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New comment by Temporary_31337 in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

Temporary_31337 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:35:50 +0000

HAM radio is whole range of things that were not possible when I was getting into it - first of all it's super cheap to start now, and you can probably bounce RF signals off the moon for less than $100 nowadays. Shortwave radio has always allowed signals to go around the world (by bouncing off the stratosphere). Most likely the new digital + AI capabilities means that a few well positioned relays could make for a very independent, low bandwidth Internet. Solar powered BTS or APs all kinds of experiments are possible...

New comment by Temporary_31337 in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

Temporary_31337 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:55:36 +0000

I know it's brutal, but my kids were raised with iPads, PS3-5, computers, age inappropriate Minecraft and youtube, all kids of gadgets and turned out ok, already earning money (in tech of course) - one is in UX / product building, another more on the core math/theorem side. Protecting kids from tech is like raising your kids in a glass house, yes they are fine while inside but then what?

New comment by Temporary_31337 in "Ask HN: European Tech Alternatives?"

Temporary_31337 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:09:51 +0000

Curious about the motivation. The current conflict in Iran once again reminds us of how it;s all intertwined. The blockade of Strait of Hormuz means helium shortages means no chip production, means your EU based alternative is not getting chips so you really don't have an alternative unless you can somehow magically wish a whole fairly alternative supply chain of EU based rare minerals, fabs, nvidias etc

New comment by Temporary_31337 in "New Apple Silicon M4 and M5 HiDPI Limitation on 4K External Displays"

Temporary_31337 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 08:52:44 +0000

I think you'd want to offer morethan a problem statement when taking CEO time. Yes it's broken because shareholders demand M$ products have AI feature so that the share price has the 'AI' multiple. It's pretty hard to justify the stock price, even with the current, high earling from the cloud so they are looking for hte next golden goose

New comment by Temporary_31337 in "$500 GPU outperforms Claude Sonnet on coding benchmarks"

Temporary_31337 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 08:54:12 +0000

the headline is pretty stupid - compares a model to a GPU that models run on. Somewhere in that data centre, some part of Sonnet infferencing runs on a 900$ GPU or maybe even cheaper Google tensor

New comment by Temporary_31337 in "Ask HN: How many of you hold an amateur radio license in your country?"

Temporary_31337 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 11:06:46 +0000

My father was pretty serious about this as a hobby - SP7DRV - had shortware CW and voice connections with pretty much all the coutries, remote islands (when there was an expeditions) and some countries that do not exist anymore so his tally was more countries than there are in the world. Personally I prefer the convenience of fibre connection + TCP/IP but I get that in a time of hypothetical crisis or war this could prove useful. War in Ukraine shows it's more Starlink + Internet rather than HAM radio but there's still a use case.

New comment by Temporary_31337 in "What Drives Stock Market Returns? (2018)"

Temporary_31337 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 17:17:13 +0000

One thing I learned about logic is that if you start with a false statement, whatever comes next doesn't matter "almost all valuations and returns are driven by corporate earnings" no they are not, at least not anymore.

New comment by Temporary_31337 in "Luce: First Electric Ferrari"

Temporary_31337 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:28:33 +0000

Unfortunately for a lot of performance and luxury oriented Car manufacturers, EVs are a death trap - since they don't have access to any special battery chemistry, the drivetrain is basically a commodity - you can get more HP from Xiaomi than you can get from a Ferrari. Any advatages / weight savings around say carbon chassis will be negligible and probably more of a nuisance in daily driving.

Moreover the battery will degrade over time so it's not a good long term investment (unlike ICE cars where 100 year old machines still run fine). I'm sure there will still be some buyers but the margins are going to get squeezed and the Rich Oil Sheikh will reconsider their purchasing choices when it gets overtaken by a Chinese EV equivalent at 1/10th of the price. I really don't see how Ferrari can support its brand with a toy car like this.

New comment by Temporary_31337 in "Your app subscription is now my weekend project"

Temporary_31337 — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 13:27:29 +0000

..so they would pay so the see the blog post a little earlier thna you do? Math doesn't work out on this

New comment by Temporary_31337 in "Why Replicate is joining Cloudflare"

Temporary_31337 — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 13:09:30 +0000

came here to put this comment exactly ;)

New comment by Temporary_31337 in "General principles for the use of AI at CERN"

Temporary_31337 — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 11:59:05 +0000

blah, blah,people will simply use it as they see fit

New comment by Temporary_31337 in "Samsung's 60% DRAM price hike signals a new phase of global memory tightening"

Temporary_31337 — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 08:11:02 +0000

I think that goes to show that official inflation benchmarks are not very practical / useful in terms of buckets of things that people actually buy or desire. If the bucket that measured inflation included computer parts (GPUs?), food and housing - i.e. all that the thing that a geek really needs inflation would be wayy higher...

New comment by Temporary_31337 in "Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division"

Temporary_31337 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 13:46:03 +0000

I dunno, I got used to the weekly beatings. You could arque that if you understand what brings the most business value and deliver that repeatedly, you're pretty safe from being fired and arguably you'd know how to run your own business if needed.

If someone, say did a great job of updating API documentation that can be fully automated now, that's not good enough nowadays. I realise that's not exactly fair because the capitalists / shareholders 'only' have to have to have money in order to receive compensation, and you as a labourer face increasing demands. If you don't like the balance of power you find a niche / leverage as a laborer or you switch to being a capitalist eventually.

New comment by Temporary_31337 in "Baldur's Gate 3 Steam Deck – Native Version"

Temporary_31337 — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 08:57:50 +0000

Wow, I bought Baldur's Gate 3 out of nostalgia before a very long (20hours + ) flight and played some good long hours on the plane. Unfortunately the Proton version meant the game was unplayable on the Deck later in the game. I'm so happy I can finish it now. Coincidentally I also realised I can play it on my Mac too...

New comment by Temporary_31337 in "iPhone Air"

Temporary_31337 — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 14:12:42 +0000

but 250 000 000 other people will.

New comment by Temporary_31337 in "UK's largest battery storage facility at Tilbury substation"

Temporary_31337 — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 11:10:29 +0000

What is the chemistry and expected lifetime of the batterries? They are saying this is for sustainable energy future but it looks like it's using natural gas (not sustainable) powered energy to charge up Lithium(?) batteries that will need to be replaced every n years (also not sustainable). Which part of this facility makes it more sustainable?

New comment by Temporary_31337 in "F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before crash"

Temporary_31337 — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 12:10:20 +0000

US can (effectively) shut down F35s remote.y

New comment by Temporary_31337 in "AI Is Wrecking Young Americans' Job Prospects"

Temporary_31337 — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 14:57:56 +0000

computer job market is a huge misallocation of skills and resources, so no it's not that simple. Given how much tech debt/backlog there is, there should be enough work for everyone, just paid less. The fact that it isn't so just shows that there are bottlenecks elsewhere - HR, companies stuck in office only mode (so there's a high floor on salaries).

Currently all I see is a mix of very highly paid do it all types with rather lowly paid outsourced talent but no sensible middle and of course no way to realistically learn on the job - the bar to get in is very high.

New comment by Temporary_31337 in "Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears"

Temporary_31337 — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 15:22:39 +0000

occam's razor

New comment by Temporary_31337 in "Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears"

Temporary_31337 — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 13:58:46 +0000

I dare say that size is 3. Fight me ;)