Hacker News: eclipticplane

New comment by eclipticplane in "Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter"

eclipticplane — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 15:28:44 +0000

Meanwhile, the US is paying the German energy firm RWE $1.2 billion to stop a off shore wind farm that was already under construction. Total payouts are over $4 billion to _stop_ adding electricity supply.

New comment by eclipticplane in "Lovable raises $400M Series C"

eclipticplane — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 23:33:07 +0000

For a lot of companies these tools exist in the world of shadow IT spend, so they can go on being paid customers with no usage, tied to various IC accounts/credit cards for a long, long time.

New comment by eclipticplane in "CFTC declares market emergency, orders Kalshi to continue to operate in New York"

eclipticplane — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 01:56:19 +0000

When can I take delivery of my 2026 NBA Knicks team, that I purchased through the commodity futures market? I'm available Friday.

New comment by eclipticplane in "Woman pulled over twice after Flock-linked software connected her to homicide"

eclipticplane — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:29:43 +0000

This behavior would not be possible at scale without Flock's technology.

There's enough blame to go around to hit Flock and the PD both.

New comment by eclipticplane in "U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’"

eclipticplane — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:22:11 +0000

Hire less qualified teachers, move to even larger class sizes with less support, and move more teachers into administrative roles, furthering the decline of education.

New comment by eclipticplane in "MAI-Cyber-1-Flash inside MDASH"

eclipticplane — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 19:37:29 +0000

That's my biggest fear after LLMs can pass the pelican-riding-a-bicycle test... Corporate Memphis art is a half step beyond and there's bound to be a _lot_ of it in their upstream data.

New comment by eclipticplane in "Texas Police Spent $4.5M on Four Chevy Tahoes"

eclipticplane — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 19:07:09 +0000

It's a mass jobs program with a powerful set of unions behind it.

New comment by eclipticplane in "The Three-Second Theft: Why AI Voice Fraud Outruns Every Defence"

eclipticplane — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:03:41 +0000

Schwab still does voice passwords. "At Schwab, my voice is my password"

https://www.schwab.com/voice-id

New comment by eclipticplane in "First look at Quest, the final ship of Antarctic explorer Shackleton"

eclipticplane — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 05:24:36 +0000

Same. I'll read and listen and watch anything related to Shackleton.

One of his last discovered ships being entangled in fishing nets has an element of poetry to me. The few photos in the article are cute, too, in showing the ship being in an active marine environment.

'Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage' is a fantastic read.

New comment by eclipticplane in "Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles"

eclipticplane — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 05:19:50 +0000

But what if your v12 was fueling an entire economy based on miles driven?

New comment by eclipticplane in "The shingles vaccine may reduce the risk of dementia"

eclipticplane — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 20:50:49 +0000

I got mine at a tiny off-chain pharmacy. I just lied about my age. They didn't even check my ID. I did it in my early 30s, definitely did not look 50. Very happy I did so, have seen a few younger friends go through shingles and it _sucks_.

New comment by eclipticplane in "Trump made more than $1B on crypto deals, part of 2025 windfall"

eclipticplane — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 01:29:13 +0000

And a few decades ago, Carter put his family peanut farm into a blind trust to avoid the mere suspicion of a conflict of interest.

New comment by eclipticplane in "Flock-Powered Police Chiefs Stalking Women Shows Why Warrants Are Needed"

eclipticplane — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:47:43 +0000

Even with Flock, police aren't solving those crimes.

New comment by eclipticplane in "Hospitals and universities repurposing drugs at lower cost"

eclipticplane — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 03:40:40 +0000

I tried health-tech twice. Opted out both times as there are too many misaligned incentives and useless rent-takers supported by Congress and other entrenched players.

At this point maybe the best solution is door to door doctors using AI.

New comment by eclipticplane in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

eclipticplane — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 04:42:02 +0000

$12 in tokens and the OP wasn't even at the computer. OP was working on a personal matter, arguably way more valuable than fixing a CSS scrollbar.

New comment by eclipticplane in "They’re made out of weights"

eclipticplane — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:48:12 +0000

The short film version of the original is great, too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6JFTmQCFHg

It stars Tom Noonan and Ben Bailey!

New comment by eclipticplane in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

eclipticplane — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 01:41:33 +0000

How much more software does Uber need?

Unless they are iteratively replacing expensive vendors and optimizing other headcount costs?

New comment by eclipticplane in "WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants"

eclipticplane — Sat, 30 May 2026 17:12:00 +0000

And gas stoves, why wind turbines are bad for golf courses, the effects of nuclear weapons on hurricanes, the favorability decline of Robert E Lee, invisibility for stealth fighters, the rapid death of the US farmer due to solar panels, and the impact of tariffs on consumer prices...

Wait, maybe not that last one.

New comment by eclipticplane in "The California state assembly has passed the 'Protect Our Games Act'"

eclipticplane — Sat, 30 May 2026 01:37:03 +0000

Sub-companies are owned by companies. Don't cap liabilities to the limited assets of a sub-company that actively violates the law.

Or cap them to a reasonable standard: 100% of revenues derived from the game.

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

eclipticplane — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:41:46 +0000

Now label AI ads and let us filter them out.

Leading up to tax day, every ad was a terrible AI slop Turbotax ad.