Hacker News: bronson

New comment by bronson in "Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets"

bronson — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:24:55 +0000

No upside whatsoever? Clearly you're not an insider trader.

New comment by bronson in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"

bronson — Mon, 11 May 2026 03:09:19 +0000

How is a trusted device associated with a human being? I'm pretty sure the walls of hundreds of bot phones are running trusted Android.

New comment by bronson in "Mythical Man Month"

bronson — Sat, 09 May 2026 18:26:10 +0000

Just that you're treating LoC and complexity as useful metrics, when these days those come for free. Or for $3 per Mtok, almost free.

New comment by bronson in "Mythical Man Month"

bronson — Sat, 09 May 2026 13:49:09 +0000

No, they're saying that it was misleading. OP said "I'm building an open source Google Photos alternative" and surprisingly didn't say "based on Immich". This dramatically changes the evaluation of "open-noodle".

We're now in an era where LoC is easy and design is hard[1]. Starting with an existing project means using an existing design, where someone else has already made many/most of the difficult decisions.

10Xing code without caring about design/UX/DX is trivial. Literally anybody with a token budget can do it. But they probably won't ship a good project. Not with current frontier models.

[1]: design has always been hard. But now it's even more difficult because of code veloocity and because LLMs are happier to work with bad code than humans. It's never been easier to go deep into rabbit holes without noticing a single issue.

New comment by bronson in "The fun has been optimized out of the Internet"

bronson — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:10:39 +0000

Perfect OK Boomer response. If this is parody then I salute you! So good.

New comment by bronson in "Flue is a TypeScript framework for building the next generation of agents"

bronson — Sat, 02 May 2026 21:45:28 +0000

Right. So why would I use this?

New comment by bronson in "AI uses less water than the public thinks"

bronson — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:03:51 +0000

Because they're taking water from already parched regions, often pumping it out of the ground. Even if the water did come back locally as rain (it doesn't), it still makes it impossible for people to live off the same aquifers and water sources sustainably.

New comment by bronson in "Microsoft VibeVoice: Open-Source Frontier Voice AI"

bronson — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:45:05 +0000

I think it depends on region. Related, many speakers pronounce chips and salza, Tezla, Wezley.

New comment by bronson in "WireGuard makes new Windows release following Microsoft signing resolution"

bronson — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:38:29 +0000

But nobody has said that it was a deliberate conspiracy/attack. Definitely not the OP. Who are you replying to?

New comment by bronson in "WireGuard makes new Windows release following Microsoft signing resolution"

bronson — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:20:49 +0000

And I'm positive that you understand the spirit of the post you're replying to.

The saying implies that incompetence and malice are polar opposites. They're not.

New comment by bronson in "Y Combinator's CEO says he ships 37,000 lines of AI code per day"

bronson — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:44:17 +0000

Neither does he, that's the beauty of it.

Flattening the Duck Curve: batteries reach 44% of evening demand in California

bronson — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:29:55 +0000

Article URL: https://reneweconomy.com.au/grid-batteries-reach-stunning-new-peak-of-44-pct-of-evening-demand-in-worlds-fourth-biggest-economy/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47633698

Points: 25

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New comment by bronson in "Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables"

bronson — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 21:54:53 +0000

When you compare PG&E's electricity rates to the rest of the nation (and neighbors like SMUD), you can see that the CPUC isn't doing much.

New comment by bronson in "Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables"

bronson — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 14:03:01 +0000

Because PG&E is a for-profit company. They are supposed to charge what the market will bear.

New comment by bronson in "The Los Angeles Aqueduct Is Wild"

bronson — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:07:33 +0000

Mojave was a desert. Owens Lake was huge. Your comparison doesn't make sense

What natural lakes in the region are still "very large"?

New comment by bronson in "The Los Angeles Aqueduct Is Wild"

bronson — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:14:39 +0000

The lake is completely dried up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owens_Lake And other lakes in the area are in really bad shape.

New comment by bronson in "Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction"

bronson — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 01:11:48 +0000

Neither is petroleum, nuclear, or the highway system. What's your point?

New comment by bronson in "Waiting for dawn in search: Search index, Google rulings and impact on Kagi"

bronson — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 19:15:20 +0000

Now my family usually says "I'm going to ask AI."

New comment by bronson in "Canada's deal with China signals it is serious about shift from US"

bronson — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 21:24:40 +0000

A few weeks before the tariff idiocy, I paid $320 including shipping for an ebike battery from the EU. When it arrived, it included a bill for an additional $350 from US Customs. That's insane, I refused.

When returning to sender, the package disappeared, presumably into Customs. I'm out $320 and still no battery.

New comment by bronson in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

bronson — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 15:27:45 +0000

So the author sent spam that they're not interested in? That's terrible.