Hacker News: downrightmike

New comment by downrightmike in "Anthropic IPO"

downrightmike — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 17:15:54 +0000

And once all those engineers cash out, China will become dramatically ahead because they are only a month behind already and can pay way better than the IPO

New comment by downrightmike in "Nvidia is preparing to oust Jensen Huang"

downrightmike — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 01:06:13 +0000

No one is irreplaceable

New comment by downrightmike in "AI has made it 'close to impossible' to assess university coursework"

downrightmike — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 21:30:24 +0000

Just increase the number of teachers to students. The freshman class tuition generally can cover the current teaching expenses for all the other grades. Time to start using all that excess to deliver on your purpose: education.

New comment by downrightmike in "Oracle taps investors for $20B to finance AI expansion"

downrightmike — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 21:28:31 +0000

lighting money on fire

New comment by downrightmike in "Satlyt takes another step toward turning satellites into space data centers"

downrightmike — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 21:19:48 +0000

The moon or Mars makes more sense. There is zero reason to have these in LEO, they are tied to ground stations any way you shake it.

New comment by downrightmike in "Linode Security Incident"

downrightmike — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 22:54:16 +0000

We can call it [SI]

New comment by downrightmike in "Turning a solar power system into its own backup"

downrightmike — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 22:06:06 +0000

REAL TLDR: Just Slap some gas generators onto the bad design and it'll work this time(tm)

New comment by downrightmike in "Reddit will require an account to access"

downrightmike — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 20:35:17 +0000

This allows them to better fingerprint users for advertising. Anything else is just smokescreen. More and more sites are doing this for just that reason.

New comment by downrightmike in "French national assembly votes 0.055€/GB internet tax"

downrightmike — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 19:05:13 +0000

They made a pension plan that relied on people having more kids and not getting jobs outsourced, then they didn't ahve kids and got outsourced.

Then there is the whole "they literally never decolonized out of africa" just to keep the economy going this long and that is unable to be exploited like in the past.

They cut the kid's programs to the bone and the kids told them in the most french way possible that that was bad. Inequality has been worse than 1789 for years now.

New comment by downrightmike in "OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Says You Having DRAM Instead of Data Centers Is "Terrible""

downrightmike — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 16:54:23 +0000

That's why we'll get laptops with hbm installed

New comment by downrightmike in "US tech stocks see sharp falls over AI cost fears"

downrightmike — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 16:52:37 +0000

They don't have anyone who fights for the consumer. They just make things and rename it all the time. No one knows what their thing is called today

New comment by downrightmike in "Disney Files Patents for AI That Form Emotional Bonds Using Guest Memories"

downrightmike — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 18:28:14 +0000

Walt used to steam Imagineer's dreams while they slept. The circle is now complete /s

New comment by downrightmike in "Nvidia and Micron Make Up 34% of America's Earnings Boom"

downrightmike — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 18:26:09 +0000

Looks like they have bumped it up to 6 years, which completely turns around from completely unprofitable quarters to profitable

New comment by downrightmike in "Nvidia and Micron Make Up 34% of America's Earnings Boom"

downrightmike — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 04:51:29 +0000

Almost, the depreciation is 2 years, but for some reason they wrote it up like 5 for now. But anyone buy nvdia chips is already maxxed out on debt for the next 5 years and the new chips are here shortly. What happens to those 100's of billions in chips?? They get written off. We're already seeing them in cars. There is no shortage except on the scrutiny of the whole securities thing.

New comment by downrightmike in "NBA announces partnership with prediction markets Kalshi, Polymarket"

downrightmike — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 18:11:02 +0000

Their education was severely lacking

New comment by downrightmike in "Root shell on Samsung TV"

downrightmike — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 19:42:44 +0000

Maybe a company that is both a complete monopoly chaebol and running the country is a bad thing

New comment by downrightmike in "Who Pays for AI Data Centers?"

downrightmike — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 19:23:41 +0000

When they move into our communities, they offload taxes by paying nothing, they increase our utility rates so we can fund the infrastructure build out so they don't have to. And when they need more, they kick entire communities off of the grid like lake Tahoe. The Utah DC starts at 2GW, the entire state only uses 7GW, but the DC will go up to 9GW. So the taxpayers pay for it all and eventually lose their access. There is zero reason to have these in your state.

New comment by downrightmike in "Investor-owned utilities charge 23% more for electricity than public providers"

downrightmike — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 19:55:38 +0000

And the Canadian power companies have used all that excess profit to buy up US power compiles. Rinse and repeat

New comment by downrightmike in "GPUs from stolen $500k Nvidia shipment at Brazil airport appear for sale online"

downrightmike — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 22:47:20 +0000

like 5 gpus?

New comment by downrightmike in "Meta's GB{2,3}00 Cluster"

downrightmike — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 03:15:15 +0000

-10B on VR, -(The Compny's Future) on AI