Hacker News: TheAtomichttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=TheAtomicHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sun, 18 Oct 2026 05:42:18 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by TheAtomic in "Tesla Roadster"]]>Flies, or jumps?

Dunno. Looks like it jumps. Fying seems to require some degree of control over direction but I'm just a gravity-impaired bidep.

]]>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 04:01:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50113923TheAtomichttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50113923https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50113923<![CDATA[New comment by TheAtomic in "Local and Distributed Large LLM Inference with MLX and RDMA on Mac Studio"]]>The coordination with Meta is painfully obvious, and telling. I feel like my trust in Apple (formerly 9/10) is now 6/10, by collaborating with Meta (0/10). It has been a process: before ads, 7/10; before Cook at Trump dinners, 8/10; before "Apple Intelligence," 9/10...it dwindles so quickly even Cory Doctorow would be impressed.

]]>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 03:53:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50113866TheAtomichttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50113866https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50113866<![CDATA[New comment by TheAtomic in "Will big software companies (like Adobe) come together to curb AI?"]]>No, they are irrelevant now.

]]>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 03:55:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50098944TheAtomichttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50098944https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50098944<![CDATA[New comment by TheAtomic in "Cornell Bans Fraternity Parties"]]>Policy created by someone who never went to a fraternity party. Just ban frats, they serve no useful purpose related to a university's goals.

]]>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:19:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50080324TheAtomichttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50080324https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50080324<![CDATA[New comment by TheAtomic in "Whatever became of holography? (2011)"]]>I agree with you but honestly, better that than the endless visual chaos of all the ads and popups. If they can make revenue from bots and make the human reader experience better, then great. I'm not saying they won't do both.

]]>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:15:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50058572TheAtomichttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50058572https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50058572<![CDATA[New comment by TheAtomic in "Triple-A Minesweeper"]]>Is there a help card? Or, how do you turn off the CC captions? They obscure the bottom of the play field on my Mactop.

]]>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 21:38:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50026897TheAtomichttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50026897https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50026897<![CDATA[New comment by TheAtomic in "Dots: Always-on agents"]]>That might be the worst advert I've ever seen. People looking up at childish Ai glow up god beings on huge screens in distinctly childish environments, with cliched decision-makers gasping for West Wing energy...repulsive.

]]>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:42:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49897299TheAtomichttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49897299https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49897299<![CDATA[New comment by TheAtomic in "Meta VR Glasses"]]>Impossible.

]]>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 02:24:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49825454TheAtomichttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49825454https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49825454<![CDATA[New comment by TheAtomic in "iPhone Duo"]]>Trucks analogy is interesting. I (temporarily) live in the US South and trucks are 3:1 to all other vehicles here.

]]>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 20:28:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49633725TheAtomichttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49633725https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49633725<![CDATA[New comment by TheAtomic in "IBM Bob"]]>Oh Clippy

]]>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:52:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49568605TheAtomichttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49568605https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49568605<![CDATA[New comment by TheAtomic in "OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor"]]>Ok, all the usuals.

TBF, it is on their home screen, https://www.openshot.org/download/

]]>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 13:55:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49509872TheAtomichttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49509872https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49509872<![CDATA[New comment by TheAtomic in "OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor"]]>So it runs on ?

I really wish all s/w had the platform and price in line 1.

]]>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 13:51:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49509826TheAtomichttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49509826https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49509826<![CDATA[New comment by TheAtomic in "New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro"]]>The Framework laptop looks interesting

]]>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:11:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49442512TheAtomichttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49442512https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49442512<![CDATA[New comment by TheAtomic in "Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's"]]>Food reporting is often framed like this, as if the smaller size was a bad thing, or the price / gram, pound or ounce is the relevant criteria. Esp in the case of candy, you would think smaller sizes would satisfy the other framing for food items, esp in America, that over-sized food leads to obesity. It is a lose-lose framing, with nutritional value completely ignored. Instead, the reporting is always how people are being ripped off or making an unhealthy choice.

]]>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:06:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49245555TheAtomichttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49245555https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49245555<![CDATA[New comment by TheAtomic in "Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake"]]>Actually, that's the service provided by GS, etc. They have those buyers on the other side of their Rolodex.

]]>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 14:11:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49058423TheAtomichttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49058423https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49058423<![CDATA[New comment by TheAtomic in "Amid nurse shortage, a university rolls out the welcome mat for men"]]>I don't get it. I'm in the rural south and male nurses are common (although it is facility by facility I imagine). Not as many as women, but still, it isn't something I notice anymore.

]]>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:51:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48994894TheAtomichttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48994894https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48994894<![CDATA[New comment by TheAtomic in "Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber"]]>I have liked using their consumer products but they don't make it easy, that's for sure.

]]>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:49:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48994861TheAtomichttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48994861https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48994861<![CDATA[New comment by TheAtomic in "Number of days reaching 100°F and 105°F have declined since 1895"]]>Geography and time periods cherry-picking. The US is not the world so this is irrelevant to a discussion re global warming. Pre-1960 in the US includes the Dust Bowl droughts, a multi-year drought with a vicious positive reinforcement loop, exactly the kind of thing we want to avoid by addressing global warming.

]]>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 14:32:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48968530TheAtomichttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48968530https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48968530<![CDATA[New comment by TheAtomic in "Focus"]]>Focus on making the world a worse place. Great. Please retire.

]]>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 02:57:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48855245TheAtomichttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48855245https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48855245<![CDATA[New comment by TheAtomic in "Mag 7 starting to underperform [pdf]"]]>That free cash flow drop at AMZN is surprising.

]]>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:43:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48720771TheAtomichttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48720771https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48720771