Hacker News: Nicholas_C

New comment by Nicholas_C in "Confidential submission of draft S-1 to the SEC"

Nicholas_C — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:56:01 +0000

Their tone is just as fake as typical fake marketing speak - they are trying to come off as nonchalant. I bet this announcement was wordsmithed to hell.

New comment by Nicholas_C in "Ask HN: Are orbital data centers possible / a good idea?"

Nicholas_C — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:48:54 +0000

Is it a better or worse idea than doing putting them in the ocean?

https://panthalassa.com/

New comment by Nicholas_C in "Ask HN: When and why did you start believing in God?"

Nicholas_C — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:10:06 +0000

Any reading suggestions? That sounds very interesting. I’m reading through the Bible this year and I’m currently working through the NT.

New comment by Nicholas_C in "Claude Opus 4.8"

Nicholas_C — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:55:10 +0000

I think they will all be minor going forward, feels like the major improvements have all been made and we'll only see incremental improvements from here on out. Maybe I'm wrong but we'll see.

New comment by Nicholas_C in "Ask HN: When and why did you start believing in God?"

Nicholas_C — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:30:40 +0000

I've lived/traveled all over the Bible belt and I can't remember that ever happening even once. I'm sure it does happen but never seen it.

New comment by Nicholas_C in "Ask HN: What game have you replayed more times than any other?"

Nicholas_C — Thu, 28 May 2026 04:50:00 +0000

I don’t use any mods, I’m a pretty casual player but maybe I should look into some.

New comment by Nicholas_C in "Ask HN: When and why did you start believing in God?"

Nicholas_C — Thu, 28 May 2026 04:05:16 +0000

Q: How can you tell if someone is an atheist?

A: Don’t worry, they’ll tell you.

New comment by Nicholas_C in "Ask HN: What game have you replayed more times than any other?"

Nicholas_C — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:18:28 +0000

Sim City 4 and Civilization 5. Both are timeless and I still play them a few times a year. Hard to believe Sim City 4 is over 20 years old.

New comment by Nicholas_C in "Claude for Small Business"

Nicholas_C — Thu, 14 May 2026 13:02:42 +0000

If they’re just using excel or their LLM vibe coded its own double entry accounting system this is a pretty bad idea.

New comment by Nicholas_C in "Kindle to end store downloads and registering for 1st-5th gen kindles in May"

Nicholas_C — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:16:04 +0000

In my post I said "this kind of stuff" which also includes their DRM policies (which is the real reason they are ending the users' kindle support).

New comment by Nicholas_C in "Kindle to end store downloads and registering for 1st-5th gen kindles in May"

Nicholas_C — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:45:48 +0000

This kind of stuff is why I no longer use a kindle. I use a kobo which IMHO is not as good of a product but it's worth not supporting this behavior.

New comment by Nicholas_C in "Why do SF billboards hit different?"

Nicholas_C — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:11:47 +0000

Houston has quite a few software company billboards. It’s just that in SF it’s 100% software billboards so it’s really noticeable.

New comment by Nicholas_C in "Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?"

Nicholas_C — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:43:13 +0000

I'm surprised he would admit that publicly on a podcast.

New comment by Nicholas_C in "GPT-5.4"

Nicholas_C — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 22:27:04 +0000

The HN of old is no more unfortunately. Things get up or down voted based purely on political alignment.

New comment by Nicholas_C in "Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience?"

Nicholas_C — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:13:29 +0000

Maybe it has always been this way but it seems like these days it's only a matter of time before anyone "authentic" (or at least seems authentic at first) turns into some type of grifter. If you have a big enough following there is too much money to be made not to grift.

New comment by Nicholas_C in "Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant"

Nicholas_C — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 03:37:27 +0000

There are a lot of people with incentives to hype the AI industry (VCs, founders, CEOs, internet personalities that need clicks, people that sell courses, etc). Last week everyone was hyping Claude Cowork, this week it's Clawdbot. Don't get me wrong I think there are a lot of cool things going on but there is a lot of hype (similar to the original internet bubble).

New comment by Nicholas_C in "Theft of 'The Weeping Woman' from the National Gallery of Victoria"

Nicholas_C — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 18:47:34 +0000

Agreed. If no one uses gymnastics to traverse a laser filled room it's actually pretty lame.

New comment by Nicholas_C in "How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM"

Nicholas_C — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 01:22:03 +0000

I switched to kobo for a while but I thought the hardware itself was inferior. Maybe they fixed it but I couldn’t dim the screen low enough to not annoy my wife while she tried to sleep. It felt cheaper too. I begrudgingly switched back to my old kindle.

New comment by Nicholas_C in "Thoughts on Mechanical Keyboards and the ZSA Moonlander"

Nicholas_C — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 19:19:06 +0000

My work laptop and personal laptop are the same model for this reason. Switching between two different keyboard layouts is very frustrating.

New comment by Nicholas_C in "Croatian freediver held breath for 29 minutes"

Nicholas_C — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 03:30:09 +0000

Not the OP but I used to do breathe hold training for surfing and bought a pulse oximeter. I don’t think I ever got below 90%.