Hacker News: vulcan01

New comment by vulcan01 in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

vulcan01 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:57:30 +0000

This is an ARM device, so presumably compatibility with third-party software.

New comment by vulcan01 in "Poll: How often do you check "newest"?"

vulcan01 — Fri, 29 May 2026 19:19:16 +0000

Might be interesting to try emailing dang to see if they keep track of this.

New comment by vulcan01 in "Euro-Office: General availability set for June 9"

vulcan01 — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:48:08 +0000

Last comment in that issue links to https://nextcloud.com/blog/euro-office-license-compliance-an...

New comment by vulcan01 in "C array types are weird"

vulcan01 — Tue, 26 May 2026 22:41:06 +0000

This talk – "Programming without pointers" – by Andrew Kelley may be interesting to you.

https://www.hytradboi.com/2025/05c72e39-c07e-41bc-ac40-85e83...

New comment by vulcan01 in "Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans"

vulcan01 — Fri, 22 May 2026 01:11:07 +0000

First transaction would be outside the channel. e.g., scalper may require high-value Venmo or Zelle transaction, then enter buyer ID / name on ticket website at listed limit.

New comment by vulcan01 in "Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy"

vulcan01 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 01:11:34 +0000

You are falling victim to frequency bias. Popular books are popular – and especially before mass printing technologies, really popular. A lot of people may have tried to write books doesn't mean they're writing books good enough to dedicate an actual person's time towards copying them down.

Also, Juvenal was a poet. He most likely knew other poets, or aspiring poets, or at least people who liked writing. Your average, generally functionally illiterate, individual at the time is not trying their hand at writing books.

New comment by vulcan01 in "GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability"

vulcan01 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:51:18 +0000

Intended usage is to use Edge Copilot to search the page for you.

New comment by vulcan01 in "Walmart: ChatGPT checkout converted 3x worse than website"

vulcan01 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 10:17:15 +0000

Since LLMs are trained on "random people online", why are they not of equal rank?

New comment by vulcan01 in "ArXiv declares independence from Cornell"

vulcan01 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:32:31 +0000

By your criterion, Google, Apple, and Amazon are terrible names as well.

New comment by vulcan01 in "Show HN: Calyx – Ghostty-Based macOS Terminal with Liquid Glass UI"

vulcan01 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:37:56 +0000

This is not what Liquid Glass actually looks like on first-party macOS applications. This needs way more blur and opacity to match even the control center widgets.

New comment by vulcan01 in "MacBook Neo"

vulcan01 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 03:43:24 +0000

I think parent means reflective. In the videos it looks like just a slightly different color. On the other MacBooks it is polished metal.

New comment by vulcan01 in "Monosketch"

vulcan01 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:48:27 +0000

Is there any way to make images accessible other than the alt tag? I'm sure SVGs are more machine-readable, but how would that help vision-impaired folks?

New comment by vulcan01 in "Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?"

vulcan01 — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 14:32:06 +0000

Libraries get rid of books in poor condition and loan books to other libraries, and patrons regularly fail to return books.

New comment by vulcan01 in "A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content"

vulcan01 — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 14:17:53 +0000

I see this as roughly equivalent to amortized big O complexity. If I push to a vector repeatedly, sometimes I will incur a significant cost O(n) of reallocation, but most of the time it's still O(1).

Similarly, if Meta violates the law, and is infrequently fined a small fraction of their revenue by a small number of governments, in general it will not be a big deal for them.

New comment by vulcan01 in "A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content"

vulcan01 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 14:19:12 +0000

Meta made $60B in Q4 2025. A one-time $1.4B fine, 20 years after enactment, is not "getting hammered".

New comment by vulcan01 in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

vulcan01 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 04:29:04 +0000

> harder to hit

press x to doubt

> on 21 February 2008, the US Navy destroyed USA-193 in Operation Burnt Frost, using a ship-fired RIM-161 Standard Missile 3 about 247 km (153 mi) above the Pacific Ocean.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-satellite_weapon

New comment by vulcan01 in "221 Cannon is Not For Sale"

vulcan01 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 03:20:53 +0000

I'm not sure people treat this as a Very Secret Number. Certainly using SSNs publically has gone away, but people are willing to provide their SSNs to basically anyone that asks for it. Heck, some job applications ask for your SSN.

New comment by vulcan01 in "Employers, please use postmarked letters for job applications (2025)"

vulcan01 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 01:00:11 +0000

> the flood of obviously not qualified at all applicants we got was insane

From speaking to folks looking for jobs in tech over the past few years, this is a natural result.

1. Companies write requirements on the job posting that are a little beyond reasonable for the role and salary.

2. Applicants learn over time, and start applying to jobs for which they only meet most of the qualifications.

3. Companies adjust and write even more ridiculous requirements.

4. Applicants start applying to jobs for which they only meet some requirements.

5. Repeat.

As evidence that the applicants are, at every stage, correctly reacting to the situation: I have received positive responses (and, later, job offers) by applying to roles for which I am only mostly qualified, and I know many people for whom this is true of jobs they are only barely qualified for.

New comment by vulcan01 in "Android’s desktop interface leaks"

vulcan01 — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 15:26:05 +0000

macOS provides enough utility in the menu bar to justify having it (unified menu -- unlike the Android UI shown in the article).

New comment by vulcan01 in "Television is 100 years old today"

vulcan01 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 22:57:46 +0000

I'm not sure it is valid to use the first ad ever as a basis for comparison. At this time it was a novelty to even have a television – of course an incredibly basic ad would work. And how much do you think they had to pay for an ad on a very new technology? I doubt much.