Hacker News: astrodust

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".

New comment by astrodust in "AmpereOne: Cores Are the New MHz"

astrodust — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 20:54:09 +0000

The article states $5,550USD or so.

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

astrodust — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:59:40 +0000

Firefox has made a mountain of money off of their tiny market share. Chrome as a company would instantly rake in billions.

New comment by astrodust in "Voyager 1 breaks its silence with NASA via radio transmitter not used since 1981"

astrodust — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 16:44:33 +0000

Except one thing: Politics.

New comment by astrodust in "Boeing Wonderland: The Fake Cities on America's West Coast (2013)"

astrodust — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 19:11:55 +0000

Ukraine has also been vigilant in making hyper-realistic wooden replicas of various types of equipment, some even including heating elements in them so they look correct on thermal cameras.

If you've seen how glitchy/blurry the drone footage can get with jamming, it'd be easy to be fooled by a decoy.

New comment by astrodust in "Sixteen U.S. states still ban community-owned broadband networks"

astrodust — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 15:58:39 +0000

Lawful evil versus chaotic evil.

New comment by astrodust in "Demystifying the regular expression that checks if a number is prime (2016)"

astrodust — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 19:05:52 +0000

Isn't this based on an expression from Abigail then at Perlmonks? https://www.masteringperl.org/2013/06/how-abigails-prime-num...

New comment by astrodust in "New iMac with M4"

astrodust — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 23:14:27 +0000

The Mini is such a potent little machine.

New comment by astrodust in "New iMac with M4"

astrodust — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 23:12:49 +0000

You're not buying a standard, you're buying a module with particular packaging and specifications, all of which have a huge impact on production cost.

New comment by astrodust in "Natural Gas Company Said It Was Going Green but Still Sells as Much Fossil Fuel"

astrodust — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 16:54:09 +0000

Ukraine's doing their part to "green" Russia one drone strike at a time.

New comment by astrodust in "Natural Gas Company Said It Was Going Green but Still Sells as Much Fossil Fuel"

astrodust — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 16:53:22 +0000

Like a parent with several misbehaving kids, we don't have the luxury of focusing on one problem at a time.

New comment by astrodust in "Smart Goose Deterrent System"

astrodust — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 01:20:20 +0000

"I don't want to get wet, I'll fly over here to the water."