Hacker News: chrisss395

New comment by chrisss395 in "San Francisco Weighs PG&E Takeover Amid Soaring Utility Costs"

chrisss395 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 01:59:46 +0000

Wouldn't distribution naturally be the more expensive part vs. electricity generation given the latter is centralized and scaled? Perhaps this is a fallacy, but that is the thought that crossed my mind.

New comment by chrisss395 in "San Francisco Weighs PG&E Takeover Amid Soaring Utility Costs"

chrisss395 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 01:57:46 +0000

Is this at all similar to what happened with telecoms? For some reason that is what popped in to my head.

New comment by chrisss395 in "Openrouter Fusion API"

chrisss395 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 01:56:01 +0000

Is there any formal research in this space? I too have tried flavors of this approach, but I can't confidently say my results were better.

I worry its kind of like asking 2-3 different consultants what the optimal strategy is for your business...and I'm not sure merging the answers produces anything material better.

New comment by chrisss395 in "Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public"

chrisss395 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 23:33:47 +0000

This strikes me as crowd-funded prompt caching, but with humans in the loop.

New comment by chrisss395 in "Tokenomics: Quantifying Where Tokens Are Used in Agentic Software Engineering"

chrisss395 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:30:10 +0000

You mention cost in one of the replies. Can you elaborate on the cost profile (ballpark) for various problem types? I would also be curious to understand the strategies employed and what the costs look like across each.

New comment by chrisss395 in "I tested every IP KVM in my Homelab"

chrisss395 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:33:57 +0000

I have a CSE847 and HP DL380 G10 that have gone down for me due to power outages. Many of these look complex, and I basically just need remote power-on/toggle capability. Should I be looking at something else?

New comment by chrisss395 in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

chrisss395 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:58:53 +0000

Here is the reddit thread where passengers were live replying. I don't seem confirmation of what the Bluetooth device name was. There is one comment in there claiming the following:

"Wife is on the plane. Guy had a speaker named bomb. He just confessed to it. He said he named it forever ago and forgot about it. He’s 16 years old. Wife’s friend is sitting next to him as they are questioning him."

https://www.reddit.com/r/flightradar24/comments/1tsfu8y/emer...

New comment by chrisss395 in "SQLite is all you need for durable workflows"

chrisss395 — Sat, 30 May 2026 13:20:03 +0000

"gets much more complex with scale" feels like the crux of it. Pick the right solution for your intended scale

That said, I appreciate this is hard in practice. We need to start small to manage the development rabbit hole risk, while also wanting to dream big. There is a tension there that I find hard to balance.

New comment by chrisss395 in "FBI Arrests CIA Official with $40M in Gold Bars in His Home"

chrisss395 — Fri, 29 May 2026 12:32:40 +0000

Moral flexibility if the term we use. Substance abuse is also, unfortunately, is a hallmark.

New comment by chrisss395 in "Cloudflare Flagship"

chrisss395 — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:09:42 +0000

I'm out of my league on this discussion, but it reminds me of the Configuration Database (CDB) used for most modern aircraft.

New comment by chrisss395 in "Ferrari Luce"

chrisss395 — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:54:34 +0000

Yeah, classic strategic mistake - lets try to attract a set of buyers completely different from our core base. The only thing that may save them, i.e., exotic playbook 101, is require core buyers to purchase one in order to get "the opportunity" to buy one oof its halo cars.

New comment by chrisss395 in "Ferrari Luce"

chrisss395 — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:47:06 +0000

This will go down as one of the largest strategic missteps in history. I understand the intent on the surface, but this completely misses the boat and abandons the racing heritage that makes Ferrari special. IMO, design was never really an issue with Ferrari. The problem is Ferrari has begun chasing popular trends, e.g., 4-door, electric.

New comment by chrisss395 in "Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)"

chrisss395 — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:38:44 +0000

"Walker" here and glad to see so many others agreeing this helps them. I also talk to myself and find it incredibly helpful, despite my wife thinking I'm a weirdo.

I hope as leaders and future leaders we can create a culture more tolerant of these practices, changing the perception that "if you aren't at your desk, you aren't working."

New comment by chrisss395 in "OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon"

chrisss395 — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:15:40 +0000

How many retail investors plan to buy? The folks I hear most excited about this have equity from the startup/PE companies they were involved in and are treating it like a big future payday. Apparently there is a big Whatsapp chat for them to discuss it all.

My recollection is that retail investors end up losing in these situations. I'm personally staying away...feels too much like a grift, but I won't pretend I have some magical analysis to prove it.

New comment by chrisss395 in "The last six months in LLMs in five minutes"

chrisss395 — Tue, 19 May 2026 12:21:51 +0000

How much of what is being generated by LLMs is actually value add? My perception is there are lots of great experiments, but little real value.

+ Developers are more productive, but are you all leaving work at 3p and enjoying a new found sense of work-life balance?

+ Companies are investing heavily in AI, yet I'm paying more for the same thing. Jamie Dimon still pays me 0% on my checking despite spending billions on AI.

It may be that simply adopting AI isn't enough. Could new startups that are born-in-AI buck this trend? I wonder what Clayton Christensen would say if he were still around.

New comment by chrisss395 in "Redis array: short story of a long development process"

chrisss395 — Tue, 05 May 2026 14:17:27 +0000

Love it and used a similar approach to vibe a core banking application for a mid-tier US bank with ~$10B+ in assets. They plan to put it in to production soon. That said, I felt held back by the rest of the org. the entire time because they continue to work the old way...we could have delivered it in a fraction of time and cost.

New comment by chrisss395 in "Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold"

chrisss395 — Tue, 05 May 2026 12:53:51 +0000

Seems the same as a hotel - empty rooms benefit no one.

New comment by chrisss395 in "CVE-2026-31431: Copy Fail vs. rootless containers"

chrisss395 — Tue, 05 May 2026 12:44:54 +0000

Dumb question: is preventing the module from loading safe to blindly run on, e.g., Unraid, Proxmox, WSL2? Is it possible to break anything?

New comment by chrisss395 in "When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing"

chrisss395 — Tue, 05 May 2026 12:34:26 +0000

It's good to know your experience mirrors mine. Developers are moving faster, but the rest of the organization is holding them back because processes and decisions still rely on other parts of the org. Has anyone else observed the same?

Organizations "born in AI" appear to buck this trend for obvious reasons (no legacy org. to deal with). My two cents.

New comment by chrisss395 in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

chrisss395 — Tue, 05 May 2026 01:06:54 +0000

Yes...but isn't his employment contract structured to incent this kind of move? His pay is 100% at-risk in the form of 170M+ stock options that only vest if he hits some astronomical targets.

I'm just not sure his rationale is completely objective given such a structure...