akulbe
Re:Meta ordered to pay $25B penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica ...
on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @04:56PM (#50187502)
That's just New Mexico. I wonder when will the other states step up, and hit them with more fines?
Re:Meta Unveils New Series of Advanced AI Models
on Monday October 12, 2026 @03:10PM (#50061318)
Re:Claude Opus 5.5
on Thursday September 24, 2026 @06:28PM (#49837613)
I think it is an intentional crisis for PR purposes. They're (Anthropic and OpenAI) trying to absolve themselves of all responsibility for what happens. Big bad scary model did this terrible thing... OH NO!!
They made the models. They're responsible for what happens with them. Own it, all of it.
More government involvement is not the answer. Police your own stuff. Own it when things go sideways. Fix it.
I'm not trying to say safety isn't an issue. It sure is. But THEY need to own it, and do it themselves, and own all the consequences when bad things happen.
Re:Claude Opus 5.5
on Thursday September 24, 2026 @08:56AM (#49829941)
"Rogue agents"... yeah, sure. Owned and controlled by the companies in question.
The companies are responsible for what their agents do. Full stop. More government regulation is NOT the solution. The government doesn't even know how this stuff works, like the individual companies do.
The agents hacking other companies? those are crimes. If you did it, you'd be in jail. Why should/do the companies escape accountability?
Re:Claude Opus 5.5
on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @05:25PM (#49822824)
It's a manufactured crisis, the whole "pace the frontier" call.
Re:Day 13. Three production applications on AWS down
on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @10:06PM (#49721316)
My experience when I didn't have business support was that it could take multiple days to get a response to support cases I'd put in.
When I was working on a customer account that had business support, I'd get a response (and often, a resolution) the same day. YMMV.
Re:Day 13. Three production applications on AWS down
on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @02:49PM (#49717005)
If you're going to be deploying a production-grade application to AWS, are you paying for business support? That's where I'd start.
Are you wholly dependent on AWS tech for your app, or can it be deployed to a different cloud provider?
Re:Leaving VMware just got harder after Broadcom pulled VDDK downloads
on Monday September 07, 2026 @06:54PM (#49603881)
More VMware - winning friends and influencing people, like usual.
Re:.name Termination
on Thursday September 03, 2026 @03:23PM (#49555331)
I don't get the concept of 3LD. We own kulbe.name - does this news mean it's going to go away entirely?
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)
on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @04:08PM (#49527403)
Location: Nashville, TN
Remote: YES, or Hybrid in Nashville.
Willing to relocate: no
Technologies: AWS, Azure, GCP, Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Bash, Python
Resume: http://linkedin.com/in/akulbe
Email: [email protected]
Re:Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @11:00PM (#49459064)
Like some other folks, I wonder whether this will be a good thing, or a bad thing.
I feel like if Nvidia ends up turning into a bad actor, in terms of restricting/censoring models... another HF will spring up.
Re:Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @10:55PM (#49459017)
Truer words were never spoken. This is painfully true.
Re:Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion
on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @02:10PM (#49349960)
I posted on LinkedIn that I thought the future of AI will be local. I'm surprised I didn't get tarred and feathered, but it's been crickets.
I do believe it though. While the subsidies of the frontier providers are nice, they can't continue forever.
Re:Gemini 3.7 Flash
on Thursday August 13, 2026 @10:52PM (#49294272)
With the DeepMind guy leaving the building... isn't Gemini going to get old and crusty, and fall into disrepair?
I'm mostly serious here. Aside from Gmail and search, it feels Google doesn't have a good track record for maintaining things.
It really makes me wonder... if key people are leaving, what's going to happen? The Google graveyard is pretty big.
Re:How to Install Python3.14 from source on Ubuntu 26.04
on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @10:37PM (#49191762)
Hey, I've done this before. It wasn't until after I went through that process that I learned about the Deadsnakes PPA.
You can add this PPA (personal package archive) to your Ubuntu install. Then you can use apt to do the install of the newer version.
https://launchpad.net/~deadsnakes/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
Just another alternative method, and potentially easier/faster.
Re:Desktop Linux just cracked 10% market share – and Windows 11 is mos...
on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @01:00PM (#49185609)
I read another comment somewhere this morning that said this was false... that the numbers are inflated. I wonder if it's true, or not.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)
on Monday August 03, 2026 @11:10PM (#49164012)
Location: Nashville metro
Remote: Preferred, but will also consider hybrid in either Nashville or Clarksville
Willing to relocate: no
Technologies: AWS, Azure, GCP - Terraform, Ansible, Python, Bash, MLOps
Resume: https://linkedin.com/in/akulbe
Email: [email protected]
Re:Why We're Dropping Basecamp
on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @03:46PM (#49088946)
This is from 2023.
Re:Apple announces significant price increases for MacBooks, iPads, more
on Thursday June 25, 2026 @03:31PM (#48678139)
I bought a full spec M5 Max MBP. Yesterday.
I'm relieved.
Re:Apple increases MacBook and iPad prices by 20%
on Thursday June 25, 2026 @01:41PM (#48676824)
$7349, and as of today, it'd be $10149
Re:Apple increases MacBook and iPad prices by 20%
on Thursday June 25, 2026 @12:21PM (#48675676)
That's why I updated, as well.
Re:Apple increases MacBook and iPad prices by 20%
on Thursday June 25, 2026 @12:18PM (#48675646)
No, M5 Max MBP with all the options.
I wanted a Studio, but if I was going to get a Studio, I'd get something older because they crippled the current models.
I have an M2 Max, as well, and I wonder what I could get for it on resale... or maybe I should just keep it.
Re:Apple increases MacBook and iPad prices by 20%
on Thursday June 25, 2026 @11:52AM (#48675250)
WOW. I'm glad I bought the beast yesterday.
The same spec machine I got yesterday is now $2800 more.
Re:Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily...
on Monday June 15, 2026 @03:04PM (#48545615)
I have an M2 Max MBP with 96GB of RAM. What models and setup would you use for this kind of configuration?
Re:SoftBank's Masayoshi Son: AI revolution is '50x bigger' than the do...
on Monday June 01, 2026 @10:55AM (#48357636)
Which means that the bubble pop will be that much worse too.
Re:Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions
on Monday June 01, 2026 @10:32AM (#48357366)
Do subscriptions make the ads go away? If not, it's hard to see much value proposition in them.
Re:Ask HN: Laptops with good Linux support and good build quality?
on Monday May 25, 2026 @06:44PM (#48272771)
Framework.
Re:Ask HN: Mac users – has Mac-to-Android texting broke for you, since...
on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @08:33PM (#48216261)
Checked that. It's not off.
Re:Ask HN: Mac users – has Mac-to-Android texting broke for you, since...
on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @07:26PM (#48215747)
Mac-to-Android texting with the Messages app is broken for me, as of macOS and iOS 26.5
I'm just curious to know if other users have experienced this, before I go to extreme troubleshooting steps.
I can send direct from the iPhone, but the forwarding from the Mac feature is broken for messages destined for Android devices.
I spent a couple hours on the phone with Apple Support and did extensive troubleshooting, and they finally told me I should reinstall macOS. Seems pretty extreme, to me.