Hacker News: amazingamazing

New comment by amazingamazing in "Fairphone is now officially available in the United States"

amazingamazing — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:51:49 +0000

$650 for anyone who does not want to click. Hard sell compared to the iPhone 17e but more choice is good.

New comment by amazingamazing in "As Wisconsin cities flee Flock, its shared camera network loses value"

amazingamazing — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:46:51 +0000

I remember similar things said 6 months before the 2024 election

New comment by amazingamazing in "PM Carney announces largest clean energy investment in North American history"

amazingamazing — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 01:30:02 +0000

Huh? Solar has all of that and doesn't even have moving parts. The only arguable downside is it increases more sunlight absorbed by the earth (as opposed to reflecting it). You may say but what about nighttime - im talking about in aggregate on earth, just like hydro only works well with only water

New comment by amazingamazing in "Buyer cancels showing after Deflock shows two cameras utilized by the HOA"

amazingamazing — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:12:36 +0000

Why so much emphasis on Flock here? In manhattan i feel virtually every place has cameras.

You will be hard pressed to find a block without them. What’s stopping a company from paying these people for their footage in return for “safety”?

New comment by amazingamazing in "Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee"

amazingamazing — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 02:25:46 +0000

I will not claim a 5070, but there is already evidence in nature that you can get very good general intelligence with an order of magnitude less wattage.

There are constraints of course- training takes way longer.

New comment by amazingamazing in "Asus Bike Booster"

amazingamazing — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 01:37:40 +0000

Similar things are on amazon today 300-500. Not worth it imho. If you are going to keep it on, convert your bike with middrive or hub motor once.

New comment by amazingamazing in "Credit card debt rises to $1.26T, nearing all-time record"

amazingamazing — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:49 +0000

Not adjusted for inflation, so useless. At least do % of gdp which is also flawed but better than this.

New comment by amazingamazing in "Qwen 3.8 27B"

amazingamazing — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:12:02 +0000

With my 5080 laptop so close yet so far to using this stuff

New comment by amazingamazing in "Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption"

amazingamazing — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:30:24 +0000

How do you make e2e password management work on multiple devices as convenient as not? You cannot.

Most people who use Google trust them. And if you do not trust them then why are you using their password manager? You see? Hence why they do not bother.

Of course one might read this and say, multi device e2ee is possible! Sure, but can you allow for recovery when people inevitably lose their recovery codes at scale? If you really care about this it is not necessary to go with Google.

I stand by my original comment:

The average user does not want it.

New comment by amazingamazing in "France's top court blocks social media ban for under-15s"

amazingamazing — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:21:46 +0000

It is unclear to me how you can regulate any digital service with respect to any demographic identity without regression to full identity check.

Parental controls are not a solution, either. People are free to use any terminal they wish. If you wanted to change that then it again regresses to the same issue.

New comment by amazingamazing in "Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption"

amazingamazing — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:13:53 +0000

If you think about it for a moment you will realize the average user does not want that.

New comment by amazingamazing in "Introducing Toast 1"

amazingamazing — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:32:15 +0000

I know everyone loves to hate on google but i find search overviews and asking gemini to search for things way faster than any alternative. I was curious about a development near me and asked literally that and gemini pulled court records in about 20 seconds

Anyway, back to this - it seems to be more like the AI equivalent of algolia than google

New comment by amazingamazing in "Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out"

amazingamazing — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 01:54:44 +0000

A simple website controlled by VCs, lol

New comment by amazingamazing in "AI Is Threatening Natural Resources for Billions"

amazingamazing — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 22:23:03 +0000

Netflix is an alternative to movie theaters

New comment by amazingamazing in "AI Is Threatening Natural Resources for Billions"

amazingamazing — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:45:43 +0000

Netflix and YouTube probably are orders of magnitude less than the alternative of driving to plays and movie theaters. Most golf courses use recycled water, albeit the opportunity cost is real. Almond farming is fair.

New comment by amazingamazing in "What garbage collection actually costs"

amazingamazing — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:54:55 +0000

I rarely see a real use case bottle necked on garbage collection.

New comment by amazingamazing in "Flutter 3.47"

amazingamazing — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 02:35:26 +0000

I always find it strange that flutter isn’t built with golang or typescript. Why use a new language? When flutter came out both languages existed so curious about that.

The main reason i can think of is generics not existing initially

New comment by amazingamazing in "Apple Leasing Program"

amazingamazing — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:55:22 +0000

You can buy the phone for the difference in price, so effectively just zero percent loan.

New comment by amazingamazing in "Apple Leasing Program"

amazingamazing — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:28:10 +0000

This is effectively a discount, what’s the problem?

New comment by amazingamazing in "Apple Leasing Program"

amazingamazing — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:22:38 +0000

Why are people so obsessed with this, it is a no risk 0 percent interest loan. Lots of parities do this, cars, expensive furniture, etc.