Hacker News: 0cf8612b2e1e

New comment by 0cf8612b2e1e in "Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you bought"

0cf8612b2e1e — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 01:34:39 +0000

File serving is cheap vs rendering a game. A single core can serve many video streams but may be insufficient to run even one game.

New comment by 0cf8612b2e1e in "Google cleared 300 hectares of Finnish forest"

0cf8612b2e1e — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 17:31:09 +0000

Most other illegal logging is not happening by trillion dollar companies. When a company with all the resources cheats, people get extra mad.

New comment by 0cf8612b2e1e in "Crystal 1.22"

0cf8612b2e1e — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 14:25:20 +0000

Fast, compiled Ruby. If you like that, there you go.

New comment by 0cf8612b2e1e in "Eight Bits of Trust: eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds"

0cf8612b2e1e — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 18:25:09 +0000

I am sure the NSA will keep checking on our behalf.

New comment by 0cf8612b2e1e in "EA is shutting down BioWare"

0cf8612b2e1e — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 18:19:36 +0000

Check the release dates on those games.

New comment by 0cf8612b2e1e in "Anthropic logged net loss of over $80B in first half of 2026"

0cf8612b2e1e — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 20:28:08 +0000

  Reuters  reported first in September that Anthropic posted a net loss of $42 billion in 2025  and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing  and  infrastructure obligations in coming years.

$16B revenue and hoping to spend $500B in the coming years.

New comment by 0cf8612b2e1e in "Facebook Pages require paid subscription to post more than two links per month"

0cf8612b2e1e — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 19:38:53 +0000

These platforms are doing something wildly more exotic than I imagined. 1500 clients?! You could have hosted larger crowds in IRC with 90s hardware.

New comment by 0cf8612b2e1e in "E Ink Kaleido 4"

0cf8612b2e1e — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 20:14:51 +0000

I justified one to myself to read papers that have colored plots. Eink performance is still so marginal that the experience is too frustrating to rely on, and I would rather use a tablet.

Maybe if you wanted to read comics that only ever had mediocre artwork?

New comment by 0cf8612b2e1e in "OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room"

0cf8612b2e1e — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:47:26 +0000

You can buy a voice recorder that will hold weeks of audio for tens of dollars.

Back of a TV is a decent hiding place. Wonder how they found it -was it actively transmitting?

New comment by 0cf8612b2e1e in "Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts"

0cf8612b2e1e — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:33:55 +0000

Do passkeys next.

New comment by 0cf8612b2e1e in "Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts"

0cf8612b2e1e — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:31:56 +0000

Why would you ever connect it to the internet? Air gap forever. Physically rip out the radio, only load software by CD (ideally not through a USB interface).

New comment by 0cf8612b2e1e in "Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts"

0cf8612b2e1e — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:29:21 +0000

HDMI 1.4 has been leaked and there are devices which will force communication to this protocol level.

New comment by 0cf8612b2e1e in "Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days"

0cf8612b2e1e — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 02:35:57 +0000

It was revealed that Honda sold data on customers for less than a dollar a piece. It’s not big money at all, but they cannot stop themselves.

New comment by 0cf8612b2e1e in "4-hour battery storage is cheaper to install than gas turbines all across globe"

0cf8612b2e1e — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 22:14:21 +0000

I saw a seemingly credible prediction from an energy analyst that global energy use would fall over the next five years. The rationale being that electrification can use less energy for the same work because heat pumps, EVs, etc are more efficient. Just pumping and refining oil is a huge sink of energy that disappears as more things become electrified.

The popular number is that every 18 months, China was destroying 1 million BPD demand.

New comment by 0cf8612b2e1e in "4-hour battery storage is cheaper to install than gas turbines all across globe"

0cf8612b2e1e — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 17:06:32 +0000

Unlike solar, wind has pretty significant construction and material costs which feel hard to diminish with scale. You still need to excavate earth, install giant pylons, enormous magnets, etc.

That being said, anyone who has predicted the future prices of renewable energy seems destined to look a fool.

New comment by 0cf8612b2e1e in "Anti-patterns in software blogging"

0cf8612b2e1e — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 03:17:20 +0000

One minor thing about stale information- please record the original posted date. Far too many blogs seem to omit this crucial information.

New comment by 0cf8612b2e1e in "Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI"

0cf8612b2e1e — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 23:06:00 +0000

Just a cool million+ annual expense per headcount.

New comment by 0cf8612b2e1e in "McDonald's sued for allegedly using AI tool to determine pricing for franchises"

0cf8612b2e1e — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:53:48 +0000

After some of the revelations of how Uber will use differential pricing: if your phone battery is low, the driver accepts rides too quickly, etc I thought it a given that all companies were going to try this personalized pricing scheme. The reason they are potentially in trouble here is for the operator data sharing.

New comment by 0cf8612b2e1e in "Couple was swatted 55 times in 2 years over a post about Norm Macdonald"

0cf8612b2e1e — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 02:21:11 +0000

Sounds like a FOIA request: how many of those cops are on the “no SWAT” list they refuse to extend to the couple.

New comment by 0cf8612b2e1e in "Couple was swatted 55 times in 2 years over a post about Norm Macdonald"

0cf8612b2e1e — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 02:09:16 +0000

SWAT team had a KPI target to meet. Not enough calls and they get less military surplus gear.