Hacker News: ASinclair

New comment by ASinclair in "Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't"

ASinclair — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:37:37 +0000

I saw him talk at SF Nerd Nite years ago. Very entertaining and informative. The crazy thing is he's self taught. Smart man.

New comment by ASinclair in "New York becomes the first state to impose a data center moratorium"

ASinclair — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:38:24 +0000

Why would people move to jurisdictions that are building AI datacenters? It seems like people would move away from them.

New comment by ASinclair in "Google copybara: moving code between repositories"

ASinclair — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 02:03:42 +0000

It’s largely used for syncing external open source projects with the monorepo. Policy is to require source code imports over built artifacts. Though you can get exceptions.

Some projects are also developed in the monorepo and exported via Copybara.

My team also uses it to version Starlark rule sets internally.

New comment by ASinclair in "Supreme Court upholds broad conception of birthright citizenship"

ASinclair — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:19:55 +0000

> one of the few in the world that allows this

Over 30 countries have unconditional birthright citizenship.

New comment by ASinclair in "U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations"

ASinclair — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 14:50:14 +0000

It just came out the Kalshi outright gave Donald Trump Jr a $300k stake in the company when it made him a “strategic advisor”. That’s the name of the game now

New comment by ASinclair in "Iran Shock Jolts Asia and Europe to Speed Up Energy Transition"

ASinclair — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:23:23 +0000

It's not all sunshine and rainbows. Countries are turning to coal as well. There aren't natural chokepoints for coal distribution like the Straight of Hormuz.

New comment by ASinclair in "Training our own AI models"

ASinclair — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:14:05 +0000

Mostly unrelated but the name of this company makes me think it's a Dick-Pics-as-a-Service provider.

New comment by ASinclair in "A History of IDEs at Google"

ASinclair — Wed, 13 May 2026 20:31:27 +0000

I would recommend learning the various "bazel query" variants starting with a plain "bazel query" https://bazel.build/query/language

New comment by ASinclair in "A History of IDEs at Google"

ASinclair — Wed, 13 May 2026 20:30:14 +0000

> For anything with native UIs, I suppose you could "remote desktop" into an app or a simulator running in the cloud

This does exist. The network isn't the main problem. The Emulator has to run under nested KVM. That + graphics rendering on the CPU makes it not so responsive. It's useable enough in many cases though.

New comment by ASinclair in "I want to live like Costco people"

ASinclair — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:52:24 +0000

The thing is you can save a ton of money on a few non-food items to make it worth it. Just over-the-counter medicines save me a huge chunk of the membership fee. Then there are just random household goods: paper products, trash bags, dishwasher detergent, etc.

New comment by ASinclair in "American importers and consumers bear the cost of 2025 tariffs: analysis"

ASinclair — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 17:13:43 +0000

There are tariffs on every country, not just China. This isn’t like his first term in office. Can you speak to the impacts of those tariffs?

New comment by ASinclair in "Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales"

ASinclair — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:46:10 +0000

Also dealers are one of the most reliable GOP funding sources. The GOP does not like EVs.

New comment by ASinclair in "Changes to Android Open Source Project"

ASinclair — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 16:29:06 +0000

They are not.

New comment by ASinclair in "Eat Real Food"

ASinclair — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 02:32:57 +0000

Maybe there’s a miscommunication. I don’t believe that statement. It’s something that RFK Jr believes.

New comment by ASinclair in "Eat Real Food"

ASinclair — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 01:22:49 +0000

Evidence of what exactly? That RFK Jr. focuses on healthy eating while vilifying vaccines and other established health practices?

New comment by ASinclair in "US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes"

ASinclair — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 22:27:42 +0000

Hopefully this happens so people can stop blaming institutional investors for high home prices once this fails to work. Then maybe we can work on actually building homes.

New comment by ASinclair in "US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes"

ASinclair — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 22:25:07 +0000

> you allow for policy that doesn't maximize the cost of real estate over the interests of the majority of the population.

How do you think homeowners would feel about a policy that doesn't maximize the value of their homes. That's just another way to phrase "maximizing the cost of real estate"?

New comment by ASinclair in "Eat Real Food"

ASinclair — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 20:58:56 +0000

The problem is the massive emphasis on eating as a part of health. As if eating right is the only thing you need to do to avoid all disease. That putting other substances (e.g. vaccines) in your body will make you unhealthy.

New comment by ASinclair in "The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence"

ASinclair — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:26:38 +0000

So your pastor or priest conveniently rejects you if you have a chronic illness.

New comment by ASinclair in "Nano Banana Pro"

ASinclair — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 15:41:55 +0000

Have some examples?