Hacker News: carlosft

New comment by carlosft in "3.4M Solar Panels"

carlosft — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:21:43 +0000

I had to re-read this three times. My sarcasm detector must be on the fritz.

New comment by carlosft in "GitHub is once again down"

carlosft — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:02:28 +0000

And a ton of the top end ruby staff have left. Many of them ended up at shopify. There is a growing about of non ruby/rails code at github, but most of the system that people think of when they think github are ruby/rails.

New comment by carlosft in "Challenging the Single-Responsibility Principle"

carlosft — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:42:35 +0000

The highest of compliments.

New comment by carlosft in "Challenging the Single-Responsibility Principle"

carlosft — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 03:52:35 +0000

I just rewatches deadwood and i read your comment in the voice of al swearengen. I also tossed in a few "hooplehead" references for good measure.

New comment by carlosft in "OpenAI is walking away from expanding its Stargate data center with Oracle"

carlosft — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 05:32:18 +0000

I keep hearing people claiming that water is just as much as issue as energy for operating these DCs, but that just doesn't make any sense to me. However, I haven't had to step inside a DC for almost two decades.

New comment by carlosft in "AI is killing B2B SaaS"

carlosft — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 15:36:18 +0000

I think the pressure on SaaS margins won't be from customers vibing their way to Figma or DataDog but because gen AI will bring a lot more credible competition in many segments. DD and Figma are probably awful examples because those companies are constantly pushing the envelope, but there are a lot of rent seeking SaaS providers that are going to be in for a rude awaking.

New comment by carlosft in "Guinea worm on track to be 2nd eradicated human disease; only 10 cases in 2025"

carlosft — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 15:27:31 +0000

> We are living through a moment of deep cynicism about our ability to solve existential problems.

I have no doubt that we can create a really miraculous future. I am just increasingly pessimistic about our collective desire to do so.

New comment by carlosft in "[dead]"

carlosft — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 01:56:19 +0000

I am sorry that i didn't take you at your word. Please accept my formal apology.

New comment by carlosft in "ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data"

carlosft — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 06:08:49 +0000

There is a reason ICE wasn't shooting unarmed civilians prior to operation metro surge, which only started in December, 2025. Standard ICE operations are targeted and generally quite. Operation Metro Storm is neither.

These are intentionally provocative and involve agents performing traffic stops and harassing people on the street for no other reason than (it increasingly appears) the color of their skin.

Lets see them deploy 3000 agents to West Texas or Hialeah for a few weeks. I am guessing those local populations might have a few problems with it as well.

New comment by carlosft in "ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data"

carlosft — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 04:30:05 +0000

There is a lot of room between unfettered immigration and having a roving band of apparently unaccountable agents violating 1st, 4th, and 6th amendment rights while also gunning down unarmed citizens in the streets.

We could try mandating e-verify with increasing penalties before we start asking people for papers and kicking down doors.

New comment by carlosft in "Nvidia H100 GPUs: Supply and Demand"

carlosft — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 18:51:44 +0000

I have never had to even think about the steps a firm with massive utility requirements would need to take to secure supply. So assuming you could wave a magic wand and instantly build out a datacenter in northern Virginia right now, the local power utility (Dominion Energy in this case) would not be able to provide power?

New comment by carlosft in "Helix: Rust and Ruby, Without the Glue"

carlosft — Tue, 17 May 2016 21:04:57 +0000

What are the dependencies for installing the gem? I assume the machine will need rustc/cargo to compile the gem.

New comment by carlosft in "The Pentagon's $399 Billion Plane to Nowhere"

carlosft — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 14:04:04 +0000

I recently called my senators and congressman about this issue. None of the staffers were able to provide me with their public opinions on the project. Two mentioned that they haven't received any calls on the matter. If you care about this issue, and are a US citizen, call (http://www.contactingthecongress.org/) your elected officials.