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New comment by fyrn_ in "The tanks in Cushing, Oklahoma, are hitting bottom"

fyrn_ — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:40:43 +0000

That's not going to help, price spikes are locked in at this point, even if we got a deal this minute. It would be marginaly better simply because it would improve sentiment.

New comment by fyrn_ in "The Road to the WASM Component Model 1.0"

fyrn_ — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 04:24:13 +0000

Please please please bring it to the browser. I'm so done with the terrible ergonomics of everything at the was bounary having to pretend it's JavaScript

New comment by fyrn_ in "Who Runs Your Rust Future? Hands-On Intro to Async Rust"

fyrn_ — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:28:17 +0000

Yeah, it also makes it seem like Rust is weird for using Future as the type name, but actually JavaScript (Promise) is the odd one out here. Probably a JS dev learning Rust without much exposure to other languages

New comment by fyrn_ in "Vibe coding my way to a healthy family: Introducing Gamow Labs"

fyrn_ — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:52:26 +0000

The valley is extremely anti natal, it shows up in large scale demographic data very clearly, just check the census

New comment by fyrn_ in "Leak Reveals Microsoft Wants Its AI to Be 'Addictive'"

fyrn_ — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:20:24 +0000

The author is his vice president of Microsoft Scout, "with AI assistance, but fully reviewed" as has been reported elsewhere.

He's blatantly pretending not to know

New comment by fyrn_ in "Can we have the day off?"

fyrn_ — Thu, 28 May 2026 02:08:52 +0000

Shareholders = society. The rest of us are just the help

New comment by fyrn_ in "Why Japanese companies do so many different things"

fyrn_ — Sat, 23 May 2026 16:45:48 +0000

> Thinking about your primary job: On average, how many hours do you work per week?

Not really sure they are measuring what they think they are measuring. This being more pronounced amongst young people may be because working long is being seen as less and less cool, as there has been a major vibe shift among young workers regarding their relationships with employers. Doesn't necessarily mean they are actually working less, might mean they don't want to admit it.

Revealed concrete hours would be much more trustworthy

New comment by fyrn_ in "Why Japanese companies do so many different things"

fyrn_ — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:46:39 +0000

Also due to tax structures changing in ways the discouraged long term r&d for existing companies. Largely replaced with a university driven model today, or hyped based fake it till you make it startup investment

New comment by fyrn_ in "Why Japanese companies do so many different things"

fyrn_ — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:40:09 +0000

Although from the perspective of most of the world, the US is also very work oriented. We also work some of the longest hours

New comment by fyrn_ in "Bun Rust rewrite: "codebase fails basic miri checks, allows for UB in safe rust""

fyrn_ — Sat, 16 May 2026 16:18:21 +0000

It's inability to be compiled from source without a fork of the zig compiler made it unusable in many corporate environments that require deps all be from source as well (or very hard to integrate at least)

New comment by fyrn_ in "A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10"

fyrn_ — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:18:53 +0000

Isn't it often combined with poor bounds checks to be exploitable? It's not as if rust or VM based languages don't help a lot with this

New comment by fyrn_ in "Operation: Epic Furious"

fyrn_ — Tue, 12 May 2026 16:57:05 +0000

Can't rock the boat too much, when the captain has a lot of money

New comment by fyrn_ in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

fyrn_ — Tue, 12 May 2026 01:01:19 +0000

Yeah, I had thought so as well. Lots of big Linux projects use them. Very brand damaging post in my opinion

New comment by fyrn_ in "Maryland citizens hit with $2B power grid upgrade for out-of-state AI"

fyrn_ — Mon, 11 May 2026 00:50:56 +0000

They can be efficient, but I ly if the incentives align towards the desired definition of efficiency. If you give a company a natural monopoly and protection from competition. Then it's most efficient way to make money is just to raise rates

New comment by fyrn_ in "Show HN: Countries where you can leave your MacBook at a random coffee shop"

fyrn_ — Sun, 10 May 2026 05:24:30 +0000

"Verification not ready, try again"

New comment by fyrn_ in "OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft Back Bill to Fund 'AI Literacy' in Schools"

fyrn_ — Tue, 05 May 2026 02:43:25 +0000

I'd back a bill to ban AI from scholls in many contexts, just like phones I think it's pretty obvious what the result will be.

I guess like with phones we'll all have to pretend it's not obvious for ten years until we have overwhelming scientific evidence, then wait another ten for US policy makers to start talking about making a committee to design a study to develop a plan

New comment by fyrn_ in "Noctua releases official 3D CAD models for its cooling fans"

fyrn_ — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:23:55 +0000

I believe the tolerances to the fan housing (which reduces turbulence and thus noise), and the the material stiffness needed for that small tolerance, are the alleged reason there are few copycats. Supposedly getting plastic that rigid is hard. I've tried to find hard numbers and validate that claim, but I wasn't able to. Would probably have to measure an actual noctua fan blade to know. On the other hand, metal printing is attainable now..

New comment by fyrn_ in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

fyrn_ — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 02:11:44 +0000

https://www.crowdsupply.com/open-tools/open-printer

New comment by fyrn_ in "Graphs that explain the state of AI in 2026"

fyrn_ — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:14:43 +0000

Worth calling out AI sentiment among young people is not nearly so rosy: https://news.gallup.com/poll/708224/gen-adoption-steady-skep...

New comment by fyrn_ in "Hyperscalers have already outspent most famous US megaprojects"

fyrn_ — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:20:32 +0000

I think the bet is more labor replacement, not saying that's particularly reasonable either