Hacker News: Phenomenit

I Donut believe, third party validation [video]

Phenomenit — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 18:38:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiOma6v_EZY

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47103404

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by Phenomenit in "The Waymo World Model"

Phenomenit — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 17:04:13 +0000

Seems like a good description on current events.

New comment by Phenomenit in "Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media"

Phenomenit — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 07:29:26 +0000

They should just ban showing ads to people under 18. That will remove the incentive to produce and feed dopamine garbage to kids with unfinished brains.

New comment by Phenomenit in "The biggest heat pumps"

Phenomenit — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:11:51 +0000

You never go below 1 in efficiency. Worst case the water is heated directly with electricity.

New comment by Phenomenit in "2025 Infrastructure Report Card"

Phenomenit — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 21:29:27 +0000

Don’t they have daily de-railings? I remember some YouTube video talking about derailings with hazardous materials.

New comment by Phenomenit in "Musk-Trump dispute includes threats to SpaceX contracts"

Phenomenit — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 20:08:23 +0000

That’s the key right? It’s world as content. Nothing means anything anymore as long as it gets spread on media platforms. The easiest way for the US to get out this downward spiral is to just ignore the medias coverage of ”politics”. But that’s not gonna happen is it? Gotta se what happens next!

New comment by Phenomenit in "Kagi Assistant is now available to all users"

Phenomenit — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 09:53:23 +0000

It doesn’t, I use the starter plan, that’s the lowest paid tie.

New comment by Phenomenit in "Kagi Assistant is now available to all users"

Phenomenit — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 06:29:04 +0000

Yeah I concur.

As an early adopter I first got forced off my grandfather plan to the regular one(at least I got a T-shirt). Now I have a limited number of searches that I have to keep track of and this has made me only use Kagi if necessary. This has dropped my number of searches significantly but at the end of the year I’m still being charged for renewing my plan even though I haven’t used a quarter of my allotted searches.

I don’t care about LLMs so this brings nothing of value to me. Give me an email account or some backup storage and open source office suite and I would be willing to pay and pay more.

I’m seriously considering not re-newing my subscription for the first time in ages.

New comment by Phenomenit in "Ereader Easy Swedish"

Phenomenit — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 06:52:40 +0000

Is there something similar in French? Preferably from French/English to simplified French?

New comment by Phenomenit in "String of recent killings linked to Bay Area 'Zizians'"

Phenomenit — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 18:37:32 +0000

So you’ve discarded a lot of modern , post modern and contemporary thinkers without offering some alternative or do you mean that there isn’t much to philosophy in general? I’m curious because I have also come to a similar conclusion but I have to admit that I have not read everyone that you’ve mentioned but I have read summaries and analysis.

New comment by Phenomenit in "The largest solar farm just came online in China"

Phenomenit — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 20:31:14 +0000

But let’s not ignore the average down time of 35-40 days per year for refueling nuclear PP.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/185276/us-nuclear-refuel...

New comment by Phenomenit in "Roman Roads (2017)"

Phenomenit — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 16:17:26 +0000

So he rode really fast, reckless and sleep deprived to his brother who’d been injured in a horse riding accident?

New comment by Phenomenit in "Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by comment, 10 months later"

Phenomenit — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 15:26:27 +0000

Yeah the problem is that academia has the same issue with garbage papers. As long as information has some ad value, be it commercial or political it will fill all spaces with garbage to make a buck.

New comment by Phenomenit in "Jasmin Paris Becomes First Woman to Finish Hardest Race"

Phenomenit — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 13:53:55 +0000

”it's forbidden to attempt these ultra races in that way, the competitors aren't even allowed to help each other during a loop.”

What? No that’s not right, of course they stick together or else no rookie would ever finish a loop.

New comment by Phenomenit in "Homeless Mortality Data"

Phenomenit — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 10:39:11 +0000

And therefore they do not deserve to live.

New comment by Phenomenit in "Earth just experienced its hottest 12 months in recorded history"

Phenomenit — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 08:24:10 +0000

This is definitely encouraging but I’d rather see a study about people forgoing consumption or voluntarily imposing self austerity rather than what their opinions are.

New comment by Phenomenit in "Earth just experienced its hottest 12 months in recorded history"

Phenomenit — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 07:24:31 +0000

The Change needed is refused by the people. We would rather die and kill most of the biological world than face economic austerity, so we get what we order.

New comment by Phenomenit in "Researchers shed light on higher energy yields in vertical PV systems"

Phenomenit — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 15:46:04 +0000

We don’t have AC installed so our only major energy cost during the summer is hot water . Yeah it’s definitely worth doing som maths. One major pain point though is that we need a permit for vertical panels because it affects the look of the house.

New comment by Phenomenit in "Researchers shed light on higher energy yields in vertical PV systems"

Phenomenit — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 15:27:43 +0000

I live in the edge of a row of townhouses and have a huge wall doing nothing but cooling the house. I’ve been thinking about having vertical panels on the wall and my fear is exactly what you described, that all RoI calculations are based on producing a lot of power during the summer half of the year and I that I will not recoup the money but the problem is that when it’s sunny outside everybody is producing electricity and the prices are low so I think the RoI don’t really take this in to account. My wall is on the sout side and gets sunlight all day, is much larger than my roof, doesn’t get covered with snow. The prices electricity are usually 10-20x higher during the winter and our consumption is also 10x higher. I don’t know it just seems to make more sense to put them on the wall.

New comment by Phenomenit in "World surpasses key warming threshold across an entire year"

Phenomenit — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 12:54:50 +0000

Yeah doing more of the thing that screwed everything up is usually the best solution. /s