<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: isoprophlex</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=isoprophlex</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 04:12:44 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=isoprophlex" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by isoprophlex in "Buy Your Friends Batteries"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I really get where you're coming from, but I'm approaching this from the ~$1500, 5 kWh battery in TFA, which weights 50-60 kg, should be installed somewhere out of the way in a non-fire-hazardous manner. They're great, they can load-shift a meaningful chunk of daily consumption for most european homes don't just move these around to your freezer. They don't magically make you independent in case of grid failures, it's just not what they're for. And to get the average consumer to adopt these, the messaging about what they can and can't do should be crystal clear.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:01:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49335111</link><dc:creator>isoprophlex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49335111</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49335111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by isoprophlex in "Buy Your Friends Batteries"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> You are also safer during a power outage. The STREAM 5000 provides up to 3 kW of off-grid output. Keep essential devices on its backup output and reserve some battery capacity, and your refrigerator, lights, router, and laptop can keep running when the grid goes down. An ordinary grid connection does not back up the whole house automatically; the backup output must be configured correctly.<p>Being able to cut over your entire house from grid power to a battery requires an invasive, expensive change to most connections. I wish people would stop breathlessly promoting batteries (which are good! we need decentralized storage!) because "you can use them to run your fridge, router, etc". Yes you can, but for almost all consumers it's an order of magnitude more effort and cash compared to just buying and plugging in a battery.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:09:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49334330</link><dc:creator>isoprophlex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49334330</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49334330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by isoprophlex in "GitHub Has an Availability Problem. Is It Time to Look Elsewhere?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What is GH's remaining long-term moat right now, anyway? Microsoft bundling? Name recognition? That it's still the goto place for open source? Existing corpo contracts?<p>- githubs' ci/cd has been pretty crap for me personally (ok there's worse out there but it's definitely not a joyful thing)<p>- The user interface I hate more and more each year.<p>- The availability, well... there's still two nines in there lol<p>- the CLI is not bad, i don't hate that</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:55:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49334094</link><dc:creator>isoprophlex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49334094</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49334094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by isoprophlex in "On AI regulation and messaging"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><p><pre><code>    > "I know that there’s a sort of Silicon Valley shorthand where regulation = regulatory capture = concentration of power, but I’ve always found this to be an overly simplified picture of the world."
    > wall of text follows
    > doesnt proceed to clearly tell us what the actual picture of the world is, then
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am i correct in summarizing that the line of reasoning is<p>- frontier llm access means you are at an economic advantage<p>- a big risk of this is ongoing wealth concentration<p>- the "open weights" approach can't solve the problem of wealth and llm access being linked; you need compute too, and compute is expensive, thus "open weights" still favors the wealthy<p>- instead we need "objective and fair institutional processes", as this will allow small labs cook up their stuff while frontier labs get regulated<p>why would i care about what these smaller players do, if economic advantage = frontier model access? also, the reasoning around "why bother with open weights because compute is expensive too" seems like the kind of logic a motivated 12 year old could work their way around in 30 seconds. things are not either/or dario, you said so yourself.<p>seems like a 400 word corpo misdirection essay. par for the course.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:16:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49327801</link><dc:creator>isoprophlex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49327801</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49327801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by isoprophlex in "On AI regulation and messaging"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>i was about to post the same thing. i vouched for the comment, but it's too dead to recover from my single vouching action.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:08:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49327760</link><dc:creator>isoprophlex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49327760</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49327760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by isoprophlex in "Show HN: Eigendrum - Draw any shape and hear what it sounds like as a drum"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fun concept. Absolutely carcinogenic approach to monetization.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 11:16:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49309639</link><dc:creator>isoprophlex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49309639</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49309639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by isoprophlex in "Show HN: Eigendrum - Draw any shape and hear what it sounds like as a drum"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Als een tang op een varken" is the common one for me as well. Runner up: "Als een lul op een stadsbus" (it makes as much sense as a dick against a city bus)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 08:35:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49308858</link><dc:creator>isoprophlex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49308858</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49308858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by isoprophlex in "Launch HN: Discovered Materials (YC P26) – AI agents to discover new materials"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>These are probably canaries to help detect model distillation by competitors</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:14:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49286313</link><dc:creator>isoprophlex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49286313</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49286313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by isoprophlex in "Agentic Engineering Is Just Everything We Haven't Been Doing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Tastemaxxing. It's the new moat, bruv!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:15:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49277258</link><dc:creator>isoprophlex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49277258</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49277258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by isoprophlex in "Dutch Train Map Simulator"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>why in the name of gods stroopwafel are Rotterdam and The Hague situated somewhere southwest of Drenthe?! What is Amersfoort doing on the shores of the North Sea?!</p>
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<p>Don't forget the suppositories</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 07:44:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49254663</link><dc:creator>isoprophlex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49254663</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49254663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by isoprophlex in "Don't use your phone while you poop"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Does taking a piss count?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:56:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222452</link><dc:creator>isoprophlex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222452</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by isoprophlex in "As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You get the program image from the web and you move it into your folder holding application?!<p>Having some custom wizard that's never the same fuck up your entire windows registry, write to wherever the fuck it wants on disk, now THAT is surreal</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 07:18:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49219586</link><dc:creator>isoprophlex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49219586</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49219586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by isoprophlex in "Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Rarely have I wanted to spend money on a peripheral as readily as on this keyboard. It looks like it's perfection.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:44:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49199114</link><dc:creator>isoprophlex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49199114</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49199114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by isoprophlex in "Pareto Front"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"what's the family of optimal choices when you have multiple dimensions to rank on?"<p>Say a race vehicle has acceleration, top speed as defining parameters. Some are slow but accelerate hard, others need a long time to reach very high top speeds. Others are in between, or just flat out bad at both.<p>The pareto frontier is the set of vehicles that are best: pick one from the frontier and you can be sure that for it's given top speed, none accelerate faster. And vice versa, pick one with a given acceletation and you are sure none have a better top speed</p>
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<p>Title as submitted to HN is missing a word.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:36:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49190928</link><dc:creator>isoprophlex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49190928</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49190928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by isoprophlex in "Three Six Mafia – Data about "6/6/6 dating" (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>don't worry it will just happen, the market will figure it out. a 7 inch dong will automatically find a sugary person to make up for a $357 yearly income. efficient market hypothesis gooooo</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:35:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49185213</link><dc:creator>isoprophlex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49185213</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49185213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by isoprophlex in "Nobel Disease"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Mine was a penguin dropping down from the spinning fractaled infinite hexagonal beehive grid that took over the ceiling but... yeah</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:27:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49182601</link><dc:creator>isoprophlex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49182601</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49182601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by isoprophlex in "Three Six Mafia – Data about "6/6/6 dating" (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So... if you have a 7 inch dick, you can probably just retire.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:19:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49182502</link><dc:creator>isoprophlex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49182502</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49182502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by isoprophlex in "Nobel Disease"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> In his autobiography, Mullis professed a belief in astrology and wrote about an encounter with a fluorescent, talking raccoon that he suggested might have been an extraterrestrial alien.<p>Absolutely wild shit whoa</p>
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