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New comment by drak0n1c in "Local LLM App by Ente"

drak0n1c — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:45:53 +0000

Osaurus is what I use for local - it's a native Swift macOS app with sandboxing, agent tooling, and server capabilities. Mac only though.

New comment by drak0n1c in "Missile defense is NP-complete"

drak0n1c — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 05:44:39 +0000

The "pen-testing" discoveries go both ways. In Iran, Chinese HQ-9B surface-to-air missile systems and YLC-8B anti-stealth radars failed to intercept any aircraft. In Venezuela, Chinese JY-27A early warning radars failed to detect approximately 150 incoming U.S. aircraft. In Pakistan, Chinese HQ-9B and HQ-16 systems failed to intercept Indian strikes.

New comment by drak0n1c in "US tech firms pledge at White House to bear costs of energy for datacenters"

drak0n1c — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 03:27:57 +0000

Most forms of company civic greatness in the past were essentially pledges, much of the time unspoken. It's certainly possible, we don't need to be cynical.

New comment by drak0n1c in "We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk"

drak0n1c — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 04:17:08 +0000

Coworker? They're competitors. This is simply good business.

New comment by drak0n1c in "Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid"

drak0n1c — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:02:00 +0000

If you are planning to get a Tesla car with PowerShare (it's slowly expanding to the Model Y and other vehicles) then you only really need one Powerwall 3, because the car when charged acts as ~7+ powerwalls worth of backup.

New comment by drak0n1c in "[dead]"

drak0n1c — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 05:57:55 +0000

Joe Gebbia (Airbnb cofounder) explains the website design at 10:40 in the announcement video: https://youtu.be/m9qh6bSoaQQ?si=ZIzAwWh45sn5FtQ2

New comment by drak0n1c in "Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode"

drak0n1c — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 16:28:02 +0000

Unfortunately the MCP for external agent tools is flawed at the moment, it returns a format differing from its stated schema. So it doesn't work with OpenCode.

New comment by drak0n1c in "Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee"

drak0n1c — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 21:01:01 +0000

There are unsupervised HW4 Tesla robotaxis in Austin open to public use as of yesterday. Lemonade Insurance announced an FSD plan where the price is half the market rate while using FSD. So unless there are specific regulatory barriers for personal vehicles unsupervised should be available for their latest gen personal cars sometime this year.

New comment by drak0n1c in "What a year of solar and batteries saved us in 2025"

drak0n1c — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:46:35 +0000

I had a good experience using EnergySage, a free marketplace that sources competitive detailed bids - it just needs your address and electric bill.

New comment by drak0n1c in "Eat Real Food"

drak0n1c — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 23:35:46 +0000

Joe Gebbia, co-founder of Airbnb is the head of the new national design studio. You can direct feedback to him.

New comment by drak0n1c in "Eat Real Food"

drak0n1c — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 23:32:56 +0000

The linked PDFs on realfood.gov transparently cite the industry ties of all the doctors and PhDs involved in long descriptions next to each of their names and readers can decide for themselves if such is "corrupt as hell". PR pieces are an inferential distraction.

New comment by drak0n1c in "AI is forcing us to write good code"

drak0n1c — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 15:53:42 +0000

Unfortunately, so far coding models seem to perform worse and break in other ways as context grows, so it's still best practice to start a new conversation even when iterating. Luckily, high-end reasoning models are now catching when var names don't match what they actually do (as long as the declaration is provided in context).

New comment by drak0n1c in "Lead-Free Organic–Inorganic Halobismuthate for Large Piezoelectric Effect"

drak0n1c — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 15:46:57 +0000

New asphalt and composite roof shingles in America no longer have lead.

New comment by drak0n1c in "Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration"

drak0n1c — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 09:23:52 +0000

I use a third party API aggregator/forwarder (VeniceAI) for this reason.

Unreal Engine 5.7 is now available

drak0n1c — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 19:36:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/news/unreal-engine-5-7-is-now-available

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45919495

Points: 9

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New comment by drak0n1c in "Washington Post editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties"

drak0n1c — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 18:50:02 +0000

The hollowing out of the readership by ideologically partisan staff is what led to publications becoming overly dependent on the subsidy of wealthy owners, rather than a wider pool of paid subscribers.

New comment by drak0n1c in "Trump pardons convicted Binance founder"

drak0n1c — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 21:55:35 +0000

He was convicted for allowing US citizens to sign up and place trades that could theoretically be matched by people from sanctioned countries. Technically an incredibly bad service for American people who must be protected from such liberties.

New comment by drak0n1c in "Trump pardons convicted Binance founder"

drak0n1c — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 21:47:35 +0000

Those prosecutors were deeply embarrassed by missing FTX at the time, so they then had the SEC and IRS harass and threaten innocent US citizens in Japan and the US as they fished for charges merely because they happened to once work for or hung out with CZ or employees at Binance.

CZ is the first and only known first-time offender in U.S. history to receive a prison sentence for this single, non-fraud-related charge of improper platform AML KYC implementation. Big banks routinely pay a fine for this, and never face imprisonment. The judge found no evidence that he knew of any illicit transactions and that it was reasonable for him to believe there were no illicit funds on the platform. Credit where it's due, they somehow pulled off a 4 month sentence for this unprecedented charge. And now it's all for naught.

New comment by drak0n1c in "Trump pardons convicted Binance founder"

drak0n1c — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 21:32:40 +0000

CZ was not convicted of fraud or even money laundering. There's a reason the sentence was only 4 months. His charge was the first ever prosecution of a platform/bank poorly implementing KYC and not doing enough surveillance of its users to comply with the letter of AML regulations. The case relied on the theoretical possibility of US citizen users placing trades that are matched by people from sanctioned countries - it did not even find cases of such trades. Big banks routinely pay fines for this, and never face imprisonment.

Regardless of what you think of the circumstances of the pardon, the prosecution was not related to fraud and was an unusual case by a DOJ that was recently embarrassed by FTX and was arguably symbolic in intent.

New comment by drak0n1c in "Trump pardons convicted Binance founder"

drak0n1c — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 20:41:07 +0000

CZ was not involved in fraud, the case only found him guilty of not doing enough to surveil his customers to sufficiently block US citizens from using a crypto exchange that other people from sanctioned countries could use.