Hacker News: chris_money202

New comment by chris_money202 in "Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron Sued in US over Memory Price Fixing"

chris_money202 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 19:30:17 +0000

My guess is area becomes problematic. Chip becomes bigger, harder to manufacture without defects, costs rise as a result of those defects.

Bonus though, Apple is using "defective" chips in other products now such as the Neo which will help some with costs, but overall, you can't just add memory to the chip because the chip can become very yield sensitive, the process has to be there to produce the yield effectively.

New comment by chris_money202 in "Microsoft Needs Windows Lite"

chris_money202 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:58:01 +0000

I still don't know if I am sold with that. .NET is also a runtime so how do you handle the user story? If your users are also on Windows Lite then they have to manage .NET version or you have to package .NET with whatever you build. If your users are on full Windows, wouldn't it just make sense for you to build in same environment as your Users? Especially since IT would have to manage two separate operating systems if devs went Windows Lite and say Sales using the target app was on Windows.

This whole thing makes sense for indie devs or build VMs but breaks down for Enterprise pretty quick, and Microsoft is much more friendly to Enterprise customers than indie devs.

New comment by chris_money202 in "Microsoft Needs Windows Lite"

chris_money202 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:28:26 +0000

OP says Windows needs builders to make applications and that is what Windows Lite would enable (or expand) but then says Windows Lite shouldn't include .NET one of the primary frameworks to build applications on Windows.

New comment by chris_money202 in "A US military exercise to launch a satellite on short notice"

chris_money202 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:19:52 +0000

Or hear me out, we improve life here on Earth...

New comment by chris_money202 in "Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line"

chris_money202 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:55:49 +0000

If you’re truly serious about local AI you’re not using a Mac. A Mac is for people who want the best of both worlds, GPUs are much faster if memory is equal.

New comment by chris_money202 in "Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments"

chris_money202 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:30:31 +0000

Love this, seems to struggle with newly indexed words. Will try again when the FP load is gone

New comment by chris_money202 in "OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom"

chris_money202 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:14:28 +0000

I forgot Stargate

New comment by chris_money202 in "OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom"

chris_money202 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:26:44 +0000

Microsoft, Google, and Amazon also do this, but they also have the hyperscaler datacenter infrastructure to host the chips. Designing and taping out the chip is one thing, packaging, cooling, deploying, powering, and managing the fleet is another stack entirely. Wonder where that will come from?

New comment by chris_money202 in "The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs"

chris_money202 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 23:29:51 +0000

Don't recall saying I would trust them over my own judgement, they are an additional layer of perception

New comment by chris_money202 in "The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs"

chris_money202 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:28:42 +0000

I drive a 2004 truck, it's not as big as the newer trucks but it's still pretty big. My 2004 truck also has 0 sensors on it and no cameras. If I were driving a newer truck, I believe pedestrians would be safer because of the added safety sensors and cameras.

New comment by chris_money202 in "Will Apple Pull a SpaceX?"

chris_money202 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 10:05:17 +0000

Why would Apple’s inference fleet be more efficient? They would need to get into the TPU/water cooling business to make that happen. Apple’s silicon is great but remember it’s based on ARM an already existing ISA with reference designs. The burden to make Apple’s CPU silicon is lower than what it would be to make a TPU.

New comment by chris_money202 in "Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators"

chris_money202 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:51:01 +0000

Have to remember that regulated gambling also has lobbyist so unless regulated gambling is invested in these apps they are likely trying to get them banned or also regulated

New comment by chris_money202 in "AI has already killed academia as we know it?"

chris_money202 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:45 +0000

Flip the classroom, make students learn the material on their own (Using AI or whatever resources they want to use) and then in-classroom time is divided on working on problems (without AI assistance which can be controlled in this environment) and quizzes/exams (again without AI). We don't need lectures anymore, they are an incredibly ineffective way to learn.

New comment by chris_money202 in "Spotify Killed the Thrill of the Hunt"

chris_money202 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:56:26 +0000

Yeah I agree, the hunt is still there, just got redefined.

New comment by chris_money202 in "The AirPods Effect"

chris_money202 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 16:03:35 +0000

Really I see it as the exact opposite. A walk around the neighborhood is highly unlikely to strike up random conversation with a stranger. Might run into a friend or someone friendly but they are likely going to approach with or without airpods

New comment by chris_money202 in "Ask HN: Conflicted about founding engineer role"

chris_money202 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:01:53 +0000

Do you believe in the product/company? Does your equity dilute? Do you believe in the founders?

New comment by chris_money202 in "Running local models is good now"

chris_money202 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:09:31 +0000

on prem cloud is harder because of the scale up and scale down requirements. If you are a growing business which most decent ones are, you constantly have to think about that.

New comment by chris_money202 in "Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?"

chris_money202 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 23:41:13 +0000

To get the DOJ and FBI to move on on this takes a lot more than submitting paperwork, costs a lot more too.

New comment by chris_money202 in "Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?"

chris_money202 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 23:29:20 +0000

If this was true, they wouldn't be getting sued and aggressively pursued for takedowns

New comment by chris_money202 in "Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?"

chris_money202 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:05:20 +0000

Something not mentioned that links to both LLM training AND drop in book sales... Anna's Archive