<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: hocuspocus</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=hocuspocus</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 05:08:35 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=hocuspocus" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hocuspocus in "Gemini 4 Argon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's also more token hungry than similar models, so does it really make a big difference in the end?<p>With GitHub Copilot pricing, I have found no practical reason to use Gemini 3.8 Flash vs GPT 5.6 Luna. And now I'll probably find no reason to use Gemini 4 when GPT 6.1 Sol is essentially as good and a lot cheaper.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 22:39:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49915395</link><dc:creator>hocuspocus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49915395</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49915395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hocuspocus in "Iran school bombing: grounds to believe US was behind atrocity, UN finds"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Killing civilians and destroying infrastructure in the name of saving oppressed people; it's quite impressive such low-effort imperialist propaganda still works after Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 15:24:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49742211</link><dc:creator>hocuspocus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49742211</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49742211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hocuspocus in "Global warming will exceed 1.5-degree limit, UN says"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you live in better material conditions than 90% of the world population, you're rich, by definition. This is nearly half the global CO2 footprint.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 15:45:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49577657</link><dc:creator>hocuspocus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49577657</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49577657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hocuspocus in "Smaller reactors bring nuclear power closer to fulfilling its promise"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Even in Europe you can't necessarily bring online a 1200+ MW plant just anywhere, especially in the recent market where some PV production is curtailed in summer and brings the spot rates to zero.<p>In theory we should start investing in synthetic fuel production, but it's been mostly vaporware so far.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 14:22:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49478928</link><dc:creator>hocuspocus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49478928</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49478928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hocuspocus in "France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Pretty irrelevant to the last meter, and most ISPs do it for free when you subscribe as they can re-use conduits and sheaths for the legacy copper line, otherwise it's typically a few hours of work.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 17:33:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49452863</link><dc:creator>hocuspocus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49452863</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49452863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hocuspocus in "France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Where do you think is the last meter if not in the home?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 17:10:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49452504</link><dc:creator>hocuspocus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49452504</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49452504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hocuspocus in "France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's not really a big issue. Connecting the last meters of fiber is cheap, either done by default in new constructions, or on demand for older houses. ISP's hardware to run PON is cheap.<p>Once street level fiber deployment is done, whether market penetration follows or not isn't a huge deal.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 17:01:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49452384</link><dc:creator>hocuspocus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49452384</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49452384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hocuspocus in "France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The main issue with copper comes from the active infrastructure rather than the physical lines.<p>I work at an ISP that gets DSLAM equipment from Huawei, we run one of the few G.fast VDSL deployments in the world using this particular hardware. Huawei has stopped manufacturing this product line (the Swiss market is a rounding error ;), which will force us to fully migrate some neighborhoods, only for backup inventory.<p>Germany being 15 years late, I assume you can still buy similar hardware from AVM though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:39:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49452024</link><dc:creator>hocuspocus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49452024</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49452024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hocuspocus in "France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And in places where FTTH is available, you pay more for 250/100 Mbps than symmetrical 10 Gbps in Switzerland.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:23:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451747</link><dc:creator>hocuspocus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451747</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hocuspocus in "France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>France doesn't have much FTTC, VDSL and HFC exist but are fairly rare.<p>Orange has started decommissioning its legacy copper network.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:21:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451700</link><dc:creator>hocuspocus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451700</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hocuspocus in "AWS Acquires DuckLabs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No, it's a competing ecosystem, even though both are built on Apache Arrow, and their dataframe APIs might look similar on the surface.<p>DataFusion is being used as a building block for a growing number of databases and data processing engines in Rust, as it offers the necessary primitives.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:28:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49450884</link><dc:creator>hocuspocus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49450884</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49450884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hocuspocus in "DeepSeek Harness"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Codex, Kiro, Grok Build. Pi has a clone in Rust too.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:15:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49286319</link><dc:creator>hocuspocus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49286319</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49286319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Open-sourcing Metals v2: Databricks' Java and Scala language server]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.databricks.com/blog/open-sourcing-metals-v2-databricks-java-and-scala-language-server-multi-million-line-codebases">https://www.databricks.com/blog/open-sourcing-metals-v2-databricks-java-and-scala-language-server-multi-million-line-codebases</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49276578">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49276578</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:20:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.databricks.com/blog/open-sourcing-metals-v2-databricks-java-and-scala-language-server-multi-million-line-codebases</link><dc:creator>hocuspocus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49276578</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49276578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hocuspocus in "Bluesky's active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I assume you don't use Twitter, otherwise you'd have noticed that annoying bots are in the replies.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:29:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49273962</link><dc:creator>hocuspocus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49273962</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49273962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hocuspocus in "Bluesky's active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are many other clues that clearly make them bots: obvious LLMisms, parroting canned talking points, accounts based in developing countries with nonsensical profile bios, ...<p>But even without all that, it's very hard to believe that suddenly Twitter attracted all the 4chan-level far-right cesspool organically, and that these people have nothing better to do than replying to any post getting traction from people that should be completely outside their interest circles.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:54:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49272451</link><dc:creator>hocuspocus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49272451</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49272451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hocuspocus in "Amazon backs power plant that may become top source of US climate pollution"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Large-scale offshore wind projects in Europe are now nearly as slow and sometimes more expensive than nuclear.<p>Solar + batteries are still not enough for countries that have long and grey winters.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:41:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49256663</link><dc:creator>hocuspocus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49256663</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49256663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hocuspocus in "Amazon backs power plant that may become top source of US climate pollution"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm fine with this, recent geopolitical events showed that proliferation might have deterred the world's biggest bullies.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:41:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49255521</link><dc:creator>hocuspocus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49255521</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49255521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hocuspocus in "Amazon backs power plant that may become top source of US climate pollution"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You don't even need that. Fast breeder reactors are enough.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 23:36:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49251353</link><dc:creator>hocuspocus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49251353</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49251353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hocuspocus in "Amazon backs power plant that may become top source of US climate pollution"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nuclear waste is a nice problem to have, and fairly simple compared to most pollution sources associated with our lifestyle.<p>No need to worry though, on the current trajectory I doubt our civilization will have the opportunity to deal with it.</p>
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<p>You're just supporting my point.</p>
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