Hacker News: ahyattdev

New comment by ahyattdev in "The value of not getting to the point (2015)"

ahyattdev — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 19:58:13 +0000

Read it while you can, third-level .name TLDs are being discontinued next year by Verisign. [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.name#Discontinuation_of_third...

New comment by ahyattdev in "Threat actors expand abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code"

ahyattdev — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 10:28:52 +0000

Modern PCIe NVME drives typically see a few microsecond latency, but even DDR2 latency was around 10 nanoseconds. Memory remains top dog by a long shot.

New comment by ahyattdev in "Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2025?"

ahyattdev — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 19:38:01 +0000

Fall of Civilizations: https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/

Each episode is of exceptional quality and retells history in an engaging manor. Since it's history, the entire backlog is still relevant.

New comment by ahyattdev in "The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine"

ahyattdev — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 18:16:02 +0000

> Tax dollars don't fund the government. The government funds the government. That's what "Fiat currency" means.

There was $4.9 trillion in revenue and $6.8 trillion in outlays in 2024 [1]. 95% of that revenue was from taxes. In spite of the high deficit, it remains a true statement that the federal government is funded by taxes as they account for the majority of funding.

[1]: https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61185

New comment by ahyattdev in "U.S. stock market returns – a history from the 1870s to 2022"

ahyattdev — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 06:06:06 +0000

Those lending to the US government are doing so by purchasing US Treasury bonds, which have due dates and earn interest.

Based on the credit rating of the US government, they will certainly not end up with less in nominal terms.

New comment by ahyattdev in "Quaise Energy – Unlocking the true power of clean geothermal energy"

ahyattdev — Sun, 10 Apr 2022 03:43:13 +0000

Considering that the current deepest borehole in the world is 12km [1], 20km is a lofty goal.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole

New comment by ahyattdev in "New York City bans natural gas in new buildings"

ahyattdev — Sun, 26 Dec 2021 02:02:31 +0000

Those statistics are for New York State, not NYC.

See page 27 (PDF page 33) of [0].

Commercial natural gas usage in NYC is roughly 40% of non-power generation natural gas usage. The actual proportion varies greatly depending on time of year, presumably due to natural gas heating in residential properties in colder months.

[0] https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/dep/downloads/pdf/air/nyc-combin...

New comment by ahyattdev in "Nine Raspberry Pis powering an office (2016)"

ahyattdev — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 14:05:35 +0000

I believe part of the reason for American companies to not list teams publicly is to guard against easily poaching talent using that data.

New comment by ahyattdev in "Do Digital Platforms Reduce Moral Hazard? The Case of Uber and Taxis"

ahyattdev — Sun, 07 Mar 2021 04:54:33 +0000

I have had this taken to me. Taxi drivers "accidently" take the wrong turn into a tunnel that adds at least an extra mile to the trip. You are billed directly on distance traveled so it is not surprising.

Examining How a PG&E Transmission Line Claimed 85 Lives in the 2018 Camp Fire

ahyattdev — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 16:31:58 +0000

Article URL: https://hackaday.com/2020/09/17/closely-examining-how-a-pge-transmission-line-claimed-85-lives-in-the-2018-camp-fire/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24518834

Points: 9

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New comment by ahyattdev in "Siri, What Time Is It in London?"

ahyattdev — Tue, 26 May 2020 13:51:03 +0000

Interesting edge case. Perhaps we need something other than MST for Arizona (excluding Navajo Nation) if we want a lack of ambiguity. If only politicians knew how annoying dealing with time is for software developers!

New comment by ahyattdev in "Ask HN: If you could work remote where would you live?"

ahyattdev — Mon, 25 May 2020 02:38:36 +0000

I would work remotely from a small town, away from the fast life of urban areas. Property costs are significantly lower, as with crime and traffic. Possibilities include somewhere on the DelMarVa peninsula. Constraints include 50+ Mbps internet and a newer house without asbestos/lead paint.

New comment by ahyattdev in "Siri, What Time Is It in London?"

ahyattdev — Fri, 22 May 2020 15:15:50 +0000

I'd argue that DuckDuckGo's behaviour is the correct one, but they should display a warning when the east cost is on EDT and someone requests conversion with EST. Maybe we will stop using daylight savings before the masses learn the difference between ET/EST/EDT.

New comment by ahyattdev in "IKEA's shopping malls arm plans U.S. entry in major play"

ahyattdev — Fri, 15 May 2020 01:28:37 +0000

I can't see them doing this in College Park with the goal of reducing driving. This Ikea is in the northern-most part. Unfortunately, retail is spread out thin along Route 1 and is absolutely awful for walking to if you are not near the university. And riding a bike on Route 1 is a significant risk on your life.

New comment by ahyattdev in "Homelab: Intel NUC with the ESXi Hypervisor"

ahyattdev — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 01:43:08 +0000

You can assign them static IPs in DHCP, then run your own DNS server that returns local IPs for those hosts.

Or bridge those VMs on your macbook so it's a flat network, then use Avahi for mDNS so they all have .locals.

New comment by ahyattdev in "Our list of free software for remote work"

ahyattdev — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 04:32:03 +0000

I switched to Evolution from Thunderbird recently and I must say, it is way more pleasant to use than Thunderbird.

New comment by ahyattdev in "Let's Encrypt has turned on stricter validation requirements"

ahyattdev — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 17:53:12 +0000

You can use pre and post renewal hooks in order to temporarily disable those firewall rules.

New comment by ahyattdev in "Ending Support for macOS and Linux"

ahyattdev — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 01:21:34 +0000

Solutions exist to translate Vulkan to Metal.

https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK

New comment by ahyattdev in "Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop connectivity standard"

ahyattdev — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 14:04:11 +0000

Since Apple just added support to HomeKit for cameras I am sure this new standard they are making will support them too.

Darling Progress Report Q1 2019

ahyattdev — Sun, 05 May 2019 01:49:00 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.darlinghq.org/2019/05/darling-progress-report-q1-2019.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19830591

Points: 1

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