Hacker News: WheatMillington

New comment by WheatMillington in "Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months"

WheatMillington — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:30:49 +0000

It's not "just a question of money", time is absolutely a factor. Getting nine women pregnant doesn't give you a baby in a month.

New comment by WheatMillington in "Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months"

WheatMillington — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:28:59 +0000

>that the limited supply goes to the buyer who need it the most

Everything else you said is accurate, but this is not. Supply will go to those most able to pay, not those who need it the most. It is not a moral allocation, which your language implies.

New comment by WheatMillington in "Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter"

WheatMillington — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 19:29:51 +0000

Way more people die of being exposed to the cold than exposed to the heat. So you could make a good argument that weather events save more lives than they cost by increasing the temperature of marginal zones where people otherwise freeze.

New comment by WheatMillington in "Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter"

WheatMillington — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 19:26:19 +0000

As a New Zealander - oh no please stop threatening me with a warm dry summer.

New comment by WheatMillington in "Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone"

WheatMillington — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:28:26 +0000

What a sad and pathetic opinion, especially when targeted towards such an incredible contributor as Tom Stanton, a true educator and an energetic and excited engineering mind.

New comment by WheatMillington in "xAI, SpaceX, and the Race for AI Buildout"

WheatMillington — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 22:03:55 +0000

>Are you trying to invent your own definition for self driving

Are you?

New comment by WheatMillington in "xAI, SpaceX, and the Race for AI Buildout"

WheatMillington — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 22:02:57 +0000

Aah yes that scrappy $1.7 trillion start-up.

New comment by WheatMillington in "My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”"

WheatMillington — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:36:46 +0000

Google isn't making arbitrary decisions here - it's reflecting social norms. Americans aren't big on walking. I've seen pictures of beautiful leafy suburbs that don't even have sidewalks.

New comment by WheatMillington in "Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking"

WheatMillington — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 01:59:00 +0000

Everyone seems to agree that if the GPS hadn't been inop everyone would still be alive. So to happily dismiss the deadly decisions the government made to place blame on the pilots is kind of disgraceful.

New comment by WheatMillington in "The coolest use for the Vision Pro"

WheatMillington — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:57:42 +0000

OK, go off.

New comment by WheatMillington in "The relay market powering token resellers and fraud"

WheatMillington — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 01:58:56 +0000

If we're going to insist on continuing to use the offensive language of "third world country", at least apply it correctly. India is not what even the most casual racist would consider "third world".

New comment by WheatMillington in "Kill The Cookie Banner"

WheatMillington — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:40:57 +0000

Most people reasonably assume that if they click Reject they won't get the page they're looking for.

New comment by WheatMillington in "Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity"

WheatMillington — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 23:30:38 +0000

What kind of question is that? Without knowing anything about the person's geography or local cost of solar, how can you make such a bold assessment of affordability? I live in New Zealand where the capital cost of solar is very expensive and the climate is OK-not-great for solar generation. Even at 30c/kwh the payback (without batteries) is still 15 to 20 years. Not an obvious choice, especially as the capital cost is still declining.

New comment by WheatMillington in "Resetting Xbox"

WheatMillington — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:12:14 +0000

Remind me never to come to HN for business advice, this is dire reasoning.

New comment by WheatMillington in "California AB 2047 makes 3D printers off-limits to students, educators, business"

WheatMillington — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:57:39 +0000

Americans are not allowed to buy Kinder eggs.

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

WheatMillington — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:24:58 +0000

Why do you think it's a space company? SpaceX didn't even define ITSELF as a space company in its IPO filing.

New comment by WheatMillington in "Sagrada Família Lego set"

WheatMillington — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:33:58 +0000

Weird perspective. When I was a kid (I'm 41) we were given sets - pirate ship, submarine, police sets. They were designed as a kit... and once we built the kid we'd pull it apart and use the parts for all sorts of things. Now my kids do they very same thing with modern kits. I'm not sure why you think today's lego is different?

New comment by WheatMillington in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

WheatMillington — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:53:08 +0000

How can you know that without even hearing it?

New comment by WheatMillington in "EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products"

WheatMillington — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:52:32 +0000

A major retailer in my country had to recall thousands of units of kids kinetic sand because it contained asbestos. Are you saying we'd be better off had they not been made to recall these? Or that we'd be worse off had there been more regulation preventing kids from inhaling asbestos in the first place?

New comment by WheatMillington in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

WheatMillington — Thu, 28 May 2026 04:31:05 +0000

Like the music being described literally in the thread you're responding to.