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New comment by hyperbovine in "Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips"

hyperbovine — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:57:22 +0000

"spend" as a noun is a linguistic differentiator to indicate what a badass MBA program you attended.

New comment by hyperbovine in "OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router"

hyperbovine — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 02:35:45 +0000

No I’m saying load openwrt on them.

New comment by hyperbovine in "OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router"

hyperbovine — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 21:37:49 +0000

"Enterprise class" wifi routers from ten years ago sell on eBay for about 1/5th as much, and work just as well for most home or small business applications.

New comment by hyperbovine in "Europe's new climate in seven charts"

hyperbovine — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 18:27:13 +0000

You appear to be forgetting that both India and Pakistan possess nuclear weapons. A war between two nuclear powers has never happened before and the results would likely be calamitous, unleashing a huge global catastrophe and unquantifiable additional conflict as food, health and energy systems fail.

I am not just some random internet person making this up. A lot has been written about this subject by respected researchers:

- https://www2.acom.ucar.edu/news/waccm-model-simulates-global...

- https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2020/03/16/even-limited-in...

- https://www.newscientist.com/article/2529589-a-nuclear-war-b...

- https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/india-and-pakistan-i...

New comment by hyperbovine in "Show HN: I trained a language model that thinks the capital of Japan is Paris"

hyperbovine — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 12:07:46 +0000

I have to ask: the middle paragraph of this comment reads exactly like something that Codex wrote. Exactly. Is that what happened, or have you spent so much time with these models that you started writing like them?

New comment by hyperbovine in "Europe's new climate in seven charts"

hyperbovine — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 12:03:45 +0000

Climate change also greatly increases the chance of a huge global conflict breaking out.

New comment by hyperbovine in "Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown"

hyperbovine — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 13:37:44 +0000

That one early adopter student could conceivably have gone on to be the most successful of the lot.

New comment by hyperbovine in "Millimeter wave technology drills 100 meters into granite"

hyperbovine — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 10:58:03 +0000

I think it’s a nod to the idea that AI is set to boil off the oceans unless some seriously novel ideas about power generation take hold.

New comment by hyperbovine in "Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers"

hyperbovine — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:22:59 +0000

1.6% is insane though. That would be like Google, Apple, or MSFT paying their CEO $4-6 billion a year.

GoPro Might Go Bust

hyperbovine — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:46:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dpreview.com/news/3268664947/gopro-substantial-doubt-going-concern-financials

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48388078

Points: 4

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New comment by hyperbovine in "Training our own AI models"

hyperbovine — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:01:34 +0000

I sincerely hope this never comes to pass, but you or your loved ones may someday find themselves in the position of wishing more people were opted in for organ donation.

The same cannot be said for some random corporation training AI models off your data to make a buck or two.

New comment by hyperbovine in "Ferrari Luce"

hyperbovine — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:11:57 +0000

I bet there is a faction of “traditionalists” inside Ferrari who want nothing to do with electric and do not want the Luce to look anything like a traditional ICE Ferrari, also for fear it would cannibalize sales. Thus they took design cues from, of all places, BYD.

New comment by hyperbovine in "Flipper One – we need your help"

hyperbovine — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:35:20 +0000

Wow this crazy -- "Built-in Pomodoro timer" means they are literally replacing a $5 plastic tomato-shaped mechanical timing device with something that costs $220 and features WiFi and app integration. What could be more antithetical to the original pomodoro ethos, I don't know. It's like an episode of Silicon Valley.

New comment by hyperbovine in "Power Tools Got Worse on Purpose. Who Owns DeWalt, Craftsman, and Milwaukee?"

hyperbovine — Fri, 15 May 2026 14:29:10 +0000

Old ones sell on eBay for not a lot.

New comment by hyperbovine in "Power Tools Got Worse on Purpose. Who Owns DeWalt, Craftsman, and Milwaukee?"

hyperbovine — Fri, 15 May 2026 14:28:50 +0000

The Makita US product line seems ludicrously big to me. I don’t really get what this article is throwing down when it comes to Makita.

New comment by hyperbovine in "Googlebook"

hyperbovine — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:17:08 +0000

I'll bet it does once you properly price in externalities.

New comment by hyperbovine in "The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)"

hyperbovine — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:52:49 +0000

What? I'm talking the final scene where he says "...that" and the thing immediately lights up. Absent a green screen, that's damn impressive.

New comment by hyperbovine in "The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)"

hyperbovine — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:35:56 +0000

Come now, he still managed to time the final walk scene to within <100ms of perfection. It's probably luck but still, you have to admire to feat.

New comment by hyperbovine in "DAG Workflow Engine"

hyperbovine — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:59:05 +0000

It's buggier and less functional.

New comment by hyperbovine in "Ask.com has closed"

hyperbovine — Sat, 02 May 2026 10:49:54 +0000

At Chabot Science Center there is still (and, presumably, will always be) the Ask Jeeves Planetarium. Makes you think about the transiency of it all.