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New comment by drak0n1c in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

drak0n1c — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 03:26:02 +0000

With modern automation and AI, tracking and adjusting paths is better every year. Also, anything with malfunctioning movement will quickly descend and burn up in the atmosphere at that very low orbit.

New comment by drak0n1c in "My Steam Machine is a 50ft HDMI cable"

drak0n1c — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 03:40:14 +0000

Apple TV is affordable and has a Steam Link app that works pretty well.

New comment by drak0n1c in "U.S. science is in chaos"

drak0n1c — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:44:52 +0000

There are many biotech startups and private research labs thriving and paying high salaries with excellent benefits for that specialty right now - focused on genetic testing, editing, and longevity. Before moving abroad, widening the search outside of academia and considering moving internally might be worthwhile.

Unreal Engine 5.8 is now available

drak0n1c — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:42:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.unrealengine.com/news/unreal-engine-5-8-is-now-available

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48572984

Points: 4

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New comment by drak0n1c in "Texas grid flags risks as data centers, crypto sites fail voltage tests"

drak0n1c — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:27:55 +0000

Texas was the leading state in new grid battery installs for the last few years.

New comment by drak0n1c in "SpaceX's IPO is a disaster waiting to happen for your pension fund"

drak0n1c — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:19:35 +0000

Correct, everyone complains about "enshittification" but they fail to recognize that the most egregious cases occur when a company with a dedicated founder/leader transitions to rule by committee.

New comment by drak0n1c in "OpenRouter raises $113M Series B"

drak0n1c — Sun, 31 May 2026 02:13:15 +0000

Venice (uncensored privacy AI API and app co) took a year to expand their self-hosted model selection to routing hundreds of other models. It's harder than it looks to get customers. But they did grow to 3M users and >$50M ARR as of a few weeks ago. So go for it if you've found an easy way to do it.

New comment by drak0n1c in "OpenRouter raises $113M Series B"

drak0n1c — Sun, 31 May 2026 02:09:56 +0000

If you want to avoid bans, Venice is another good option since their focus is uncensored and privacy. They run models themselves alongside offering OpenRouter-style routing for frontier and niche models - but at least they fully anonymize the user and never ban.

New comment by drak0n1c in "Tesla's lithium refinery discharges 231,000 gallons of polluted wastewater a day"

drak0n1c — Wed, 20 May 2026 00:47:58 +0000

Or you can get mad at journalist-bloggers for writing unscientific selective fearmongering hit pieces catering to culture-war-polarized confirmation biases.

New comment by drak0n1c in "Tesla's lithium refinery discharges 231,000 gallons of polluted wastewater a day"

drak0n1c — Wed, 20 May 2026 00:41:02 +0000

His operation tangibly and physically contributes more to the material advancement of humanity than most of the armchair critics in the comments do - I think that matters more for character allegations. And this first of its kind refinery in America is far better than the alternative of continuing to rely on far dirtier refineries in other countries.

FYI lithium is fine at those levels, and is even biologically beneficial, commonly taken as an OTC daily supplement at much higher doses.

New comment by drak0n1c in "Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us"

drak0n1c — Mon, 18 May 2026 23:27:19 +0000

They got privileged early access to an unreleased frontier model to harden their systems, with Anthropic engineer support, and likely were able to use it to make other product optimizations tangential to security too. A blog article afterwards is a cheap price for unlocking that access, regardless of how well it paid off.

X Algorithm open source updated

drak0n1c — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:49:03 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/xai-org/x-algorithm/commit/e414c171ed68266341193330bc4864bf3f3534e3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48150133

Points: 2

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Two US citizens sentenced for running North Korean laptop farms

drak0n1c — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:39:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/two-us-citizens-get-combined-18-years-in-prison-for-running-north-korean-laptop-farms-fake-remote-it-work-scheme-netted-dprk-usd5-million-in-around-three-years

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47805846

Points: 3

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New comment by drak0n1c in "AI ruling prompts warnings from US lawyers: Your chats could be used against you"

drak0n1c — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:16:03 +0000

That's why they added a verifiable E2EE mode that encrypts before leaving your device all the way to the GPU's TEE. You can proxy and see the shape of the request if you like. The platform supports no-KYC signups too, so if you care you can disguise your user too.

When using their platform via web/app there's a temporary chat option that avoids local browser storage entirely. You can also wipe the local browser storage whenever you want.

New comment by drak0n1c in "AI ruling prompts warnings from US lawyers: Your chats could be used against you"

drak0n1c — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:30:11 +0000

Yes, local for anything that can run locally. For higher-end model needs there are privacy platforms like Venice (https://venice.ai/privacy) with ZDR legal contracts and multiple E2EE options for their open-weight models. The OpenAI/Anthropic/Google models are also available through through them but at least your identity is anonymized, though the contents of your prompt could still be stored by the destination company.

New comment by drak0n1c in "US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional"

drak0n1c — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:27:49 +0000

That would be an improvement in the same spirit, as the modern CRAs are also unconstitutionally limiting over what one chooses to do with their own property. The scope should be limited to government-involved services and facilities, as those must serve all possible taxpayers. We live in a more connected, option-saturated information age where even bigots more often than not understand the utility of at least doing business politely and making nuanced exceptions. Egregious offenses are corrected by social pressure and business competition. The current regime of ambulance-chasing liabilities inserted into every organizational, contracting, and hiring process harms far more people of every race and sex than it helps.

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.