Hacker News: gonzo41

New comment by gonzo41 in "Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee"

gonzo41 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 02:34:19 +0000

it'll be a rack based GPU without video ports. The only thing getting sick GPU's will be landfill when they all burn out and the data center rationalization happens.

New comment by gonzo41 in "OpenAI says its AI went rogue and launched 'unprecedented' cyber-attack"

gonzo41 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 12:49:15 +0000

Agree, they also may find themselves in a place where the government rightly says they can't have their dangerous new toy because they can't be safe with it. This is a high stakes PR game. Governments can and will step in and embargo and regulate these systems in ways which will hurt the companies and investors.

New comment by gonzo41 in "Natural experiments prove phytoplankton carbon removal works"

gonzo41 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 03:07:31 +0000

So how it works is, you grow the bloom in a massive pond. Wait for it to fully fill up, skim half the pond, add more nutrients and then agitate. With the algae you skimmed off you dry it out then compress it into a brick and burry it. In a 100K years we can the burn it for coal power again. And then repeat that until you've grown enough biomass to match the amount of Carbon put in the atmosphere since the industrial revolution.

New comment by gonzo41 in "Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning"

gonzo41 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 01:11:14 +0000

Depends, In northern NSW, the heat it humid, in the south / west it's usually dry. It gets hot, like opening a oven door, but it's not a wet humid heat that kills you.

New comment by gonzo41 in "Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning"

gonzo41 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 01:08:28 +0000

I think there's a bit of a definitional skew happening here. The data isn't that good around this stuff.

Heat as the primary factor, vs heat related deaths is significant.

Heat is a system stressor. There's plenty of people having heart attacks and dying from weight related issues that probably got pushed over the edge by a hot day in Nevada that are missed in official stats.

New comment by gonzo41 in "Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows"

gonzo41 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:04:36 +0000

This is why i have an xbox and not a gaming pc. Can't have a crack dealer in the house.

New comment by gonzo41 in "Magnetoelectric antennas could transform how underwater robots talk"

gonzo41 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:08:58 +0000

The sea is a very hard place. Heavy Chains break all the time.

New comment by gonzo41 in "I Will Never Use AI to Code"

gonzo41 — Sat, 09 May 2026 07:21:14 +0000

not the best analogy. It's like industry has an ox pulling a plow and we just check back at the end of the day to see what's happened to the field.

New comment by gonzo41 in "HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'"

gonzo41 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:26:22 +0000

Mee too. We just did a very similar migration at work it's incredibly frustrating, I've got all my CI ported over and now this.

MSFT should just create slophub.com they'd make money im sure.

New comment by gonzo41 in "Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings"

gonzo41 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:54:21 +0000

Someones gotta see what 40bn on VR looks like. turns out, it looks like shit. Thanks Zuck!

New comment by gonzo41 in "OpenAI backs Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable"

gonzo41 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:48:46 +0000

The knowledge is one thing. But the competence of execution and the will to act are difficult to line up.

Yes there should be safe guards, but after a while you're jumping at shadows.

I'm more worried about depressed kids getting on chat and being encouraged to kill themselves than terrorist attacks.

We know what a cancer algorithmic social media is yet we don't act.

I doubt there will be any real and serious opposition to this bill, but there should be.

New comment by gonzo41 in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

gonzo41 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:06:29 +0000

just like Zuck.

New comment by gonzo41 in "South Korea Mandates Solar Panels for Public Parking Lots"

gonzo41 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 02:34:30 +0000

People always end up petitioning for them to be cutdown because tree litter inevitably falls on cars. The best solution for cars is dense multistory parking.

New comment by gonzo41 in "MoD sources warn Palantir role at heart of government is threat to UK security"

gonzo41 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:25:13 +0000

They have magic consultant power mode.

In government you have to deliver, most of the time the mode of delivery is boring, small, conservative, and disjointed from other government groups because large efforts of work attract big budgets, oversight and doubt.

Consultants are magic, because they come with no baggage and promise the world. They take you hostage with sunk cost fallacy and then after years they deliver something.

At the end you're so tired you think that what they did was beyond your government agency and the cycle continues.

New comment by gonzo41 in "How I write software with LLMs"

gonzo41 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:45:44 +0000

Its exactly the same as 10 years ago and being able to google and search well for odd support bugs. Junior people think it's easy and they don't see the massive skill in framing questions and filtering.

New comment by gonzo41 in "The death of social media is the renaissance of RSS (2025)"

gonzo41 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 07:24:28 +0000

It just needs to be described in a more concrete way to people. Such as, You know how the podcasts you listen to keep getting updated on your phone? That's RSS. Imagine if other things you liked turned up when they were new and you had a lot of control over that process.

New comment by gonzo41 in "How will OpenAI compete?"

gonzo41 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 07:41:24 +0000

nah, open ai doesn't have a moat it has a brief window to get a lot cheaper to run or it's going to go pop when someone figure out how to do inference a lot cheaper.

New comment by gonzo41 in "Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years"

gonzo41 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:38:51 +0000

At the least, all the hyperscalers should be putting money into a fund for this sort of thing.

New comment by gonzo41 in "Sometimes your job is to stay the hell out of the way"

gonzo41 — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 09:36:21 +0000

This just in: Wolves is the new hype word for the mythical 10x employee.

New comment by gonzo41 in "Amazon cuts 16k jobs"

gonzo41 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 22:36:54 +0000

They could put that engineering effort to unifying the AWS console. :D.