Hacker News: fooey

New comment by fooey in "Google changes its search box"

fooey — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:38:04 +0000

I expect a flavor of affiliate marketing where you can never trust if the LLM is giving you the best recommendations or the most highly bidded recommendations

New comment by fooey in "Utah senator smacks ABC reporters phone out of hand amid Data Center controversy"

fooey — Thu, 07 May 2026 22:21:02 +0000

The proposed build out will consume 9gw of electricity, all LNG fueled

The entire State of Utah, *combined* consumes less than half that much energy.

New comment by fooey in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

fooey — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:40:05 +0000

for my experience currently, I greatly prefer the VSCode Copilot extension experience over the Claude Extension

I think VSCode only supports copilot for "autocomplete" too

on top of that, you need GitHub Copilot for the PR reviewer functionality in GitHub

New comment by fooey in "EFF is leaving X"

fooey — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:12:14 +0000

he literally paraphrased the 14 words after doing it

"It is thanks to you that the future of civilization is assured."

it's an absolute joke anyone disputes what he did

New comment by fooey in "EFF is leaving X"

fooey — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:07:09 +0000

Yeah, the followup to that "censorship of conservative opinions" complaint is always "which opinions are those"

It's a perfect analogue for asking confederate fans, "state's rights to do what?"

New comment by fooey in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

fooey — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:55:36 +0000

New reporting that an A-10 ~was also shot down~ has also gone down (unconfirmed if it was shot down)

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04/03/world/iran-war-trump...

> A second Air Force combat plane crashed in the Persian Gulf region on Friday, and the lone pilot was safely rescued, according to two U.S. officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss operational matters. The A-10 Warthog attack plane went down near the Strait of Hormuz about the same time that an Air Force F-15E was shot down over Iran, the officials said. In that incident, one crew member was rescued and search-and-rescue operators are looking for the second airman. Officials provided scant details about the A-10 crash, including how and where it happened.

there's some additional osint rumor mill that a blackhawk helicopter involved in rescue operations was also shot down but claims that crew been recovered

New comment by fooey in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

fooey — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:43:36 +0000

The latest reporting is that only 50% of Iran's missile capacity has been destroyed

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/02/politics/iran-missiles-us-mil...

Doesn't break out anti-air, but Iran absolutely has a lot of teeth left.

New comment by fooey in "Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation"

fooey — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 05:47:12 +0000

it's a race of parallel discoveries sprinting towards commoditization and indistinguishably

any real breakthrough will be instantaneously reverse engineered and replicated

none of the not-googles can win, because there is no win state

New comment by fooey in "AI controls is coming to Firefox"

fooey — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 21:07:26 +0000

This quote is amazing

> “AI is changing the web, and people want very different things from it,” Ajit Varma, Firefox’s vice president of product, writes in the announcement. “We’ve heard from many who want nothing to do with AI. We’ve also heard from others who want AI tools that are genuinely useful. Listening to our community, alongside our ongoing commitment to offer choice, led us to build AI controls.”

some people want nothing to do with AI

other people just want the AI to actually do something

New comment by fooey in "Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results"

fooey — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 19:12:35 +0000

Amazon is so bad it's getting difficult to find the actual search results

New comment by fooey in "Nvidia Stock Crash Prediction"

fooey — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 16:34:57 +0000

https://archive.is/HXmoa

New comment by fooey in "Statement from Jerome Powell"

fooey — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 02:03:28 +0000

There's basically nothing the American people can do short term.

The US government is entirely non-responsive and only nominally representative.

Barring a wave of Republican retirements in the House, the absolute soonest there are any guardrails are after the 2026 midterms when a new congress is seated in 2027.

New comment by fooey in "AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention"

fooey — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 16:57:48 +0000

I keep asking our product team what the plan is when our API/Infra costs eventually skyrocket and our AI features become unsustainable, but there's absolutely zero preparedness.

We throw in all these cute little AI features to fill out marketing bullet points because they're basically free, but if they had real cost we're going to have no choice but to take them away.

New comment by fooey in "Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs–and They Have No Idea What They're Doing"

fooey — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 22:48:59 +0000

imagine Cloudflare saying, okie dokie then, guess we don't serve Wisconsin anymore

New comment by fooey in "Samsung's 60% DRAM price hike signals a new phase of global memory tightening"

fooey — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 02:16:02 +0000

I wish I saw more people realizing the build out promising being made by the big AI are physically impossible

not only is it impossible to build that much power generation on those timelines

it's also not possible to build enough GPUs to fill a purported tripling of US datacenter capacity

what's the ROI on giant empty warehouses full of empty server racks and no electricity?

New comment by fooey in "Samsung's 60% DRAM price hike signals a new phase of global memory tightening"

fooey — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 02:09:11 +0000

console ram isn't magically cheaper

New comment by fooey in "Nasdaq 100 set for worst week since April meltdown"

fooey — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 18:05:22 +0000

somebody has to feed the airoboros

New comment by fooey in "A change of address led to our Wise accounts being shut down"

fooey — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 01:06:33 +0000

Today, in people who discover things that aren't banks don't act like banks

Tomorrow we'll have a double header featuring people who discover things that aren't hotels don't act like hotels and things that aren't taxis don't act like taxis.

If your business relies on the less-regulated "alternative" you're going to get burned eventually.

New comment by fooey in "Cybersecurity training programs don't prevent phishing scams"

fooey — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 18:34:19 +0000

yep, it's all CYA checkbox busywork to send to insurance when something happens

New comment by fooey in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

fooey — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 01:58:13 +0000

they're not, it's a moat