Hacker News: bryan_w

New comment by bryan_w in "Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models"

bryan_w — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 01:22:51 +0000

Sell attention for ad space? That describes both of em

New comment by bryan_w in "Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo"

bryan_w — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:21:35 +0000

Here's one account, @rooey.wav

https://www.threads.com/share/BAQzYUI7Nf/

There's another account that I thought was something like @stopdatacenters but I'm having trouble finding it atm

New comment by bryan_w in "Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo"

bryan_w — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 06:59:37 +0000

This is about a DC in Nashville -- it is on the Cumberland river.

New comment by bryan_w in "Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo"

bryan_w — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 06:56:01 +0000

Is this DC even for LLMs? I've not seen any sign of that.

Considering that the initial build out was only 10MW, it seems unlikely that was the primary usecase.

New comment by bryan_w in "No Data Centers in My Backyard"

bryan_w — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 06:25:14 +0000

They allow the "infrasound" people go unchecked even though they are basically the same as the tin foil hatters.

New comment by bryan_w in "Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo"

bryan_w — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 06:10:04 +0000

One of the guys leading the effort is active on threads (probably twitter too). He has no interest in negotiating. He is gloating over his win hardcore and has very absolutist views when it comes to datacenters

New comment by bryan_w in "Waymo in Dallas"

bryan_w — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 06:38:12 +0000

You fell for some kid's story and should feel bad for repeating it unsubstantiated.

New comment by bryan_w in "Waymo in Dallas"

bryan_w — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 06:21:28 +0000

Why don't you think waymo is liable? Who else would be responsible for an accident in one of their cars?

New comment by bryan_w in "Zitron: "Everyone Has Been Sold a Lie" on AI [video]"

bryan_w — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 15:28:06 +0000

Good point. We can always point to Naomi Wu as an real life example of why China is NOT living in the future. She is a good example of why we would never want to replicate what China is doing

New comment by bryan_w in "Our position on open-weights models"

bryan_w — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 05:39:54 +0000

Yeah, you can tell by the tone that none of this is authentic. A lot of the replies aren't even responding to the article itself, just repeating from a list of grievances

New comment by bryan_w in "AI companies are shredding rare books"

bryan_w — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:21:28 +0000

This is quite a reasonable take.

New comment by bryan_w in "Couple pay >$800k for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died."

bryan_w — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 22:20:57 +0000

This is the most suspicious comment I've ever read on this site

New comment by bryan_w in "GrapheneOS recommended for domestic abuse victims"

bryan_w — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:17:24 +0000

How is that different from getting that data from the phone company?

New comment by bryan_w in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

bryan_w — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:09:09 +0000

In an .md file somewhere:

"NEVER represent currency with floating point, multiply by 100 and store in an int before doing any math"

New comment by bryan_w in "Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity"

bryan_w — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 06:07:53 +0000

In their world, everyone everywhere is corrupt. This saves them from having to deal with nuance and other such difficult topics

New comment by bryan_w in "Mark Zuckerberg's biggest legal nightmare yet could cost Meta $1.4T"

bryan_w — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:53:05 +0000

Indeed it would be silly to prosecute the record execs because they found a report called "what are the youths listening to" or even with the video game moral panic of the 90s, going after game companies because they found a report titled "Is Laura Croft setting unrealistic beauty standards for teens" at gamedev companies

New comment by bryan_w in "County with 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to 'Conserve Electricity'"

bryan_w — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 22:59:34 +0000

> I appreciate 404 media's mission but

Really makes you think: should you really support efforts like this when there are better and more honest groups out there? (Cough EFF *cough)

New comment by bryan_w in "County with 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to 'Conserve Electricity'"

bryan_w — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 22:49:52 +0000

You're assuming these people know what a lobbyist does beyond the edgey cynical definition they learned about when they were 13.

New comment by bryan_w in "County with 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to 'Conserve Electricity'"

bryan_w — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 22:32:16 +0000

> poor journalism.

404 media has never been interested in being good journalism, but rather driving signups to to their website by people who don't know what proper journalism looks like

New comment by bryan_w in "A native graphical shell for SSH"

bryan_w — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:21:49 +0000

You would have loved XUL