Hacker News: amusingimpala75

New comment by amusingimpala75 in "I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok"

amusingimpala75 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:22:45 +0000

How much of the native app push is to bypass ad blockers? If you’re just using a browser plugin like AdGuard or uBO it can’t block in a dedicated app unless you replace it with AGH or PiHole, can’t help but wonder if that plays a role as well

New comment by amusingimpala75 in "Solar and batteries can power the world"

amusingimpala75 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:55:10 +0000

Correct me if I’m wrong but my understanding was that ethanol in gasoline was a result laws enacted due to corn farmers (or their state reps) lobbying for subsidies, not any intrinsic part of gasoline production

New comment by amusingimpala75 in "Ki Editor - an editor that operates on the AST"

amusingimpala75 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 13:54:31 +0000

emacs already has structural editing packages like combobulate

New comment by amusingimpala75 in "GitHub Copilot Goldeneye model preview"

amusingimpala75 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 04:16:41 +0000

I can’t seem to find anything about this model reference anywhere besides some random LinkedIn posts and Medium articles. No official announcement or model statistics

GitHub Copilot Goldeneye model preview

amusingimpala75 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 04:16:40 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/reference/ai-models/model-hosting

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47257494

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by amusingimpala75 in "xAI joins SpaceX"

amusingimpala75 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:28:56 +0000

Hence the “dense as Musk” comment

Snowflake and OpenAI partner to bring frontier intelligence to enterprise data

amusingimpala75 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 15:29:30 +0000

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/snowflake-partnership/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46857102

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by amusingimpala75 in "Modetc: Move your dotfiles from kernel space"

amusingimpala75 — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 16:55:48 +0000

From the example:

  # XDG "compliant" programs
  .config/ etc/
  .local/state/ var/lib/
  .cache/ var/cache/

This is the first I’ve heard of using ~/etc instead of ~/.config as $XDG_CONFIG_DIR. Is there any precedent for that?

New comment by amusingimpala75 in "Orbital dynamics wizardry helped save NASA's next Mars mission"

amusingimpala75 — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 19:14:04 +0000

As far as I can tell, this doesn't change when the actual orbital transfer from earth to mars occurs, it just allows launching outside the normal transfer window and then loitering until the window arrives. In this case, what benefit do they have from launching it now and loitering for a year rather than just launching it a year from now?

New comment by amusingimpala75 in "Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?"

amusingimpala75 — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 01:23:53 +0000

I think what they meant is: there’s already so many other ways to fingerprint (say, canvas) that a common user agent doesn’t significantly help you

New comment by amusingimpala75 in "Electric cars produce far less brake dust pollution than combustion-engine cars"

amusingimpala75 — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 14:30:09 +0000

(To be clear I quite happen to like EVs)

And those people who would lose money are the EV manufacturers. AFAIK in the US EV manufacturers are barely making money even with gov’t subsidies (baring Tesla). They can’t charge what would be necessary without subsidies because most people simply wouldn’t want or couldn’t afford such a product at that price point.

New comment by amusingimpala75 in "OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome"

amusingimpala75 — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 06:01:48 +0000

Going to be ironic if it's still chromium-based

Global Cross-Border Privacy Rules Forum

amusingimpala75 — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 05:57:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.globalcbpr.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44517745

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Jemalloc

amusingimpala75 — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:50:06 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/jemalloc/jemalloc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44147915

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by amusingimpala75 in "Show HN: DockFlow – Switch between multiple macOS Dock layouts instantly"

amusingimpala75 — Thu, 22 May 2025 22:25:45 +0000

Note: this can be replaced with a bash script and https://github.com/kcrawford/dockutil for free

New comment by amusingimpala75 in "Everything we announced at our first LlamaCon"

amusingimpala75 — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 21:10:24 +0000

Meta needs to stop open-washing their product. It simply is not open-source. The license for their precompiled binary blob (ie model) should not be considered open-source, and the source code (ie training process / data) isn’t available.

Get your new PebbleOS watch

amusingimpala75 — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 16:01:56 +0000

Article URL: https://store.repebble.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43401012

Points: 31

# Comments: 14

New comment by amusingimpala75 in "TSMC expected to announce $100B investment in U.S."

amusingimpala75 — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 14:49:24 +0000

Intel has a fab nearby as well which is actually net positive for potable water because they take in waste water and purify it enough that it goes back into the supply after they’re done using it.

New comment by amusingimpala75 in "Run DeepSeek R1 Dynamic 1.58-bit"

amusingimpala75 — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 12:45:26 +0000

> DeepSeek-R1 has been making waves recently by rivaling OpenAI's O1 reasoning model while being fully open-source.

Do we finally have a model with access to the training architecture and training data set, or are we still calling non-reproducible binary blobs without source form open-source?

New comment by amusingimpala75 in "DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome"

amusingimpala75 — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 13:06:45 +0000

Monopolies are not inherently bad. They are only bad when they abuse that position to retain a monopoly or allow a decline in product quality.