Hacker News: Hatrix

New comment by Hatrix in "Apple didn't revolutionize power supplies; new transistors did (2012)"

Hatrix — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:00:52 +0000

oh, ok, so if you search for Apple technical service bulletins from 40+ years ago you won't find anything about troubleshooting the various problems.

New comment by Hatrix in "Apple didn't revolutionize power supplies; new transistors did (2012)"

Hatrix — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:17:37 +0000

Apple 2 power supply worked until it failed after a couple years.

New comment by Hatrix in "Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study"

Hatrix — Sun, 31 May 2026 22:26:40 +0000

Water is bad for you if you drink too much.

New comment by Hatrix in "Trump has prepared speech on extraterrestrial life, Lara Trump says"

Hatrix — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 02:39:53 +0000

And space tariffs and space peace medals.

New comment by Hatrix in "Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)"

Hatrix — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 23:24:21 +0000

That is one of those shows where disaster strikes just when it's getting interesting.

New comment by Hatrix in "How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?"

Hatrix — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:24:50 +0000

There was something about iTunes at that time where every time I started my car it would connect to my phone and start playing that U2 album regardless of what I had been listening to earlier. It just would not go away.

New comment by Hatrix in "Show HN: I wrapped the Zorks with an LLM"

Hatrix — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 04:46:15 +0000

Burn the letter, escape as smoke?

New comment by Hatrix in "Alex Honnold Completes the Most Dangerous Free-Solo Ascent (2018)"

Hatrix — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 20:49:28 +0000

Story from 2018

New comment by Hatrix in "California is free of drought for the first time in 25 years"

Hatrix — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 23:47:17 +0000

Groundwater and aquifers still depleted.

New comment by Hatrix in "Elon Musk's X down for users"

Hatrix — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:45:55 +0000

That would be good for companies that replaced a well known brand name with a single letter.

New comment by Hatrix in "Lessons from 14 years at Google"

Hatrix — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 20:08:39 +0000

I'd like YouTube to add a button to stop showing scam ads from people outside my country.

New comment by Hatrix in "Nike's Crisis and the Economics of Brand Decay"

Hatrix — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 14:56:34 +0000

I stopped buying Nike shoes a long time ago because they fell apart. They seemed to replace quality with an extra 24" of shoelace.

New comment by Hatrix in "Ask HN: Where Are Nvidia's GPUs?"

Hatrix — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 20:58:36 +0000

Microsoft CEO says the company doesn't have enough electricity to install all the AI GPUs in its inventory - 'you may actually have a bunch of chips sitting in inventory that I can’t plug in'

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-ceo-says-company-do...

New comment by Hatrix in "Buckle Up, the Smart Glasses Backlash Is Coming"

Hatrix — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 12:09:09 +0000

The only thing Google Glass was good for is checking e-mail. It would overheat and shutoff if you tried to record more than a few seconds of video or anything with real-time graphics.

New comment by Hatrix in "New York skyscraper had a 1-in-16 chance of collapse"

Hatrix — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 23:35:32 +0000

Recent buildings with massive construction mistakes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Tower_(San_Francisc...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/161_Maiden_Lane

New comment by Hatrix in "Time travel is self-suppressing"

Hatrix — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 22:06:37 +0000

Future people will have a Holodeck to simulate the past. No reason to actually go there.

New comment by Hatrix in "Ask HN: Why the fundamental skepticism around LLMs?"

Hatrix — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 21:13:14 +0000

Why don't you ask an LLM this question and have it come up with a solution?

New comment by Hatrix in "Steve Jobs' cabinet"

Hatrix — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 23:39:27 +0000

I have seen some Apple ][ motherboards with jumper wire(s) hidden on the back side.

New comment by Hatrix in "Steve Jobs' cabinet"

Hatrix — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 07:44:53 +0000

Steve is concerned with the esthetics of the PC board

https://www.folklore.org/PC_Board_Esthetics.html

New comment by Hatrix in "Why do some autistic people walk differently?"

Hatrix — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 16:23:09 +0000

How do normal people walk? Are people diagnosed as normal? Do autistic people receive a comprehensive list of things they do that are not normal and instructions of how to be normal?