Hacker News: ch0wn

New comment by ch0wn in "EVE Online moves to Python 3"

ch0wn — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 14:46:46 +0000

* and commit no felonies

New comment by ch0wn in "New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S."

ch0wn — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 13:53:19 +0000

400,000 people in Europe are displaced. Pretending that this is a future issue is tremendously disingenuous. Things don't need to be civilisation-ending to cause a degree of harm that is worth focusing on.

New comment by ch0wn in "Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line"

ch0wn — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 10:18:50 +0000

New comment by ch0wn in "Meta to receive $3.3B in tax breaks for its $10B Louisiana data center"

ch0wn — Fri, 15 May 2026 22:45:44 +0000

You're forgetting insane levels of air pollution and a measurable increase in ambient temperatures.

New comment by ch0wn in "€54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key accessing Gemini APIs"

ch0wn — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:46:25 +0000

This should be illegal. If a contractor your hired to swap out a tile on your bathroom floor billed you for remodelling your back garden, you would obviously have the legal right to refuse that.

New comment by ch0wn in "IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report"

ch0wn — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 23:46:37 +0000

> Hamas was the first to cast the stone.

That is ignoring many decades of history.

New comment by ch0wn in "Germany: Amazon is not allowed to force customers to watch ads on Prime Video"

ch0wn — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 21:51:55 +0000

Same for me. I actually don't order much but kept the subscription going for some of the shows I enjoyed. I promptly cancelled because of this. Obviously I'm in the minority, otherwise they wouldn't do it.

New comment by ch0wn in "Why you can’t grow cool-climate plants in hot climates"

ch0wn — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 19:02:40 +0000

Or powering the current AI bubble with a buildout of climate-wrecking energy infrastructure.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/21/gas-power-plants-approved-...

New comment by ch0wn in "Oil states thwart agreement on plastics"

ch0wn — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 09:53:50 +0000

What exactly makes an environmentalist "radical" in your mind? Is it reading studies about planetary boundaries and the effects on micro plastics pollution?

New comment by ch0wn in "Oil states thwart agreement on plastics"

ch0wn — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 09:49:58 +0000

> Plastics aren't a problem if people actually put them in the bin, and they are buried / recycled / burned.

Only 9% of all plastics ever produced has been recycled. 100% is impossible due to the various composite materials that exist.

Landfills don't work in many places in the world due to lack of space and are expensive, hard to manage and come with methane emissions. Burning is obviously the same as burning fossil fuels and cannot happen if we want to keep our planet habitable. It also happens almost always in poor communities that suffer health consequences because of it.

Even if the disposal was somehow magically solved, we still have the problem with production. Plastics are a lifeline to the fossil fuel industry and are expected to account for more than a third of the growth in world oil demand to 2030. Cracker plants for plastics production are also usually placed near communities of colour or in developing countries and create toxic conditions for life around them.

Plastics are a problem. Regardless of the disposal.

I don't use HDMI, and I never will

ch0wn — Sat, 31 May 2025 21:42:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.xda-developers.com/i-dont-use-hdmi-and-i-never-will/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44147111

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by ch0wn in "Carbon capture more costly than switching to renewables, researchers find"

ch0wn — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 01:11:26 +0000

No, it is not and the idea that extreme weather would somehow result in more food is laughable on its face. Higher CO2 concentrations also reduce the nutrients in food.

https://skepticalscience.com/fact-brief-plant.html

New comment by ch0wn in "UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers"

ch0wn — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 23:56:07 +0000

A good move but it's still mad to me that we're banning junk food ads while fossil fuel ads are still allowed which are creating damage many orders of magnitudes greater than a muffin ever could.

New comment by ch0wn in "Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant shift from road to rail"

ch0wn — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 23:53:54 +0000

Show me an effective carbon abatement method well under $100.

New comment by ch0wn in "Gassy cows and pigs will face a carbon tax in Denmark, a world first"

ch0wn — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 23:05:09 +0000

This is propaganda from the livestock lobby that has been disproved again and again. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/15/beef-f...

New comment by ch0wn in "Microsoft's Emissions Spike 29% as AI Gobbles Up Resources"

ch0wn — Sun, 19 May 2024 10:47:28 +0000

Yes. https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/carbon-off...

New comment by ch0wn in "More than half of Bitcoin investors are in the red, study says"

ch0wn — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 01:09:56 +0000

I have yet to see someone argue that TWTR is the future of money and will replace gold.

Snake in my Boot: An implementation of snake in a bootloader

ch0wn — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 16:16:07 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/w-shackleton/snake-in-my-boot

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22118801

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ch0wn in "The Rhine waterway risks becoming impassable because of climate change"

ch0wn — Sat, 19 Jan 2019 12:07:18 +0000

I'm not sure if "ironic" is the right word here, but that as a direct effect of climate change, coal power plants had to shut down and cars couldn't be manufactured is certainly an interesting twist.

New comment by ch0wn in "A key ingredient for a universal flu vaccine may come from llamas"

ch0wn — Sun, 04 Nov 2018 23:05:27 +0000

I'd love to have more articles that revisit all the amazing sounding findings we read about every day. Especially about the ones that fail trials.