Hacker News: dkasper

New comment by dkasper in "Rethinking High-School Science Fairs"

dkasper — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 15:44:39 +0000

That’s not a new phenomenon. The public education system is rooted in creating factory workers for the Industrial Revolution.

New comment by dkasper in "Show HN: Moltis – AI assistant with memory, tools, and self-extending skills"

dkasper — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 23:25:11 +0000

You can run it with a ChatGPT subscription (or even a local model) so it can be flat fee

New comment by dkasper in "The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else"

dkasper — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 20:55:07 +0000

China did it. It’s not inconceivable.

New comment by dkasper in "Two Weeks Until Tapeout"

dkasper — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 16:48:17 +0000

Don’t worry we have those 80 hour weeks in software too. I can think of a few examples. For example with mobile App Store review time used to be kind of like that. You submitted your app waited a few business days and prayed there wasn’t an obscure rejection that lead to an appeal which could take even longer. Very stressful when you are cueing up a launch and press releases on a certain date. you had to make sure you were done a few weeks in advance to account for everything.

I don’t work much on apps anymore but I hear it’s somewhat better now.

Another big area is compliance, those processes can take forever.

New comment by dkasper in "Ask HN: One IP, multiple unrealistic locations worldwide hitting my website"

dkasper — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 22:00:47 +0000

VPNs, proxies/relays, crawlers, etc

New comment by dkasper in "How I Left YouTube"

dkasper — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 03:38:24 +0000

Except at big tech the next level might be 500k more not 5%

New comment by dkasper in "They Don't Have the Money: OpenAI Edition"

dkasper — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:57:14 +0000

Starlink roam solves that!

New comment by dkasper in "Snapdragon X2 Elite ARM Laptop CPU"

dkasper — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 22:50:06 +0000

This is just a laptop cpu, not an end consumer product…

New comment by dkasper in "'Honestly terrifying': Yosemite National Park is in chaos"

dkasper — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 03:02:05 +0000

The popular national parks like Yosemite do pay for themselves, so that’s how it works, it’s just run by the government instead of a corporation.

New comment by dkasper in "Sand trafficking in Latin America"

dkasper — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 02:54:31 +0000

Sand is heavy af. A ton is only like 20 cubic feet. Still… that’s not very much money.

New comment by dkasper in "The FAA's Real Air Traffic Control Crisis Runs Much Deeper"

dkasper — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 18:52:22 +0000

Makes you assume the article is also at least partially generated by AI

New comment by dkasper in "The case for letting Malibu burn (1995)"

dkasper — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 20:16:59 +0000

Calfair will certainly need to be bailed out. The plans has over 5B in exposure in palisades alone, and only a few hundred million in reserves.

New comment by dkasper in "The case for letting Malibu burn (1995)"

dkasper — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 20:14:15 +0000

Defensible housing exists, there have been some viral photos of a few houses that survived this wildfire. But the embers from large fires can fly for miles in high wind, so it would likely have to be the whole city

New comment by dkasper in "Dell will no longer make XPS computers"

dkasper — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 20:58:17 +0000

If it were just pro that would be one thing, but when I saw “Pro Max” I instantly thought of Apple.

New comment by dkasper in "Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals"

dkasper — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 22:05:27 +0000

You’re forgetting lots of people rent. Lots of people can’t afford to own, and almost all of them rent. The other factor is dual, or even 3+ incomes in families living together.

New comment by dkasper in "New Windows driver signature bypass allows kernel rootkit installs"

dkasper — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 15:16:46 +0000

Haunted IPs are a thing, same as the haunted domains article also on the front page right now! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41951131

New comment by dkasper in "1 in 6 Companies Are Hesitant to Hire Recent College Graduates"

dkasper — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 15:33:30 +0000

To me this sounds typical. I seem to remember people saying similar things about millennials 15 years ago. Would be curious to see a comparison.

New comment by dkasper in "Nvidia Stock Rises. AMD's New AI Chip Is Not Competitive"

dkasper — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 20:22:14 +0000

Sure it’s possible, but it’s also incredibly difficult.

New comment by dkasper in "The Rise of Worse Is Better (1991)"

dkasper — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 14:44:34 +0000

1991 tag. An all time classic.

New comment by dkasper in "WiFi4EU initiative provides free Wi-Fi in public spaces across Europe"

dkasper — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 14:55:52 +0000

Unpopular view perhaps, but public WiFi seems obsolete except for where cell signal can’t reach. 5G is usually faster and somewhat more secure than connecting to access points.