Hacker News: buckle8017

New comment by buckle8017 in "The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel"

buckle8017 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:25:28 +0000

There's no fingerprints in the passport.

Edit apparently some but not all EU passports do, which is weird.

New comment by buckle8017 in "FCC approves test of space mirror to light night sky"

buckle8017 — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 14:06:06 +0000

This has pretty obvious military applications in addition to the "solar all day" application.

New comment by buckle8017 in "Unified Memory, Explained: Why Mini PCs Can Run 70B Models a Big GPU Can't"

buckle8017 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:07:46 +0000

It's slower than the 4:1 ratio would imply, but it does indeed work.

Things get really slow if the model doesn't for in vram + ram and you have to go from disk to ram to vram.

New comment by buckle8017 in "Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future"

buckle8017 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:48:36 +0000

The Chinese don't have access to new EUV machines.

All of their fabrication ability is based on old processes.

New comment by buckle8017 in "What's slowing down the AI buildout"

buckle8017 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:34:08 +0000

Its west Texas, the natural gas is already nearby.

New comment by buckle8017 in "What's slowing down the AI buildout"

buckle8017 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:31:58 +0000

Have you seen the price of electricity?

That's with only about 5% of cars being electric.

We've consumed nearly all of the slack in transmission capacity.

I'm expecting transmission costs to balloon.

New comment by buckle8017 in "What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that's now public"

buckle8017 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:25:13 +0000

The classic PE strategy is to buy declining buy well known brands, borrow vast sums of money in the brands name, pay the PE firm huge consulting fees, and then bankrupt the acquired business.

Which isn't exactly what they seem to be doing but also isn't that far off.

New comment by buckle8017 in "FDA rejects petition to set PFAS limits in food"

buckle8017 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 19:35:17 +0000

The false negative rate for HIV testing in newly infected people is actually pretty high, like 50% within the first few months high.

New comment by buckle8017 in "FDA rejects petition to set PFAS limits in food"

buckle8017 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:57:33 +0000

Not without filtering other things we need.

New comment by buckle8017 in "FDA rejects petition to set PFAS limits in food"

buckle8017 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:54:57 +0000

Blood is tested for disease, but the false negative rate for each test is its own risk.

If you got blood from an addict living on the street engaging in prostitution and tested it, would you trust that blood?

I wouldn't.

New comment by buckle8017 in "Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron Sued in US over Memory Price Fixing"

buckle8017 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:02:38 +0000

That might have been true at some point in the past and the judiciary might even feel that way still.

However the practical penalty for filling absurd lawsuits is zero unless you do it repeatedly to random people for a decade.

Absolutely nothing bad will happen to the plaintiff or the lawyers representing them in this case.

Western legal systems are broken.

New comment by buckle8017 in "Countries are competing to see which can carry out mass surveillance the best"

buckle8017 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:46:51 +0000

Says a coward posting anonymously online.

New comment by buckle8017 in "window.showDirectoryPicker opens up a whole new world"

buckle8017 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:42:12 +0000

A whole new world of phishing.

New comment by buckle8017 in "What the Fuck Happened to Nerds"

buckle8017 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:45:05 +0000

Can't really compare a natural monopoly (water utility) that should be the government with something that isn't a natural monopoly (research).

New comment by buckle8017 in "US-Canada border library gets new Quebec-only entrance"

buckle8017 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:58:37 +0000

Canada allowed millions of temporary foreign workers in.

Unfortunately the border actually needs to be more sealed.

New comment by buckle8017 in "Linux latency measurements and compositor tuning"

buckle8017 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:56:30 +0000

Bitcoin mining. (this is not a joke)

New comment by buckle8017 in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

buckle8017 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:56:56 +0000

Gemini almost killed you.

The exhaust blower not working triggered a safety that prevented the furnace from firing.

Spinning it bypassed the safety.

You likely inhaled a lot more carbon monoxide than you know.

New comment by buckle8017 in "Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services"

buckle8017 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:41:16 +0000

Redhat's entire reason for existence is to prevent this.

New comment by buckle8017 in "Why is Google Maps back to showing old satellite images of Altadena?"

buckle8017 — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:07:00 +0000

Google likely doesn't have an angle, but the person who decided to make this change maybe does.

New comment by buckle8017 in "The occasional ECONNRESET"

buckle8017 — Sun, 17 May 2026 18:55:10 +0000

Client sees a clean disconnect and I guess assumes thats the entire file?