Hacker News: yellow_postit

New comment by yellow_postit in "Grok Bot"

yellow_postit — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:31:57 +0000

This is the growing pain of any “employer” and I suspect lots of startups and features coming to fill the void.

Start with a shared credit card. Then company credit cards. Then you layer in spend controls.

Now repeat but for “agents”.

Whether this is more near term inefficiency to drive output side actual efficiency remains to be seen. But great if you’re selling tokens!

New comment by yellow_postit in "Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief"

yellow_postit — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 23:50:23 +0000

I sometimes think about how much the CIA risked setting back global health when using a fake vaccination program to find Bin Laden.

New comment by yellow_postit in "An interactive explorer for Benford's Law across real datasets"

yellow_postit — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:42 +0000

Neat! Benford’s Law was the first topic I dove into in undergrad math that got a minor publication. Given how well known it is for forensic accounting I’ve always wanted to look into convictions and see if the “average” fraudster has wised up and produces more realistic distributions.

New comment by yellow_postit in "Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402"

yellow_postit — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 02:56:27 +0000

Ads, especially personalized ads, are the alternative that powers much of the open internet.

More options are great.

New comment by yellow_postit in "Dark Sky Lighting"

yellow_postit — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:34:21 +0000

Many of the links have soft 404s as well. Seems like a dead site.

New comment by yellow_postit in "Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap)"

yellow_postit — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:36:06 +0000

As someone that naturally used a rule of 3 and em dashes I hate AI for taking that away from me.

New comment by yellow_postit in "Apparently Google hates us now"

yellow_postit — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:23:16 +0000

Get a custom domain. Strat using that. Route to Gmail to start but easily decouple.

It took me about a year of updates but now I rarely get anything to a @gmail

New comment by yellow_postit in "The Uncanny Valley and the Rising Power of Anti-AI Sentiment"

yellow_postit — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 02:24:19 +0000

This is a very US centric view in part because of the low confidence in the American government to be able to effectively regulate negative impacts.

https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2026-ai-index-report/publi...

New comment by yellow_postit in "Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page"

yellow_postit — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 16:43:55 +0000

I’ve always liked this idea but I think it eventually ends back up with essentially our current system. Users have multiple devices so you quickly get to needing a sync service. Once that gets complex enough, then people will outsource to a third party and then we are back to a FB/Google/Apple sign in and data mgmt world.

New comment by yellow_postit in "Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war"

yellow_postit — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 22:24:20 +0000

Just as parallel construction [1] is used by law enforcement to conceal methods and practices no reason to not expect the same for financial gain.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction

New comment by yellow_postit in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

yellow_postit — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:46:46 +0000

I use Fastmail and the main difference I notice is less effective spam filtering — it’s good but not as great as Gmail was.

Overall it’s been an acceptable trade off and I’m glad years ago I switched to a custom domain for email so I can have portability.

New comment by yellow_postit in "Five years of running a systems reading group at Microsoft"

yellow_postit — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 01:32:19 +0000

In my experience it is a lot like finding time to work on "strategy". There's never really explicit time given, you have to make it in the day, and its often the most valuable time spent.

New comment by yellow_postit in "Where things stand with the Department of War"

yellow_postit — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 04:00:18 +0000

I am sympathetic to the argument that I’d rather elected officials that have a path to be removed have the control of use more so than unelected executives.

New comment by yellow_postit in "State of the Windows: What is going on with Windows 11?"

yellow_postit — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:57:21 +0000

Microsoft stopped chasing the education space with the wind down of 11SE [1].

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/microsoft-kills-wind...

Apple chooses Google's Gemini over OpenAI's ChatGPT to power next-gen Siri

yellow_postit — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 18:03:41 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/apple/2026/01/apple-says-its-new-ai-powered-siri-will-use-googles-gemini-language-models/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46591979

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by yellow_postit in "Nvidia's $20B antitrust loophole"

yellow_postit — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 19:32:07 +0000

It will be interesting to see if this is an exit for investors and which ones. Given it wasn’t an acquisition but licensing.

New comment by yellow_postit in "Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out"

yellow_postit — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 03:31:09 +0000

While an earlier poster is over stating Ostrom’s Nobel prize winning work — it is regularly shown that averting the tragedy of the commons is not as insurmountable as the original coining of the phrase implied.

Apple hit with $115M fine for "burdensome" App Store privacy policy

yellow_postit — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 04:53:48 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/apple-hit-with-115m-for-extremely-burdensome-app-store-privacy-policy/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46389329

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by yellow_postit in "Weight loss jabs: What happens when you stop taking them"

yellow_postit — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 21:09:25 +0000

Many of the fly by night digital proscribes just jack the dosage to show rapid gains. Coupled with people lying on BMI to get a script is a bad combination and why it’s so obvious.

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