Hacker News: chrisco255

New comment by chrisco255 in "Electrobun v1: Build fast, tiny, and cross-platform desktop apps with TypeScript"

chrisco255 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 10:29:49 +0000

How big does a hello world binary compile to with this?

New comment by chrisco255 in "Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter"

chrisco255 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:28:14 +0000

This has nothing to do with SUVs. A 3 year old is difficult to see behind ANY vehicle.

New comment by chrisco255 in "Sam Altman Responds to Anthropic Ad Campaign"

chrisco255 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 05:37:25 +0000

Yeah I just don't think the average person is going to even get what they are talking about and they may not really care about ads in exchange for free-to-use ChatGPT. Most ChatGPT users are just using it as a search and summary tool. And they were seeing ads before via Google so what difference does it make?

While the Anthropic ads might be a hit amongst nerds, it won't compel normies to use Claude over ChatGPT, and in fact, it may just be damaging to AI adoption overall as it presents bad taste examples of how corruptible it all is.

New comment by chrisco255 in "1,400-year-old tomb featuring giant owl sculpture discovered in Mexico"

chrisco255 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 08:02:35 +0000

Yes we can play the semantic game all the way to absurdity, but its also quite true that genetic ancestry is heritable and traceable. We know that many unique native american ancestries have been diluted down to very small percentages over the centuries so its not an unreasonable question.

New comment by chrisco255 in "1,400-year-old tomb featuring giant owl sculpture discovered in Mexico"

chrisco255 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 07:59:20 +0000

The idea of pure cultures is even dumber. One is genetically traceable, the other is fluid and depends more on family upbringing and influence from local population interactions and social networks and mass media exposure. Unless Zapotec has remained uniquely isolated from quite strong Spanish/Mexican cultural identity and influence.

New comment by chrisco255 in "1,400-year-old tomb featuring giant owl sculpture discovered in Mexico"

chrisco255 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 01:27:25 +0000

How many are "pure Zapotec" vs a blend of Spanish/Aztec/Mayan/Tlaxcalan/Cempoaloan/Texcocan? Is it a genetically identifiable trait or just cultural?

New comment by chrisco255 in "China Moon Mission: Aiming for 2030 lunar landing"

chrisco255 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 22:51:33 +0000

The Commander in Chief of the military, also known as the President, has the authority to fire at will, that is how it works in America for 250 years now.

New comment by chrisco255 in "China Moon Mission: Aiming for 2030 lunar landing"

chrisco255 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 22:41:00 +0000

Reagan didnt push for deindustrialization and "the world is flat" world view didn't take precedence until after the fall of the Soviet Union in the 90s.

At the time, everyone was still optimistic that China would eventually become more open and even democratic, that Russia would not regress, etc.

It was still common for electronics and microprocessors to be made in USA well into the 90s. Reagan had nothing to do with the expansion of WTO and trade deficits with China that ballooned under HW, Clinton, Bush Jr and Obama.

New comment by chrisco255 in "Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon"

chrisco255 — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 02:35:21 +0000

Clearly very few people were buying at 120 which is why it fell back to 85. It's a highly volatile commodity. Commodities markets go through booms and busts all the time and you never even hear about most of them.

New comment by chrisco255 in "CISA’s acting head uploaded sensitive files into public version of ChatGPT"

chrisco255 — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 21:26:55 +0000

Polygraphs have to be one of the most awkward / bizarre requirements for accessing a program. They are not scientifically reliable.

New comment by chrisco255 in "CISA’s acting head uploaded sensitive files into public version of ChatGPT"

chrisco255 — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 21:22:54 +0000

If they are so leaky then why were they able to capture Maduro without a single American casualty? On one hand you claim incompetence and yet no one was tipped off. So maybe the Signal group chat wasn't as important as it was made out to be?

New comment by chrisco255 in "Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections"

chrisco255 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 03:27:17 +0000

Politicians just use those accusations as cover for conducting fraud or enabling the conditions that they inherently benefit from. There's no reason to not use paper, ID checks, and same-day accounting.

New comment by chrisco255 in "De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)"

chrisco255 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 21:02:27 +0000

Any links to data on these claims?

New comment by chrisco255 in "De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)"

chrisco255 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 21:00:57 +0000

> Trump is actively fighting the federal reserve to drop the interest rate to 0

The interest rate was near 0 for years, it did not cause inflation. Fighting for low interest is not same as being pro-inflation.

New comment by chrisco255 in "De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)"

chrisco255 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:18:08 +0000

Nobody is cheering for inflation to get worse, they are celebrating it being held down to 2.7% after higher inflation a few years ago.

The U.S. is a net exporter of oil and food and self-sufficent for majority of its mineral needs as well.

There is no need for U.S. to crash its currency to incentivize domestic production, it can just impose tariffs on imports to do so.

New comment by chrisco255 in "De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)"

chrisco255 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:09:48 +0000

It is quasi-government, its a hybrid entity.

New comment by chrisco255 in "De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)"

chrisco255 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:07:20 +0000

The U.S. is as stable as it gets. It has been one continuous republic and has 250 years of legal stability and a history of paying its debts. It has 4.2% GDP growth, with the largest economy in the world and growing.

New comment by chrisco255 in "British redcoat's lost memoir reveals realities of life as a disabled veteran"

chrisco255 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 05:16:51 +0000

How is that instructive? The British empire was mostly gone by the 1950s and a hell of a lot happened after that. It would be more instructive to look at Britain just before WW1 compared to the other countries.

At their peak, virtually all of the aforementioned empires brought enormous wealth to the homeland. It might not be profitable in the long run, but the long run can mean centuries before it becomes a net negative.

Also, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark were part of a Danish empire at one point.

New comment by chrisco255 in "Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6%"

chrisco255 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:02:38 +0000

No one is making serious threats to invade Canada, that's ridiculous. We don't need maple syrup that badly.

New comment by chrisco255 in "Scott Adams has died"

chrisco255 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:31:34 +0000

Really love Scott for creating Dilbert one of the best all-time comic strips, teaching the psychology of persuasion, and for writing How to Fail At Almost Everything and Still Win Big. It taught me to focus on systems and habits as a preference over goals (goals are still useful, but can be unrealistic and less adaptable). Plus God's Debris was an interesting thought experiment about the origin of the universe. Really great thinker and humorist. RIP Scott.