Hacker News: chemmail

New comment by chemmail in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

chemmail — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:53:27 +0000

NYT. Truly hilarious. The guy who had a hand in killing BTC and tried and utterly failed to create a layer on top of it. Why would the creator of BTC do such things lol.

New comment by chemmail in "OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation"

chemmail — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 08:08:03 +0000

A little bit, but the scale is another magnitude higher. I just saw a chart yesterday that shows Uber burning $18B, Tesla burning $9B, and Netflix burning 11B before reaching profitability. Open AI so far spent $218 Billion.

New comment by chemmail in "Bluetooth Headphone Jacking: A Key to Your Phone [video]"

chemmail — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 11:48:49 +0000

Literally common sense since the beginning of wireless communications and coms in general.

New comment by chemmail in "SoftBank sells its entire stake in Nvidia"

chemmail — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 11:55:03 +0000

All you have to look at is ASIC miners. Once they had them, they were 10x faster than GPUs easily and made GPUs useless for those algos. Something very similar can happen soon.

New comment by chemmail in "SoftBank sells its entire stake in Nvidia"

chemmail — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 11:52:10 +0000

It’s going be pretty hard to dethrone Google when even Apple is going to Google for AI with another huge billion $ contract.

New comment by chemmail in "Apple's A19 Pro beats Ryzen 9 9950X in single-thread Geekbench tests"

chemmail — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 12:05:42 +0000

The new phones are faster though. I use tow different gen phones and you can def feel web pages load faster even just 1 gen up.

New comment by chemmail in "Compare the New iPhone Models"

chemmail — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 13:51:52 +0000

How is it Apple’s version of the notch when Apple invented that too. I actually perfer a notch over the island. My 13 pro is going strong, but the regular has me very intrigued.

New comment by chemmail in "Beetroot juice lowers blood pressure by changing oral microbiome: study"

chemmail — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 05:20:25 +0000

If you look at the US healthcare system, it is 100% about fixing after the fact rather than prevention. Insurance would touch anything preventative.

New comment by chemmail in "The natural diamond industry is getting rocked. Thank the lab-grown variety"

chemmail — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 03:19:39 +0000

Pretty effing hilarious the argument your diamond is worth less because it isn't full flaws and defects.

New comment by chemmail in "Test Results for AMD Zen 5"

chemmail — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 12:03:37 +0000

Could be the low power ecores being in use somehow? Meteor Lake has 3 types of core with 2 lpE cores in the SOC to try to turn off the Main P and E core tile. Lunar Lake removed the lpE cores and it does feel faster when surfing pages like reddit than my 12th gen and 5000hz laptops. I also tried the Ryzen AI and it is pretty close but 20% less battery life. They get a pretty crazy 15hr battery life now.

New comment by chemmail in "iPhone 16 cameras vs. traditional digital cameras"

chemmail — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 11:37:49 +0000

Its really iPhone 11 when things got crazy with deep fusion. The iPhone X actually has the most detailed screen. When i look at the same photos, somehow the X has better color and details than up iphone 14 max (i have every iphone till 14). If you look at raw image you will be blown away how little has changed since even iphone 4!

But at the end of the day its all about the photographer than the equipment. Just ask chefs. 20 students same kitchen, ingredients, recipe, 20 different tasting dish.

What really drove that in was when my art teacher took a shot of me with my camera and holy shit it was one of the best pics I've seen. He just has the eye at the end of the day.

New comment by chemmail in "‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]"

chemmail — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 22:41:48 +0000

I think we should give credit where credit it due in that the people in power in Israel is using the old holocaust as an excuse to commit another. The people in power do not 100% represent the people of a nation.

New comment by chemmail in "A media company demanded a license fee for an Open Graph image I used"

chemmail — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 03:21:06 +0000

Why not just remove that one link/image?

New comment by chemmail in "Upgrading an M4 Pro Mac mini's storage for half the price"

chemmail — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 11:11:38 +0000

This is what makes PS5 and Xbox so crazy. Loads for stages are 2-5 seconds and some have optimized it for no loading on open worlds. PS4 and below took forever to load sometimes. Like 30 seconds, which is insanely long.

New comment by chemmail in "The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs"

chemmail — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 08:14:33 +0000

But we are great now. What else do we need?

New comment by chemmail in "Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence"

chemmail — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 23:44:59 +0000

The base models maybe, but the Pros have crazy OLEDs that almost have me drooling. The speed hasn't changed much, i just got a 11 Pro with M1 and it isn't any faster in normal stuff than the A12 on my 12.9". I always get my Apple devices from used shops and got my 11 Pro for $250 when it was 2 gens old and feel I won't get the OLED one till I find one for $300ish.

New comment by chemmail in "Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence"

chemmail — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 23:41:16 +0000

Unfortunately with DDR5L speeds, they need to be embedded to keep signal stability, so you need to find at least a 16GB laptop which is STILL pretty gatekept with a higher chip like i7 so you have to pay $300 more for that extra 8GB, pulling a page from Apple. Luckily m.2 is still a thing and 99% of Windows still use it.

New comment by chemmail in "Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence"

chemmail — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 23:37:10 +0000

Ipad Mini is such a good size. My friend lent me his Mini2 when he borrowed money from me and used it for a good 6 months i think and it was marvelous. I didn't use it all that much but later got an Air 2 and used it maybe slightly less. Then I got an iPad Pro 11" but only used it for a while and don't really touch it too much anymore. I feel maybe an ipad mini I would use more. But the jelly scroll really has me urked and I kinda want OLED on it, so there is definitely room for a Pro version if they wish, but the iPads are overwhelming with 5 sizes already.

New comment by chemmail in "12 Months of Mandarin"

chemmail — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 01:41:35 +0000

This is nuts, if i learned Mandarin, i would probably move to Taiwan, where the CoL is almost 1/4th of where I am right now. I know some other languages, but loss the will to study anymore lol.

New comment by chemmail in "Some Automattic employees accept severance package offer"

chemmail — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 01:28:44 +0000

Whats the alternative? Most people have just switched to Instagram or Twitter for stuff like that. Easy daily update/schedules ect.