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New comment by dgrin91 in "Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test"

dgrin91 — Fri, 29 May 2026 03:03:32 +0000

I would guess this puts a big dent in NASA's moon plans. I think Blue origin was _just_ selected to be the first moon lander mission. Now they are going to be grounded _again_. They just got off grounded status last week! And this is not even going to mention the significant ground equipment damage they have to deal with.

Very unfortunate all around. I hope BO finds a way to keep the timelines.

New comment by dgrin91 in "[dead]"

dgrin91 — Sat, 23 May 2026 04:56:07 +0000

The HN title is not clear - Google is NOT killing Aluminum OS

New comment by dgrin91 in "Fired Atlassian engineer posts breakdown of every system he built"

dgrin91 — Sun, 17 May 2026 21:50:20 +0000

I mean... Is the really valuable? I don't think what atlassian built is particularly technically challenging. There are a lot of products and it would take a lot of work, but no individual bit is hard.

I think the only hard part is getting 350k customers to use it.

New comment by dgrin91 in "Driver accused of DUI tracks missing laptop to Illinois State trooper's house"

dgrin91 — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:10:04 +0000

Huh, interesting. I am very dubious of that quote. IANAL, but I'm pretty sure if they actually filed that in court they would be laughed out of the room. My guess is either the reporters got it wrong or its some AI hallucination. Unfortunately they don't source this claim.

New comment by dgrin91 in "Driver accused of DUI tracks missing laptop to Illinois State trooper's house"

dgrin91 — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:27:21 +0000

To be a bit pedantic, its not sovereign immunity, its qualified immunity. It is defeatable, and there are examples of it, but its rather rare. It is an abused and obviously problematic legal doctrine

New comment by dgrin91 in "Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged"

dgrin91 — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:48:01 +0000

Maybe a dumb question, but how is this suppose to work for iphone users? They wont have google play, and it seems like android/google play is required here? There is no way they would cut out such a huge chunk of the market.

New comment by dgrin91 in "Formatting a 25M-line codebase overnight"

dgrin91 — Tue, 05 May 2026 01:33:03 +0000

I don't understand why the felt the need to do a big-bang merge like this. Its a formatter, so the files should be functionally equivalent before and after. Why not just enable it for new files/edit files for a while, then once comfortable apply it to old files in batches? What advantage does the big bang merge give? Seems higher risk for the same reward

New comment by dgrin91 in "Utah to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs"

dgrin91 — Sun, 03 May 2026 14:53:51 +0000

Sure, it would force sites to block traffic from vpns.

The fun part is when you post videos of yourself using a vpn to go to gov website or the candidate website and watch them do nothing

New comment by dgrin91 in "Ti-84 Evo"

dgrin91 — Sat, 02 May 2026 00:21:25 +0000

Why do you need an online calculator subscription? I can kind of get why you want a physical calculator, especially for a school environment, but why would you want a calculator online when you can just use... the rest of the web?

New comment by dgrin91 in "I built "Middle Class Museum", a tour of things that used to be affordable"

dgrin91 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:06:45 +0000

Some of these felt very cherry picked. E.g. 8% interest rate in banks? That probably means mortgage rates were 10-15%, where as they are now 5-6%

$0 pensions? Thats just a lie? The pension comes out of your paycheck. Its literally a line item on your pay stub.

Also this site would be better if you overlay inflation or something to highlight when/where costs rose. E.g. using the CPI inflation calculator the $7400 for a new car would be $28k today. $28k wont buy you a F150 today (starts at ~40k) but its a good chunk of the way, and there are other cars you can buy for $28k easy.

New comment by dgrin91 in "UAE to leave OPEC"

dgrin91 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:17:19 +0000

My guess is that is this because UAE has ports on the other side of Hormuz and doesn't want to be restricted in their usage by OPEC? Does this mean UAE thinks Hormuz will be a problem for a long time? And what does it mean for oil prices long term?

New comment by dgrin91 in "Aliens.gov will be running as a WordPress multisite"

dgrin91 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 01:22:47 +0000

If you continue through the warning you get a standard wordpress error about multisites.

New comment by dgrin91 in "Europe has "maybe 6 weeks of jet fuel left""

dgrin91 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:15:27 +0000

Whats the normal stockpile? Isn't the entire US national strategic oil reserve only enough for like 1 month of US usage? 6 weeks of stockpile does not seem like a crazy number to me.

New comment by dgrin91 in "Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent"

dgrin91 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:09:53 +0000

Electricity I don't know how you could deliver ads through, but if someone could think of a way I bet they would. If everyone knew Morris code I bet they would make the lights flicker in Morris code for a discount.

Modern cars with connected infotainment systems are always trying to upsell you

Washing machines I dont know of anything at the moment, but I wouldnt count it out.

Smartphones/watches? Aren't those just ad delivery mechanisms? Not to mention tracking? Its a core foundation of modern ad technology

Headphones are not thank god, I hope it stays that way

New comment by dgrin91 in "Claude.ai down"

dgrin91 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:50:02 +0000

Getting only one 9 on a major tech provider that is suppose to be one of the flagship AI companies. That paints a picture hard to ignore.

New comment by dgrin91 in "StackOverflow: Retiring the Beta Site"

dgrin91 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:20:11 +0000

Here is a hard question - how could Stack Overflow succeed in a post-chatgpt eta? I mean obviously the new CEO and leadership has been total trash and has squandered their goodwill and user loyalty, but if I was CEO instead I don't know how I would save the ship.

Doubling down on how it was done in the 'good old days' probably wouldn't work because you would slowly bleed user to AI. Selling data to AI companies might work for a bit, but I would guess that the sales value of SO's data has quickly diminishing returns. So what is their path forward?

New comment by dgrin91 in "Oracle Files H-1B Visa Petitions Amid Mass Layoffs"

dgrin91 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:47:05 +0000

What I don't get is, how does this economically make sense? Isn't there a 100k fee for h1bs now? So 3k h1bs would cost $300 Mil... Before you even start paying salary

New comment by dgrin91 in "Which European countries have the best salaries after taxes?"

dgrin91 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:14:01 +0000

These numbers can get wonky fast. E.g. devs salaries in Ukraine are pegged to the dollar, so they get free raises as the exchange rates plummet. At the same time the cost of living in Ukraine was low before the war and only got lower. Oh and taxes are pretty low in Ukraine.

So I'm pretty sure Ukranian devs will end up with one of the top salary rates in all of Ukraine, but the externalities of that are large.

New comment by dgrin91 in "How Does Offline Bitcoin Signing Work Step by Step"

dgrin91 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:54:35 +0000

This is pretty low quality marketing spam.

Offline signing? All signing is offline. Its not even a bitcoin thing... its just how the math works.

New comment by dgrin91 in "DeployTarot.com – Tarot card reading for deployments"

dgrin91 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 22:27:38 +0000

Absolutely fantastic. I actually laughed out loud a few times.

My only suggestion is make the shuffle animation shorter. At first I thought you were actually doing some server work when I clicked it and got concerned.

Also if you sell these in real life I would buy them.