Hacker News: wyager

New comment by wyager in "1,741 "informed" consents with one click? GDPR complaint filed"

wyager — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 06:42:33 +0000

Can someone who works in commercial web dev explain how companies even end up with this much crap pulled into their websites?

New comment by wyager in "My car’s OTA update broke Android Auto"

wyager — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:37:58 +0000

The averaged-over-usage-lifetime software quality for things like cars or video games is worse today than it was before OTA updates

Arguably the peak quality after a few months/years of fixes is better, but that doesn't really matter because usage is front-loaded

New comment by wyager in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

wyager — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 05:31:26 +0000

> EU funding brought fiber to my farm area

Yes, boondoggle subsidies allow you to un-economically bring fiber to a subset of random places. I say this as the beneficiary of one such boondoggle. It doesn't scale well

New comment by wyager in "GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]"

wyager — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 05:28:37 +0000

> the very architects of AI are the people whose jobs are most easily automated by AI

Think very hard about what this implies for the future pace of AI R&D

New comment by wyager in "QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall"

wyager — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:02:47 +0000

There's a company in Austin that uses sound for drone localization, although I forget the name

New comment by wyager in "How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)"

wyager — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 05:43:59 +0000

ZFS makes this completely trivial except for the "beeps and lights a led" part

New comment by wyager in "Show HN: ZeroFS – A log-structured filesystem for S3"

wyager — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:39:00 +0000

FYI it looks like some of your comments are getting auto-flagged by the HN moderation system and marked as dead

New comment by wyager in "IP Crawl: Living atlas of open webcams discovered on the public internet"

wyager — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 22:23:18 +0000

99.9% of normies have a router NATing all their traffic

It takes active effort to expose a camera publicly

New comment by wyager in "The Road to the WASM Component Model 1.0"

wyager — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:50:27 +0000

Very exited about WASM/WCM as a portable format for capability-secure applications.

I had a spec file sitting around for an OS project idea I had, where the kernel would just be the WASM compiler + a few small shim drivers, and everything else (including e.g. PCIe device drivers) would be WASM modules with WIT interface specs. I handed the spec off to Fable and it seems to have made a working proof-of-concept. Has a maximally-WASM OS running on browser/QEMU/Orange Pi. https://eo9.org

New comment by wyager in "The Road to the WASM Component Model 1.0"

wyager — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:44:02 +0000

I'm curious if people have a good story for why WASI will succeed where Java failed

New comment by wyager in "Claude Fable 5"

wyager — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:58:14 +0000

The entire US lunar effort cost only $330B in current USD, commensurate with the amount AI companies have raised on private markets alone, and there was also a cold war

New comment by wyager in "Claude Fable 5"

wyager — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:54:19 +0000

> Solstice (100k NVIDIA chips, currently spec'd to be Vera Rubins) in the next five years

Is this supposed to be impressive? Five years for the equivalent of, what, Colossus 1? What a joke

New comment by wyager in "German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews"

wyager — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 03:36:49 +0000

EU countries continuing to ensure the conditions for their future economic competitivity

New comment by wyager in "Claude Fable 5"

wyager — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:21:31 +0000

> i wish govt would fund these labs and make it free and opensource.

It would be impossible for the govt to allocate this much capital towards such a moonshot, and even if they could, they would do it in a way that would get 90% frittered away to fraud and waste

New comment by wyager in "Confidential submission of draft S-1 to the SEC"

wyager — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:19:37 +0000

That would be a valid explanation if they hadn't totally oversold and underdelivered on "apple intelligence". In reality, this explanation is just cope

New comment by wyager in "Confidential submission of draft S-1 to the SEC"

wyager — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 01:38:03 +0000

Apple has completely dropped the ball on every single detail of AI rollout for the last 5 years - why do you think they will suddenly stop now? My prior is that the new siri stuff is just as vaporware as the previous "apple intelligence" rollout

New comment by wyager in "Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee"

wyager — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 01:14:59 +0000

Isn't the entire point of this order to prevent filling low-paying jobs with cheap foreign labor, in order to increase demand for domestic labor? "Rural district schoolteacher" sounds like exactly the kind of job where the H1B program has very low public support

New comment by wyager in "Apple Core AI Framework"

wyager — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 01:10:32 +0000

> By the end of next year you’ll be running most of your AI on device.

I expect I'll probably keep paying for whatever badass high IQ model is running on inference servers at that point

New comment by wyager in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

wyager — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 03:10:15 +0000

> If you believe it is dangerous, you should be dedicating yourself to STOPPING others from making it

I don't think anyone has been more successful in promulgating AI safety

There are groups like MIRI who tried what you're sugesting, where they make no AI and just push for AI regs, and they have been relatively much less successful

New comment by wyager in "Different attitudes towards AI in California's university system"

wyager — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:35:28 +0000

> It is not illegal, at this point in time, for teachers to oppose AI for political reasons.

No, but that would make it a "political coalition thing", which is why I asked