Hacker News: ecshafer

New comment by ecshafer in "Scientists stunned by children's lung recovery in ultra low emission zone"

ecshafer — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 02:04:44 +0000

Anecdata I was living very close to a busy highway, and my young daughter was wheazing when she had a cold, we had to give her medicine via a nebulizer. When we moved out to the country more, far away from any major roads, these issues all disappeared within a couple months.

New comment by ecshafer in "Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like nothing matters anymore?"

ecshafer — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 02:25:19 +0000

As a backend/full-stack engineer I still receive at least a few linkedin recruiter messages a week.

New comment by ecshafer in "In 1962, Egypt's Missile Program Lost Its Key Scientist Without a Trace"

ecshafer — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 14:53:56 +0000

The wonderful book "Rise and Kill First" is a history of Israeli assassinations, with their policy of going after the "head of the snake". There are some interesting sections on how Israel used assassination to inhibit missile programs in the Middle East, including Egypt. Its a pretty easy read despite being long.

New comment by ecshafer in "Spaghettifying DRAM"

ecshafer — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:08:27 +0000

This is so cool. Outside of a cool demo, and maybe some black hat type stuff, this is surely dangerous, a bad idea, and shouldn't be done in prod. But pure hacker ethos at its heart.

New comment by ecshafer in "Bluesky's active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app"

ecshafer — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:53:31 +0000

Bluesky and Threads both have a fundamental issue in that their entire pitch is "We are like Twitter, but we are not run by Elon Musk, a Republican." Which only energizes the most radical, fringe, terminally online, who happen to be the ones that were most disliked on regular Twitter in the first place. When you whole pitch has zero appeal to 95% of people, its dead.

New comment by ecshafer in "Every Company Needs a Cassandra"

ecshafer — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:49:43 +0000

I am not sure how this is Cassandra. Cassandra didn't say bad things. Cassandra knew the future and know one believed her, making her helpless to see doom unfold. The author even mentions the myth, but Cassandra didn't point out uncomfortable truths. There are tons of complainers in companies, automating it with AI isn't going to do anything.

New comment by ecshafer in "Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country"

ecshafer — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 23:04:29 +0000

I don't see why this isn't obvious. Terafab is a FAB not a datacenter.

New comment by ecshafer in "AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon"

ecshafer — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 23:46:12 +0000

That is insanely fast. I had it generate a basic C FFT library that can handle multi-dimension arrays, and it was instant.

New comment by ecshafer in "AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol"

ecshafer — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 23:10:07 +0000

Tesla is imo overvalued and has been for a long time. Its bankrupted a lot of pretty savvy investors in the last 10 years trying to short them because its obviously over valued. Market irrationality vs solvency and all of that.

New comment by ecshafer in "Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc"

ecshafer — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:14:47 +0000

This is why Microsoft is good, there is an entire industry around fixing their nonsense. They are being a job creator!

New comment by ecshafer in "Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days"

ecshafer — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:50:54 +0000

Good. Restaurants are hectic to work in. Menus can change quickly, and many dishes are being cooked and prepped at once. Cross contamination chances are high, so if a restaurant MUST say an allergen is not in X,Y,Z they basically can't have it in their restaurant at all.

New comment by ecshafer in "The American Grilled Cheese Sandwich Essay (2024)"

ecshafer — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 04:12:04 +0000

The most important lesson about Grilled Cheese that I have learned is that you can buy a mix of expensive cheese, get a nice fresh loaf of sourdough bread, high quality grass fed butter. You can really make an exquisite, amazing, grilled cheese that would cost $25 at a mediocre restaurant with a side of fries. However, a 4 year old will prefer one made out of kraft singles on white.

New comment by ecshafer in "Superlogical"

ecshafer — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:08:35 +0000

Taxes paid was actually what was said.

New comment by ecshafer in "Kalshi attacks a Wisconsin law banning election bets as 'voter suppression'"

ecshafer — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:40:54 +0000

A big difference I think is that Progressivism was based on Christianity and Utopian Socialist ideals in the 1800s and 1900s (at least in the United States). So it was much easier for them to support child labor laws, pensions, banning drinking and gambling, etc. by looking at it from the perspective of protecting the poor and destitute, making the nation strong, etc.. Even the Imperial Germans did progressive programs from a paternalistic conservative approach. People were pointing to the Gospel or Rerum Novarum. Not progressivism is more rooted in anarchism or marxism. Which is why they have a lot more saying to remove property rights. Or they will push for legalizing drugs and abolishing prisons, despite that obviously making society worse, but the state, property, etc are all evil.

New comment by ecshafer in "Kalshi attacks a Wisconsin law banning election bets as 'voter suppression'"

ecshafer — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:21:07 +0000

I am hard-line on this. Sports betting and prediction markets should be banned. Casinos should be banned. Scratch offs should be banned. Its feeding into the worst tendencies of people and hurts the most disadvantaged families. People playing a poker game with their friends, or buying a super bowl square at their bar isn't great but at least it was off to the side and hidden. We have a large chesterson's fence level experiment in society where all of these good ideas the progressives have had to keep society civil and healthy in the late 1800s and early 1900s, have slowly been removed, to terrible results.

New comment by ecshafer in "Teach yourself programming in ten years (1998)"

ecshafer — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:06:52 +0000

There was a webcomic abtruse goose that made fun of that book by humorously showing what you would have to do to get it done in 21 days.

https://gabrielcoarna.com/2010/11/05/how-to-teach-yourself-c...

New comment by ecshafer in "Discovering Cryptographic Weaknesses with Claude"

ecshafer — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:27:57 +0000

So $1-10k in Chinese model time, thus why we must ban them.

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

ecshafer — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 19:40:28 +0000

Azure is the second largest cloud, and run majority linux. So probably.

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

ecshafer — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 19:39:44 +0000

At least Geist looks nice. Corporate Memphis has always been ugly, beyond ugly even, its an insult to aesthetics itself, an insult to all of life.

New comment by ecshafer in "Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey"

ecshafer — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 13:20:43 +0000

Henry Nowak would as well.