Hacker News: astrodust

New comment by astrodust in "Tesla Unveils 'Flying' Roadster with SpaceX Thrusters [video]"

astrodust — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:37:47 +0000

More like a turkey.

New comment by astrodust in "Scientists are teaching birds to sing lost songs"

astrodust — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:11:40 +0000

Or you could teach them an image https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQCP-5g5bo&themeRefresh=1

New comment by astrodust in "Dots: Always-on agents"

astrodust — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:19:16 +0000

Excluding some countries, listed as "markets excluding the European Economic Area, Switzerland, and the UK" but possibly Canada, too?

New comment by astrodust in "Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space"

astrodust — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 22:50:44 +0000

Narrator: It wasn't.

New comment by astrodust in "Texas police department ordered to close for failing to provide public benefit"

astrodust — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 23:03:30 +0000

Why is it so ridiculous that the state can provide police where and when they're needed, and it's only when you have a sufficiently robust metropolitan area that can afford their own police force that you then have "local" cops?

Or are we all about locally-sourced, artisanal law enforcement now?

New comment by astrodust in "Eric S. Raymond – This is the case against AI Doom – pass it on"

astrodust — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 22:52:08 +0000

To be fair, it does fit his new brand.

New comment by astrodust in "Eric S. Raymond – This is the case against AI Doom – pass it on"

astrodust — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 22:06:01 +0000

An irrelevant curmudgeon says what?

New comment by astrodust in "Java 27"

astrodust — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:47:08 +0000

Why not Go, Rust, or C#?

New comment by astrodust in "A 386 PC for Your RP2350"

astrodust — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 17:47:02 +0000

With 8MB it'll be snug.

New comment by astrodust in "Apple is no longer thinking different"

astrodust — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:38:24 +0000

The iPhone launch was met with a lot of derision and eye-rolling despite that being the result of a half decade "effort to make themselves distinct from the competition".

Those events are rare, the opportunities to really shake things up are fleeting, as everyone is driving forward with relentless, incremental progress that quickly closes up all but the biggest gaps.

What could they possibly do that wouldn't be slammed as derivative?

New comment by astrodust in "Apple is no longer thinking different"

astrodust — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:34:45 +0000

"At the end of the day, a top tier chef just makes food like everyone else."

New comment by astrodust in "Moonshot’s Kimi uses 20k Nvidia chip cluster from Alibaba"

astrodust — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 17:32:37 +0000

"2.8TB model, fast shipping!"

New comment by astrodust in "Modern email can be built from borrowed parts"

astrodust — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 20:59:16 +0000

The irony here that HTTP headers are descended directly from RFC822 email headers.

New comment by astrodust in "Sorry, the open web is political"

astrodust — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:47:15 +0000

"Open Web" as in "Free Speech", where it doesn't mean what it's supposed to mean.

New comment by astrodust in "Markets are competitive if and only if P = NP"

astrodust — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:22:58 +0000

NP factorial sounds like NP-ultra-hard.

New comment by astrodust in "Beware, Claude Code deletes >30 day old transcripts. Anthropic won't fix it"

astrodust — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:54:20 +0000

That Claude can't retain and reference these in the future, SQLite could do this trivially, is wild.

New comment by astrodust in "Why Won't Europe Build AI Data Centers in Iceland?"

astrodust — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 02:46:02 +0000

Water cooling loop into a large public pool. If it works for the geothermal power station...

New comment by astrodust in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"

astrodust — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 15:47:50 +0000

Amazon is right there, reinvesting profits.

New comment by astrodust in "RFK Jr.'S HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research"

astrodust — Thu, 01 May 2025 00:34:29 +0000

What in the actual hell is that site? Are we really moving into the stupidest timeline at mach 10?

That page title is utterly absurd.

New comment by astrodust in "What Arm's CEO makes of the Intel debacle"

astrodust — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 09:01:42 +0000

"Shareholders" meaning "executives".