Hacker News: _aavaa_

New comment by _aavaa_ in "Italo Calvino: A traveller in a world of uncertainty"

_aavaa_ — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:22:59 +0000

You will likely enjoy this discussion of Calvino’s work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI16Txc7x1s

New comment by _aavaa_ in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

_aavaa_ — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:20:44 +0000

Let’s say we grant the grok example.

A) How many other datacenters with similar problems can you name?

B) How does this industry compare to every other one on earth, and then look at the disproportionate hate this gets compared to other industries that are substantially worse.

New comment by _aavaa_ in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

_aavaa_ — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:34:23 +0000

Non-technical indeed. The wasting water or pollution argument is getting really tiring.

New comment by _aavaa_ in "JPMorgan warns Tesla stock could sink 60% in new note"

_aavaa_ — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:45:10 +0000

That article don’t provide any proof for which models are sent to Canada. It just lists all their models.

New comment by _aavaa_ in "US deploying nearly all stealthy long-range JASSM-ER cruise missiles to Iran war"

_aavaa_ — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:02:25 +0000

Looking at all Americans in deceiving. For starters, 1/5 are below the voting age.

49.8% of voters voted for this.

New comment by _aavaa_ in "Renewables reached nearly 50% of global electricity capacity last year"

_aavaa_ — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:07:40 +0000

I understand why people are downvoting you, but we still have a bit to go before renewables make up 50% of yearly electricity generation.

Not as far as you’d think though. According to [0] in 2024 it was 6.9% solar, 8.1% wind, and 14.3% hydro, I.e. 29% renewables. Given the trajectory I wouldn’t be surprised if that total was ~33% in 2025.

[0]: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-prod-source-s...

New comment by _aavaa_ in "Apple removes iPhone vibe coding app from app store"

_aavaa_ — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:37:31 +0000

Which does not actually seem anticompetitive at all.

New comment by _aavaa_ in "Apple removes iPhone vibe coding app from app store"

_aavaa_ — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:06:05 +0000

This get brought up often, and it’s such a lazy example. Apple forces you to give them their cut (you have to pay for developer license even just to keep your own personal apps on your phone).

Valve isn’t forcing you to use Steam.

New comment by _aavaa_ in "I quit. The clankers won"

_aavaa_ — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:46:12 +0000

Why would the capabilities drop instead of stagnate?

New comment by _aavaa_ in "Solar panels at Lidl? Plug-in versions set to appear in shops"

_aavaa_ — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:07:45 +0000

Less than it takes to manufacture and transports the barrels of oils it replaces.

New comment by _aavaa_ in "Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data"

_aavaa_ — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 02:56:05 +0000

Sure, but the popular news and people concerned about it are generally much closer to hysteria than “keeping an eye on them.”

New comment by _aavaa_ in "Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data"

_aavaa_ — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:47:51 +0000

What are negative consequences attributed to have microplastics, and have to the compare to the risks associated with say drinking alcohol?

New comment by _aavaa_ in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

_aavaa_ — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:29:18 +0000

You did the Python right but the analysis wrong. Looking at it on a graph you can see that interpreting a single growth rate for the entire period (even if you stop pre-covid) doesn’t make sense.

You can see linear growth from 2010-2017. Then slow decline or at best a flatline from 2018-2021. Then they went crazy in 2022-2025.

Now if we just do 162k - 30k we are back to 132k, basically same ballpark as pre-COVID.

New comment by _aavaa_ in "South Korea Mandates Solar Panels for Public Parking Lots"

_aavaa_ — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 02:22:34 +0000

Because they have a population density 5x that of the US.

New comment by _aavaa_ in "South Korea Mandates Solar Panels for Public Parking Lots"

_aavaa_ — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 01:48:27 +0000

I imagine land is more expensive in South Korea than in the US.

New comment by _aavaa_ in "OpenAI's US ad pilot exceeds $100M in annualized revenue in six weeks"

_aavaa_ — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:38:15 +0000

What Adblock are you going to use when people use the app and the ads come from the same domain as the actual content?

New comment by _aavaa_ in "‘Energy independence feels practical’: Europeans building mini solar farms"

_aavaa_ — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:06:00 +0000

Clearly uneducated take.

The photos hitting my solar panel don’t travel through the straight of Hormuz.

New comment by _aavaa_ in "Airport wait times are longest in TSA history, agency says"

_aavaa_ — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 23:19:34 +0000

You have the causality wrong, other than the hardcore group of preachers the rest are swinging that way because it’s what the congregation wants to hear. Preaching the opposite message will drop attendance even more the it has already dropped and will effectively mean having to close the church.

New comment by _aavaa_ in "UK total wind generation record beaten today"

_aavaa_ — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:25:19 +0000

What is the implication your going for?

New comment by _aavaa_ in "Sodium-ion EV battery breakthrough delivers 11-min charging and 450 km range"

_aavaa_ — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:11:32 +0000

And the fire safety risks are significantly reduced (thermal runaway is much harder). They can also be transported and stored completely discharged, something not done with lithium ion batteries because of it degrades them much more than regular usage.