Hacker News: baal80spam

New comment by baal80spam in "Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs"

baal80spam — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:20:55 +0000

> They just have such a strong hardware

"just" doing a very heavy lifting here

New comment by baal80spam in "Ask HN: Is there a website that tracks excessive writes to SSDs in OS/app betas?"

baal80spam — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:14:28 +0000

Well if 4 years decrease SSD life by 6%, then 10 years should decrease it by ~15% - so you have plenty of wiggling space.

TSMC to raise chipmaking prices by up to 10% from 2027

baal80spam — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:15:21 +0000

Article URL: https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/exclusive-tsmc-to-raise-chipmaking-prices-by-up-to-10-from-2027

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48992657

Points: 2

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New comment by baal80spam in "Xiaomi-Robotics-1"

baal80spam — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:15:00 +0000

I've definitely noticed even more than that - any submissions painting the current USA in a good light are instantly and mercilessly buried (you can check my submissions for examples), while anything even remotely on the "USA bad" side gets to the top. It's really a sad state of affairs.

New comment by baal80spam in "GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization"

baal80spam — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 13:27:58 +0000

Waiting for comments saying that LLMs can't produce anything new and general goalpost moving.

Linus Torvalds to critics of AI coding in Linux: "Fork it. Or just walk away."

baal80spam — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:19:40 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/linus-torvalds-to-critics-of-ai-coding-in-linux-fork-it-or-just-walk-away/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48951849

Points: 9

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New comment by baal80spam in "Evidence of inconsistencies in evaluation process and selection of winners"

baal80spam — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:16:49 +0000

> AI is 95% useless

This is a ridiculous take.

FWIW, I am NOT a bot. (beep-boop)

New comment by baal80spam in "'We used acid to sabotage Microsoft hyperscale data centre construction'"

baal80spam — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:27:18 +0000

They should be jailed.

New comment by baal80spam in "US House of Representatives takes step to make daylight saving time permanent"

baal80spam — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:42:49 +0000

Nice, congrats US! EU promises to stop this madness every year for the last 6 years, and apparently it's impossible.

New comment by baal80spam in "S&P downgrades Oracle to BBB – only one notch above junk level"

baal80spam — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:32:39 +0000

It's all about getting a call from the dreaded Margin.

New comment by baal80spam in "Berkshire's $397B Bet Against an Overheated Market"

baal80spam — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:23:32 +0000

> My reading might be wrong, but since 2020 there is no bad news that seems to faze the market by an iota.

Or maybe - because it's the bad news that sells - there is much more of the good (or neutral) news that outvalue the bad news, that is just unknown to you?

Reasons to be optimistic about America's future

baal80spam — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 11:59:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2026/07/03/25-reasons-be-optimistic-about-americas-future/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48803457

Points: 3

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New comment by baal80spam in "Starring the Computer"

baal80spam — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 19:25:21 +0000

Huh. I always thought that there was a Cray in Wargames.

US life expectancy on track to reach record high

baal80spam — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 10:44:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/02/health/us-death-rate-record-low-cdc-report-longevity

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48773433

Points: 2

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New comment by baal80spam in "Ask HN: Who is quitting? (July 2026)"

baal80spam — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:49:11 +0000

Good luck, just remember (speaking as an European): the grass is always greener.

New comment by baal80spam in "Nvidia offers startup customers chance to swap compute power for revenue share"

baal80spam — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:29:14 +0000

I'll bite: any day now!

New comment by baal80spam in "We Are the Last People Who Know How It Works"

baal80spam — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:00:52 +0000

I think what you describe is called the Model Collapse.

New comment by baal80spam in "Micron locks in historically high memory prices for five years"

baal80spam — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 07:41:16 +0000

> I hope the tech community remembers this and diversifies away

Doubt it. Has it EVER happened before?

New comment by baal80spam in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"

baal80spam — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:46:23 +0000

If they could, they would.

New comment by baal80spam in "Half-Life 2 in a Browser"

baal80spam — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:08:52 +0000

> The best sarcasm is exactly the one where it could be interpreted as written and people misreading it is part of the fun.

Is it kind of a reverse Poe's Law?