Hacker News: bravoetch

New comment by bravoetch in "Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive"

bravoetch — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:55:37 +0000

1 - How are people torrenting and not using a VPN? 2 - How are judges still allowing this business model of sharing files then trying to shake down people that download them?

New comment by bravoetch in "I Don't Have a Smartphone"

bravoetch — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 18:06:26 +0000

I get it, I really hate it too. When I don't want to use my phone, I just leave it somewhere in the house and forget about it for a couple of days.

New comment by bravoetch in "Dyson CameraJet electric toothbrush"

bravoetch — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 21:26:28 +0000

Dyson seem to be the champion of turning a cheap effective device that's well understood into the same device but an order of magnitude more expensive. Are people still buying it?

New comment by bravoetch in "Show HN: GlassBox – what the browser reveals, and how identifiable you are"

bravoetch — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:23:23 +0000

It's horrifying to see that our browsers give up anything at all. I feel like we need a new model where we just get served the content, and we don't serve up anything to the content provider. I feel ill.

New comment by bravoetch in "Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace"

bravoetch — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 21:57:24 +0000

Fort Collins, CO is probably where that rate is. I don't know of anywhere cheaper for residential electric.

New comment by bravoetch in "Park by Robot at London Gatwick Airport"

bravoetch — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:48:11 +0000

They can turn your alarm off while they're fetching your pills.

New comment by bravoetch in "London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service"

bravoetch — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:47:03 +0000

It's missing the value-add of valet parking - being able to pull up at the front door and walk away from your car. Without that, this is not valet anything. You still park then shuttle to the airport so there's zero benefit to the end user.

New comment by bravoetch in "If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?"

bravoetch — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 03:22:59 +0000

Old business models: Add value for the end-user, sell it on for a profit.

Current business model: venture capital is the end-user now. Grow the investment by addicting customers to some distraction. Nothing else matters.

New comment by bravoetch in "How we can reduce traffic congestion"

bravoetch — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 05:29:58 +0000

That's not a bad idea, since we pay for the roads, not Google.

New comment by bravoetch in "Run large language models at home, BitTorrent‑style"

bravoetch — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 02:56:24 +0000

As we've seen, that's a solution looking for a problem.

New comment by bravoetch in "How we can reduce traffic congestion"

bravoetch — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 19:23:40 +0000

I read the article and didn't see anywhere if they collaborated with city planners, or just ran this on their own. I get the techno-optimism of making traffic 'better' and also it may be concerning if trucks are being routed through neighborhoods where planners didn't build for it.

New comment by bravoetch in "Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)"

bravoetch — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:49:26 +0000

Same thing, they clarify it right at the start of the very short article.

New comment by bravoetch in "Japan has 41% of the 100-year companies – secrets of 1,447-year survival"

bravoetch — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 22:33:55 +0000

This article starts by repeating the same paragraph five times, then pretty much twice again with different wording. Was there even a human in the loop? I doubt it.

New comment by bravoetch in "Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg"

bravoetch — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:04:02 +0000

I've seen a lot of things written about Carmack over the last 30+ years, not one comment this casually dismissive until today.

New comment by bravoetch in "Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time"

bravoetch — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:38:56 +0000

I've thought about a parallel version of this since I was a child and learned about the existence of nuclear weapons being a 'nation state' level of difficulty. Over time I assume an individual will wield more destructive power. How long before any individual person can conjure up world-ending munitions?

New comment by bravoetch in "Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC"

bravoetch — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:44:40 +0000

I couldn't even tell you when I used the Google search page. It's been years at least. I wouldn't be surprised if many other people also don't go there to search. I assume most search straight in the url bar.

New comment by bravoetch in "Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation"

bravoetch — Thu, 28 May 2026 22:46:46 +0000

Coinbase wasn't an IPO, they didn't create any new shares to sell as part of going public. They did a DPO, Direct Public Offering where they listed the existing private shares publicly and allowed most shareholders to sell immediately from day one. It was a great way to make the founders rich, VC to cash out their initial investment, and... well mostly just that.

New comment by bravoetch in "Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection"

bravoetch — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:24:05 +0000

It stuns me when I read about people investing in Lego in order to make money later, and in this case it was to pay for someone's college. That info is from the fundraising page that's trying to pay for the lawyers.

New comment by bravoetch in "The map that keeps Burning Man honest"

bravoetch — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:47:47 +0000

Have you been? Or are you basing this on second-hand information?

New comment by bravoetch in "245TB Micron 6600 ION Data Center SSD Now Shipping"

bravoetch — Wed, 06 May 2026 21:45:21 +0000

There's definitely a world where we need newer products, but not as many or as fast in iteration. My gaming PC has 128GB of RAM... And I built it years ago when RAM was laughably cheap. I still never touch the sides on it.