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New comment by TJSomething in "Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake"

TJSomething — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 18:04:55 +0000

It's telecom infrastructure to increase the number of people who have internet in order to increase the number of people using Google. They might have been considering having satellite internet in Android phones.

New comment by TJSomething in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

TJSomething — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:58:46 +0000

This is like half of all job listings I've read recently. And it's a decent amount of fintech that's like this.

New comment by TJSomething in "Global Warming at 3 °C by 2050? What's Behind the New German Climate Warning"

TJSomething — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 05:08:10 +0000

I'm assuming that the most relevant geoengineering is worldwide stuff like blotting out the sun with microsatellites at L1 and dumping iron or lime into the oceans to increase CO2 absorption.

New comment by TJSomething in "Small AI Models Gain Traction In places with unreliable networks"

TJSomething — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 07:38:21 +0000

I haven't tried it, but I saw Leanstral, an LLM specialized in writing Lean proofs, posted on HN recently and it claims to outperform some larger general purpose models. It didn't beat Claude Opus, but it seems to do decently at one tenth the cost. It's plausible that further research could yield other models that are smaller and more effective at limited tasks, reversing the trend of ever growing models.

New comment by TJSomething in "GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands"

TJSomething — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:53:04 +0000

If open frontier models start closing up and states start more export controls on AI services and hardware, it might be good to ensure the supply chain is there to reproduce the SotA, or even a couple generations behind it.

New comment by TJSomething in "FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs"

TJSomething — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:17:23 +0000

I mean I feel obligated. I'd feel bad if I skipped voting in an election where I found out after the fact that one of the candidates kicked puppies.

New comment by TJSomething in "Maryland citizens hit with $2B power grid upgrade for out-of-state AI"

TJSomething — Mon, 11 May 2026 08:58:54 +0000

I'm not sure that follows as the biggest driver. 4 PM is nearly as high as as 6 PM. You would expect a big jump at 5 PM, but the biggest jump is from noon to 2 PM. Just looking at today's temperatures on my front porch in Reno, it was 93°F at 2 PM, it peaked at 95°F at 3:30 PM, and it didn't fall back down to 93°F until 5 PM. Some of that sustained power usage probably is people getting home, but a lot of it is A/C.

New comment by TJSomething in "Show HN: I made a Clojure-like language in Go, boots in 7ms"

TJSomething — Sun, 10 May 2026 05:59:30 +0000

While Janet pulls from a few inspirations, the syntax is pure Clojure. I always figured that it was trying fix up the bumpy parts in Fennel to enable a programming style that was more consistently Clojure-like and functional than could be done in Fennel, since Fennel ultimately has to use Lua's semantics because Fennel compiles to Lua.

New comment by TJSomething in "America's carpet capital: an empire and its toxic legacy"

TJSomething — Sat, 09 May 2026 17:14:30 +0000

I feel like this supposes a better world where most people are educated, rational, and calm investors with the time, money, and energy to actively manage a diversified portfolio.

Or I guess you could get there by abolishing the stock market as it exists, which seems more likely.

New comment by TJSomething in "Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users"

TJSomething — Sat, 09 May 2026 07:40:06 +0000

"Chicxulub impact" seems to be functioning as a bit of hyperbole to imply that this collusion was absolutely devastating, by analogy to the K-T extinction event 66 million years ago.

Not that I really can tell what this was devastating to. Maybe United States v. Apple (2012), where Hachette Book Group, Inc., HarperCollins publishers, Macmillan publishers, Penguin Group, Inc., and Simon & Schuster, Inc. conspired with Apple to raise ebook prices?

New comment by TJSomething in "SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format"

TJSomething — Thu, 07 May 2026 05:42:03 +0000

I mean, it might have been at first, but Microsoft figured out that the majority of users for lists without formulas in 1993 and they've strategized around that. IMHO, the biggest concession to this was when they added Power Query to core Excel in 2016.

New comment by TJSomething in "Brain scans reveal 3 ADHD subtypes"

TJSomething — Sun, 03 May 2026 21:26:24 +0000

I love moving all my laundry to the dryer and forgetting to start the dryer. Probably happens once or twice a month.

New comment by TJSomething in "All elementary functions from a single binary operator"

TJSomething — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:50:09 +0000

The short answer is that the lambda calculus computes transformations on digital values while this is for building functions that can transform continuous (complex) values.

New comment by TJSomething in "Generative art over the years"

TJSomething — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:33:54 +0000

A lot of clothes aren't particularly practical. I'd argue that artifacts are more likely to be art if their purpose is more aesthetic than practical. As such, I'd say that some articles of clothing are art (like anything you see on a runway), some aren't (e.g. basic T-shirt), and some seem ambiguous to me (some ties might be art, but some are pretty boring and they don't have much practical use).

New comment by TJSomething in "Show HN: Travel Hacking Toolkit – Points search and trip planning with AI"

TJSomething — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:49:33 +0000

The big win I usually hear from family who use a lot of miles is on upgrading seats for free, which is really great because they have joint issues and fly fair number of international flights. But I think they also maintain a spreadsheet with a rotating schedule of like 10 credit card companies that are cycled (or maybe shifted between based on who has the best deal for a given good or store in any given month?) for maximum points.

New comment by TJSomething in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026)"

TJSomething — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 01:06:38 +0000

  Location: Reno, NV
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: TypeScript, PHP, C++, Scala, C#, AWS
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-james-kelly/
  Email: info@thomaskelly.co

New comment by TJSomething in "Colorado House passes bill to limit surveillance pricing and wage setting"

TJSomething — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 08:01:31 +0000

If you can do traffic interception, there's a pretty good chance there's going to be traces of price levels in the API and the analytics. Especially since it's probably going to be bolted on to the side of anything PCI compliant. If there isn't, then it's probably going to be really easy to subpoena to prove mens rea, because getting that right is tricky and requires a fair amount of review and coordination.

New comment by TJSomething in "Regular army and reserve components enlistment program: Summary of change"

TJSomething — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 04:43:39 +0000

Given Sec. Hegseth's record, I don't think he really wants women in the military.

New comment by TJSomething in "Baochip-1x: What it is, why I'm doing it now and how it came about"

TJSomething — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:24:25 +0000

I'd assume the point is that they think that the possibility of serving the website to an individual physically within a prohibited country constitutes unacceptable liability.

New comment by TJSomething in "A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification"

TJSomething — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:15:59 +0000

Is this a weird attempt at device verification?