Hacker News: HaloZero

New comment by HaloZero in "Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?"

HaloZero — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 23:16:23 +0000

The memory shortage is really for these insane memory requirements for LLMs.

A web browser and the basic mobile app will be fine.

The iPhone 17 Pro has the most RAM and it's only 12GB. Hell the iPhone 16 Pro only had 8 GB. The vast majority of consumer cases don't need it. I doubt Apple and other manufacturers will go beyond that to keep prices down.

New comment by HaloZero in "How many of the 170k English words do you know?"

HaloZero — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 15:09:04 +0000

I wish it had keyboard shortcuts, it's a bit of a sludge to click through twice.

Got 64,650: 20/19/17/18/12 (the intermediate one was a dumb mistake)

New comment by HaloZero in "Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?"

HaloZero — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:25:11 +0000

I’m not that old but Partiful and other sites have completely consumed Facebook events for me for personal stuff

New comment by HaloZero in "India's surprise baby bust"

HaloZero — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 02:32:22 +0000

My understanding of Singapore work culture though is it's intense and competitive. Yes the housing is cheaper and more accessible but it's the same age to get there (maybe a bit earlier). You aren't "economically secure" earlier in life than in Western countries. I don't know enough Vienna's system to speak for it.

New comment by HaloZero in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"

HaloZero — Tue, 26 May 2026 21:00:09 +0000

I really hope the next person in charge gives up on business deals and aims for more personal updates. I store all my photos on Dropbox. The fact that they don’t a have a good way to manage it is still painful

New comment by HaloZero in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

HaloZero — Sun, 10 May 2026 23:23:17 +0000

Is it free for now? This looks like a huge solve to a problem

New comment by HaloZero in "Online age verification is the hill to die on"

HaloZero — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 02:05:05 +0000

I'm curious how much of that will keep occurring though? These underage influencers I assume had a following that existed that they want to manage. But if you can't start one without an agency or an adult running things won't that dampen the amounts of them?

New comment by HaloZero in "Waymo in Portland"

HaloZero — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:31:33 +0000

It's not a bandaid because American urban design isn't going to change substantially. I don't see American cities changing their mind on how they build and where they build.

New comment by HaloZero in "Sergey Brin Confronted Gavin Newsom"

HaloZero — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 23:52:40 +0000

How did you come up with 50 billion? It’s a 2% one time tax no?

New comment by HaloZero in "Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys"

HaloZero — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:22:03 +0000

If you haven't listened/read it, I think the Ezra Klein interview with Alex Bores (who formerly worked at Palantir) and how he talks about how it was in 2014 vs now.

It's also insane that a PAC campaigning against Bores is funded by current Palantir employee Lonsdale. Their critical ads literally criticize him for working for Palantir.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas...

New comment by HaloZero in "US Department of Justice has officially reclassified cannabis as less dangerous"

HaloZero — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:44:51 +0000

Because we regulated it when it got bad. Other countries have had opioid epidemics and they’ve had to intervene. China is a very famous example because the British didn’t like the crackdown as it affected other trade

New comment by HaloZero in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

HaloZero — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:17:41 +0000

Who is going to invade Iran and stop them from shooting missiles at passing chips?

New comment by HaloZero in "Delve removed from Y Combinator"

HaloZero — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 05:39:30 +0000

I think it's fairly straight forward why. It's because Delve broke the law and got other YC companies in trouble vs other industries & people not under the YC banner.

New comment by HaloZero in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

HaloZero — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:00:12 +0000

I thought all the US ones existed in US states/territories? The ones in the middle east could be potentially destroyed true though.

New comment by HaloZero in "Tailscale's new macOS home"

HaloZero — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:53:01 +0000

Hmmm, is this supposed to do something on OSX 26.3? I tried setting it to 10 and it doesn't seem to do anything? Wonder if there's something new for Tahoe.

New comment by HaloZero in "ICAO issued new power bank restriction on flight"

HaloZero — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 06:26:41 +0000

So wait if solid state is too expensive? What replaces lithium ion batteries? What breakthrough do you expect in solid state to make it cheaper in 2028?

New comment by HaloZero in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

HaloZero — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 04:57:54 +0000

The problem is that Iran has the Houthi's in Yemen. And they're within missile/bombing range of the current pipeline.

New comment by HaloZero in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"

HaloZero — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 03:21:27 +0000

I talked to my friends who aren't in tech a lot about what they would want with software. A lot of the benefits of small software like this would actually be compliance and reporting issues with non-profit. Sifting through large amounts of data with very unstructured inputs.

The actual community building is fairly not as automated unless you have very specific problems. Like even in the example above, having an automated message is useful but staffing the team to handle when things are NOT in a good spot would probably be the real scaling cost.

New comment by HaloZero in "Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer"

HaloZero — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:39:37 +0000

Bah it has quite a few dependencies which I imagine won’t fly on iOS. More possible to build a remote streaming capability to it.

New comment by HaloZero in "Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer"

HaloZero — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:15:53 +0000

Would it possible to port this to car play? Or does the embedded python not work for iOS apps?