Hacker News: wil421

New comment by wil421 in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

wil421 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:56:01 +0000

If you think this way then why not talk to LLMs exclusively. Don’t let the oxytocin cloud your ability to problem solve.

New comment by wil421 in "German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups"

wil421 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:11:47 +0000

Isn’t that by design so governments can prosecute citizens they don’t like? For example, curl is probably ok but that one annoying Kim Dotcom guy is probably going to catch a case under some dubious law.

New comment by wil421 in "Jack Dorsey says Block employees now bring prototypes, not slides, to meetings"

wil421 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:40:54 +0000

Did the same thing early in my career. Built a quick bootstrap website with like 5 pages and all the data was static. The backend was a year off. It was great for end users but the non-IT managers were dumb. Same issue about seeing something working and expecting the world.

New comment by wil421 in "Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why"

wil421 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:56:10 +0000

What’s the NROs take on capturing the signal from the ground? They already have it from a satellite in space.

New comment by wil421 in "Iran threatens Nvidia, Apple and other 18 tech companies"

wil421 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:41:26 +0000

How did OP imply anything? He asked why one of the parties in the conflict don’t cut cables.

New comment by wil421 in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

wil421 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:20:42 +0000

Depends if the director or VP liked Microsoft or not. I’ve worked at places that loved SQL Server and Microsoft server products in general. Others did not use them anywhere in their datacenter and wouldn’t have considered them. Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft were very dependent on if the people in charged liked them. Not so much technical merits.

New comment by wil421 in "The sudden fall of Sora"

wil421 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:26:33 +0000

Did you read OPs part about AGI and UBI hype?

New comment by wil421 in "Apple Business"

wil421 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:38:20 +0000

Got it. It’s registering with the company email first, not their personal one.

New comment by wil421 in "Data centers are transitioning from AC to DC"

wil421 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:36:18 +0000

There’s no way he suddenly developed autism or whatever mental illness plagued him upon arrival to American. Like most absolute geniuses he struggled in other areas. He said he had visions as a child.

New comment by wil421 in "Apple Business"

wil421 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:53:23 +0000

How does a company allow personal Apple IDs?

New comment by wil421 in "The IBM scientist who rewrote the rules of information just won a Turing Award"

wil421 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 20:56:59 +0000

Serving Ads is more lucrative. I wonder what kind of stories we will tell about how the social media companies exploited human nature to make a buck.

New comment by wil421 in "AirPods Max 2"

wil421 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:30:30 +0000

People wear them at work daily and it doesn’t seem to be a problem. One guy looks likes he’s Tier 3 support and uses them 8 hours a day 5 days a week for years.

People compliment my Jabra’s voice quality otherwise I would’ve switched already.

New comment by wil421 in "Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine"

wil421 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 10:54:46 +0000

My buddy owns several Firehouse restaurants. There’s a couple windows programs he uses to run his businesses. Not having a way to virtualize windows was a show stopper when the ARM Macs came out.

Same with my father in law who’s a general contractor. He uses some freeware estimate program and an extremely old photoshop he got in the early 2000s.

He also went through 2 crappy Amazon bought chrome books for his wife that could barely function. The Air was too pricey.

New comment by wil421 in "I traced $2B in grants and 45 states' lobbying behind age‑verification bills"

wil421 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:38:48 +0000

Liability and they probably want whatever blob of bits they use to identify you from the OS.

New comment by wil421 in "Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job"

wil421 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 23:50:33 +0000

I’m sure you thought GSM was secure too. They absolutely have taps, just search for YouTube videos then cross reference the exact places and situations they talk about.

New comment by wil421 in "Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job"

wil421 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:18:24 +0000

The intelligence agencies should already have taps into Starlink and should be able see the data. Whether do anything is another story.

Or Starlink uses an encryption scheme somewhere in the network only the big boys can break.

New comment by wil421 in "Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job"

wil421 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:59:36 +0000

The Feds love to wait. I doubt the next president will be as lenient with pardoning. Maybe there’s a market I can bet on pardoning.

New comment by wil421 in "Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage"

wil421 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:07:12 +0000

Hasn’t in been that way for years? Almost all of the people I’ve seen selling used Mac Pros use them for creating music. I assume the studio is a better, cheaper option.

New comment by wil421 in "Google just gave Sundar Pichai a $692M pay package"

wil421 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 19:30:30 +0000

Android too.

New comment by wil421 in "Cell Service for the Fairly Paranoid"

wil421 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:33:32 +0000

Do they own the enodeBs or the RAN? How many hops does it take to get to their core? Not sure how MVNO works maybe they have encrypted VLANs to their systems. Not a RAN guy.