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DetroitThrow··on Ask HN: How long do you commute by car each day?
45-50 minutes, each way. Sucks!
DetroitThrow··on Tell HN: Claude Opus 4.7 quota suddenly changed to 0 TPM in Bedrock
AWS GPU offerings are distinct from Bedrock. This is specifically about AWS Bedrock and using an inference provider that gives access to Claude.

If you just want GPUs, just talk capacity with an account manager at your favorite hyperscaler.

DetroitThrow··on Tell HN: Claude Opus 4.7 quota suddenly changed to 0 TPM in Bedrock
Amazon bedrock randomly throttles you. Quinnypig has talked about this extensively and how many times they've rugpulled even those with enterprise support for their critical production systems.

It's a bad inference provider. Consider moving to Google or Claude itself.

DetroitThrow··on Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down
They work with US military.
DetroitThrow··on [dead]
You've submitted this same project, how many times in the last day? @dang I had thought showlim prevented this kind of stuff from showing up in Show HN, or at least instructed people to understand Show HN guidelines.
DetroitThrow··on Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE
>Mostly a bunch of people extremely proud of themselves for not reading an LLM-written article

I'm not sure it's proud as much as people voicing displeasure with the uncertainty about what went into the LLM prompt. This may have been a 1 sentence prompt, or it may have been some well researched background that simply reformatted it. Why waste minutes-hours on verifying it if it's possible someone could have spent 10 second on it? It's very easy to see their point.

People seem to indicate people they disagree with voicing their opinion about anything lately is some auto-fellatio, I wonder what causes them to think this way.

DetroitThrow··on Mike: open-source legal AI
This doesn't have most of the important features of Harvey or Legora. This is just a vibe coded project that escaped showlim. Urgh.
DetroitThrow··on HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing
In many countries, this also isn't legally tenable.
DetroitThrow··on Copy Fail – CVE-2026-31431
Despite the copy/images being weird about RHEL 14.3, this seems to work. Wow?
DetroitThrow··on Regression: malware reminder on every read still causes subagent refusals
>That doesn't seem like a good counterargument to me.

It does to me especially since he did not implement a sensible detection or reporting pipeline ahead of launching a CSAM generation tool.

DetroitThrow··on Ghostty is leaving GitHub
It's not a stupid thing - GitHub not being serious about basic reliability is, at this point, a big risk to people depending on it for change management, much less OSS projects needing it to do every aspect of work in the public.

GitHub made working in the open a joy. It's very sad the state that it's in.

DetroitThrow··on If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive
Different framing:

A single button labeled "Murder" appears out of nowhere appears, and if more than the majority of people press it, then the people who didn't press will die.

I'm pretty sure most people would just ignore and keep going with their day since why would everyone in the world be so cheesed to press the murder button?

Anyways, these are all reductive scenarios once outside of game theoretics (like this one partially is) - I find this ragebait question really funny because every minor reframing shows significant biases in how you map the theory of mind for the public, and makes the reductive question entirely different.

DetroitThrow··on Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet
Or to https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/24/fast16_sabotage_malwa...

The current article is hard to read

DetroitThrow··on If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive
Since if a rational actor would understand that the group can avoid ever dying to this game by simply choosing blue. There is no consequence for choosing blue - but there is a consequence for choosing red.

Also, regardless of these specific consequences, people who are rational/ethical will by default choose blue because it is a good color.

See also, people by default choose blue at 5x the rate as red, really putting a dent in "red==rational" conjecture: https://www.joehallock.com/edu/COM498/media/graphs/fav-color...

I hope this makes sense!

DetroitThrow··on If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive
Left alone, everyone rational would pick blue, actually.
DetroitThrow··on If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive
>The simple answer is everyone should pick red.

The simplest answer is that everyone should pick blue, actually.

This is because choosing blue results in no consequences, but choosing red does result in consequences. Why not choose the simple option? It's literally the "no consequences" button.

Seems like these reds are overcomplicating a simple question.

DetroitThrow··on If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive
Missing the layer where blue is my favorite color and therefore I will always choose blue. From this perspective, all other reasonings lack basic empathy and/or intelligence.
DetroitThrow··on GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation
Another example of a long list of stories where GoDaddy practically destroys decades of business trust for a customer by just ripping their domain away for no reason. What an awful company.
DetroitThrow··on Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones
What on Earth? No, normal users actually also want to permanently delete messages all of the time.

There's not some alternate reality where the all of people's actions need to be automatically ctrl-Z'd on their behalf without any input.

DetroitThrow··on A simplified model of Fil-C
There are several ways to safely provide array bounds check hints to the Rust compiler, in-fact there's a whole cookbook. But for many cases, yep, runtime check.
DetroitThrow··on A simplified model of Fil-C
I write C++ for my job everyday, and claiming Fil-C does the same thing as Rust (and that people who do rewrites in Rust are stupid) sounds braindead.

I love Fil-C. It's underrated. Not the same niche as Rust or Ada.

DetroitThrow··on Show HN: MacMind – A transformer neural network in HyperCard on a 1989 Macintosh
This is very cool. Any more demos of inference output?
DetroitThrow··on NYC to open municipal grocery store in 2027
As an outsider, it will be interesting to see a pilot at minimum. I'd be hesitant for NYC if it rolled out massively expensive stores across the entire city without understanding if it succeeds at the small scale. I'm not sure why this succeeding or failing has to be viewed as a violation of a sacred value.

Governments should do more experiments, and this does seem to have been thought out enough to not be a total waste of money.

DetroitThrow··on Extra usage credit for Pro, Max, and Team plans
It eats more tokens than before, but is still more token efficient than Claude Code.
DetroitThrow··on They Planned Their Escape: A Systems Architect's Guide to the Iran Trade Scandal
Obviously? Can you not recognize the style and weasel words at this point?

If you can't you should use Pangram, which marks this as 100% AI generated. This would fail most middle school English classes nowadays.

DetroitThrow··on Slop is not necessarily the future
>No one has ever made a purchasing decision based on how good your code is.

I got my company to switch from GitHub to GitLab after repeated outages. I've always moved companies to away from using GCP or Azure because of their reliability problems.

This is a really funny comment.

DetroitThrow··on Show HN: Forkrun – NUMA-aware shell parallelizer (50×–400× faster than parallel)
I know this is obviously sarcasm and it made me laugh but I'm pretty sad HN couldn't catch it.
DetroitThrow··on Show HN: Forkrun – NUMA-aware shell parallelizer (50×–400× faster than parallel)
>Have you ever run GNU Parallel on a powerful machine just to find one core pegged at 100% while the rest sit mostly idle?

Yes, to my extreme frustration. Thank you, I'm installing this right now while I read the rest of your comment.

DetroitThrow··on Oracle slashes 30k jobs
Well, if you're an elected official, and you're in charge of government organizations that could be used to enrich billionaire donors by using a donor's services - Oracle fits that niche very well!
DetroitThrow··on Show HN: 30u30.fyi – Is your startup founder on Forbes' most fraudulent list?
You misunderstand what "punching down" or "libel" mean.
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