Hacker News: cwal37

New comment by cwal37 in "Expanding our partnership with GSA to bring Claude to all levels of government"

cwal37 — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 02:11:31 +0000

Who's leasing his compute?

New comment by cwal37 in "Investor-owned utilities charge 23% more for electricity than public providers"

cwal37 — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:06:58 +0000

That’s roughly the opposite of the development of electric utilities in the US. The IOUs owned dense urban areas and refused to electrify further out. It was only the rise of public municipal utilities that got them to go to the states, implement the regulatory compact, be granted rate of return, etc., and then they began building out more.

Demands for AI Filter on Steam Grow as Next Fest Is Flooded with AI Slop

cwal37 — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 18:15:00 +0000

Article URL: https://respawnfirst.com/demands-for-ai-filter-steam-next-fest-ai-slop/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50170384

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by cwal37 in "Elon Musk's Texas rescue mission"

cwal37 — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:16:10 +0000

https://archive.ph/isZBG

Elon Musk's Texas rescue mission

cwal37 — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:15:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.axios.com/2026/10/15/elon-musk-texas-rescue-mission

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50105864

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Spend Elon Musk's Money

cwal37 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:39:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/spend-elon-musk-money/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50007167

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

AI Companies Are in a Race Against Time

cwal37 — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 22:01:18 +0000

Article URL: https://econjared.substack.com/p/ai-companies-are-in-a-race-against

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49850512

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by cwal37 in "San Francisco Onion Futures Company"

cwal37 — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 04:44:27 +0000

For those who don’t know:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_Futures_Act

(which also banned box office receipt futures)

A fun thing is to go on FRED and make a graph with prices from onions and, say, corn to see the differences in volatility.

Years of Salt and Metal – The crash of Hop-a-Jet flight 823

cwal37 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:37:12 +0000

Article URL: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/years-of-salt-and-metal-the-crash-of-hop-a-jet-flight-823-665f93094e3c

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49468373

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by cwal37 in "Starbase, LA"

cwal37 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:55:09 +0000

I did briefly consider something along those lines, but shoreline and marshlands are materially different, plus they've already changed the text.

New comment by cwal37 in "Starbase, LA"

cwal37 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:31:44 +0000

I wonder if anyone read the copy on this page or if it mostly came out of an LLM.

The "Restoring the shoreline" and Rebuilding the marshlands" paragraphs below the images are almost exactly the same. The first sentence is exactly the same.

New comment by cwal37 in "Stop eating Lady Gaga's Oreos"

cwal37 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 02:15:15 +0000

I saw the first article on thick art. This was linked within that article.

I enjoyed reading both, then popped over to see if this one had ever been submitted to HN. It hadn't, so I did. Figured that if people liked the first one, they might like this one as well.

Stop eating Lady Gaga's Oreos

cwal37 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 19:46:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.experimental-history.com/p/stop-eating-lady-gagas-oreos

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49379253

Points: 204

# Comments: 134

New comment by cwal37 in "World Train Map – 1247 train routes around the world"

cwal37 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 02:39:30 +0000

The map is ok, but mostly I'm interested in the number of map apps people are cranking out with AI. The design elements pretty clearly mark them as such (and it's even more obvious once you poke around a bit). I love maps, so I get it, they tend to hook people, and the relative density of information can be very high.

I work in the electricity space (and of course we have a map[0]), and it has been wild to see the number of "I was a PM at a B2B SaaS/AI company and now I'm here to solve the grid with this vibe-coded tool", which inevitably involves a map. Seems like an inflection point was hit sometime late last year where first SMEs could make little apps they couldn't before, and then it expanded further into people who truly don't know a space but the AI can make it look like they do to other people who also don't, and the cycle continues.

[0] https://www.gridstatus.io/map?zoom=4.45¢er=-95.70000,40....

New comment by cwal37 in "New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S."

cwal37 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:43:29 +0000

*utility-scale solar, not solar overall

New comment by cwal37 in "Decades-old fish sauce at abandoned factory in Canada finally being removed"

cwal37 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:12:22 +0000

The solution to pollution is dilution was a philosophy prior to modern environmental protection laws, which were a reaction to the fact that we were absolutely destroying all kinds of ecosystems, even when we thought we were just diluting toxins down to nothing.

New comment by cwal37 in "Long Island's decommissioned nuclear power plant"

cwal37 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 02:41:33 +0000

Not mentioned, but later on a gas turbine was built on site with some of the existing transmission infrastructure, and there’s also the Cross Sound Cable there, coming over from New Haven and connecting NYISO and ISO-NE.

Possibly not mentioned because some of the adjacent site is still very much used due to those facilities, making it even easier to be caught trespassing.

The Abundance Illusion

cwal37 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:38:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.carlyle.com/carlyle-compass/the-abundance-illusion

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48481524

Points: 85

# Comments: 39

New comment by cwal37 in "Tesla's lithium refinery discharges 231,000 gallons of polluted wastewater a day"

cwal37 — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:14:30 +0000

The classic pre-EPA slogan comes to mind: "the solution to pollution is dilution".

"Notepad++ for Mac" release is disavowed by the creator of the original

cwal37 — Tue, 05 May 2026 01:17:09 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/05/unofficial-vibe-coded-notepad-for-mac-draws-objections-from-original-author/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48016928

Points: 8

# Comments: 3