Hacker News: timmmmmmay

New comment by timmmmmmay in "AI assistance when contributing to the Linux kernel"

timmmmmmay — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:24:14 +0000

fortunately, you aren't only operating on representations, right? lemme check my Schopenhauer right quick...

New comment by timmmmmmay in "OpenAI backs Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable"

timmmmmmay — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:06:09 +0000

the people that want to make sure the AI never gives you any "potentially dangerous information" also want to rigorously control your google search results, and also what books you're allowed to read

New comment by timmmmmmay in "Improving storage efficiency in Magic Pocket, Dropbox's immutable blob store"

timmmmmmay — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:27:58 +0000

are these "technological advancements" in storage in the room with us right now? because I'm looking at today's price per TB and it's higher than it was in 2020

New comment by timmmmmmay in "Nvidia greenboost: transparently extend GPU VRAM using system RAM/NVMe"

timmmmmmay — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 11:48:49 +0000

connectors are bad for signal integrity and GDDR is particularly picky about this

New comment by timmmmmmay in "Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act"

timmmmmmay — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:43:23 +0000

"repeatedly struck down" means somebody keeps bringing it back

New comment by timmmmmmay in "Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line"

timmmmmmay — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:19:22 +0000

you've posted this multiple times and it's not actually true. go read the ingredients list on a supermarket burger

New comment by timmmmmmay in "No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user"

timmmmmmay — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:11:39 +0000

they're obviously trying to steer customers to the monthly subscription instead of the pay-per-token API.

now, the consensus of the commentards on this website, who don't have access to any of anthropics financial data, is that the monthly subscriptions are a money loser!

so either the leading AI company's business dev team is wrong or the Jacker News comment section is wrong, it is a mystery

New comment by timmmmmmay in "Pentagon formally labels Anthropic supply-chain risk"

timmmmmmay — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:21:12 +0000

no, the other such labeled companies are foreign owned firms like Huawei that the government never intended to do business with in the first place

New comment by timmmmmmay in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"

timmmmmmay — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:14:41 +0000

Grocery stores track their customers very extensively and cash purchases are fairly rare. I'm very confident that Costco, for example, knows everything that every member has bought from them since the tariffs started.

New comment by timmmmmmay in "The Hydrogen Truck Problem Isn't the Truck"

timmmmmmay — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 04:08:52 +0000

Hydrogen is so hard to handle that NASA never really figured it out; hydrogen leaks just delayed Artemis 2 last week. There's been about 70 years of trying to solve these issues for space launch and very little progress. It doesn't seem like it'll be easier trying to do this as the scale of every gas station?

New comment by timmmmmmay in "Claude Code Remote Control"

timmmmmmay — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 03:47:32 +0000

coding like a hospital patient

New comment by timmmmmmay in "Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation"

timmmmmmay — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 20:15:49 +0000

Google fucks up 90% of their products, why do you think Gemini is in the 10%?

New comment by timmmmmmay in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

timmmmmmay — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 04:49:08 +0000

Aluminum is 8% of the earth's crust and silicon is 28%; I think we're good

New comment by timmmmmmay in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

timmmmmmay — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 23:52:45 +0000

you know you're looking at some hard analysis when they use the number "gazillion". can I get that one in scientific notation?

New comment by timmmmmmay in "CISA’s acting head uploaded sensitive files into public version of ChatGPT"

timmmmmmay — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 18:25:54 +0000

there are, he was just too lazy to use them

New comment by timmmmmmay in "Stochastic Terrorism"

timmmmmmay — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 06:35:10 +0000

the more you don't want somebody to be allowed to say something, the more stochastic it is

New comment by timmmmmmay in "Miami, your Waymo ride is ready"

timmmmmmay — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 02:16:05 +0000

I can't speak to San Francisco, but in Los Angeles the waymo has been cheaper than the Uber even before tip every time I've compared them

New comment by timmmmmmay in "Ask HN: What are your best purchases under $100?"

timmmmmmay — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:28:49 +0000

lmao this was also going to be my answer

New comment by timmmmmmay in "SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation"

timmmmmmay — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:17:32 +0000

if they didn't want people to speculate on the details, they could have released a more professional message instead of what they have here.

seriously the level of unprofessionalism at this scale of the market is shocking. you can't imagine e.g. Nvidia putting out a press release like this when they drop a vendor

New comment by timmmmmmay in "FLUX.2: Frontier Visual Intelligence"

timmmmmmay — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 16:47:40 +0000

yeah except I can download this and run it on my computer, whereas Nano Banana is a service that Google will suddenly discontinue the instant they get bored with it