +0000

It would have to be a very serious security bug. Even then, unless they've totally upended their software development workflows in the past couple of years, the Apple I knew extremely well from the inside couldn't turn around a software fix this quickly, from PR to OS release, even if its existence depended on it. There's simply too much bureaucracy and process around submitting anything, no matter how vital.

New comment by tensility in "Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy, 2025 Edition"

tensility — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 09:24:53 +0000

At a very low level, it is. I know the individual that made a "diagnostic" for the floppy drive while working as a tech on the Apple I and Apple II designs which caused the drive to whine in patterns that were distinctly ... orgasmic.

New comment by tensility in "Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy, 2025 Edition"

tensility — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 09:19:52 +0000

If I recall correctly, when you wanted all of the bells and whistles that Slackware had to offer, it required 72 floppy disks.

New comment by tensility in "Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy, 2025 Edition"

tensility — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 09:17:28 +0000

Bring back Slackware?

New comment by tensility in "Ask HN: Is it still worth pursuing a software startup?"

tensility — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 06:56:26 +0000

The fruit company still has an internal culture, especially in hardware-focused teams, with a relentless focus on shipping products followed by iterative refinement.

New comment by tensility in "PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch"

tensility — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 13:32:43 +0000

So, should we assume that they vibe-coded this patch? Sad...

New comment by tensility in "Re: Mix: open-source repairable blender"

tensility — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 13:13:45 +0000

Meanwhile, I've had the same blender for thirty years, and it's still going strong.

New comment by tensility in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

tensility — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 06:08:04 +0000

I would love to go back to more skeumorphic system interfaces. The layered panes of glass metaphor has been a pain in the ass from a usability perspective from the get go, enough so that I cheered to hear of Alan Dye leaving Apple.