<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: dbeardsl</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dbeardsl</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:48:58 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=dbeardsl" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dbeardsl in "An update on recent Claude Code quality reports"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I appreciate the reply, but I was never under the impression that gaps in conversations would increase costs nor reduce quality. Both are surprising and disappointing.<p>I feel like that is a choice best left up to users.<p>i.e. "Resuming this conversation with full context will consume X% of your 5-hour usage bucket, but that can be reduced by Y% by dropping old thinking logs"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:28:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47880476</link><dc:creator>dbeardsl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47880476</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47880476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dbeardsl in "AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> and that's entirely the point of music<p>That's very reductive. Music, like writing or painting, is a medium, not a thing with intrinsic purpose. It can be a means of communication, sharing human experience, conveying emotion, evoking feelings, expressing a story, ...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 06:15:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47671326</link><dc:creator>dbeardsl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47671326</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47671326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dbeardsl in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Neither do cars until very recently. A tool doesn't have to be unsupervised to be useful.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:49:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47079106</link><dc:creator>dbeardsl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47079106</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47079106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dbeardsl in "China starts UHV power line: The new 700 km UHV line will transmit 8M kW"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Technically"? It's just wrong and I'm not sure which they were intending. Similarly, "<i>miles</i> and <i>miles per hour</i> are different units, it's not just a technical distinction.<p>A journalist is reporting on something they don't understand.</p>
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<p>I believe this is off by 5 or 6 orders of magnitude.<p>Looks like it's more like 200,000Twh / Yr<p><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/energy-production-consumption" rel="nofollow">https://ourworldindata.org/energy-production-consumption</a></p>
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<p>That’s fair, it’s not ok to pretend desert has no life worth protecting.<p>However, there is a lot of it, and as far as impacted animals per acre, it’s got to be near the bottom. Thus of all the places to locate big solar projects, huge expanses of low life density flat land with lots have sun seems like it would minimize the harm.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 04:02:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45587950</link><dc:creator>dbeardsl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45587950</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45587950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dbeardsl in "Standard Thermal: Energy Storage 500x Cheaper Than Batteries"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think you missed a 0. I've never heard of an AC unit for a house that's 400W. 4000W and above is more common.<p>Google:<p>> An AC unit's electricity usage varies by type, with window units using around 500–1,500 watts and central air systems using 3,000–5,000 watts, though usage can range from 2,000 to over 6,000 kWh annually for central units<p>Also, how much you use it during the year can vary hugely from 0 (when I lived near the coast) to like 10 hours a day for months in hot or cold places. There's not a standard, but 55kwh for a year means you live someplace that doesn't really need AC / heating.</p>
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<p>I think this is incorrect reading of the numbers<p>I've never heard of `{number} {plural magnitude}` meaning `mag / number`. I've only ever seen it mean `number * mag`. As in 3-thousandths == 3 * 0.001 not 0.001 / 3.<p>7 * 0.001ms = 0.007ms or 7us or 7000ns.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2025 01:33:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44806692</link><dc:creator>dbeardsl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44806692</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44806692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dbeardsl in "Lapsus$: GTA 6 hacker handed indefinite hospital order"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I would say he's not in trouble for gaining access to systems, it's for extortion:<p>> He worked with Kurtaj and other members of Lapsus$ to hack tech giant Nvidia and phone company BT/EE and steal data before demanding a four million dollar ransom, which was not paid.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2023 17:51:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38723921</link><dc:creator>dbeardsl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38723921</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38723921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dbeardsl in "US agency will not reinstate $900M subsidy for Starlink"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>An FCC commissioner indicates that the FCC is yoinking the award because it thinks SpaceX won't hit the 2025 targets, yet many other award recipients have <i>no</i> service and <i>no</i> rollout and <i>no</i> speeds to even measure:<p>> What good is an agreement to build out service by 2025 if the FCC can, on a whim, hold you to it
in 2022 instead? In 2022, many RDOF recipients had deployed no service at any speed to any location at
all, and they had no obligation to do so. By contrast, Starlink had half a million subscribers in June 2022
(and about two million in September 2023). The majority’s only response to this point is that those other
recipients were relying on proven technologies like fiber, while SpaceX was relying on new LEO
technology.<p><a href="https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-23-105A3.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-23-105A3.pdf</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2023 17:48:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38631178</link><dc:creator>dbeardsl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38631178</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38631178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dbeardsl in "US agency will not reinstate $900M subsidy for Starlink"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Here's a dissenting opinion from FCC Commissioner Nathan Simington:<p><a href="https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-23-105A3.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-23-105A3.pdf</a><p>> What good is an agreement to build out service by 2025 if the FCC can, on a whim, hold you to it in 2022 instead? In 2022, many RDOF (the award in question) recipients had deployed no service at any speed to any location at
all, and they had no obligation to do so. By contrast, Starlink had half a million subscribers in June 2022
(and about two million in September 2023).<p>And this scathing conclusion:<p>> I was disappointed by this wrongheaded decision when it was first announced, but the majority today lays bare just how thoroughly and lawlessly arbitrary it was. If this is what passes for due process and the rule of law at the FCC, then this agency ought not to be trusted with the adjudicatory powers Congress has granted it and the deference that the courts have given it. -- FCC Commissioner Nathan Simington</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2023 17:44:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38631114</link><dc:creator>dbeardsl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38631114</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38631114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dbeardsl in "What happened to https://github.com/substack?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This person (James Halliday I think) is a huge contributor to the node community. 1000+ node packages: <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/~substack" rel="nofollow">https://www.npmjs.com/~substack</a></p>
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<p>Sounds like you have taken this pretty far, do you have any example outputs? The only one I found via your website was a PDF with a low res image with no context.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2020 20:36:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22902725</link><dc:creator>dbeardsl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22902725</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22902725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dbeardsl in "The Big Vitamin D Mistake"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Off by a factor of 10.<p>0.025mcg * 8000 = 20mcg</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2017 07:56:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15868449</link><dc:creator>dbeardsl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15868449</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15868449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dbeardsl in "GitHub is apparently in crisis again"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And restricted access to their data + cease-and-desisted anyone who wanted to augment the CL experience. They're still in business because they are shrewd and have the critical mass required to maintain their monopoly, not because they have a killer product.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2016 07:03:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11040028</link><dc:creator>dbeardsl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11040028</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11040028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dbeardsl in "GitHub is apparently in crisis again"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For my team's (~20 people) uses, Github (and the tools we and others develop ontop of it) meets our needs amazingly well and literally would be 100% worth the price at 10X the cost.<p>I don't think the fact that others have built tools on top of github means that github is lacking features, in the same way that the existence of github doesn't mean that <i>git</i> is lacking features.<p>On the other hand, seemingly ignoring your adoring fans asking for small changes is a bad move.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2016 06:55:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11040008</link><dc:creator>dbeardsl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11040008</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11040008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dbeardsl in "List of April Fools' Day Announcements"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://www.ifixit.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.ifixit.com</a> announces iFAXit! On-demand repair guide delivery (to your fax machines! For free!)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2015 09:23:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9302529</link><dc:creator>dbeardsl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9302529</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9302529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dbeardsl in "Ask HN: Could you share your general purpose development contracts?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Myself and a number of others have used this generic development and design contract: <a href="https://github.com/danielbeardsley/service_contracts" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/danielbeardsley/service_contracts</a><p>I negotiate the terms, make local commits, and include the commit hash on the print-out.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="http://itbrokeand.ifixit.com/2015/01/20/matryoshka-configurable-caching-library-for-php.html">http://itbrokeand.ifixit.com/2015/01/20/matryoshka-configurable-caching-library-for-php.html</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8920619">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8920619</a></p>
<p>Points: 6</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="http://itbrokeand.ifixit.com/2014/04/01/introducing-php-call-site-stats.html">http://itbrokeand.ifixit.com/2014/04/01/introducing-php-call-site-stats.html</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7824080">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7824080</a></p>
<p>Points: 5</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
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