Hacker News: alberth

New comment by alberth in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

alberth — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:48:56 +0000

If you’re Anthropic, you gotta love how a vendor you’re paying is going to the government to talk about you.

Can’t imagine that’s great for the relationship.

New comment by alberth in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

alberth — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 01:50:45 +0000

US has banned export of cryptography. They are extending such claims for national security reason to AI model.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...

New comment by alberth in "Core PPI up 9.6% annualized (0.8% MoM) in May"

alberth — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:17:23 +0000

CPI vs PPI, in case you’re curious like me …

CPI tracks retail costs and the cost of living, whereas PPI tracks wholesale costs. As such, PPI acts as an early indicator of future consumer inflation.

New comment by alberth in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

alberth — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:26:05 +0000

Raspberry Pi as a company does ~$325M in annual revenue.

But I can’t understand what are the use cases to be selling 73M units.

Would anyone mind sharing what are the broadly applicable use cases, because selling 73M units is well beyond hobbyist fun.

https://investors.raspberrypi.com/

New comment by alberth in "Apple WWDC 2026"

alberth — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:02:42 +0000

While I give kudos for Apple bring these Intelligent features, but does anyone see themselves using these features in your daily life?

New comment by alberth in "Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs"

alberth — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 13:42:06 +0000

Is this essentially an Apple M-Series chip in concept?

New comment by alberth in "Zig Zen Update"

alberth — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:32:02 +0000

OT: any word on how Codeberg has been working out for Zig?

New comment by alberth in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

alberth — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:37:56 +0000

Do you mind explain more. Did you just prompt to Gemini what was happening, did you give Gemini photos of Furnance, etc?

New comment by alberth in "Neocities domain suspended by Namecheap for unrelated court case"

alberth — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:23:59 +0000

https://bsky.app/profile/neocities.org/post/3mnkqgxszm22k

New comment by alberth in "SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P"

alberth — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 03:42:53 +0000

This feels like massive news that general public won’t ever hear.

New comment by alberth in "Ask HN: Spent thousands, got no customers. What's wrong with my site?"

alberth — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:35:28 +0000

Take what I saw with a grain of salt but …

Who is this product for? And for what use case?

This is why people recommend niche markets.

E.g. This is for B2B marketers who need a tool to create social content.

Congrats though for launching. 99% of people don’t even do that. But now the hard work starts, and 99% of user adoption is now marketing (not the product itself).

New comment by alberth in "WSL 2 is getting faster Windows file system access"

alberth — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:31 +0000

Would you mind elaborating (for those of us uninformed)

New comment by alberth in "MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production"

alberth — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:36:38 +0000

I wonder what the margin profile is of the Neo vs Air vs MacBook Pro.

I have to imagine the Neo is lower margin %, but maybe I'm wrong.

New comment by alberth in "Squillions: How money laundering won"

alberth — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:36:40 +0000

That super expensive thing could be an NFT you created & sold.

New comment by alberth in "Squillions: How money laundering won"

alberth — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:04:06 +0000

> I haven’t even mentioned gold, which is used all the time in criminal transactions, let alone cryptocurrency, the single biggest recent innovation in money laundering.

Curious how that line is received within the HN crowd.

New comment by alberth in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

alberth — Mon, 04 May 2026 20:24:31 +0000

This reminds me of a college dorm friend who always seemed to be on a date with someone new.

His philosophy was simple: “It’s the law of large numbers. If you ask enough people out, and don’t fear rejection, you’re eventually going to get a yes. And along the way, you build the confidence and skill to ask better.”

New comment by alberth in "GitHub's Historic Uptime"

alberth — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:25:44 +0000

Unsolicited feedback ... changing the y-axis to be hours (not % uptime) might be more intuitive for folks to understand.

The data is there, you just have to hover over each data point.

New comment by alberth in "Launching Cloudflare's Gen 13 servers"

alberth — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:20:30 +0000

Dupe of later post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47495795

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New comment by alberth in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

alberth — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:42:37 +0000

Just a reminder that the old Intel Mac Pro could handle 1.5TB of RAM ... today's Mac Studio can only handle 0.25TB.

Seem odd that a computer from a decade ago could have more than a 1TB of incremental RAM vs what we can buy today from Apple.

New comment by alberth in "Cloudflare's Gen 13 servers: trading cache for cores for 2x performance"

alberth — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 22:35:42 +0000

It seems like the unspoken takeaway is just how shockingly performant LuaJIT is, even relative to Rust.