Hacker News: a1371

New comment by a1371 in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

a1371 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 04:37:38 +0000

My question is, and this is genuinely a question: Do you think YC-backed companies would have respected this guideline if it was posted on some other website they wanted to operate in?

New comment by a1371 in "Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world"

a1371 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:03:06 +0000

I never understood why we believe humans don't backprop. Isn't it that during the day we fill up our context (short term memory) and sleep is actually where we use that to backprop? Heck, everyone knows what "sleep on it" means.

New comment by a1371 in "“Car Wash” test with 53 models"

a1371 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 06:47:26 +0000

Using ChatGPT without a clue, it appears to assume you are talking aboutcoming back from the car wash. It reasons, the con for walking is that you have to come back later for the car. And yes, when you say it's an intelligence test, it quickly gets it

New comment by a1371 in "0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix"

a1371 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:36:57 +0000

This game started slow for me many years ago but I now absolutely love this game. Not just because of all the open source effort that has gone into it, because of the strategy. You have to make yourself vulnerable to get stronger.

Wanna grow fast? Train workers who can't fight, but are resource efficient to make. Risk being badly weakened if getting attacked, for the benefit of the workers giving you much more resources to then raise an army.

Also watch out for the elephants!

New comment by a1371 in "Hacking Moltbook"

a1371 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 20:39:59 +0000

I agree with the prepackaging aspect, cita HN's dismissal of Dropbox. In the meantime, The global enterprise with all its might has not been able to stop high profile computer hacks/data leaks from happening. I don't think people will cry over a misconfigured supabase database. It's nothing worse than what's already out there.

Sure everybody wants security and that's what they will say but does that really translate to reduced inferred value of vibe code tools? I haven't seen evidence

New comment by a1371 in "Brex CFO Erica Dorfman's Take on the Capital One Deal"

a1371 — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 16:34:31 +0000

> Her framing reflects how CFOs increasingly interpret valuation across multiple dimensions

which of these dimensions was used for employee stock options?

New comment by a1371 in "Open Infrastructure Map"

a1371 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 07:34:54 +0000

An initially-stupid-sounding idea I heard a while back was running power cables through the ocean floors between America and the rest of the world. It's apparently feasible and the big benefit of it is that at the grid peak hour when the sun is not shining in Europe, they can get cheap solar from America and vice versa

New comment by a1371 in "Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone"

a1371 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 16:20:33 +0000

There is an infamous "Dropbox comment" on HN that reads the same way as this comment. No idea is new, and novelty is almost never the point. I had seen people do similar things in the past but never approached it myself. Here is someone that has done the thinking for me and put it out there for free. I appreciate that.

New comment by a1371 in "AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention"

a1371 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 14:32:15 +0000

I was not expecting that the prices are going down. Makes sense as the hardware gets older but I always assumed the prices must be inflated given how much competition there is to make new datacenters

Show HN: I worked on a sci-fi book for the 2025

a1371 — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 23:43:51 +0000

Just about a year ago, the concept for a sci-fi book popped into my head. I instantly knew I have to see it through despite not having any writing experience (and a pretty demanding job). Over 2025, I attended writer circles, improved my writing, and structured the story. Here is the first chapter. I hope you enjoy it :)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46459512

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by a1371 in "How AI labs are solving the power problem"

a1371 — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 14:56:30 +0000

The problem is that most of the AI labs are popping up in TX that has a uniquely isolated electrical grid. Recall how the Texas cold snap a few years ago took down the grid for days. Turns out if you make a grid based on short term profit motifs, it's not going to be flexible enough to take new demand.

It's not the grid's technological limitation. We could have lived in a world with a more connected grid, more nibble utility commissions, and a lot less methane/carbon emissions as a result of it

New comment by a1371 in "Dark Mode Sucks"

a1371 — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 17:30:04 +0000

This assumes low light conditions are bad for the eyesight. Which _may_ be a thing for children, but that's where the science ends.

New comment by a1371 in "The React Foundation"

a1371 — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 08:41:54 +0000

This sound like positive news for the Dev community. I can imagine it took a lot of patience and intention to get Meta onboard with this.

New comment by a1371 in "Sora 2"

a1371 — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 22:42:31 +0000

When they launched Sora, one of the first things people did was rendering a person holding a cardboard with a message on it. It started by asking for features and eventually turned into people responding to each other.

One conversation I remember was complaining about people who constantly want AI pictures of anime feet.

I think OpenAI is just responding to the users.

New comment by a1371 in "Nvidia buys $5B in Intel"

a1371 — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 00:11:05 +0000

While #2 is true, there are a myriad of ways to do that without a press release.

New comment by a1371 in "Geizhals Preisvergleich Donates USD 10k to the Perl and Raku Foundation"

a1371 — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 15:11:50 +0000

I was impressed to see at the new keynote that Blender is successfully shifting its revenue growth to small donations. So it can be done.

New comment by a1371 in "How does air pollution impact your brain?"

a1371 — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 15:23:20 +0000

This is my cue to come and say that if you want to purify your home air, please look at the science first. Do NOT just go buy a HEPA. Chances are you'll waste your money and get little clean air.

Look for MERV and CADR ratings for filters. Then spend an afternoon building yourself a CR box with a box fan, or a narrower one with some computer fans. It'll work better than most commercial purifiers.

New comment by a1371 in "Through the Liquid Glass"

a1371 — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 01:45:51 +0000

The A in @ also brings "Address book" to mind

New comment by a1371 in "Through the Liquid Glass"

a1371 — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 01:43:20 +0000

I keep hearing this but as far as AHA and other credible sources that I have learned from, saturated fats are better be replaced with unsaturated:

https://www.heart.org/en/healthy-living/healthy-eating/eat-s...

New comment by a1371 in "Grok Code Fast 1"

a1371 — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 20:55:56 +0000

Hacker News Guidelines are worth a read:

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