Hacker News: Unit327

New comment by Unit327 in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

Unit327 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 06:48:51 +0000

They aren't in the black at all, let alone "insanely" so. Maybe if they just did commercial launches on falcon 9, but instead they've been shoveling those "huge margins" straight back into r&d on starship etc.

New comment by Unit327 in "Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness"

Unit327 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 02:00:46 +0000

I can just see the meeting where the apple developers pitched this. "Some of our users want to stare at their black rectangles for 18 hours a day but unfortunately have to take a break and stare out of the window because of motion sickness. How can we help them in order to drive up usage even more?"

There's probably a meeting going on somewhere inside google/apple right now to work out how to cure humans of the need for sleep.

New comment by Unit327 in "Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible"

Unit327 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 01:48:46 +0000

"If agi and perfect humanoid robot slaves, then xyz". That's a motherfucking big "if".

New comment by Unit327 in "India's surprise baby bust"

Unit327 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:09:13 +0000

The impacts haven't really been seen yet because Japan is still on the flat apex of the population curve, but the rollercoaster is about to start diving.

https://www.ipss.go.jp/pp-zenkoku/e/zenkoku_e2023/pp_zenkoku...

New comment by Unit327 in "Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?"

Unit327 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 23:59:20 +0000

This argument gets trotted out every time but it doesn't convince me of anything. Yes, calling things out creates an incentive for people to hide them, but so what?

Setting aside the whole AI = bad argument, let's do a metaphor. Tax evasion is bad and unethical and you should call it out where you see it. But wait, that creates an incentive for people to hide it! So I'd better not call it out, it's best to just keep my mouth shut.

New comment by Unit327 in "Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL"

Unit327 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 06:58:37 +0000

Anubis is one alternative, kinda sucks that we need to slow down the web for everyone a little bit though.

New comment by Unit327 in "The dead economy theory"

Unit327 — Sat, 30 May 2026 02:37:51 +0000

Anthropic have only scraped together a month of profitability by cooking the books. They have an extreme compute discount from spacex that only applies for the first couple of months of the deal. By pushing the costs down the road they can make themselves look good before IPO. Even they have admitted publicly though that they don't expect profitability to last.

New comment by Unit327 in "Is AI causing a repeat of frontend’s lost decade?"

Unit327 — Sat, 30 May 2026 02:28:08 +0000

That quote is not from the article and has nothing to do with the article, what is going on here?

New comment by Unit327 in "Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?"

Unit327 — Tue, 26 May 2026 07:53:26 +0000

I could spend 20 minutes coding in a headset but there's no way could I spend an hour doing it.

New comment by Unit327 in "Was my $48K GPU server worth it?"

Unit327 — Fri, 22 May 2026 06:12:22 +0000

It also doesn't help that they probably sell tokens below cost.

New comment by Unit327 in "NetHack 5.0.0"

Unit327 — Sat, 02 May 2026 22:34:28 +0000

Nethack is best played completely spoiled with the wiki open at all times. You'll miss the amazing interactions and stuff otherwise, and it is still challenging either way. It was basically made to be played by source divers in the days before wiki diving.

Savescumming is also just explore/wizard mode with more steps.

New comment by Unit327 in "NetHack 5.0.0"

Unit327 — Sat, 02 May 2026 22:29:39 +0000

ssh nethack@us.hardfought.org

It has been updated, and there are also eu/au region servers.

New comment by Unit327 in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

Unit327 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 01:08:10 +0000

2B ARR at what cost base?

New comment by Unit327 in "Your phone is an entire computer"

Unit327 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:56:26 +0000

A NAS is just an example, here's a better one; I love to use my old phones as wall mounted displays and controls for home assistant, or as remote music players plugged in to some speakers that I can hook into in music assistant. Some of my old phones are more than capable of this hardware wise but are locked to older versions of android and can't run anything built for a newer version, so they end up as ewaste intstead.

I think my next phone is going to be a fairphone or something for this reason.

New comment by Unit327 in "AI coding assistants are getting worse?"

Unit327 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 02:06:48 +0000

Ignores the cost of model training, R&D, managing the data centers and more. OpenAI etc regularly admit that all their products lose money. Not to mention the fact that it isn't enough to cover their costs, they have to pay back all those investors while actually generating a profit at some point in the future.

New comment by Unit327 in "Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents"

Unit327 — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 06:46:53 +0000

AI doesn't have hopes and desires or something it would rather be doing. It has a utility function that it will optimise for regardless of all else. This doesn't change when it gets smarter, or even when it gets super-intelligence.

New comment by Unit327 in "Overengineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers"

Unit327 — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 09:32:26 +0000

Encrypted data on the servers is only useful if your server is just dumb storage. I want the server to actually do something, e.g. serving media, running home assistant etc.

New comment by Unit327 in "Building Bluesky comments for my blog"

Unit327 — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 09:17:48 +0000

https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/14/fire-exits/

New comment by Unit327 in "Want to meet people, try charging them for it?"

Unit327 — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 08:20:31 +0000

This sounds like the same behaviour from introducing fines for overdue library books or being late picking up children from day-care. It goes from a social olbigation or question ("Do I want to bother the day-care people by arriving late?" / "Do I want to bother this blogger and ask for their time?") to a financial transaction.

New comment by Unit327 in "Retailers will soon have only about 7 weeks of full inventories left"

Unit327 — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 23:46:04 +0000

Get a room full of USA citizens:

"Put your hand up if you want more manufacturing in the USA."

"Ok thanks, hands down. Now put your hand up if you want to work in a factory".