Hacker News: dehrmann

New comment by dehrmann in "Your Backpack Got Worse on Purpose"

dehrmann — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:41:27 +0000

> JanSport still advertises a lifetime warranty...Go try to use it.

Literally every product with a lifetime warranty does this same game. It's best to read them as puffery.

New comment by dehrmann in "I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack"

dehrmann — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 22:15:17 +0000

A job in tech will get you $10k MRR.

At least from this blog post, I wouldn't take his advice on MRR. He's optimizing in the wrong places; he'd be better off spending $100 per month on hosting and focusing on MRR than focusing on bringing hosting costs down to 0.2% of revenue. There's a middle ground without K8S where you use your cloud's autoscaling app hosting and a small, replicated DB. He strawmaned the enterprise approach, and he's trading off a lot of toil for uptime.

New comment by dehrmann in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

dehrmann — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:34:28 +0000

> Is violence HN worthy when it is directed upward on the org chart?

Generally, world news and politics are not supposed to be submitted unless there's a tech industry connection. The exception seems to be world-changing news, and there's a light touch on YC-affiliated news for conflict of interest reasons.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

New comment by dehrmann in "Artemis II safely splashes down"

dehrmann — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:54:28 +0000

We stopped going to the moon because it's a vanity project. It's expensive, risky, and there isn't much more science to do or that can't be done by robots.

New comment by dehrmann in "Record wind and solar saved UK from gas imports worth £1B in March 2026"

dehrmann — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:31:16 +0000

Or it is! And they can do it cheaper at-scale than you can.

New comment by dehrmann in "Record wind and solar saved UK from gas imports worth £1B in March 2026"

dehrmann — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:30:14 +0000

Someone at the utility went through the same math you are and decided it isn't worth it at scale. It's probably not worth it at small scale.

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

dehrmann — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:00:30 +0000

The fossil fuel lobby can only do so much. Solar has gotten so cheap it's taking over on its own. Companies are doing it for no reason other than the math makes sense. EV batteries are nearing that point too. You can only keep BYD out of the US for so long.

New comment by dehrmann in "Critics say EU risks ceding control of its tech laws under U.S. pressure"

dehrmann — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:47:42 +0000

Except it's already possible to install a third-party app store or OS on Android devices. The process isn't trivial, but it's officially supported.

New comment by dehrmann in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

dehrmann — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 06:37:18 +0000

For some uses right now, this makes sense, but it has to be at scale. If you're working on something that will ship in two years and is used by end users, it might not be worth the effort since production will catch up.

New comment by dehrmann in "Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data"

dehrmann — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 05:09:33 +0000

Latex gloves aren't plastic.

New comment by dehrmann in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"

dehrmann — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 01:09:58 +0000

"Top engineers at Anthropic, OpenAI say AI now writes 100% of their code"

https://fortune.com/2026/01/29/100-percent-of-code-at-anthro...

> Right now for most products at Anthropic it's effectively 100% just Claude writing

- Mike Krieger, chief product officer of Anthropic

New comment by dehrmann in "The first 40 months of the AI era"

dehrmann — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:11:13 +0000

Go to market.

New comment by dehrmann in "Microsoft Set for Worst Quarter Since 2008"

dehrmann — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 18:20:14 +0000

Either you need the cash now and are already in short-term treasuries or you're it it for the long-term and you'll be laughing at this question when the Dow hits 100k.

New comment by dehrmann in "Claude loses its >99% uptime in Q1 2026"

dehrmann — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:41:29 +0000

I wonder how much is due to supply constraints, how much is standard growing pains, and if over-reliance on AI was the cause for any outages.

New comment by dehrmann in "FCC updates covered list to include foreign-made consumer routers"

dehrmann — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:17:56 +0000

This has been shared on Hacker News before: https://github.com/francescopace/espectre

New comment by dehrmann in "Apple Business"

dehrmann — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:15:20 +0000

Apple's really late to this.

New comment by dehrmann in "LaGuardia pilots raised safety alarms months before deadly runway crash"

dehrmann — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:56:40 +0000

You don't need modern AI; you can build a system that does voice recognition, models the airport and airspace, and applies looks for violations.

Actually, you might be able to try this. Live ATC and radar is available.

New comment by dehrmann in "PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading"

dehrmann — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 21:38:04 +0000

That's not a fair comparison. A desktop wallpaper could be 8 MB for a modern OS just because of screen resolution. A 4-minute music video would probably be 100 MB.

New comment by dehrmann in "HP trialed mandatory 15-minute support call wait times (2025)"

dehrmann — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:04:39 +0000

One time, I needed this. I lost my phone with a physical SIM card and needed a replacement that day. Now I'm trying to remember the eSIM transfer flow to know if this is still an issue.

But also, which MVNO should you go to? Carriers supposedly prioritize their own customers, so it feels a bit like running on spot instances.

New comment by dehrmann in "Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?"

dehrmann — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:56:18 +0000

There was a book on this called "The Paradox of Choice." Its argument is that too many choices stress people out over the fear of choosing wrong.