Hacker News: thund

New comment by thund in "Email could have been X.400 times better"

thund — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 01:05:23 +0000

wow, how to romanticize X.400 ...

- poor Internet fit, assuming managed, trusted networks - some promises depended on all participating systems behaving honestly

- once a message reaches another server, you cannot guarantee it isn't copied, backed up, or logged

- X.400 read receipts: more reliable but also more privacy invasive

- X.400 metadata: carries a lot of routing, classification, and organizational info leading to potential privacy leaks

- SMTP is ugly but observable, you don't need a standard specialist to debug issues

New comment by thund in "Meta Deployed AI and It Is Killing Our Agency"

thund — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 09:30:06 +0000

If anyone wonders how AI might end up undermining humanity, this is a small preview. We're gradually handing over more processes to automation (YOLO, right?) while the systems themselves remain fundamentally "non empathetic". Maybe this specific case comes down to a poorly designed prompt from 2024... but so far the trend isn't "friendlier" automation, everyone is after more powerful automation...

Microsoft Mico

thund — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 07:43:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot/blog/2025/10/23/human-centered-ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45709863

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

Microsoft Teams will start tracking office attendance

thund — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 20:50:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/office-software/microsoft-teams-will-start-snitching-to-your-boss-when-youre-not-in-the-office-and-this-update-is-coming-in-december

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45698930

Points: 102

# Comments: 72

Apple is 'drastically' cutting iPhone Air production

thund — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 02:16:08 +0000

Article URL: https://fortune.com/2025/10/22/apple-iphone-air-demand-weak-production-cuts-vs-17-pro/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45677438

Points: 3

# Comments: 5

New comment by thund in "Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social video"

thund — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 21:01:19 +0000

openai, anthropic, gemini &co should pay wikipedia the rent.

New comment by thund in "ChatGPT Atlas"

thund — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 17:43:54 +0000

major possible risk, for tech savvy people: another walled garden, unless: - openai will open the memory interface (why would they?) - openai will allow other models (why would they?) - openai will allow a neutral agent/procedural layer (wwt?)

fingers crossed.

New comment by thund in "ChatGPT Atlas"

thund — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 17:39:07 +0000

Looking forward for the 1Password extension to work properly. Installation works, but the integration doesn't yet. Nice lean UI though, thanks to Chromium oc

New comment by thund in "Figure 03, our 3rd generation humanoid robot"

thund — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 15:33:05 +0000

4 of them please, going to spend every night playing poker on a real green!

New comment by thund in "Show HN: Recall: Give Claude memory with Redis-backed persistent context"

thund — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 01:02:39 +0000

Seems overkill when you can simply tell agents to do that automatically

New comment by thund in "Less is safer: Reducing the risk of supply chain attacks"

thund — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 06:31:59 +0000

Plus vscode is maintained by a company with thousands of devs. Obsidian is less than 10 people, which is amazing. About plugins why blame the product, pls check what you install on your machine instead

New comment by thund in "iPhone Air"

thund — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 00:24:48 +0000

totally agree, chasing ultrathin designs has diminishing returns. There's so many practical ways to extend battery life such as letting users selectively dial down performance, adding a bit of extra thickness/weight, rethinking how power hungry features are scheduled... It's a matter of priorities, and Apple is obsessed with design (with dubious results, ie magic mouse charging port)

New comment by thund in "iPhone Air"

thund — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 00:20:06 +0000

Based on what evidence that adding more battery necessarily makes it a pound? Based on what precedent of mainstream phones ever approaching that weight?

New comment by thund in "iPhone Air"

thund — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 00:18:54 +0000

Based on what teardown are you concluding the logic boards take up that much? Based on what phone design history where removing cameras failed to free up meaningful space?

New comment by thund in "iPhone Air"

thund — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 07:40:11 +0000

Agree, but by how much on the Pro models? Shouldn’t we expect twice the battery duration every 24 months at least?

New comment by thund in "iPhone Air"

thund — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 07:38:06 +0000

It wouldn’t weigh 4lbs if Apple invested on that research. Who really cares about this much thin phones really, Apple is out of ideas, far from revolutionary anymore. They have the hardware to run LLMs, they should invest on batteries and inference quality and consumption with SLMs, rather than delegate AI to Gemini and ChatGPT…

New comment by thund in "iPhone Air"

thund — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 07:31:00 +0000

The one I have more vivid memories of is Nokia 8210, pretty small

https://www.businessinsider.com/drug-dealers-are-buying-noki...

https://photogallery.indiatimes.com/gadgets/phones/most-icon...

Yes I forgot about Ericsson, same era.

Funny how these are now classified dumb phones, while they have some odd niche market yet :-)

New comment by thund in "iPhone Air"

thund — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 03:01:46 +0000

Around 2000-2005 there was a race for the smallest phone with ludicrously small displays. I believe Nokia was kind of leading and “winning” the race. Then blackberry and iPhone reversed trajectory and suddenly bigger was better, and Nokia died out.

I think we are on the same path here, thinner is not what I want. I want a powerhouse that can run AI for at least 48 hours on the worst conditions, a week at least in an ideal scenario.

New comment by thund in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

thund — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 08:29:01 +0000

This is a result of the current tech being filled with dark design patterns. Tech is designed to be addictive, indispensable, indisputable, mandatory. And at the same time complex, hard, difficult, risky.

We are so used to tech as it is that it is simple to force these bad decisions for the greater good. Because everyone is sure there is no alternative. There’s no other way to design tech, it will always be so complex and powerful that gov and corps can onesidedly decide what is best for the rest of the world.

This might be an area where local AI excels, when ready. No apps. No sharing of personal data. One AI capable of doing what most software does, on the fly, without relying on others to decide what is ok. Remains to be solved who can create and distribute this local AI and whether hardware will be allowed to run “untrusted” AI…

New comment by thund in "When circumvention is more popular than compliance"

thund — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 23:57:01 +0000

Or US?