Hacker News: formvoltron

New comment by formvoltron in "Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test"

formvoltron — Fri, 29 May 2026 07:49:29 +0000

The timing of this so close to SpaceX IPO is seriously sus.

New comment by formvoltron in "Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX"

formvoltron — Wed, 06 May 2026 18:01:11 +0000

Maybe because nature put them in the ground for a reason?

Minor risk that taking what took 200 million years to put into the ground out in a few hundred years?

New comment by formvoltron in "Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX"

formvoltron — Wed, 06 May 2026 17:57:08 +0000

gas turbines generally are for peaking. Not for base load.

Hopefully Elon lets you into his glass bubble when the s** cooks on the fan.

New comment by formvoltron in "Apple update looks like Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user"

formvoltron — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:10:57 +0000

if you remove the hachek, there will be MANY locked out czech users. It's a symbol of national pride!

New comment by formvoltron in "Dark Castle"

formvoltron — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:45:06 +0000

ahhh.. childhood!

New comment by formvoltron in "Iran war energy shock sparks global push to reduce fossil fuel dependence"

formvoltron — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:20:25 +0000

lmao seriously this is how leaders lead?

oh, surprise! blowing up oil infrastructure increases oil prices.

shocking news.

meanwhile.. didn't china start selling cars with sodium sulfur batteries?

New comment by formvoltron in "Ask HN: How to be alone?"

formvoltron — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 13:01:03 +0000

learn how to surf. go live in a surf town. constant social interaction... not the deepest but it's constant & you can learn to feel more comfortable with light, non needy conversation... after your brain adjusts to that, probably socializing anywhere will become easier. That's my theory anyhow.

New comment by formvoltron in "MacBook Air with M5"

formvoltron — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 21:25:46 +0000

Apple makes great hardware. I kind of knew this when I was 12 and I had an Apple IIc. I'm 52 now.

New comment by formvoltron in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

formvoltron — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 15:43:00 +0000

With all that great tech to land and reuse rockets, they still need to be propelled into space using... kerosene. That's right. 1 million satellites launched into orbit using kerosene.

Does not feel like a vibe.

New comment by formvoltron in "Tesla ending Models S and X production"

formvoltron — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:17:59 +0000

Tesla's secret weapon will be the dyson sphere. Probably complete within 2.. 3 years maximum.

New comment by formvoltron in "Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship"

formvoltron — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 11:34:15 +0000

reading uncle bob's book was the singlemost harmful thing i ever did to myself as a software engineer. wasted so much time writing such worthless tests. TDD? ughhh no way.

New comment by formvoltron in "Wall Street’s ‘Private Rooms’"

formvoltron — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 10:41:08 +0000

What is interesting here is that if more & more volume goes to private exchange activity, then as the volume dries up on public exchanges, there will be more volatility.. and more reason to move to private exchanges.

There must be some point where this becomes self defeating though, no?

New comment by formvoltron in "Commercial tea bags release microplastics, entering human cells"

formvoltron — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 22:44:13 +0000

when i try to warn friends about this they think i'm just a complete screwball.

New comment by formvoltron in "US airlines transported passengers over two light-years since the last crash"

formvoltron — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 12:38:04 +0000

When people wonder how humans can alter something as big as our atmosphere... well just remind them that US airlines have travelled 2 light years within it. That's just US airlines!

New comment by formvoltron in "Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US"

formvoltron — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 20:10:56 +0000

Cybertruck reminds me of the Moon Patrol buggy.

New comment by formvoltron in "Bioaccumulation of Microplastics in Decedent Human Brains"

formvoltron — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 01:36:13 +0000

what boggles the mind is that there doesn't seem to be any way to avoid absorbing this stuff. it's in the food, the air, the water. even if you try to filter the air or filter your water.. the filters are made from plastic!

New comment by formvoltron in "Open source laser microphone picks up laptop keystrokes"

formvoltron — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 16:45:40 +0000

Too bad most people use smartphones now! Would love to spy on my ex.

New comment by formvoltron in "Scientists create a cell that precludes malignant growth"

formvoltron — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 15:16:07 +0000

So would using these cell modifications, in the case of growing organs perhaps, require germline modifications?

Or what are other types of uses for these cells?

New comment by formvoltron in "Are animals conscious? New research"

formvoltron — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 13:19:32 +0000

given that we don't remember what happened before our lives, and most likely when we die we enter a similar state... so that life starts whenever a physical life begins (later a mental life starts and exists until the time that physical life dies)... Then the idea that all creatures are conscious is a pretty bad idea. It means that being a conscious being such as a human is ridiculously improbable, given the very high ratio of all conscious creatures count vs human count.

New comment by formvoltron in "Intel details Skymont"

formvoltron — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 07:42:56 +0000

Could these processors help Intel move further into AI inference?