Hacker News: guyzero

New comment by guyzero in "Googlebook"

guyzero — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:56:30 +0000

Regardless, Chromebooks are as adopted as anything is likely to get in the current Windows-Mac duopoly.

New comment by guyzero in "Googlebook"

guyzero — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:36:49 +0000

Chromebooks had a higher market share than Macs in 2021.

New comment by guyzero in "Googlebook"

guyzero — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:35:52 +0000

If you watched the rest of the announcements, apparently social media influencers.

New comment by guyzero in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"

guyzero — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:18:28 +0000

Once you have a score, you have a game. Once you have a game, people will do whatever it takes to win.

New comment by guyzero in "California leaders report four to six weeks worth of gasoline and diesel supply"

guyzero — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:44:13 +0000

Everyone loves gas and hates refineries. It's a tough choice.

New comment by guyzero in "California leaders report four to six weeks worth of gasoline and diesel supply"

guyzero — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:43:52 +0000

Weirdly California doesn't get all of its gas from domestic refining.

https://timesofsandiego.com/state-region/2026/04/23/prices-c...

"California’s top foreign refinery supplier of gasoline and blendstocks this decade is Reliance Industries Ltd.’s Jamnagar refinery complex in western India. "

"More than 9 million barrels arrived via this loophole in 2025"

Now, that's a tiny fraction of the 320M barrels of gas used in CA annually, but anything that affects global oil shipments will be felt in California.

New comment by guyzero in "'Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor' to win Polymarket bet"

guyzero — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:16:17 +0000

I don't understand who is taking the other side of all these insane Polymarket bets. Is Polymarket doing it?

New comment by guyzero in "Louis Zocchi, games industry pioneer, has died"

guyzero — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 07:15:44 +0000

More than just the d100 he was a pioneer of being very exacting when it came to making polyhedral dice. See http://www.1000d4.com/2013/02/14/how-true-are-your-d20s/

New comment by guyzero in "Where does all the milk go?"

guyzero — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:22:19 +0000

I expect the average human mother maintains a higher level of sanitation than the average cow.

New comment by guyzero in "Where does all the milk go?"

guyzero — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:03:03 +0000

They very much are not.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/1iydxaa/raw_milk_nearl...

New comment by guyzero in "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"

guyzero — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:29:36 +0000

In addition to the incredible engineering work here the OP casually flexes by showing the development happening _in an economy class airplane seat_.

New comment by guyzero in "The truth that haunts the Ramones: 'They sold more T-shirts than records'"

guyzero — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:50:56 +0000

The bulk of those shirts have got to be pirated, but for a while they were selling them at Bandy Melville, a clothing store whose target demographic has seemingly very little overlap with fans of Joy Division. The ultimate triumph of the signifier over the signified.

New comment by guyzero in "Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars"

guyzero — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 23:34:15 +0000

Congrats, OP has recreated a test/development bench, the bane of developers working on automotive software development all around the world. They're so close to being a real vehicle that you think you'll be able to get a lot of work done, but they're not, so you don't.

New comment by guyzero in "Why I'm Not Worried About Running Out of Work in the Age of AI"

guyzero — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:32:44 +0000

EIR == Entrepreneur-in-Residence

New comment by guyzero in "How private equity is changing housing"

guyzero — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 01:39:36 +0000

The foreign-born population of LA and SF hasn't changed significantly in decades. It was like 27% in LA in the 80s. Housing there is expensive because there's a lot of demand from a lot of people. Immigration is like reason 11 out of 10 for why housing is expensive in those areas.

New comment by guyzero in "How private equity is changing housing"

guyzero — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 21:08:08 +0000

I just said you're wrong, not that you're prohibited from discussing it.

New comment by guyzero in "How private equity is changing housing"

guyzero — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 19:31:32 +0000

Framing foreign-born residents as "artificial demand" is definitely a thing you can do, but it doesn't align with reality. Some portion of the foreign-born population are naturalized or are family members of US citizens, so it's not like waving your magic racist wand would actually solve the problem.

New comment by guyzero in "How private equity is changing housing"

guyzero — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 19:13:55 +0000

There are so many confounding factors that this can't be taken at face value. Immigrants go where jobs are in general and it's demand for workers that causes housing prices to go up. If there was zero immigration there would still be huge housing demand in SF and LA.

New comment by guyzero in "Hemp ban hidden inside government shutdown bill"

guyzero — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 19:27:04 +0000

Canada has pulled American liquor from sales as a tariff retaliation, so Kentucky bourbon sales have dropped considerably. Thus we have the senator from Kentucky trying to kill off domestic competitors for Kentucky liquor.

New comment by guyzero in "Canadian military will rely on public servants to boost its ranks by 300k"

guyzero — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 18:10:29 +0000

It's a historic quirk that the US is a single country. It hardly feels like one most days.