Hacker News: abetaha

New comment by abetaha in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

abetaha — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 18:43:48 +0000

It is quiet sad to see Windows deteriorate that much over the years because of the decreased investment and lack of care and craftsmanship for the quality of the software being pushed out.

Thankfully unless you're running a few specific applications that only run on Windows, you can use any other operating system. It will do the job, with much less frustrations.

New comment by abetaha in "Alaska Airlines' statement on IT outage"

abetaha — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 21:46:27 +0000

I was affected by the outage yesterday, and my flight to Seattle was delayed by over 6 hours, arriving in Seattle at 3am today. What made the delay much worse is the lack of clear communication and updates throughout the delay. As a consolation, the passengers got a 1-day redeemable $12 meal credit at the airport enough for a bag of chips and a small chocolate bar, which lightened the situation as it put into perspective how ridiculous the prices are at the airport.

New comment by abetaha in "Microsoft is blocking Google Chrome through its family safety feature"

abetaha — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 22:54:20 +0000

I wonder if this is related to the errors I saw this week, when I tried to install Chrome on my kid's computer. Apart from all the popups that discouraged switching to Chrome, the installer failed to run with an obscure error message.

Luckily I recalled there is an offline installer, and when I downloaded that, it worked like a charm.

New comment by abetaha in "OpenAI model modifies shutdown script in apparent sabotage effort"

abetaha — Thu, 29 May 2025 15:14:11 +0000

That is interesting, and reminds me of self preservation. I wonder what training sets elicit that behavior, perhaps most likely all the sci-fi novels.

New comment by abetaha in "A Visual History of Chessmen"

abetaha — Thu, 29 May 2025 01:14:21 +0000

An amazing page with a lot of chess designs, definitely did not expect that many, and was surprised that the beloved Staunton chess set was designed by someone else.

New comment by abetaha in "Postgres IDE in VS Code"

abetaha — Fri, 23 May 2025 21:43:27 +0000

Thank you, this is great

New comment by abetaha in "Postgres IDE in VS Code"

abetaha — Fri, 23 May 2025 16:43:09 +0000

This looks great. Would all the functionality work if the databases are hosted on other cloud providers?

New comment by abetaha in "Starcloud"

abetaha — Tue, 13 May 2025 22:34:57 +0000

The white paper back of the envelope calculations show a 4km x 4km solar panels and radiators are required for a 5 GW datacenter. I am not sure how the authors were not cracking up while writing that white paper.

New comment by abetaha in "Starcloud"

abetaha — Tue, 13 May 2025 21:35:01 +0000

Definitely an out of this world idea. I wonder if their micro datacenter is going to be self-sufficient power wise using only solar energy? And how would they address the hardware failures that are likely when you train large language models at scale?

New comment by abetaha in "The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priority"

abetaha — Tue, 13 May 2025 16:04:10 +0000

Sadly software optimization doesn't offer enough cost savings for most companies to address consumer frustration. However, for large AI workloads, even small CPU improvements yield significant financial benefits, making optimization highly worthwhile.

New comment by abetaha in "Business books are entertainment, not strategic tools"

abetaha — Sat, 10 May 2025 00:49:45 +0000

I am always amazed how most business book authors take a simple idea that could be described in one page, and turn it into a 200+ page book with popularizing narrative. What's more amazing is that the ideas are usually commonsense, but due to human nature are seldom practiced.

The Physical Turing Test: Jim Fan on Nvidia's Roadmap for Embodied AI [video]

abetaha — Fri, 09 May 2025 16:08:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2NijXqBESI

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43938386

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

PyRoki: A Modular Toolkit for Robot Kinematic Optimization

abetaha — Fri, 09 May 2025 16:06:21 +0000

Article URL: https://pyroki-toolkit.github.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43938369

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by abetaha in "ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC"

abetaha — Fri, 09 May 2025 16:02:11 +0000

So those alchemists of many years ago probably had a collider as well.

New comment by abetaha in "A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code"

abetaha — Thu, 08 May 2025 22:50:29 +0000

I wonder how successful this pricing model ($100-$200 a month with limits) is going to be. It is very hard to justify, when other tooling in the ~$20/month range offers unlimited usage, and comparable quality.

Benchmarking Agentic LLM and VLM Reasoning for Gaming with Nvidia Nim

abetaha — Thu, 08 May 2025 21:30:47 +0000

Article URL: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/benchmarking-agentic-llm-and-vlm-reasoning-for-gaming-with-nvidia-nim/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43931567

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by abetaha in "Google to back three new nuclear projects"

abetaha — Thu, 08 May 2025 17:09:22 +0000

Ignoring what Elementl is developing as their material is confusing, what would be some of the practical energy sources for power hungry AI workloads other than nuclear?

New comment by abetaha in "My new deadline: 20 years to give away virtually all my wealth"

abetaha — Thu, 08 May 2025 15:01:24 +0000

It is heartwarming to see him continuing to give away most of his wealth even if he's left with a billion or more at the end, and I wish other uber-rich would follow suit.

New comment by abetaha in "Grand Theft Auto VI Is Now Coming May 26, 2026"

abetaha — Fri, 02 May 2025 15:35:08 +0000

13 years of development since the last release. Hope the last mile is not excruciating bug fixes.

New comment by abetaha in "50 Years of Queries"

abetaha — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 16:52:53 +0000

A very enjoyable read of the history of databases through the lens of query language evolution, and the research done at IBM and Berkeley for System R and Ingres.