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SamuelAdams

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Programmer.

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SamuelAdams··on Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI
You jest but this is exactly how Anna’s Archive was set up. Anyone can copy the infrastructure code’s git repository and set up a mirror of the site and trackers under a new domain relatively quickly.

Maybe a similar setup can be done for banned AI weights?

SamuelAdams··on It's a shame what's happened to radio
It’s also great in wartime, when communications are likely to be interrupted. For an example read the book “All the light we cannot See” by Doerr
SamuelAdams··on Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report
They do, what Apple does release is referenced often in discussions.

https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu/blob/f6217f89...

https://lore.kernel.org/asahi/c13d95d0-911f-48f6-b4ca-8a5e9a...

SamuelAdams··on Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries
Can this go up and down stairs? If I want my home tidied up, I want the whole home done not just one floor.

For 100 USD I can get a Roomba or Roborock for one floor and because that is so cheap I don’t mind this limitation. But for 8-10k USD I would expect this very common household feature to be solved.

SamuelAdams··on Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads
Check your local Costco, I snapped up a 512 GB model for 1197 last Saturday.
SamuelAdams··on AI's Affordability Crisis
GM just did this in the last 30 days [1], and their sales are likely going to be just fine. In fact the auto industry has repeatedly automated jobs over the last 100 years, and they still make decent sales numbers.

If you decided to boycott every company that replaced staff with automation, you would be forced to exit the economy. Every company does this to some degree and the customers who vote with their wallet do not seem to care about a reduction in force.

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/gm-installs-robots-at-fla...

SamuelAdams··on Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS
Let's be honest, at a certain point it's a hobby. And it's still cheaper than snowboarding.
SamuelAdams··on What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes
This seems to be less about K8’s and more about the infra as code movement. It doesn’t matter if you use K8, CDK, or terraform - you get the same benefits the OP stated across the board.

It is nice to be able to have a consistent deployment pattern, with traceability, rollback support, and production approval checks. It’s nice to not have some archaic something stuck in someone’s head. It’s also nice to be able to see how something works by reading the code, which is usually up to date and deployable.

SamuelAdams··on Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
It noticed a flooding area due to low grass by the walkout door. It noticed mixed 15 and 20a receptacles on the same circuit. It noticed warped siding and recalled circuit breakers still in use.
SamuelAdams··on Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
Similarly, I used gen ai to review a real estate purchase. I provided Zillow listing photos and serial numbers of all appliances, the electric panel, and a few additional not pictured areas that I took during the walk through.

I prompted the AI to write a report as if it were a home inspector and it actually did a better job and identified some issues the paid 750 usd inspector missed.

SamuelAdams··on Conventional Commits encourages focus on the wrong things
It is useful if you automate generating release notes. Then your notes are grouped by new features first, then bug fixes after. This makes it a little easier for non-technical uses to read.
SamuelAdams··on Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS
I use Optery for about two months a year, seems to do a good enough job for most of the data brokers. There are also discounts or promo codes to lower the price as well.

https://www.optery.com/

HN Launch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30605010

Promo codes: https://www.optery.com/optery-promo-codes/

SamuelAdams··on Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise
You should add an Easter egg in your cli program: dagger attack, which prints out a favourite Top Gun quote.
SamuelAdams··on Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise
The other advantage with bash is that most developers can run it locally to validate what it is doing and debug issues. With GitHub Actions you need to always commit and push, slowing down the DX.
SamuelAdams··on Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data
LMS’s are a lot like programming languages. There’s the ones people complain about and the ones no one uses.
SamuelAdams··on ShinyHunters claims data theft from 8,800 schools (Instructure/Canvas)
It depends on what you pay for. If you need FedRamp or IL4+ compliance you are likely on dedicated infrastructure. Everyone else uses multi tenancy.
SamuelAdams··on Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle?
VSCode has this too: chat.disableAIFeatures

Sources:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46501220

https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_104#_hide-and-disab...

SamuelAdams··on ChatGPT Images 2.0
I wonder what will happen to the entire legal system. It used to be fairly difficult to create convincing photos and videos.

AI can probably fool most court judges now. Or the defense can refute legitimate evidence by saying “it’s AI / false”. How would that be refuted?

SamuelAdams··on Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated
Say what you about the Anna’s Archive Spotify scrape: it made me realize how much music exists and how much music was never listened to.
SamuelAdams··on GitHub Stacked PRs
CLI is great because now I can tell my AI agent to do it. “Fix all dependabot security issues (copy logs) and run tests to validate functionality. Create each dependency as its own stack (or commit) so that contributors may review each library update easily.”

Wait 10 minutes and you’re done.

SamuelAdams··on Filing the corners off my MacBooks
Am I the only one that uses a thunderbolt dock and a keyboard + mouse + monitor setup? The Macbook itself is always closed in clamshell mode.

The only time I ever use a Macbook as a proper laptop is during meetings, and even then it is brief - looking up materials or taking notes - not nearly enough time to encounter long-term strain in the wrists.

If you are working on a computer for 6+ hours a day professionally, you owe it to yourself to get a proper workstation setup. Hunching over a laptop for hours a day is terrible for your posture and health.

SamuelAdams··on Native Instant Space Switching on macOS
My favorite MacOS update was when the removed the need for Rectangle, Mos, and Unnatural ScrollWheels.

/s

SamuelAdams··on LittleSnitch for Linux
So if this is free to use on linux, what is to stop someone from doing what Colima did to Docker? Aka make a tiny Linux VM on MacOS and package Little Snitch within that?
SamuelAdams··on GitHub's Historic Uptime
It could also be that they have more customers / clients now, or offer more capabilities.
SamuelAdams··on Apple Business
So do enterprises still need Jamf [1]? For context, Jamf is one of the most common MDM tools for organizations.

[1]: https://www.jamf.com/

SamuelAdams··on Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia
It’s also hard to hire for. Candidates for job openings must be between the ages of 21-31 years old. Yes they are legally forbidden from hiring anyone older.

https://www.faa.gov/air-traffic-controller-qualifications

SamuelAdams··on Despite Doubts, Federal Cyber Experts Approved Microsoft Cloud Service
It feels a lot like the FAA and NTSB moving safety checks of the Max 8 to Boeing engineers. Like of course they’re going to OK it…
SamuelAdams··on FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms
Modern vehicles make disabling data collection fairly difficult. And even if it is disabled, there is no guarantee data is not being sent despite your user settings.

I would love for investigative groups to target the auto industry’s data collection practices and have meaningful legislation created and implemented as a result.

SamuelAdams··on US Job Market Visualizer
200-500k would make a large negative impact in healthcare. Specialty doctors cannot be trained in a snap, and there are limits on how many MDs and DOs are churned out of schools.

So healthcare industries turn to H1Bs to hire specialty positions in underserved / rural areas. The alternative is to shut these facilities down, which has other negative aspects to communities.

SamuelAdams··on US Job Market Visualizer
As a current parent, I assumed this was due to people having fewer kids, not AI. Additionally, with childcare centers becoming more expensive, many more families are looking to be stay at home parents or using grandparents / relatives to watch their kids during work hours.
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