<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: Ataraxic</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Ataraxic</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:38:15 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Ataraxic" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Ataraxic in "Economics of Orbital vs. Terrestrial Data Centers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Scott Manley had a video about this last year.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-YcVLq98Ew" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-YcVLq98Ew</a><p>The short of it is that cooling is likely the biggest problem, given you will need to pump the heat to the backside and radiate it away, and the amount of mass you will need to dedicate to cooling works against deployments and increases the cost per unit significantly. Not to mention, the idea of these huge deployments runs into potential space debris issues.<p>Whenever one of these ventures actually manages to launch a proof of concept, I think we'll be able to quickly discern if there is actually a near-future here.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 00:02:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46282842</link><dc:creator>Ataraxic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46282842</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46282842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Ataraxic in "Response to "Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I love ruby. It's certainly not sentimental; I enjoy writing it and working in it, certainly a lot more than javascript.<p>I do feel like these sorts of attacks on ruby are quite weird. It's totally ok not to enjoy working in any particular programming language, but I wonder what the angle is to write about it is.<p>Arguments regarding ruby's successes are always so weird to me. Github, Twitter, Coinbase, and Shopify are all examples of great success. Challenges with scaling are successful problems.<p>It's a great tool and if you read this, consider and evaluate if ruby is appropriate for your next project. :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 19:12:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46111662</link><dc:creator>Ataraxic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46111662</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46111662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Ataraxic in "Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky has died"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Super out of the blue. I loved his videos and he taught me a lot after I got into chess during covid.<p>rest in peace.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 17:53:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45646932</link><dc:creator>Ataraxic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45646932</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45646932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Ataraxic in "Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code without telling users"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I need to see a video of what people are doing to hit the max limits regularly.<p>I find sonnet really useful for coding but I never even hit basic limits. at $20/mo. Writing specs, coming up with documentation, doing wrote tasks for which many examples exist in the database. Iterate on particular services etc.<p>Are these max users having it write the whole codebase w/ rewrites? Isn't it often just faster to fix small things I find incorrect than type up why I think it's wrong in English and have it do a whole big round trip?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 22:49:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44599168</link><dc:creator>Ataraxic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44599168</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44599168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Ataraxic in "I read all of Cloudflare's Claude-generated commits"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Junior devs using AI can get a lot better at using AI and learn those existing patterns it generates, but I notice, for myself, that if I let AI write a lot of the code I remember and thereby understand it later on less well. This applies in school and when trying to learn new things but the act of writing down the solution and working out the details yourself trains our own brain. I'd  say that this has been a practice for over a thousand years and I'm skeptical that this will make junior devs grow their own skills faster.<p>I think asking questions to the AI for your own understanding totally makes sense, but there is a benefit when you actually create the code versus asking the AI to do it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2025 19:03:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44211804</link><dc:creator>Ataraxic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44211804</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44211804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Ataraxic in "One thing Tesla and Comma.ai overlooked in self-driving"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>From the recent tesla acme test, where the tesla runs into a wall containing a picture of a road, they also tested rain and water blocking two mannequins. The lidar equipped vehicle managed to stop before hitting the mannequins while tesla's autopilot did not. The distance before automatic braking triggered was reduced iirc.<p>Sure lidar is degraded by rain, but I think the conclusion that when it rains the whole system will degrade to just cameras seems incorrect. It may reduce its effective range but it seems likely to still have some advantage in a wide range of conditions.</p>
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<p>Thanks so much for sharing. Enthralling.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2025 01:42:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43933083</link><dc:creator>Ataraxic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43933083</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43933083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Ataraxic in "Native frame transposition coming to Emacs 31"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you need to manage multiple windows in emacs I find ace-window perfect.<p>Pops up a number in the top left of the window and you hit it to jump to it. If only two, C-o works as before.<p><a href="https://github.com/abo-abo/ace-window">https://github.com/abo-abo/ace-window</a><p>I have never used more than like 5 windows and only for a short time. I guess it doesn't work past 10 but that's gotta be enough for anyone...</p>
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<p>The question is that it seems to emulate many things, but what doesn't it emulate well?<p>It looks like it's built off chromium, so I'm assuming it wouldn't be able to show an issue that only appears in safari or maybe Mozilla?<p>Perhaps this is in the docs.<p>edit: It's in the FAQ at the bottom. Still, beyond the actual browser engine, are there other known limitations?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:23:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43472437</link><dc:creator>Ataraxic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43472437</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43472437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Ataraxic in "Polypane, The browser for ambitious web developers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't feel that you have a measured take on what is basically browser tooling. It's a customized browser built around web development. Is that _so_ insane?<p>Imagine someone came out with a browser that synced and allowed you to view/test your app in the days of ie6/7/8/9 across all those browsers. Would charging money per month for that be so weird?<p>This isn't for anyone to use as their normal browser.</p>
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<p>It's 75hz and 90hz at a reduced resolution I believe.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:31:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43438614</link><dc:creator>Ataraxic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43438614</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43438614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Ataraxic in "The Frontend Treadmill"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm afraid you've thought more about react-router than the maintainers about the people using it.<p>I feel like the tradeoff has historically been between smaller, more composable libraries with more breaking changes and larger, more feature-filled libraries that move more slowly and care about their users.<p>react-router is the epitome of choosing the worst of both worlds with a healthy dose of disdain for their users.</p>
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<p>It's one of those things where once you have used it, you will notice it. Given most iOS users aren't swapping between pro and non pro models, it's not something you think about.</p>
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<p>I'm really glad Garmin exists and makes smartwatches. The broad approach they have to market segments has created really great products that serve markets other large tech manufacturers haven't really touched. I'm sure the Apple watch is a good product but I'm uninterested in a general notification device (what I take to be the function of a smartwatch). I've used my farming for hiking, paragliding, tracking sleep, connecting to my bike trainer, etc. It tracks all my activities and is my dedicated device for anything athletic. The athletic features, good battery life, and sleep tracking have made it so that I actually wear a watch all the time. Spent $700 4 years ago and it was totally worth it. Perhaps the only caveat for Garmin is that I don't need to upgrade. It does everything I want it to without issue.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2025 17:01:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42782455</link><dc:creator>Ataraxic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42782455</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42782455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Ataraxic in "AnandTech Farewell"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just wanted to say that I remember joining the Anandtech forums in middle school in the early 2000's and was quite active for a number of years.<p>Reading articles and discussions there was my first experience getting into tech and helped my build my first computer.<p>I hope the editor and writers of Anandtech know the impact they had!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Aug 2024 15:43:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41401783</link><dc:creator>Ataraxic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41401783</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41401783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Ataraxic in "There is no fix for Intel's crashing 13th/14th Gen CPUs – damage is permanent"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For certain chips like the 13900HX (mobile) vs 13900K, I believe they are the exact same chip. The difference is the mobile version is binned for power usage so that it can run on a laptop.<p>To the extent that this degradation is wholly voltage/power related, laptop chips are much less likely to degrade. They are selected to run at lower voltages and power AND their peak boost frequency is lower.<p>To the extent that this degradation is caused by poor design, the laptop chips that are binned versions of their desktop chips are vulnerable to the same sorts of issues.<p>edit: I am familiar with the 13900HX because that's what I have in my laptop and I have been trying to follow along in case I need to RMA my laptop or do some microcode update for it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jul 2024 16:41:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41080035</link><dc:creator>Ataraxic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41080035</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41080035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Ataraxic in "An FDA approved device offers a new treatment for tinnitus"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't understand it that way.<p>My understanding of the underlying cause of tinnitus iirc, is that it's caused by damage to hair cells in your inner ear. Our brains interpret this damage and loss of signal as a signal; thus, we hear a high-pitched tone even when it is silent.<p>Training your brain to ignore this seems like treating the underlying cause, which is a misinterpretation of auditory signals or the lack thereof.<p>I have tinnitus but most times I don't notice it. Go to a loud venue for a while and even with earplugs it noticeably comes back for up to a week or two.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2024 16:17:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40042518</link><dc:creator>Ataraxic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40042518</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40042518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Ataraxic in "An open source initiative to share and compare heat pump performance data"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It doesn't have to be all heat pump. You can have a backup gas heat for the coldest days, or even resistive heat. I'd bet there are heat pumps that integrate those technologies to ensure a nice experience.</p>
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<p>View their obstinance: <a href="https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm/issues/794">https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm/issues/794</a><p>8 years later and despite much support for the `.node-version` file.<p>Someone else started using the .node-version file years ago, and because all open source packages won't form a committee to standardize this file, nvm will not support it.<p>They have a lot of hills. JS Private Properties was another.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2023 18:33:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38796781</link><dc:creator>Ataraxic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38796781</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38796781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Ataraxic in "Police raid Worldcoin warehouse in Nairobi"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The ideal UBI system would let you threaten to overthrow your government...<p>Crypto Anarchism is not attractive the vast majority of people.<p>I'll argue the UBI people want involves their government sending them a check, direct deposit, or cash.</p>
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