Hacker News: LaSombra

New comment by LaSombra in "Google told to halt work on datacentres in Finland over environmental concerns"

LaSombra — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:58:17 +0000

You can't have Claude/Grok/Codex without cutting down trees, burning gas or using rivers for cooling down datacenters.

Pick your poison, basically.

Explaining the Magelight XP Glitch in Skyrim

LaSombra — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 10:35:39 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/explaining-the-magelight-xp-glitch-in-skyrim

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49990844

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

IBM and Red Hat Find More Than 400 New Vulnerabilities in Popular Java Code

LaSombra — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 06:16:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/IBM-Red-Hat-Java-400-Vulns

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49988987

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by LaSombra in "Accept 'bad things' in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman"

LaSombra — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 06:01:12 +0000

If everyone == developers, sure there's people using it. Are the trillions in investment and debt, social and environmental impact, fear inducing marketing worth it for a handful of startup developers?

Don't forget that large enterprise developers rarely see cutting edge technology in their workplaces.

New comment by LaSombra in "Accept 'bad things' in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman"

LaSombra — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 10:16:20 +0000

Because hype. That's all that is to it.

Investors putting money in something doesn't translate to demand, success, or zeitgeist. See dotcom bubble.

New comment by LaSombra in "Accept 'bad things' in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman"

LaSombra — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 13:49:02 +0000

How about no? The benefits are not really benefits, are they really? Can't seem to find a benefit out of it, so, no. I don't need to accept any of it.

MikroTik Clairé

LaSombra — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 07:42:32 +0000

Article URL: https://mikrotik.com/product/claire

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49918892

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by LaSombra in "Tesla takes on $30B in credit as it approaches unprofitability"

LaSombra — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:49:11 +0000

A friend of mine who's all in on Musk told me a few months ago that Tesla's business hasn't been cars for a while. It's all Optimus and Cybertaxi, where demand will be infinite and we'll all be paid by our governments to stop working since Optimus will do everything and Cybertaxi will take us anywhere. Not today, of course, but in the future. Future being explained in the exact same elastic terms as Musk does.

The fact that he was serious and thinks that Musk is the only tech CEO not in this for his own benefit and enrichment is what makes me believe that this is more of a cult than anything else.

New comment by LaSombra in "Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch"

LaSombra — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:46:48 +0000

As a contractor sysadmin at the time, managing both Exchange and Notes/Domino, I loved Notes for the simplicity of dealing with backups, to tape and over the VPN.

You mark the database as read only, copy the .nsf file over, unmark the database as read only, done. Brightstor had a plugin for Notes that did that automatically and could do incremental backups with ease.

Move to Exchange and it's horrible single file mail storage solution which was inconceivable when hard drives weren't that big. 10,000 users? It's 100MB of mail so it can fit nicely in a single storage volume. Backups? Well, only at night because you have to unmount the file from Exchange, copy it over, and mount it again, which took a good couple of hours.

I miss Notes "simplicity".