Hacker News: Peanuts99

New comment by Peanuts99 in "My server is a phone now"

Peanuts99 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:44:01 +0000

Some of those SFP cards can use quite a bit of energy on their own. They're not designed with energy efficiency in mind.

I've got an Optiplex with an i5 and two hard drives and that idles around 12W when idling.

New comment by Peanuts99 in "Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo"

Peanuts99 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 07:17:44 +0000

I take it that you'll be pleased when a data center is proposed to be built behind your house then yes?

New comment by Peanuts99 in "Increasing the lifespan of a bulb makes it worse in every other way"

Peanuts99 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:40:33 +0000

You might have poor quality incoming AC. Capacitors in the power supplies will be under more stress if you regularly have over/under voltages or small spikes and surges.

New comment by Peanuts99 in "GDID Windows – Cut the tracker that follows you even under VPN"

Peanuts99 — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 07:30:11 +0000

You can do the same with the GDID, it's stored in the registry.

New comment by Peanuts99 in "DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16"

Peanuts99 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 21:14:25 +0000

Not in this case, but if you aren't building it to put humans in it at all, you can build it with higher requirements in mind. Traditionally there's no point building a plane that can withstand much over 9g.

New comment by Peanuts99 in "Lobste.rs is now running on SQLite"

Peanuts99 — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 08:14:17 +0000

I've got a few planks over a ditch in my garden. The bridge only needs to be designed for the load and then some. In this case, this seems to work just fine.

New comment by Peanuts99 in "NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook"

Peanuts99 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 11:37:01 +0000

I recently got a trial for the Google AI Pro subscription and it burned through a week's in a single prompt. Quite impressive for sure.

New comment by Peanuts99 in "Goes-19 weather satellite enters Safe Hold mode"

Peanuts99 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:05:03 +0000

The counter to this is the UK.Gov website. Very simple and basic, modern (maybe) but very accessible. Government websites should put accessibility over everything else.

New comment by Peanuts99 in "Mysteries of Telegram Data Centers (2022)"

Peanuts99 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:43:16 +0000

The more I learn about telegram, the sketchier it seems.

New comment by Peanuts99 in "Why it's so difficult to produce American-made medical gloves"

Peanuts99 — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 19:00:21 +0000

Every glove is tested for conductivity to ensure it's not got tiny holes in, you can't do that with 'glue gloves'.

New comment by Peanuts99 in "Ask HN: Why isn't Google indexing information about the AT Protocol?"

Peanuts99 — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 18:55:50 +0000

Doesn't DDG use Bing?

New comment by Peanuts99 in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

Peanuts99 — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 16:34:11 +0000

Are they actually worse than businesses though? The internet, jet engines.. in fact whole swaiths of technology have been created under governments not enterprises. This just feels like an economic concept people blindly accept.

New comment by Peanuts99 in "Ryanair passenger sucked toward broken window after midair engine failure"

Peanuts99 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:13:21 +0000

Ryanair has a pretty high safety record, they fly modern, well maintained planes because their margins are lower and they make them up in volume.

New comment by Peanuts99 in "President pardons 9 for Clean Air violations for 'fixing their car'"

Peanuts99 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 12:15:25 +0000

Buses can carry 100 people at a time so have a far larger social utility. Besides, most are going electric.

New comment by Peanuts99 in "“Beyond the limit”: Satellites and mirrors in space pose threat to the night sky"

Peanuts99 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 09:24:02 +0000

But that's just what OP is saying, you can 'refuse' to be limited to nature, but nature will have other plans for you.

New comment by Peanuts99 in "Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries"

Peanuts99 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:34:25 +0000

Most 90 year old lonely people would probably benefit more from an actual human carer than some clanker that can't do stairs, any kind of mobility assistance and can't even make them a cup of tea.

New comment by Peanuts99 in "Long Island's decommissioned nuclear power plant"

Peanuts99 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 09:57:47 +0000

Having renewables distributed however is the big challenge. We've gone from a world where you have a small amount of large generators in static places to having many generators everywhere. If you don't have the capacity to transfer that energy to where it's being used it doesn't matter how cheap it is.

New comment by Peanuts99 in "The case for physical media ownership"

Peanuts99 — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 14:07:22 +0000

No. 2 is enough though surely, I've had multiple incidences now where a series we've been watching on a streaming platform has disappeared without warning, running my own little media server alleviates that entirely.

New comment by Peanuts99 in "Long Wave radio era set to end with switch-off"

Peanuts99 — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 08:23:52 +0000

Digital radio was always going to be crap, it doesn't degrade gradually as signal gets worse They should have just put all the money into a better 4G network and ran radio through that.

New comment by Peanuts99 in "The Doorman's Fallacy in action"

Peanuts99 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 08:13:46 +0000

I don't think you've got an expectation of privacy when it comes to what you're eating in a restaurant. You could just walk over to their table.