Hacker News: dagaci

New comment by dagaci in "Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake"

dagaci — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:33:49 +0000

Yes, google they paid $900 millions in 2015 for about 7% stake, 100X. % Number probably fell because of all the "merging".

New comment by dagaci in "U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations"

dagaci — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 10:03:44 +0000

So the general public get to bail-out & subsidize Anthropic / and downstream xAI/SpaceX via the State Wallet, but of course with no access.

New comment by dagaci in "Humiliating IIS servers for fun and jail time"

dagaci — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:35:37 +0000

IIS also sits at the back of a many "modern" cloud web type services.

New comment by dagaci in "Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)"

dagaci — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:48:15 +0000

Its understated, but this kind move is now systemic in the EU due to the sanctioning of ICC & EU officials and random people who hurt the presidents feelings requiring Microsoft to remotely kill access to resources tied to Microsoft Accounts.

Without rules of law its literally irresponsible for EU to have this kind of heavy dependency on US corporations.

New comment by dagaci in "Dell's version of the DGX Spark fixes pain points"

dagaci — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 22:11:58 +0000

A nice little AI review with comparison of the CPU/Power Draw & Networking would be interested in seeing a fine-tuning comparison too. I think pricing was missing also.

New comment by dagaci in "Why aren't smart people happier?"

dagaci — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 22:25:28 +0000

Imagine your a super smart 'aztec' citizen and you watch your leading priests sacrificing 1000s of people in the name of a god which is probably imaginary ... you have the choice to dumb down (re-occupy your mind with work, duties, mundane, gish gash) and stop over thinking or ... continue to contemplate the true horror's that your world is indulging in or something else even...

New comment by dagaci in "Who owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN relationships explained (2024)"

dagaci — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 22:30:24 +0000

I liked Express VPN

New comment by dagaci in "AMD signs AI chip-supply deal with OpenAI, gives it option to take a 10% stake"

dagaci — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 13:32:21 +0000

Lol and I had to pay >$60 a share for my little bundle of AMD!

New comment by dagaci in "Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available"

dagaci — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 19:45:44 +0000

No problem — I'm sure their Supremely nice Leader up north kept a backup. He's thoughtful like that...

New comment by dagaci in "Sora 2"

dagaci — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 18:26:21 +0000

Amazing. iOS only, with region restrictions in 2025.

New comment by dagaci in "UK Millionaire exodus did not occur, study reveals"

dagaci — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 16:41:17 +0000

The criteria is someone with 1 million in liquid investable wealth - homes are not investable assets or liquid.

This is actually stated in the report xD

New comment by dagaci in "UK Millionaire exodus did not occur, study reveals"

dagaci — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 16:33:32 +0000

The media hysteria about a millionaire exodus happened in 2024, not 2025. 10900 articles were in 2024 not 2025 so the hysteria happened in 2024. The interesting part is: those spreading hysteria don’t need to provide evidence; they just simply repeat.

Then those locked into the X-rinse-and-repeat-loop echo the same hysteria, as if they’ve just discovered some kind of wisdom when they have simply been overtrained.

New comment by dagaci in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

dagaci — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 19:00:21 +0000

I hear American's have to get in debt for over 100k for the same education thats almost free in so many places, so it might be a kind of balancing things..

New comment by dagaci in "Nvidia won, we all lost"

dagaci — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 14:03:41 +0000

Jenson has managed to kneel into every market boom in a reasonable amount of time with his GPUs and tech (hardware and software). No doubt he will be there when the next boom kicks off too.

Microsoft fails consistently ... even when offered a lead on the plate... it fails, but these failures are eventually corrected for by the momentum of its massive business units.

Apple is just very very late... but this failure can be eventually corrected for by its unbeatable astroturfing units.

Perhaps AMD are too small keep up everywhere it should. But compared to the rest, AMD is a fast follower. Why Intel is where it is is a mystery to me but i'm quite happy about its demise and failures :D

Being angry about NVIDIA is not giving enough credit to NVIDIA for being on-time and even leading the charge in the first place.

Everyone should remember that NVIDIA also leads into the markets that it dominates.

New comment by dagaci in "FLUX.1 Kontext"

dagaci — Thu, 29 May 2025 22:24:45 +0000

SimpleTuner is dependant on Microsoft's DeepSpeed which doesnt work on Windows :)

So you probably better off using Ai-ToolKit https://github.com/ostris/ai-toolkit

New comment by dagaci in "RIP Skype"

dagaci — Tue, 06 May 2025 11:45:51 +0000

Some error corrections: ebay bought skype in 2005 for 2.6B (1 million concurrent user), and Microsoft bought them in 2011 for 8.5B (22 million concurrent users) with 74 million concurrent users reported in 2013 falling to apparently 30 million now...

https://www.statista.com/chart/1417/skype-usage/

What is your criteria for stewardship ?

New comment by dagaci in "Amazon to display tariff costs for consumers"

dagaci — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 12:06:17 +0000

Surely they will have receipts for the tariffs paid…

New comment by dagaci in "Whistleblower: DOGE Siphoned NLRB Case Data"

dagaci — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 13:24:45 +0000

Remember these are elons are script kiddie hackers, it only occurred to disable the outer firewall, azure ad will independently geoip block all by itself

New comment by dagaci in "Whistleblower: DOGE Siphoned NLRB Case Data"

dagaci — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 12:53:19 +0000

Russian IPs were in the pool because it never occurred to them to check where these IPs were geo registered

New comment by dagaci in "Run DeepSeek R1 Dynamic 1.58-bit"

dagaci — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 18:56:42 +0000

MI300X (RunPod) 192gb ram Hourly Rate: $2.49/hr. Break-even Point: You can rent for 2,410 hours (~100 days of non-stop-continuous use) before reaching the cost of the $6000 Mac. Mac's top out at 192GB not 2TB ;) Consideration: If your AI training requires sporadic use (e.g., a few hours daily or weekly), renting is significantly cheaper. MI300X will also get you result many times faster too, so you could probably multiply that 100 days!