Hacker News: 20after4

New comment by 20after4 in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

20after4 — Wed, 06 May 2026 19:42:09 +0000

> We don’t pay mechanics to Google “how to fix car”.

No, instead of google they just look it up on alldata.

New comment by 20after4 in "LLM pricing has never made sense"

20after4 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:02:32 +0000

$100 isn't going to buy you much access to claude code when they start charging a profitable fee for using it.

New comment by 20after4 in "OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS"

20after4 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:07:37 +0000

https://flatpak.org/ does this on Linux and someone else already pointed out, MacOS does this with app store apps. I don't like handing control to Apple so I much prefer the FlatPak solution - you get very detailed and fine grained control over what each app can see and it works fairly seamlessly. It's still a bit technical - but not far from being user friendly even for a less tech savvy user.

New comment by 20after4 in "The beginning of scarcity in AI"

20after4 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:07:04 +0000

The human brain is incredibly efficient (Approximately 20W of energy consumption¹). These AI systems use many orders of magnitude more energy than human equivalents.

1. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8364152/

New comment by 20after4 in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

20after4 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 10:24:14 +0000

I don't think this is accurate. According to the New York Times¹ (among numerous other sources), the government has defied court orders at least a small double-digit number of times.

"At least 35 times since August, federal judges have ordered the administration to explain why it should not be punished for violating their orders in immigration cases."

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/us/politics/judges-contem...

New comment by 20after4 in "I imported the full Linux kernel git history into pgit"

20after4 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:17:16 +0000

When you import a repository into Phabricator, it parses everything into a MySQL database. That's how it manages to support multiple version control systems seamlessly as well as providing a more straightforward path to implementing all of the web-based user interface around repo history.

New comment by 20after4 in "Common drug tests lead to tens of thousands wrongful arrests a year"

20after4 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:33:29 +0000

A system’s purpose is what it does, not what it claims to do.

New comment by 20after4 in "Why Doesn't Anybody Realize We're Going Back to the Moon?"

20after4 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 04:15:16 +0000

> Chances are that we as a society collapse long before we get to send humans to Mars.

And possibly even before we make it back to the moon's surface.

New comment by 20after4 in "Fast and Gorgeous Erosion Filter"

20after4 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:02:14 +0000

Veloren is awesome! Thanks for the work you do, I’ve enjoyed playing it quite a bit. It’s been a while so maybe time to check it out again soon.

New comment by 20after4 in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

20after4 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 02:50:44 +0000

Yes. Leased IBM equipment was a critical infrastructure component of the holocaust.

New comment by 20after4 in "Sony halts memory card shipments due to NAND shortage"

20after4 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:38:06 +0000

Only 100%? I'm seeing SSDs going for about 400% what I paid in 2024.

New comment by 20after4 in "AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is more worrying"

20after4 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:04:27 +0000

Replacing one java tool with another doesn't solve anyone's problems. If they'd only used Rust then lives would have been saved.

New comment by 20after4 in "US expected to send thousands more soldiers to Middle East, sources say"

20after4 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:27:39 +0000

Because the misogyny is even more pervasive.

New comment by 20after4 in "US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement"

20after4 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 04:17:37 +0000

It's almost as if they aren't considering the best interests of the public or the government/economy that they are dismantling.

New comment by 20after4 in "Ageless Linux – Software for humans of indeterminate age"

20after4 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 11:26:59 +0000

Your username is appropriate.

From rfk: “Rep. Kim Carver (R-Bossier City), the sponsor of Louisiana's HB-570, publicly confirmed that a Meta lobbyist brought the legislative language directly to her. “

That’s more than fighting to amend. I’m not sure where I got the discord connection but I thought it was from that link. I’ve read a few things on this subject recently so I may have mixed up two different sources.

New comment by 20after4 in "Ageless Linux – Software for humans of indeterminate age"

20after4 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 05:31:08 +0000

This reddit thread¹ details thoroughly the connection to Meta (Facebook) and to a lesser extent Discord as being behind the push in the US.

1. https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_traced_2_b...

New comment by 20after4 in "Your phone is an entire computer"

20after4 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:13:55 +0000

You can buy a cellular data plan for your laptop. Just plug in a 5g radio to your usb port or in some laptops you can even install it internally in a dedicated pcie slot.

Carrier approval is not the reason phones are locked down. If it were then rooting android devices wouldn’t be possible.

Many US states planning or have operating system age verification laws

20after4 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:28:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/many-more-us-states-are-planning-or-already-have-operating-system-age-verification-laws/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47317690

Points: 48

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New comment by 20after4 in "Does that use a lot of energy?"

20after4 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 22:42:07 +0000

The marginal cost of one extra passenger is going to be very nearly zero. The vast majority of the cost is just moving the bus / train / plane, and the overhead / inefficiencies in the system. I've seen somewhere the numbers for one passenger on trains and planes but I can't remember where that was. Just know it is a very very small amount for the added weight of one more passenger.

New comment by 20after4 in "Does that use a lot of energy?"

20after4 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 22:38:16 +0000

Yes, similarly in the US: I think the largest portion of the energy in the US is produced with gas fired power plants.