Hacker News: asymmetric

New comment by asymmetric in "The hypocrisy of cyberlibertarianism"

asymmetric — Sun, 10 May 2026 06:51:28 +0000

What is the most interesting part of what happens?

I find your line of thought interesting but I’m not sure where you’re leading it.

New comment by asymmetric in "New gas-powered data centers could emit more greenhouse gases than whole nations"

asymmetric — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:13:03 +0000

Yeah, this seems like a textbook case where one could apply Jevons Paradox.

Tesla owner uses emergency solar to trickle charge battery in desert

asymmetric — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:07:22 +0000

Article URL: https://electrek.co/2026/04/18/tesla-model-x-solar-charging-atacama-desert-chile-pan-american-highway/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47832646

Points: 2

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New comment by asymmetric in "I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack"

asymmetric — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:25:38 +0000

> Also avoid their object store.

Curious as to why you say this. I’m using litestream to backup to Hetzner object storage, and it’s been working well so far.

I guess itt’s probably more expensive than just a storage box?

Not sure but I also don’t have to set up cron jobs and the like.

New comment by asymmetric in "Running Gemma 4 locally with LM Studio's new headless CLI and Claude Code"

asymmetric — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:55:10 +0000

Is a framework desktop with >48GB of RAM a good machine to try this out?

New comment by asymmetric in "About the Atmosphere"

asymmetric — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 09:56:52 +0000

Nix is definitely taking off though ;)

New comment by asymmetric in "Two Years of Emacs Solo"

asymmetric — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 07:48:17 +0000

For me it’s org-mode. Although now that I think of it, there’s a Neovim implementation I’ve been meaning to try.

New comment by asymmetric in "Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down"

asymmetric — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:30:13 +0000

And so it begins.

New comment by asymmetric in "The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future"

asymmetric — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:12:31 +0000

I'm curious, what do you think the future of the car industry is, then?

New comment by asymmetric in "A Chinese official’s use of ChatGPT revealed an intimidation operation"

asymmetric — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 09:17:39 +0000

Have you tried it? I’ve been meaning to.

New comment by asymmetric in "How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?"

asymmetric — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 08:57:45 +0000

> there are at least a dozen companies that provide non-Anthropic/non-OpenAI models in the cloud

Do you have some links?

Also I assume the privacy implications are vastly different compared to running locally?

New comment by asymmetric in "I don't know how you get here from “predict the next word”"

asymmetric — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 08:42:06 +0000

The ideas in the update were previously explored by Gwern 2 years ago: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PQaZiATafCh7n5Luf/gwern-s-sh...

New comment by asymmetric in "Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub"

asymmetric — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 08:25:50 +0000

Isn’t the linked article claiming that SM is superior to FSRS?

New comment by asymmetric in "In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels"

asymmetric — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 08:50:07 +0000

I think you’re wrong, especially if you consider more the just carbon (eg land use, deforestation, …) https://woods.stanford.edu/news/meats-environmental-impact

Clan 2025 Wrap-Up: From Infrastructure to a New Computing Paradigm

asymmetric — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 17:04:29 +0000

Article URL: https://clan.lol/blog/2025-wrap-up/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46669599

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by asymmetric in "Found: Medieval Cargo Ship – Largest Vessel of Its Kind Ever"

asymmetric — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:01:22 +0000

> On its stern, researchers were shocked to find extensive remains of a castle, a kind of covered deck where the crew would have sought shelter. Records show that castles were distinctive features of medieval cogs, but no physical evidence of them had previously been identified.

I suppose this explains why the thing that exists on more modern ships is called a “forecastle”.

PS go check the pronunciation for that word as it’s quite surprising.

New comment by asymmetric in "Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy"

asymmetric — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 08:53:28 +0000

Really happy about how things are going for you, and the positive impact this is having on your family!

It’s good to get some good news sometimes. Thanks for that :)

New comment by asymmetric in "Eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)"

asymmetric — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 14:53:06 +0000

From my quick research, it seems like people in the sailing community actually prefer Windy.com to Windy.app. (yes, there's a very confusing name clash)

New comment by asymmetric in "I canceled my book deal"

asymmetric — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 08:55:39 +0000

Is it “set up the page” or “set the page up”? Or both?

New comment by asymmetric in "Unifi Travel Router"

asymmetric — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 15:17:21 +0000

Oh wow, I got completely confused by this usage, and thought it meant 3 to 4 kilograms :)