Hacker News: Plasmoid

New comment by Plasmoid in "Unions Can Save Tech Workers and Tech Work"

Plasmoid — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:29:58 +0000

My ask for these is always the same. I just want to see how this union would work, specifically.

Don't compare it to other unions or say it could be like X. Just write a few hundred words on what it would actually be like.

New comment by Plasmoid in "Position: LLMs Can't Jump"

Plasmoid — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:53:28 +0000

It's because LLMs are entropy generators. That's not a bad thing for what people are doing.

But to prevent model collapse you need a way to pump down the entropy. Much like in thermo, it's an expensive and slow process.

New comment by Plasmoid in "Clinical failure rates over the decades: yikes"

Plasmoid — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 02:55:16 +0000

The author, Derek Lowe, also writes the hilarious Things I won't work with series (https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-wor...)

New comment by Plasmoid in "Profiling the "Abundance" housing bottleneck with real data"

Plasmoid — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 01:56:13 +0000

Many people also don't know that Vienna was isolated and divided for nearly 50 years during the cold war. A significant amount of the available housing is due to Vienna having a bad economy for almost a century.

My journey to the microwave alternate timeline

Plasmoid — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 16:06:09 +0000

Article URL: https://malmesbury.substack.com/p/my-journey-to-the-microwave-alternate

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48882196

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by Plasmoid in "TLS certificates for internal services done right"

Plasmoid — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 22:38:56 +0000

Let's encrypt is great but if you operate any kind of scale you can quickly hit their rate limit. AWS only recently started allowing you to pull the certificate out of ACM.

New comment by Plasmoid in "Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040"

Plasmoid — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 21:56:53 +0000

That might take a while. We need to bog down the HSR first.

New comment by Plasmoid in "Rent collections are down in New York"

Plasmoid — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 04:56:07 +0000

Tampering with smoke detectors

New comment by Plasmoid in "Rent collections are down in New York"

Plasmoid — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 04:48:18 +0000

Do you actually know what Vienna did? Because the overwhelming number of people who reference the city basically just repeat a few dubious talking point about restricting rent.

New comment by Plasmoid in "Renting a sewing machine from the library"

Plasmoid — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 23:40:11 +0000

My local library has been running a tool lender library for quite a while. It's quite popular as it rents out both manual and electric tools. This is great when you need an extension ladder but don't want to own an extension ladder.

New comment by Plasmoid in "Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users"

Plasmoid — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:29:39 +0000

> if they let you walk out maybe they really can't

Toyota's have such a backlog of orders that they're marking cars up above MSRP

New comment by Plasmoid in "Can Europe train a frontier AI model on the compute it owns?"

Plasmoid — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 22:49:26 +0000

> conflict free stability is super impressive by that standard.

Not much happened between 1861 and 1865?

New comment by Plasmoid in "The redistribution of housing wealth caused by rent control [pdf]"

Plasmoid — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 05:15:56 +0000

What happens is that economics shift from a renewable model to an extractive model.

Farms are renewable so farmers maintain them over centuries. Mines are extractive so they get pumped and dumped.

What landlords do in these situations is try to extract as much money as possible before the enterprise collapses, either literally or figuratively. New housing doesn't come online quickly so both quality and quantity fall.

New comment by Plasmoid in "The redistribution of housing wealth caused by rent control (2023) [pdf]"

Plasmoid — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 04:44:40 +0000

We could like build more houses though

Dusklight is a reverse-engineered reimplementation of Twilight Princess

Plasmoid — Tue, 26 May 2026 00:29:06 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/TwilitRealm/dusklight

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48273537

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

ChatGPT now supports Plaid connector

Plasmoid — Fri, 15 May 2026 16:50:59 +0000

Article URL: https://plaid.com/blog/chatgpt-personal-finance-plaid/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48150893

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by Plasmoid in "California leaders report four to six weeks worth of gasoline and diesel supply"

Plasmoid — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:58:58 +0000

Yeah, but what's the burn rate?

If it's going down at 1 day per week then it's not so bad. If it's closer to 0.75 days per day, that's much more serious.

New comment by Plasmoid in "Why IPv6 is so complicated"

Plasmoid — Sat, 02 May 2026 17:46:05 +0000

> I administrate are contractually obligated to be so isolated

Yeah, I've seen those contracts. They just reference a SeCuRiTy doc that's 20+ years old, and has never been re-evaluated. Things are secure because they follow the doc, not because they have actually evaluated the reasonable attack space.

I've fighting customers for years on their ideas of proper TLS usage and it's always the same thing. They've got a security doc that never changes and has never evaluated any of the trade-offs. Almost to the point that the people who wrote them choose things that increase downtime and KTLO work without helping security.

New comment by Plasmoid in "Why IPv6 is so complicated"

Plasmoid — Sat, 02 May 2026 16:49:27 +0000

> keeping backward operational compatibility

It is not possible to be backwards compatibility with a larger address space

New comment by Plasmoid in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

Plasmoid — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:54:14 +0000

Because there are so many applicants that have good grades.

A more cynical view is that the governing boards want a way to pick and choose who they let in. So they create "holistic" application systems to get "360 degree view of the candidate".