Hacker News: Danox

New comment by Danox in "Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt?"

Danox — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:49:29 +0000

They have control over the OS and the design of the chip, Intel does not…

New comment by Danox in "U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative"

Danox — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:38:02 +0000

I will look them up thank God I hope many more American universities will do the same.

New comment by Danox in "US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide"

Danox — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:54:53 +0000

The sad part is no matter how good they do their job whatever they do is only as good as the head at the top of the pyramid in the executive office…

New comment by Danox in "U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative"

Danox — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:01:53 +0000

What makes more sense is to do something like deepseek at one of the major universities put those bright computer science young minds to work, in the good old days almost every major university would have done that has any major US university done that? Stanford Harvard Berkeley if the Chinese can put together a team like deep seek why can’t that be done at a major university in the United States?

https://www.interconnects.ai/p/the-american-deepseek-project

New comment by Danox in "Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did"

Danox — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:52:42 +0000

No surprise they want to serve ads everywhere…

New comment by Danox in "Apple introduces leasing program for iPhones and other devices"

Danox — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:50:32 +0000

They’re introducing it because most people are short-term thinkers and would be happy in many cases (10%-25%) to lease. No matter how many times you say don’t do it.

11 Pro iPhone user…

New comment by Danox in "Apple introduces leasing program for iPhones and other devices"

Danox — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:47:23 +0000

No thank you….

New comment by Danox in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

Danox — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:12:30 +0000

The Romans pretty much had their way (peak) for 300 years. Yes decline was not instantaneous, but no one can complain about having 300 years of relative success/dominance, which they did once they defeated the Carthaginians all the way to about 200 A.D.

The Romans pretty much had their way. Their decline happened pretty much in the same way all civilizations end the elite’s participation in defending the empire or their civilization became less and less in short decadence sound familiar? Arguably the Civil War was probably the last war where the largest percentage of the elite actually participated in fighting the war and that percentage has gone down in every war since.

The United States from its founding until about 1990 had its way but now the shine appears to be coming off slowly. The way it currently looks 2100 is probably going to have a new number 1.

New comment by Danox in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

Danox — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:43:32 +0000

No 27 BC – AD 476 the Roman Empire the one that everyone thinks about at maximum strength lasted 503 years basically Augustus Caesar to AD 476. The eastern empire was but a shadow of the Roman empire ruled from Rome.

New comment by Danox in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

Danox — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:35:51 +0000

It’s the lack of coherent leadership at the top, the lawyers, junk bond, equity bankers, oil-men, and the military have had their chance, it’s time for the engineers, science, medical, builders, local bankers and internal infrastructure people to run things. And when I say run things I mean, stop accepting their word as the truth.

New comment by Danox in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

Danox — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:25:42 +0000

It’s going to be very hard to turn around over 60 years of behavior, particularly the part of interfering and spending money like a drunken sailor on special interests oil and military, the complex is coming to an end and the piggy bank is running out of money. Without useful internal infrastructure building within the country and I don’t mean data-centers, a restructure, a rethink, the decline will just accelerate.

New comment by Danox in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

Danox — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:14:47 +0000

Yes, Britain pretty much went the same way after World War I, and went into acceleration downward after World War II. The final cap may have been Brexit.

New comment by Danox in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

Danox — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:12:37 +0000

I’m for Thorium research and development. The Chinese again seem to be moving ahead once again, they seem to be open to ideas that work. In the past when America was more of a can-do country the Chinese or Russian development of Thorium reactors (Oak Ridge tech) would have been a Sputnik moment.

Today the reaction is pretty much silence and the same goes for useful infrastructure ie the rail system is pretty much 1950s technology across the United States.

Is this the result of government by lobby?

New comment by Danox in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

Danox — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:50:48 +0000

This is just another area where the Chinese, Japanese, Korean will move ahead and stay ahead? Is this what it means when you have more engineers in your government than lawyers? They seem to be open towards any good idea if it works they don’t dismiss it out of hand because some existing industry might have to compete against the new technology coming in.

Going into the future, multiple energy sources will power future civilizations, multiple battery technologies will store energy what is wrong with multiple solutions as long as you make provisions not to completely destroy the environment you live in.

New comment by Danox in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

Danox — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:38:55 +0000

Dumb, Dumb Dumb….

New comment by Danox in "DeepSeek warns of a 'significant' price rise"

Danox — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:06:36 +0000

Reads straightforward and to the point no bullshit like a street vendor in Shanghai…

New comment by Danox in "Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc"

Danox — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:08:20 +0000

Over the years when Microsoft has to compete on a level playing field they are hopeless, they only know one way playing from a monopoly and when they don’t have it well they suck. Copilot will be the end of Nadella.

New comment by Danox in "Trump blasts Exxon, Chevron for making 'too much money,' demands lower prices"

Danox — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 03:32:30 +0000

He’s mad because they see Venezuela has a money pit.

New comment by Danox in "Why does everyone suddenly hate data centers?"

Danox — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:51:48 +0000

The cost of memory being sky high, and the cost of all tech items going up with it with the result that many people no longer have the same enthusiasm for those AI models like they had two 2 1/2 years ago when OpenAI gave their public presentation with Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever and Mira Murati on stage at that event, doesn’t mean AI won’t be part of the computer future, but they (AI) was never higher than at that time everything seemed possible. Reality has come to the table.

New comment by Danox in "Trump blasts Exxon, Chevron for making 'too much money,' demands lower prices"

Danox — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:32:43 +0000

Political theater…