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mhluongo

2,273 karma · joined June 18, 2010

Founder @thesis_co, incubated @fold_app, @keep_project, @taho_xyz, @embodyspace

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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/mhluongo; my proof: https://keybase.io/mhluongo/sigs/9iBr7QeUmJlomoIxa9FC7r17WULRL6mcZ3hQjG0TSNQ ]

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mhluongo··on AI promised less work. I've never worked more
I believe Ford pushed for the 40 hour workweek in the 20s, so... yes, at least once :)
mhluongo··on Things to know when you get cancer
As someone who's dealt with cancer in the family, and also my own chronic illness - if you can, bring someone along to take notes during office visits. It frees you up to pay attention to the doctor and ask questions, and it keeps staff on their toes.
mhluongo··on Who Is Planting Backdoors in Ledger Crypto Wallets?
The tampered devices have their own eSIMs - it's not running data through the Ledger app on your computer.

The impacted resellers would have to test the devices powered on to see if they were using cellular data.

mhluongo··on Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils
Both have performance issues when installed as snaps across my 24.04 and 26.04 machines.
mhluongo··on Compute-efficient pretraining and scaling to trillion-parameter models
More data (daily scans) can mean we get better at medicine, though, and more accurate. You're assuming "daily cancer scans" look just like they do today, rather than eg unobtrusive devices in our daily lives that measure changes over time.

The frequent "muh false positives" comment we hear from doctors appears to be a lack of imagination?

mhluongo··on Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM
Literally just dealt with an nvim/rust-analyzer indexing latency issue. Excited!
mhluongo··on Newfoundland has a hard bread shortage, but why do they eat it?
I'm not a hard bread expert but at high enough prices, I know plenty of enterprising people with kitchens.
mhluongo··on Newfoundland has a hard bread shortage, but why do they eat it?
A higher margin increases the incentive for people to make more, though.
mhluongo··on Hubble: Open-source notetaking app for you and your agents
Tauri is a good balance. Rust "backend" plus a native web view, so less JS and a lighter binary.
mhluongo··on Claude Cookbook
I think there's "how to use AI" and "how to make frequent AI use economical in systems". Different things?
mhluongo··on If You Build It, They Will Come
Per the article, if you want to fix this... maybe start your own :P
mhluongo··on Pebble Mega Update – July 2026
No, it's a nostalgia thing from us olds + the long battery life and hackability.
mhluongo··on Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model
Interested in the implied strategy - that training a bespoke model for what you need will make economic sense over using a mass-trained model. I wonder if that's true?
mhluongo··on Cargo-nextest: 3x faster than cargo test, per-test isolation, first-class CI
It resonated with me!
mhluongo··on Halvar's Guide to Entrepreneurship
This clearly isn't true for eg a single-member LLC, and likely not true in general.
mhluongo··on VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'
Bingo
mhluongo··on VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'
I expect them to give a shit, yeah. Just like they should care about what they read or watch, or who they hang out with.

Don't let your kids have an internet-connected phone, or keep it locked down so they don't have parasitic apps preying on their pre-frontal immaturity until they're old enough to handle it.

All of this needs to be done intentionally, of course, or it will feel like the kids are being punished. But I can't emphasize this enough... it's our job as parents to raise our kids.

mhluongo··on VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'
Sure! With my kids it's meant not buying them internet-enabled devices (or disabling the internet access, eg smart TVs), only having 1 family computer in a shared space, and managing my own local network. There also aren't screens in the house through the week.

On the flip side, I let them read whatever they want, including things that are upsetting or that other parents would say aren't appropriate, and I talk to them about what they've read.

Overall, I think these policies have meant more thoughtful media consumption, and more time outside and with friends. I'm not enough of a fool to think our rules are enforced at friends' houses, but we've chosen to live in a community that's largely on the same page.

None of this stuff is easy, but as a parent, it's the job.

mhluongo··on VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'
Or perhaps we should expect parents to take some responsibility for their kids' screen use?
mhluongo··on The room the economy can't see
By that logic, from my perspective - your family life, as we're practicing it today, it a car without a steering wheel.

The church down the street from me, that I have nothing to do with, is a car without a steering wheel. My local town, of which I'm only 1 member, is a car without a steering wheel.

Just because you see a system that you don't understand or control doesn't mean it's dangerous. The first instinct shouldn't be to centralize power.

mhluongo··on Iroh 1.0
Hi! As someone who has historically built on libp2p, I'd love to see an updated comparison focused on app developers!

Last year, I was trying to choose between the two and went with that I know... but it feels like there's real momentum on Iroh's side.

mhluongo··on Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term
My understanding - "insider trading" is specifically for securities, and brought by the SEC. The equivalent for commodities is called "market manipulation", brought by the CFTC. Market manipulation is a much harder thing to prove than insider trading.

This kind of reminds me of the OpenSea "insider trading" scandal. [0]

Not a lawyer, not legal advice, etc.

[0] - https://www.mayerbrown.com/en/insights/publications/2025/09/...

mhluongo··on Using AI to write better code more slowly
If you're not shipping faster, it's meaningless, and if you are, it's also bad?
mhluongo··on Why Japanese companies do so many different things
> if they saw me romanticizing the Mondragon cooperatives in Spain?

Speaking for myself, I'd find that very interesting! I just stumbled over an article about it a few days ago, and don't think it's weird that different parts of the world would be interested in a regional business phenomenon.

mhluongo··on Show HN: Kontext CLI – Credential broker for AI coding agents in Go
If they use the system keyring, it depends on the OS and other details - MacOS, Linux, and Windows all have different implementation tradeoffs.
mhluongo··on System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]
Two different "rent"s.
mhluongo··on France pulls last gold held in US for $15B gain
When something is "realized" is a matter of accounting. It means to make the change, they sold the gold fo currrency, then bought it back. For many of us, realizing a gain is when taxes happen, though I'm not sure what it means for a nation state.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/realizedprofit.asp

mhluongo··on I am leaving the AI party after one drink
If I'm not mistaken, this was Socrates' exact perspective on writing.
mhluongo··on Why One Key Shouldn't Rule Them All: Threshold Signatures for the Rest of Us
Here are a couple examples of physical access leading to key extraction. You're welcome to be pedantic (those are side channel attacks, they don't defeat the boundary!) but one way or another, physical access wins.

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/descrack/ https://ninjalab.io/eucleak/

mhluongo··on Why One Key Shouldn't Rule Them All: Threshold Signatures for the Rest of Us
Again and again, we've seen that HSMs aren't secure against physical access of the device.
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