Hacker News: chaostheory

New comment by chaostheory in "David Attenborough's 100th Birthday"

chaostheory — Fri, 08 May 2026 21:34:39 +0000

Unlike the East Coast, we have earthquakes and more NIMBYs

New comment by chaostheory in "David Attenborough's 100th Birthday"

chaostheory — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:47:49 +0000

> I wish humans would come together to re-wild more of the earth. Restoring wild nature and cutting emissions is the only way to really restore natural ecosystems. We're nowhere close to doing that.

A big issue is cost and economic opportunity. For example, a lot of land in the SF Bay Area cannot be developed. This is great for the environment, but not so great for housing costs.

Long term, it’s likely worth it to save the environment, but let’s not ignore its immediate cost to everyone besides the upper class.

New comment by chaostheory in "Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2"

chaostheory — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:02:03 +0000

Yeah, the emulator support is nice

New comment by chaostheory in "Agent Skills"

chaostheory — Tue, 05 May 2026 06:53:23 +0000

I can see why this would seem to be “snake oil” logically. However, this approach does work in reality. Your comment just shows that you seem inexperienced with using generative AI.

New comment by chaostheory in "Porsche will contest Laguna Seca in historic colors of the Apple Computer livery"

chaostheory — Sun, 03 May 2026 15:59:14 +0000

This is a strange sounding title. It sounds like Porsche was fighting against Apple’s colors in Laguna Seca, when instead they’ll be used on Porsche cars.

New comment by chaostheory in "Apple Has Given Up on the Vision Pro After M5 Refresh Flop"

chaostheory — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:16:20 +0000

Gen Alpha and younger generations need to become adults with jobs before VR becomes a success. They are the only demographic who’s open to VR

New comment by chaostheory in "OpenAI CEO's Identity Verification Company Announced Fake Bruno Mars Partnership"

chaostheory — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:11:15 +0000

They didn’t get scammed. The CEO just didn’t know the difference between 30 seconds to Mars and Bruno Mars.

New comment by chaostheory in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

chaostheory — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 05:44:39 +0000

MCP fell out of favor due to token usage, but I’m starting to feel that by default AIs should only have access to MCPs and not APIs. We can make MCPs deterministic, but not the AI models. It’s only a matter of time before they hallucinate and lie.

New comment by chaostheory in "The Joy of Folding Bikes"

chaostheory — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 04:27:38 +0000

A smaller alternative is a half bike, though it’s really a trike

New comment by chaostheory in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

chaostheory — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:26:20 +0000

That’s until food and energy price increases become unbearable for the masses. While the first test is already here with gas prices, we’ll have the second test soon in the form of 50% price increases on food in developed Western countries.

New comment by chaostheory in "Gas Town: From Clown Show to v1.0"

chaostheory — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:09:22 +0000

It was ok until he bolted on Dolt

New comment by chaostheory in "The team behind a pro-Iran, Lego-themed viral-video campaign"

chaostheory — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:18:37 +0000

I disagree

https://www.cfr.org/global-conflict-tracker/conflict/confron...

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/paint-it-black-an-asymmet...

New comment by chaostheory in "Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers"

chaostheory — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:13:53 +0000

It’s time to switch to Linux or another open OS.

New comment by chaostheory in "Veracrypt project update"

chaostheory — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:09:47 +0000

Who knows maybe Valve can expand from just gaming?

New comment by chaostheory in "The Team Behind a Pro-Iran, Lego-Themed Viral-Video Campaign"

chaostheory — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:38:08 +0000

Which defense companies?

New comment by chaostheory in "The team behind a pro-Iran, Lego-themed viral-video campaign"

chaostheory — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:14:23 +0000

Ground troops are going to be deployed

New comment by chaostheory in "The team behind a pro-Iran, Lego-themed viral-video campaign"

chaostheory — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:07:57 +0000

No one cares about who made these videos in the US. The bigger issue is why are we engaging in a ground war in Iran when it doesn’t really serve US interests? Everyone on both political spectrums in the US can see why it benefits Saudi Arabia and Israel, but not the US.

We’re using precious resources like missiles that we will need in the Pacific theater in next 1-2 years

New comment by chaostheory in "Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't"

chaostheory — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:34:39 +0000

Yes, the duopolies are due to regulatory capture in the US.

A lot of ISPs need permitting that they will never get in order to enter a new market/location.

New comment by chaostheory in "In Japan, the robot isn't coming for your job; it's filling the one nobody wants"

chaostheory — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:27:38 +0000

1. There is only so much you can pay the people doing the kind of work like cleaning the Shinkansens or manning the 7-11's because it affects customer costs. i.e. There's a point where you increase the salary of 7-11 workers that it causes a $2 fried chicken snack to inflate to $10 that customers will refuse to buy

2. Even if there was magically enough money and time to retrain people, they would still be short of workers.

New comment by chaostheory in "Japanese, French and Omani vessels cross Strait of Hormuz"

chaostheory — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:48:21 +0000

Back then we had approval from our coalition. We also shared the spoils, which the Russians noted.

Also, none of the Bush’s ran on an “America First” isolationist political campaign. Even own base is fracturing because of this.