Hacker News: hnav

New comment by hnav in "Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence"

hnav — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:56:03 +0000

leading labs are going to be tightening the screws. Otherwise why not just run the entire company on a public cloud?

New comment by hnav in "Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence"

hnav — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:21:32 +0000

It's giving "OpenAI says its new model GPT-2 is too dangerous to release (2019)"

New comment by hnav in "Amazon is adding a fuel surcharge to fees it collects from third-party sellers"

hnav — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:45:46 +0000

Accounting for inflation that's more like dropped by 75%. As AWS position as market leader erodes we'll likely see further drops.

New comment by hnav in "Yggdrasil Network"

hnav — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 02:16:19 +0000

easier to implement and understand

New comment by hnav in "Amazon is adding a fuel surcharge to fees it collects from third-party sellers"

hnav — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 02:05:17 +0000

That's not exactly true, they expanded the free tier from 1 to 100GB/mo (1TB/mo out of CloudFront) and dropped egress from ~20c/GB to ~9c/GB. This was due to pressure from the Bandwidth Alliance formed by all the other Clouds and spearheaded by Cloudflare.

New comment by hnav in "Honda is killing its EVs"

hnav — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 01:16:47 +0000

But it's true? How does an automaker that doesn't engage in those tactics compete when the rest of the market does?

New comment by hnav in "Does that use a lot of energy?"

hnav — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:12:00 +0000

is that a sustained 20TW? Absolutely crazy that we're generating 60kwh per person daily. Where does it all go?

New comment by hnav in "RFC 9849. TLS Encrypted Client Hello"

hnav — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:37:05 +0000

A lot of endpoint protection products rely on SNI sniffing. E.g. Apple's network extensions filters look at TLS handshakes.

New comment by hnav in "A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification"

hnav — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:06:20 +0000

One thing that's happening is that attestation is being plumbed into the web itself. CloudFlare and Apple have a collab where Safari will inject tokens that let CF know that the request is coming from a blessed device. In a world where all websites are being crushed by bot traffic, expect that Goog pushes on their own integrity initiative in Chrome in the next year or two.

New comment by hnav in "Banned in California"

hnav — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 23:33:28 +0000

apparently you can use asbestos and they have been and will continue until 2030-ish. It's now in the wild in all kinds of unexpected places.

New comment by hnav in "Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective"

hnav — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 23:28:42 +0000

I think that's where BEV and L4 autonomy comes in once it's commodified. Buses are huge in part because of having to amortize the driver and that makes them very crude. An autonomous mini-bus that can fit 10 people would fit more organically into cityscapes, destroy the pavement less, be run at 20% of current headways, etc, etc. Honestly the only big issues there I can think of are seatbelts (lower mass means that it may decelerate much more rapidly than a normal bus in an accident) and accessibility.

New comment by hnav in "Why isn't LA repaving streets?"

hnav — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 23:10:38 +0000

I only need the garbage truck to do a run for me and a couple hundred others once a week. My Escalade is transporting me and maybe 1 other person on average 7 days a week.

New comment by hnav in "Toyotas and Terrorists: "Why are ISIS's trucks better than ours?" (2023)"

hnav — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:36:16 +0000

No, these guys we seem to have funded and supported. We even helped a former AQ leader become the president of Syria.

New comment by hnav in "Toyotas and Terrorists: "Why are ISIS's trucks better than ours?" (2023)"

hnav — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:33:34 +0000

Even vehicles that are largely the same as those we get here are banned from being brought in. All because Mercedes didn't like being undercut by gray market imports and lobbied the government.

New comment by hnav in "Luce: First Electric Ferrari"

hnav — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 23:11:36 +0000

Today's cars are a lot more similar in technology to those of the 1990s than they were to those of the 1950s.

New comment by hnav in "Luce: First Electric Ferrari"

hnav — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 23:08:47 +0000

I think if you look at e.g. Model 3 Performance it's not quite so hopeless. 80kwh packed into an EV roughly the same size, weight and performance as a contemporary BMW M3. Even with today's technology (0.2kwh/kg, 3-4 miles/kwh) a Miata-sized 250hp, 2500lb, 200 mile EPA EV is possible. Whether that would be a compelling driving experience and anybody would buy such a thing is another question.

New comment by hnav in "Luce: First Electric Ferrari"

hnav — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:33:19 +0000

They've been going to turbos in all but their flagships so they generally don't sound all that exciting anyway. Lambo literally draped their styling over a VW/Porsche parts-bin crossover SUV and all the influencers flocked to it. The person who appreciates the high-rpm wail of old timey, power-dense engines is not the same person who drops half a million on a car anymore.

New comment by hnav in "NIMBYs aren't just shutting down housing"

hnav — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 21:31:52 +0000

Horses aren't native, maybe they destroyed the character first.

New comment by hnav in "NIMBYs aren't just shutting down housing"

hnav — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 21:31:07 +0000

but time and again the opportunity is created in places where there's not enough housing which enriches the "landed gentry".

New comment by hnav in "NIMBYs aren't just shutting down housing"

hnav — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 21:29:05 +0000

Affordable housing itself is typically used as a poison pill because it makes it harder to turn a profit building. My biggest pet peeve is when some 5 over 1, 9 foot ceiling, crappy finishes, bound to be ghost-town ground level retail, apartment building is characterized as "luxury" by NIMBY who then proceed to say that it needs to have an affordable component. Guess what? It's going to be so clapped out in 15 years that the rent will have to have gone down (inflation adjusted).