Hacker News: vimda

New comment by vimda in "Life as an OnlyFans 'chatter'"

vimda — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 18:35:23 +0000

You betray your ignorance of how parasocial OnlyFans and their ilk get. Yes, people get real connection out of it, whether its with who they think they're talking to or not. I think that connecting those people into a chat bot instead of a real human is depressing, and a bad thing for society, but you're welcome to disagree with that

New comment by vimda in "Life as an OnlyFans 'chatter'"

vimda — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 17:56:05 +0000

God that's depressing. Even when you _pay_ for human connection you're being fobbed off onto an AI

New comment by vimda in "Cloudflare crawl endpoint"

vimda — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 18:35:50 +0000

This already happens in the opposite direction. See: news websites that drop their pay wall for GoogleBot

New comment by vimda in "Elevated errors on login with Claude Code"

vimda — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:48:08 +0000

These reliability issues are starting to feel like a pretty big indictment of their product, which they are presumably using to write their software and build their systems. If _Anthropic_ can't make Claude build reliable systems, what hope do the rest of us have?

New comment by vimda in "Time-Travel Debugging: Replaying Production Bugs Locally"

vimda — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 11:00:42 +0000

OP is basically describing functional programming

New comment by vimda in "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network"

vimda — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 09:13:11 +0000

"domestic" "mass" surveillance, two words that can be stretched so thin they basically invalidate the whole term. Mass surveillance on other countries? Guess that's fine. Surveillance on just a couple of cities that happen to be resisting the regime? Well, it's not _mass_ surveillance, just a couple of cities!

New comment by vimda in "We gave terabytes of CI logs to an LLM"

vimda — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:53:13 +0000

RLMs are a new architecture, but you can mimic an RLM by providing the context through a tool, yes

New comment by vimda in "OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation"

vimda — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 14:32:01 +0000

Kind of leaving out a lot of detail there:

- Amazon's $50B is only $15B, with the rest being "after certain conditions are met", whatever that means (probably an IPO, which isn't happening)

- The $30B each from softbank and NVIDIA is paid in installments

So this is more a $35B fundraise, with a _promise_ of more, maybe, if conditions are met. Not _bad_, but yet more gaslighting from Mr Altman. Anyone reporting this as a closed fundraising deal is being disingenuous at best.

New comment by vimda in "Layoffs at Block"

vimda — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 11:28:24 +0000

Profitable, and yet missed their revenue targets in Q3, causing their stock to tumble. That's an emergency. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-06/dorsey-s-...

New comment by vimda in "The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022)"

vimda — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 21:16:59 +0000

A lot of Japanese websites also have to be tremendously over provisioned because of how regimented the country is. A friend of mine worked infrastructure for a local newspaper, and every day at 6PM they'd send a push notification to all their subscribers and had to provision for that peak. When he asked if they could smooth out traffic, send the notification to some folks a minute before, or a minute after he was almost thrown out of the room. "Japan runs on time. Not a minute early, not a minute late. On time".

New comment by vimda in "Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026"

vimda — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 21:08:40 +0000

One has to wonder when the board realises Dane was a bad replacement for JGC. These outages are getting ridiculous

New comment by vimda in "Making frontier cybersecurity capabilities available to defenders"

vimda — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:23:07 +0000

I would love to know how this compares to just prompting Claude Code with "please find and fix any security vulnerabilities in this code"

New comment by vimda in "An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward"

vimda — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:55:42 +0000

"It was a social experiment" has the same energy as "it's just a prank bro", as if that somehow makes it highbrow and not prima facie offensive

New comment by vimda in "Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database"

vimda — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:48:17 +0000

Right, and the court decides wether that information is relevant anymore. You're suggesting we take that ability and give it to random third parties

New comment by vimda in "Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database"

vimda — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:33:09 +0000

I find this a weird take. Are you saying you _want_ unaccountable and profit driven third party companies to become quasi-judicial arbiters of justice?

New comment by vimda in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

vimda — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 12:22:33 +0000

You absolutely can, either through the system prompt or by hardcoding overrides in the backend before it even hits the LLM, and I can guarantee that companies like Google are doing both

New comment by vimda in "MinIO repository is no longer maintained"

vimda — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 16:02:13 +0000

Ceph is the OG. Every now and then different attempts to replace it pop up, work well for some use cases, and then realise how hard the actual problem they are trying to solve is. Ceph always wins in the end.

New comment by vimda in "Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users"

vimda — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 22:22:47 +0000

They are testing it, every time someone signs up and it fails. We don't know that this wasn't something that changed on Google's side, so IMO it's a bigger indictment that no one is monitoring their live email deliverability

New comment by vimda in "GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark"

vimda — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:36:40 +0000

At this point Tech investment and analysis is so divorced from any kind of reality that it's more akin to lemmings on the cliff than careful analysis of fundamentals

New comment by vimda in "Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass"

vimda — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 03:37:59 +0000

Neat that this exists, but priming children to copy/paste random JavaScript into their Dev consoles feels like a recipe for disaster. Bets on how long before malware starts buying up "discord age verification bypass" ad spots?