Hacker News: fungi

New comment by fungi in "M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan"

fungi — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:15:16 +0000

was reading in a park in suburban tokyo a few years ago, notifications arrived for the noto peninsula earthquake.

kids in the park stared doing wobbly knee dance :D

felt the quake about 30sec later.

New comment by fungi in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

fungi — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:18:28 +0000

Banning Nazi and ISIS propaganda doesn't and hasn't negativity affected anyone but Nazis and Jihadists. It's just plain good policy.

I guess that's why arguments against it always fall back on straw men and hypothetical slippery slopes.

There are plenty of actual things that do negatively affect societies free speech but this isn't even close to one of them.

New comment by fungi in "Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices"

fungi — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 03:24:35 +0000

IT departments often lack the skills and/or desire to use anything but MS

New comment by fungi in "Kimi K2 Thinking, a SOTA open-source trillion-parameter reasoning model"

fungi — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 01:14:48 +0000

microsofts phi models are very good smaller models under MIT license.

New comment by fungi in "Keep Android Open"

fungi — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 05:27:07 +0000

never been a better time to donate to postmarket os, mobian or friends.

New comment by fungi in "America’s semiconductor boom [video]"

fungi — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 04:57:06 +0000

everyone pays the premium now not just the USA.

this would represent an additional cost on top of that that only USA consumers pays.

New comment by fungi in "America’s semiconductor boom [video]"

fungi — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 01:46:53 +0000

how competitive will american made cpu's be? will american consumers just end up paying n * more for same product that the rest of the world gets from taiwan?

New comment by fungi in "Llama 3.2: Revolutionizing edge AI and vision with open, customizable models"

fungi — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 06:31:46 +0000

ive been using https://github.com/valiantlynx/ollama-docker which comes with https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui

New comment by fungi in "Ryanair wins screen scraping case against Booking.com in US court ruling"

fungi — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 01:41:23 +0000

https://www.ryanair.com/robots.txt

New comment by fungi in "HH70, the first high-temperature superconducting Tokamak achieves first plasma"

fungi — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 22:15:11 +0000

Battery backed renewable energy with grid upgrades is cheaper today and getting cheaper.

https://www.csiro.au/en/research/technology-space/energy/Gen...

New comment by fungi in "Ibiza locals living in cars as party island sees rents soar"

fungi — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 02:14:04 +0000

Australia's growth in housing supply has outpaced population for over a decade.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2023/dec/12/austra...

Yes population is important, no it's not the crux of the matter.

> And the government - mostly landlord owning multi house portfolios - have zero interest in fixing it.

That 100% is. Would add that news corp is largely a portal to realestate and nine/fairfax is to domain.

New comment by fungi in "Job boards are still rife with 'ghost jobs'. What's the point?"

fungi — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 00:45:35 +0000

i assumed it was an immigration scam to say company couldn't fill the role locally as a prerequisite for getting someone in on immigration work visa?

New comment by fungi in "A 'cowboy ski town' where high earners can't afford a home faces housing battle"

fungi — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 02:52:26 +0000

housing supply has outpaced population for a decade.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2023/dec/12/austra...

it's pretty impossible to take anything the media, lib/alp or industry say seriously when they got us where we are and are proposing more or of the same.

New comment by fungi in "NERV Disaster Prevention"

fungi — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 02:36:19 +0000

Loss of life from mass shootings in America is a far more regular occurrence then loss of life from earth quakes in Japan.

New comment by fungi in "NERV Disaster Prevention"

fungi — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 02:15:50 +0000

https://unnerv.jp/about/more

they have an excellent mastodon instance

New comment by fungi in "2022 Climate Tech VC funding totals $70.1B, up 89% on 2021"

fungi — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 22:21:42 +0000

more fossil fuels are incompatible with 1.5c target

https://www.carbonbrief.org/new-fossil-fuels-incompatible-wi...

at this point they simply must stay in the ground

New comment by fungi in "Cheap, sustainable hydrogen through solar power"

fungi — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 12:22:46 +0000

hydrogen worsens the impact of methane in the atmosphere and as such simply pumping hydrogen through existing infrastructure sounds pretty dangerous.

https://theconversation.com/dont-rush-into-a-hydrogen-econom...

https://agage.mit.edu/publications/global-environmental-impa...

more skeptically, given that green hydrogen remains a pipe dream, it's both a useful delaying tactic for switching to electricity and furthering investment in fossil fuels, which must stay in the ground if we are to have any hope of staying below 1.5c.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/new-fossil-fuels-incompatible-wi...

New comment by fungi in "Proxy Chrome extensions are not going to be usable in MV3"

fungi — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 02:00:02 +0000

no bc they are leveraging monopoly in search to advantage their other products and undermine competition.

im a relatively happy firefox user, but at this point to say mozilla significantly mitigates googles monopoly is as plausible as when microsoft claimed that BeOS somehow mitigated theirs.

New comment by fungi in "‘Solar tower’ system produces jet fuel from CO2, water, and sunlight"

fungi — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 02:31:02 +0000

also papering over the need to invent cost competitive green hydrogen production and massively scale it really fast.

also hydrogen is a leaky greenhouse gas https://energypost.eu/hydrogen-is-also-a-greenhouse-gas-so-l...

wish them luck, not trying to be negative, we need solutions asap, situation is dire.

New comment by fungi in "Apple Unveils M2"

fungi — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 05:48:57 +0000

1000nits is great, but 1920x1080 is underwhelming. most of the thinkpad range is advertised as available with higher res (but other then the x1 carbon seems unavailable).

> 2 SODIMM, so 64 GB RAM

sweet :D

this looks more interesting https://wccftech.com/hp-unleashes-zhan-x-a-14-inch-laptop-up...