Hacker News: a3w

New comment by a3w in "Mario Meets Pareto"

a3w — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 12:35:49 +0000

I did not understand https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49096439, but I understood this.

New comment by a3w in "The most official water costs $120k a gallon"

a3w — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 21:26:41 +0000

How much volume is that for the rest of the world? Really unscientific article.

New comment by a3w in "Show HN: I simulated closing the Strait of Hormuz on real oil trade data"

a3w — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 08:56:10 +0000

Something seems to be wrong with the simulation: some countries run on reserves, and out of them, even with 100 % delivery.

OP blames "Market elasticity parameters" for that, but they should offer a reasonable reset, or shouldn't they even oversteer towards filling up tanks, not clearing them out of no supply shock is seen?

New comment by a3w in "Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing?"

a3w — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 11:53:40 +0000

But it does come with an Otter refusal to other tasks given.

New comment by a3w in "Why do you suck at juggling now?"

a3w — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:24:17 +0000

0 to 3 was hard. 3 to 5 was not that hard, for me. Probably since I had to get in right mindset, first.

New comment by a3w in "OpenNode – Bitcoin Payment Processor"

a3w — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:20:47 +0000

So, OpenAI is certainly never trademarked? /s

New comment by a3w in "The World's 2,400 Castles"

a3w — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:58:34 +0000

Invading Australia in 1500s is looking pretty tempting, you mean.

New comment by a3w in "Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac"

a3w — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 08:16:07 +0000

jan.ai is the F/LOSS alternative to it. If you do want a gui.

New comment by a3w in "We Put an L7 Firewall in the Kernel"

a3w — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:29:11 +0000

I thought layer 7 is the user, a.k.a. PEBKAC

New comment by a3w in "War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history"

a3w — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:27:22 +0000

Wikipedia has a known bias of having mostly the historical events present that western world has written down. This map seems almost balanced, how come it used a better or at least perhaps fairer datasource?

New comment by a3w in "War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history"

a3w — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:24:22 +0000

Numbers range from 323 k to 2 mio. total war deaths since 2022. Hugh leap.

But the numbers for Ukraine and russian federation seem to be swapped: Ukraine does not even have 600 k soldiers, so probably in 10-20 or so years cannot have these many loses without front collapse.

New comment by a3w in "Build your own vulnerability harness"

a3w — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 10:16:38 +0000

Hermes, OpenCode, Claude Code seem to be Harnesses.

"GitHub Copilot" seems to be a harness and five other products that share this name.

New comment by a3w in "Why American ambulance rides are so expensive"

a3w — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 10:14:37 +0000

"Honest EMT — not just rides, but better"

New comment by a3w in "John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement"

a3w — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:59:53 +0000

Does that enforcibly include tractors the Russian Federation captured in eastern Ukraine?

New comment by a3w in "Starring the Computer"

a3w — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 10:34:55 +0000

I spotted at least one touch-screen PC. Is that still a computer? Just kidding.

Pocket Computers are computers, why are they not in there?

There is even a trope due to a legal practice about Apples subclass of pocket calculators: iPhones are only worn by good guys in movies, that is a rule by Apple that possibly spoils some twists.

New comment by a3w in "The bottleneck might be the air in the room"

a3w — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 15:16:28 +0000

over 7000 is dangerous[citation needed]

I found 3-11k as regular levels, with no impairment known of. So acclimatization can happen?

New comment by a3w in "Steam Controller Auto-Charge – pilot to magnetic charging puck using CV"

a3w — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 14:40:33 +0000

What even is a "controller", it pilots the gamepad. Controller could mean the AR controllers, too.

New comment by a3w in "Steam Controller Auto-Charge – pilot to magnetic charging puck using CV"

a3w — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 14:39:25 +0000

Barely helped me understand:

`yt-dlp https://x.com/FossPrime/status/2070013003752251660` did load the video. Xitter does not load.

New comment by a3w in "Oak: Git for Agents"

a3w — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 20:49:45 +0000

QnA-section start with "Is Oak a git alternative for AI coding agents?" How is that a question left unanswered in the text before.

Is this AI slop or a genuine project?

New comment by a3w in "Factories are just rooms"

a3w — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:35:57 +0000

Nope, a "gang of four" pattern from the book on architecture patterns.