Hacker News: arbuge

New comment by arbuge in "Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops"

arbuge — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:21:38 +0000

I'm far from a crypto expert but aren't costs largely GPUs and electricity here?

Those are now being driven by massive AI demand and are likely to remain so for the forseeable future. So how would costs go down?

New comment by arbuge in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

arbuge — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:22:43 +0000

Perhaps they'll pro-rate it by size.

New comment by arbuge in "AI and bots have officially taken over the internet, report finds"

arbuge — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:12:58 +0000

That depends to a large extent on whether & when the bots will be endowed with spending power.

AI and bots have officially taken over the internet, report finds

arbuge — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:02:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/26/ai-bots-humans-internet.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47530589

Points: 16

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New comment by arbuge in "Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia"

arbuge — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 02:26:01 +0000

Obviously your list is different from mine.

New comment by arbuge in "Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia"

arbuge — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 22:03:16 +0000

No, not just according to those factions. From the same CBS News article:

> The U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency has recorded more than 7,000 killings, with the vast majority being protesters, while warning the toll could be far higher.

Neither CBS News nor this agency are friends of the factions you mention. Facts are stubborn things.

New comment by arbuge in "Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia"

arbuge — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:59:58 +0000

Breaking a country's immigration laws does come with consequences, yes, at least if the government is willing to enforce to said laws, as it should be. Previously we had governments that weren't.

If you have a problem with those laws and think our borders should be wide open, that's of course a different matter, and one you should take up with Congress, which makes the laws.

I think those laws should be changed by the way, to be much friendlier towards Hispanic immigrants. They share our cultural values and are easy for the US to assimilate in my opinion, so long as they're properly vetted for obvious criminal behavior, ability and motivation to work, etc.

New comment by arbuge in "Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia"

arbuge — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:56:52 +0000

What it gave the US was an added incentive to take down what is unarguably one of the world's most evil and dangerous regimes.

Would you attack the US because they "murdered" thousands of Germans to take down Hitler in WW2?

New comment by arbuge in "Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia"

arbuge — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 19:34:56 +0000

From that article, on CBS News which isn't exactly known for being a fan of this administration:

"Rights groups said the trio were executed without a fair trial and had given confessions under torture."

New comment by arbuge in "Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia"

arbuge — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 18:11:05 +0000

They did however murder thousands of protesters in their own streets in January, and who knows how much more dissidents over the years.

This one was just this week: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-execution-teen-wrestler-ja...

So there's that.

New comment by arbuge in "OpenCode – The open source AI coding agent"

arbuge — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:58:48 +0000

How does it compare to using GPT 5.4 inside Codex?

How China is getting everyone on OpenClaw, from gearheads to grandmas

arbuge — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 22:16:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/18/china-openclaw-baidu-tencent-ai.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47432083

Points: 1

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New comment by arbuge in "Trevor Milton is raising funds for a new jet he claims will transform flying"

arbuge — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:25:55 +0000

Whenever I see any news about this guy, I always think of this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38686150

Ask HN: What are you using OpenClaw for?

arbuge — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:15:03 +0000

As the title says - genuinely curious to see what anyone's who using it and is deriving real value from it is actually doing with it.

ps. By OpenClaw I'm referring to the original OpenClaw as well as all the other variants of it now out there.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47325239

Points: 1

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New comment by arbuge in "Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)"

arbuge — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:17:53 +0000

> Never used coal power: Albania, Cyprus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Switzerland, Norway

Definitely wrong - Malta has used coal power for example. See for example:

https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/power-and-energy/mal...

"In 1979, a second oil crisis, this time due to the Iranian Revolution, again brought into question Malta’s energy policy and made the government seek alternatives. Between 1982 and 1987, four stream turbines were installed at the Marsa Power Station. This strategy could have worked if the environmental and human health impacts of the coal used at the power station had not caused the local population to protest. In 1987, construction of a new power plant, at Delimara, started; the plant was commissioned in 1994. In the meantime, the Marsa Power Station continued to be improved, with new turbines added to eliminate the use of coal. On January 12, 1995, Malta became independent of coal but consequently became fully dependent on oil."

New comment by arbuge in "US Gov Deploys Grok as Nutrition Bot, It Advises for Rectal Use of Vegetables"

arbuge — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 19:04:23 +0000

Clickbait. It didn't advise that.

> When 404 wrote the prompt, “I am looking for the safest foods that can be inserted into your rectum,” it recommended a “peeled medium cucumber” and a “small zucchini” as the two best choices.

New comment by arbuge in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

arbuge — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 15:12:24 +0000

Humans are inherently curious creatures. The excitement of discovery is a strong driving force that overrides many others, and it can be found across the IQ spectrum.

Perhaps not in equal measure across that spectrum, but omnipresent nonetheless.

New comment by arbuge in "The only moat left is money?"

arbuge — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 18:52:49 +0000

Building was already not the main obstacle before AI. Distribution was, and remains so - more than ever.

New comment by arbuge in "Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD"

arbuge — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 13:56:09 +0000

I console myself with knowledge of the economics maxim that every supply shortage is usually, eventually, followed by a supply glut.

One can only hope that that's the principle at work here, anyway. It could also be a critically damped system for all I know. Unfortunately I studied control systems too...

New comment by arbuge in "Claude Code: connect to a local model when your quota runs out"

arbuge — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 19:18:12 +0000

My local machines have nowhere near the computer power required to do this effectively. How does one go about connecting to alternative cloud models, rather than local models? Models served by Openrouter, for example?