Hacker News: AustinDev

New comment by AustinDev in "Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers"

AustinDev — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:00:48 +0000

This is your sign to start using a DNS based ad/tracking blocker. Run it on your VPS with tailscale if you want it available everywhere without significant security overhead.

New comment by AustinDev in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"

AustinDev — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 17:49:41 +0000

> the GPUs aren't actually owned by SpaceX but a daughter company, and it's been financed via loans that are backed by pension funds. So it's already the case that pension funds back bear the risks associated with SpaceX's operations.

I think a more accurate phrasing of the Valor GPU deal would be something like this:

"SpaceX’s AI compute buildout relies in part on off-balance-sheet or lease-style financing vehicles. Valor-owned vehicles purchased Nvidia GPU infrastructure and leased it to xAI/SpaceX subsidiaries, with Apollo providing debt financing and SpaceX or subsidiaries guaranteeing some obligations. That creates indirect exposure for institutional and retirement capital, though not necessarily direct pension-fund ownership of SpaceX operational risk."

New comment by AustinDev in "Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute"

AustinDev — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 17:43:03 +0000

The company has been around since 2002, I'm sure plenty of insiders will cash out in the next calendar year to satisfy the minimum free float rule by the time they're eligible.

New comment by AustinDev in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

AustinDev — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:54:31 +0000

Yeah that was really the cherry on top. Just sublime to use.

New comment by AustinDev in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

AustinDev — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:37:53 +0000

Counter-point the Surface Studio was one of the best PCs for drafting and design we've ever owned.

New comment by AustinDev in "Daily pill can double survival time for deadliest cancer, trial shows"

AustinDev — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 01:35:12 +0000

So presumably something causes the spontaneous mutations?

New comment by AustinDev in "Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test"

AustinDev — Fri, 29 May 2026 05:37:33 +0000

Loss of human life in a static fire is criminal. Why would anyone be that close?

There was no loss of life in this static fire failure.

New comment by AustinDev in "Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test"

AustinDev — Fri, 29 May 2026 05:21:18 +0000

There is always Starship.

New comment by AustinDev in "Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test"

AustinDev — Fri, 29 May 2026 05:21:00 +0000

Don't worry we've solved this problem. It's called a LES.

New comment by AustinDev in "Use boring languages with LLMs"

AustinDev — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:09:11 +0000

A sibling mentioned that LLMs benchmark better on elixir. Immutability and functional programming are likely the reason why it benches better.

New comment by AustinDev in "AI uses less water than the public thinks"

AustinDev — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:32:03 +0000

Where does your gasoline come from? Most of that usage is for the massive Exxon/etc facilities we have in Houston/Galveston to refine most of the fuel the entire nation uses.

New comment by AustinDev in "AI uses less water than the public thinks"

AustinDev — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:09:30 +0000

Why don’t data centers use gray water more often? Wouldn’t that be better for basically everyone?

My guess is it’s some combination of the infrastructure not existing, the distribution being bad, and the treatment costs not penciling out.

But that feels like the kind of thing municipal utilities could solve with pricing. Potable water should probably be priced differently for residential use than for big commercial/industrial users, in a way that pushes them toward non-potable sources wherever possible.

A fun Texas water fact I always bring up: the entire state’s monthly freshwater use is roughly a week of freshwater inflow into the Chesapeake Bay. Texas would be the 8th-largest GDP in the world if it were a country, and its whole monthly freshwater demand is basically a few months of water that the Chesapeake just dumps into the ocean. (Of course, estuaries make use of the water so it's not just wasted but it's illustrative imo)

Another fun comparison point is yearly Texas uses 0.08% the volume of the Great Lakes in freshwater but ~ 30-50% of the volume of all the lakes in Texas.

We've got a lot of water but it's not distributed evenly and we should probably build some sort of water pipeline eventually so water rich states can sell to water poor states.

Again, this is all just speculation by someone who knows not a damn thing about municipal water management.

New comment by AustinDev in "'Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor' to win Polymarket bet"

AustinDev — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:27:33 +0000

>There's no reason gamblers won't repeat this stunt, until us poor schmucks who just want an accurate temperature reading have to build a fortified compound in order to do so.

The issue here is you'd need a lot more land because any asphalt near a temp sensor is going to give you bad data.

New comment by AustinDev in "ChatGPT and Codex Down"

AustinDev — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:07:20 +0000

Both currently working in US.

New comment by AustinDev in "Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs"

AustinDev — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:52:11 +0000

I'm unable to download FLUX.2 models from `darkbloom models`

New comment by AustinDev in "Tesla 'Full Self-Driving' crashed through railroad gate seconds before train"

AustinDev — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:13:11 +0000

This is one thing LIDAR is pretty good at.

New comment by AustinDev in "Stolen Rockstar Games analytics data leaked by extortion gang"

AustinDev — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:46:05 +0000

All the leak revealed was how insanely profitable GTAV: Online is.

New comment by AustinDev in "Show HN: NASA Artemis II Mission Timeline Tracker"

AustinDev — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:57:28 +0000

I didn't build it. I just found it on a live stream (https://www.twitch.tv/ej_sa) of the mission. Maybe `Show HN:` was the wrong prefix.

Show HN: NASA Artemis II Mission Timeline Tracker

AustinDev — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 03:40:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sunnywingsvirtual.com/artemis2/timeline.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47609725

Points: 93

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New comment by AustinDev in "TSA lines are so out of control that travelers are hiring line-sitters"

AustinDev — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:15:45 +0000

And they get Federal pensions and healthcare funded by tax dollars.