Hacker News: valleyer

New comment by valleyer in "Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins"

valleyer — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 20:59:12 +0000

One of the top comments in this very thread suggests the seed timestamps were maybe selected specifically for purpose.

New comment by valleyer in "Redesigning source control at Anthropic"

valleyer — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 01:26:33 +0000

Apple doesn't use one either.

New comment by valleyer in "MrBeast 'spends millions reverse engineering the algorithms on each platform'"

valleyer — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:24:08 +0000

Can you clarify what you mean by "second screen content" here? I don't feel like I would get anything out of Alec's videos by "watching" them while really watching something else (which is how I understand that term, possibly incorrectly). Do people really do that?

New comment by valleyer in "Platforms' Violent Content Rules Are About to Meet The Pentagon's Firing Squad"

valleyer — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:09:06 +0000

That would be a steep hill for shareholders to climb, IMO. They'd have to prove that ignoring trump was not in shareholders' interest in the short term and (even harder) in the long term, right?

By your theory, couldn't (presumably other) shareholders sue over what Apple actually did? Like, maybe cowing to Trump has done damage to Apple's brand, in violation of fiduciary duty.

New comment by valleyer in "Platforms' Violent Content Rules Are About to Meet The Pentagon's Firing Squad"

valleyer — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 18:58:49 +0000

I agree, though I still don't really know what that reason is. What is the point of fuck-you money if you won't use it to say "fuck you"?

Apple's execs, for instance, definitely had enough monetary and social capital to basically just ignore Trump, and they haven't.

New comment by valleyer in "Cleo (Mathematician)"

valleyer — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 19:13:03 +0000

No, because their HN comment is a primary source, not a secondary source.

New comment by valleyer in "Couple was swatted 55 times in 2 years over a post about Norm Macdonald"

valleyer — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 02:10:41 +0000

Definitely. But I've at least heard about the people doing the false reports being prosecuted, even if not consistently enough for my liking.

New comment by valleyer in "Couple was swatted 55 times in 2 years over a post about Norm Macdonald"

valleyer — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 02:03:50 +0000

At some point, the responding local police should be held criminally liable. A tiny brass badge should not shield you from having to comply with society's laws.

New comment by valleyer in "Resurrecting iChat audio and video conferencing"

valleyer — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 05:56:57 +0000

You don't see what's confusing, and then you proceed to mention something confusing. If a basic-skills user can't find "missed calls", that's confusing!

New comment by valleyer in "Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades"

valleyer — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 03:39:59 +0000

Why HTTP? Why not SSH? When I try to connect to it that way, I get no response. How will I know it's a placeholder?

New comment by valleyer in "Apple Pass Designer"

valleyer — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 22:09:08 +0000

Definitely. I just feel like a boiling frog sometimes.

New comment by valleyer in "Apple Pass Designer"

valleyer — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 21:55:31 +0000

Right -- I'd already have thought places "couldn't" require people to be any kind of smartphone owner to participate in commerce, but I notice that more and more these days.

New comment by valleyer in "Your Big Mac might cost more if McDonald's AI thinks people nearby can afford it"

valleyer — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:58:03 +0000

That just means the "regular" amount is higher than you think.

New comment by valleyer in "macOS 27 is so buggy"

valleyer — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:40:18 +0000

As relevant here, basically none of macOS development is outsourced/offshored.

New comment by valleyer in "10-year Treasury yield climbs above 5.3% to a level not seen in 24 years"

valleyer — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 02:39:27 +0000

Yeah, it sucks. Thanks for clarifying :(

New comment by valleyer in "10-year Treasury yield climbs above 5.3% to a level not seen in 24 years"

valleyer — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 02:37:03 +0000

The last Republican to balance the budget was Eisenhower. Yeah, Clinton is pretty old today too, but almost no one alive today was of voting age during the Eisenhower administration.

So, I agree with your conclusion.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFSD

New comment by valleyer in "10-year Treasury yield climbs above 5.3% to a level not seen in 24 years"

valleyer — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 02:26:22 +0000

How are interest rates a function of joblessness? Do you mean inversely?

My amateur understanding is that prevailing interest rates are more directly a function of supply and demand for capital; I agree that higher prices increase demand for capital. Joblessness would seem to be correlated with lower demand; the unexpected combination of high employment and persistently low interest rates in the 2010s was a source of a lot of commentary, as I recall.

New comment by valleyer in "10-year Treasury yield climbs above 5.3% to a level not seen in 24 years"

valleyer — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 02:23:24 +0000

I don't feel like I "both sides"ed it that much, but I guess reasonable minds can disagree. But: neither party has balanced the federal budget, or even made (sane) noises about doing so, since the Democrats in the 90s. I haven't heard much about it from Democrats this election cycle -- perhaps reasonably so since there are much more critical issues at the moment.

New comment by valleyer in "10-year Treasury yield climbs above 5.3% to a level not seen in 24 years"

valleyer — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 02:08:44 +0000

Oy. I'm no fiscal conservative, but the US federal government absolutely needs to balance its budget. Otherwise, it's bound to either choke on interest payments, devalue the dollar, or both.

Unlike most Trumpists, I see the the problem as a revenue issue, not expenditures; unlike many non-Trumpists, I doubt "tax the rich" is going to be enough to plug the hole.

Government healthcare payments would be a good start -- it seems likely that the amount most employees already (effectively) pay for health insurance could fund equivalent government coverage with some money left over to help pay for other government expenses.

New comment by valleyer in "America.gov"

valleyer — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:21:22 +0000

Your NIH is showing: usa.gov already existed