Hacker News: Ericson2314

New comment by Ericson2314 in "I found a seashell in the middle of the desert"

Ericson2314 — Sun, 31 May 2026 15:12:09 +0000

No, a layperson doing a bunch of math but barking up the wrong tree theory-wise is actually super instructive for this forum of autodidacts.

And I say that as one of the autodidacts.

New comment by Ericson2314 in "Show HN: Darnix – Darwin Built with Nix"

Ericson2314 — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:53:54 +0000

As long as Apple doesn't change the license, I think this means we can make legal semi-hackintoshes good enough for CI purposes. That could be a real game-changer!

New comment by Ericson2314 in "We need a federation of forges"

Ericson2314 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:58:21 +0000

Do you think it will be possible to use them together? Having some sort of unified distributed system is intriguing to me. (e.g. can the Radical foundation and AT-proto foundation integrate, even?)

New comment by Ericson2314 in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"

Ericson2314 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:04:10 +0000

Stocks vs Flows! You can't compare (as in subtract and check sign) $ and $/s!

New comment by Ericson2314 in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

Ericson2314 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:31:05 +0000

ISPs almost all offer IPv6. The reason the US number is not higher is lazy corporate networks.

New comment by Ericson2314 in "Costasiella kuroshimae"

Ericson2314 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:20:21 +0000

I remember as a kid wondering if we could give humans chlorolaplasts.

New comment by Ericson2314 in "GitHub Stacked PRs"

Ericson2314 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:03:40 +0000

Sapling and JJ can sort it out, the outside world will only care for one of them.

New comment by Ericson2314 in "For the first time in the U.S., renewables generate more power than natural gas"

Ericson2314 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:58:38 +0000

Good stuff. But I would blame the Trump admin more then data centers for coal power plants staying on line. Gas would substitute for the coal ata minimum otherwise.

> Nine coal power plants that were set for retirement last year have had their operating lives extended, including five in response to emergency orders from the Department of Energy.

Maybe the other 4 still stay open without the bullshit DoE order keeping the 5 open, but who knows.

New comment by Ericson2314 in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

Ericson2314 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:37:10 +0000

Ronan Farrow's expertise is investigations into elite amorality, not evaluating technical products. Why are you asking this question?

New comment by Ericson2314 in "Slop is not necessarily the future"

Ericson2314 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:10:25 +0000

The economic force is the LLMs themselves are worse at maintaining slop than good good.

Everything fundamental that makes good easier for humans to maintain also makes it easier for LLMs to maintain. Full stop.

New comment by Ericson2314 in "Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview"

Ericson2314 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 05:45:41 +0000

I figured it out from context clues

CC: Claude Code

TC: total comp(ensation)

New comment by Ericson2314 in "I put all 8,642 Spanish laws in Git – every reform is a commit"

Ericson2314 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 14:28:17 +0000

All legislatures need to work this way as soon as possible!

New comment by Ericson2314 in "An incoherent Rust"

Ericson2314 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 05:43:38 +0000

Ah this is very good, both the directionary tracking and getting rid of as much coherence as possible. Yay!

New comment by Ericson2314 in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

Ericson2314 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 11:52:43 +0000

Just in time for https://github.com/nix-windows/nix-windows-demo, heh

Show HN: Nix on Windows –- proof-of-concept demo

Ericson2314 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:58:52 +0000

How puffnfresh, my coworker, made a single command to download, assemble, and boot the VM image is arguably as cool as the port itself!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47358988

Points: 9

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New comment by Ericson2314 in "Grief and the AI split"

Ericson2314 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:29:49 +0000

> Before AI, both camps were doing the same thing every day. Writing code by hand. Using the same editors, the same languages,

Hell no. I, a craftsman, was going out of my way to use things like Haskell. I was very aware of the divide the entire time. The present is a relief.

New comment by Ericson2314 in "Micropayments as a reality check for news sites"

Ericson2314 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:48:16 +0000

There's two possible futures

- give up capitalism for information, and rely on UBI and gov grants for art and media

- make the market great again with micropayments and subscriptions

Both of these have problems, but also both are better than ads, which have been an unmitigated disaster.

New comment by Ericson2314 in "We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science"

Ericson2314 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:28:44 +0000

Frankly, if the places that dominate at healthcare delivery efficiency also dominate at research, that could be good for the world.

The US having a dogshit healthcare delivery system but so much research means that good vertical integration is not possible.

Conversely a more integrated EU — continent scale welfare state — could do really interesting "integrated OpEx and CapEx" medical research in ways that are simply impossible in the US.

Remember the Danes making Ozempic is making something that is fundamentally far more useful for Americans than Danes (of course the money is good for Danes). Most non-American drug research today probably chases the lucrative American market, but ideally that would change.

New comment by Ericson2314 in "Neurons outside the brain"

Ericson2314 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 05:47:41 +0000

Came here to say the same thing — 2's abstract claims the exact opposite. Really damning.

New comment by Ericson2314 in "A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words"

Ericson2314 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 01:45:13 +0000

Yeah I don't think it is incorrect. The NYTimes to me does imply they are running out, because the alternative reasons are a bit more condescending to the users and/ or more subjective. So it begs the question in it looks like the NYTimes is hiding their motivate, which is at the very least not so trivial after all.