Hacker News: dopa42365

New comment by dopa42365 in "Chevron signs 20-year power agreement with Microsoft for West Texas data center"

dopa42365 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:17:06 +0000

>Add to that the long backorder list for gas turbines right now

If demand > supply then the price goes up. Doesn't mean you can't buy something though.

New comment by dopa42365 in "Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics"

dopa42365 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:46:41 +0000

What you need then is a better arm (or even just hand), not a human.

Or a new take on car design with automated production in mind regarding all the wiring and what not (easier said than done, I'm sure many have tried and failed, but eventually someone will succeed).

New comment by dopa42365 in "TerraPower in deal with Meta for eight Natrium 345 MW nuclear plants"

dopa42365 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:16:59 +0000

Most nuclear power plants worldwide are owned and operated by private companies rather than governments?

If anything, nuclear tends to be much more strictly regulated than the 73 GW (wtf) of off-grid mostly gas plants to power datacenters for example.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/fast-tracked-power-p...

New comment by dopa42365 in "Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures"

dopa42365 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 02:49:08 +0000

Well, it's a million signatures for something to be brought up, not for something to definitely become law.

A decade or so ago I (among millions) signed to abolish daylight saving time. Still waiting for that heh.

New comment by dopa42365 in "Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers"

dopa42365 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:05:36 +0000

The filter updates without extension updates is possible in MV3 now too.

New comment by dopa42365 in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

dopa42365 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:03:15 +0000

Meet the new memory cartel, it's just like the old memory cartel but with CXMT being priced a tiny tad below.

Safe to say they're not in it out of sheer altruism.

New comment by dopa42365 in "Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation"

dopa42365 — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:26:49 +0000

The same 3rd party datacenters from the same few companies that everything else runs on? If there's demand, hyperscalers will supply.

New comment by dopa42365 in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

dopa42365 — Thu, 28 May 2026 02:07:16 +0000

I want to believe it (and filter all that crap), but YT recently removing the sort by new/date option because 99% of results being useless AI slop doesn't inspire much trust.

New comment by dopa42365 in "Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training"

dopa42365 — Tue, 26 May 2026 06:14:28 +0000

whenever Huawei want to buy billions of dollars worth of US licenses and stuff, they stop being a "national security threat" for a while because reasons

New comment by dopa42365 in "SpaceX S-1"

dopa42365 — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:33:48 +0000

Hetzner is still running and selling Haswell Xeons and GTX-1080s that are 10+ years old.

Definitely not silicon waste the second something faster arrives. There's still a world beyond cutting edge LLM slop after all.

New comment by dopa42365 in "SpaceX S-1"

dopa42365 — Thu, 21 May 2026 03:02:23 +0000

The most honest memory cartel is reporting stupid profit numbers too!

>Samsung chip profit jumps almost 50-fold; supply shortage to worsen in 2027

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/sustainable-finance-r...

>South Korean April exports rise 48.0% y/y as chip boom extends

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-korea-april...

To the point where the big memory makers are suddenly trillion AI-dollar companies.

New comment by dopa42365 in "USDA Projects Smallest US Wheat Harvest Since 1972 Due to Plains Drought"

dopa42365 — Thu, 14 May 2026 13:59:35 +0000

and desalination is so efficient/cheap at scale already that it barely affects water prices in those countries (less than 10% already, further shrinking every year as methods improve)

New comment by dopa42365 in "Starship V3"

dopa42365 — Wed, 13 May 2026 04:47:07 +0000

Before LEO internet constellations, even the leading nations had just ~20-25 launches per year each, and a good chunk of those were for ISS services.

Other than the occasional GNSS, weather, scientific, broadcast and surveillance satellite, there's not all that much worth sending into space.

New comment by dopa42365 in "AWS North Virginia data center outage – recovery to take hours"

dopa42365 — Sat, 09 May 2026 00:05:44 +0000

Humidity and corrosion, it's a trade-off (pick your poison).

New comment by dopa42365 in "Hackers breach JDownloader's website to serve malware-laced downloads"

dopa42365 — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:21:38 +0000

Years ago I made my own "dark-ish mode" for it and holy hell, so annoying having to change 50 different more or less accurately labeled and named color settings that only take affect after restarting the program.

New comment by dopa42365 in "How far behind is each major Chromium browser?"

dopa42365 — Sun, 03 May 2026 17:43:41 +0000

More like 4 weeks than 2.

https://chromestatus.com/roadmap

New comment by dopa42365 in "Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?"

dopa42365 — Sat, 02 May 2026 07:26:18 +0000

Thermalright etc. have definitely shown that a slab of metal and some generic fans can be rather quiet and easily compete with Noctua at a fraction of the cost.

New comment by dopa42365 in "How ChatGPT serves ads"

dopa42365 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:44:28 +0000

There's no evidence that it wasn't one of those Iranian generic Tomahawk™ missiles!

When Germany last cooked 150 civilians we also investigated ourselves and found nothing wrong (could happen to anyone, really), but at least some minister had the decency to retire afterwards.

New comment by dopa42365 in "Flickr: The first and last great photo platform"

dopa42365 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 04:03:10 +0000

>it doesn't offer a web-based version

>It's probably even more photographer-oriented

not even remotely serious? ridiculous

New comment by dopa42365 in "The Bromine Chokepoint"

dopa42365 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 06:03:02 +0000

$3/kg, with an estimated 100 trillion tons in seawater.

https://pubs.usgs.gov/periodicals/mcs2026/mcs2026.pdf

One of the last things anyone is going to run out of.