Hacker News: conorcleary

New comment by conorcleary in "Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service"

conorcleary — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:08:13 +0000

They are filling the ranks of draftees

New comment by conorcleary in "Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?"

conorcleary — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:00:03 +0000

this is totally not going to cause spontaneous reports to authorities about suspicious _insert anything here_ and ultimately cost taxpayers more to respond to situations that otherwise wouldn't be happening.

New comment by conorcleary in "Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read"

conorcleary — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:56:16 +0000

but then the upvote button is too close to the collapse thread, plus, why make it easier to hide discussion? => makes it easier for scripts to automate by visual/x,y placement

New comment by conorcleary in "Is Germany's gold safe in New York ?"

conorcleary — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:32:02 +0000

don't be mad at the coin because it's laying the wrong way down

New comment by conorcleary in "France pulls last gold held in US for $15B gain"

conorcleary — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:30:12 +0000

but you sold it...

(I know share rehypothication exists, but it shouldn't)

New comment by conorcleary in "Solar and batteries can power the world"

conorcleary — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:10:12 +0000

Yeah, but market pricing fluctuates and that corn (hopefully) isn't grown in a monocrop. Alternating with soybean affects protein and food oils markets, and alternating or adding industrial hemp both, plus tremendous fibre.

New comment by conorcleary in "Solar and batteries can power the world"

conorcleary — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:09:56 +0000

No no, that argument is pretty old now. The amount of fuel you GROW on your own continent at any single or double digit percentage during wartime-anytime is probably a good long-term research project that shouldn't be interrupted by people online.

New comment by conorcleary in "OpenAI Acquires TBPN"

conorcleary — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:42:45 +0000

Or, they know exactly what they wield when they take over.

New comment by conorcleary in "Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why"

conorcleary — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:58:42 +0000

One is Russian malware and the other is Chinese ;)

New comment by conorcleary in "Artemis II will use laser beams to live-stream 4K moon footage at 260 Mbps"

conorcleary — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:06:31 +0000

queue the new moon hoax theory

New comment by conorcleary in "A forecast of the fair market value of SpaceX's businesses"

conorcleary — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:00:05 +0000

oh baby, that's the just 'new' way they screw ya

New comment by conorcleary in "How Reverse Game Theory Could Solve the Housing Shortage"

conorcleary — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:28:14 +0000

In this vane, I'm tired of the 'right' pointing out the dystopian and ugly 'communist' or 'socialist' mass housing that the USSR and China did during the Cold War. Sorry about aesthetics I guess? Should be more concerned about Evergrande ghost cities, contemporarily.

New comment by conorcleary in "‘Energy independence feels practical’: Europeans building mini solar farms"

conorcleary — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:57:46 +0000

All of these things should be given second lives, refurbished, firmware upgrades, recycled, etc.

New comment by conorcleary in "‘Energy independence feels practical’: Europeans building mini solar farms"

conorcleary — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:56:41 +0000

In Ontario, there is a feed-in-tariff program for payment in exchange for renewable/green energy generation direct-to-grid. This program has contracts which expire. The microFIT program (under 10kW/hr solar capacity) has a bulk of contracts expire around the same short period of time.

There is not-yet a fully funded or thought-through method for extending contracts or providing better-than-dismantle options to contract owners that is/are accessible.

New comment by conorcleary in "‘Energy independence feels practical’: Europeans building mini solar farms"

conorcleary — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 13:47:07 +0000

Used 240w modules built in 2010-2012 are worth $60-100 CAD at the moment in small quantities. There will be hundreds of thousands hitting the market (as long as they didn't hit the ground with careless removals) in ~2030+ as microFIT contracts in Ontario expire.

There is no clear path to switching these arrays to Net Metering, as of yet. Prepare for all sorts of unrecycled solar panels and potential loss of renewable capacity that is already installed.

New comment by conorcleary in "Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line"

conorcleary — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:19:18 +0000

probably the same nowadays most places

New comment by conorcleary in "Show HN: Thermal Receipt Printers – Markdown and Web UI"

conorcleary — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:10:58 +0000

In that case... how much is 14 feet of this ticket rack? ;-)

New comment by conorcleary in "We do not have a democracy"

conorcleary — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:48:46 +0000

We do here.

The world needs a server reboot, XP reset, and for PunkBuster to be re-enabled

conorcleary — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:46:13 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47387899

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New comment by conorcleary in "Starlink militarization and its impact on global strategic stability (2023)"

conorcleary — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 17:47:43 +0000

Canada will continue to casually choose the pro-nature option when presented.