Hacker News: johnebgd

New comment by johnebgd in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

johnebgd — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:30:21 +0000

Gotta hit that high IRR as a fund manager and the clock starts when the cash comes in so capital calls are appreciated by fund managers. Unless they are emerging managers (the startup equivalent in finance) and their LP’s are less than institutional and ghost them when the capital call hits.

New comment by johnebgd in "Matadisco – Decentralized Data Discovery"

johnebgd — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:31:19 +0000

This. Unless in 2026, we suddenly see Costco sell personal quantum computers for sub $2k, with practically unlimited high speed crystal storage, all cooled/powered by unobtainium fusion reactors that are made with 3D printers at your neighborhood coop, then we either must accept private entities that do this kind of indexing at scale or we should ask government to offer it on taxpayer expense.

New comment by johnebgd in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

johnebgd — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 03:12:43 +0000

My post Mortem sentiments exactly. The lack of Nvidia GPU support for the M series Mac Pro models kneecapped the platform for professionals. If Apple had included that in those they’d be the defacto professional workstation for many more folks working in AI tech.

New comment by johnebgd in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

johnebgd — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 05:16:25 +0000

Electron apps also basically don’t work in Wine. I miss having Evernote on Linux.

New comment by johnebgd in "1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6"

johnebgd — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 03:22:01 +0000

Codex high reasoning has been a legitimately excellent tool for generating feedback on every plan Claude opus thinking has created for me.

New comment by johnebgd in "Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine"

johnebgd — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:28:48 +0000

Agreed. Windows 10/11 can run just fine on 4GB of RAM. You just can't run anything inside of Windows 10/11 with 4GB of RAM.

The last version of Windows that felt like 4GB of RAM was performant for me with applications was Windows XP. Not that every computer running the 32-bit edition of Windows XP could even see/utilize a full 4GB of RAM properly, but at least it was fast.

New comment by johnebgd in "Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine"

johnebgd — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:25:31 +0000

Neo is powered by a fast and battery-friendly chip. It's definitely not a novelty any more than Chromebooks or Windows 11 notebooks with integrated graphics have been.

New comment by johnebgd in "Addressing Antigravity Bans and Reinstating Access"

johnebgd — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 15:07:43 +0000

We use them as well. Great product.

New comment by johnebgd in "Addressing Antigravity Bans and Reinstating Access"

johnebgd — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 15:07:22 +0000

It’s be great if Google just revoked antigravity access if terms were violated. No need to disable the entire account.

New comment by johnebgd in "Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI"

johnebgd — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:25:34 +0000

Sometimes I forget programming languages aren't a religion, and then I see someone post stuff like this. Programming languages really do inspire some of us to feel differently.

New comment by johnebgd in "I’m joining OpenAI"

johnebgd — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 06:42:48 +0000

I’ve met many more $5M/year “SaaS” entrepreneurs who built a Wordpress plugin than a custom SaaS platform. Your point is well made.

New comment by johnebgd in "A tough labor market for white-collar workers has turned recruiting upside down"

johnebgd — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 07:17:07 +0000

White flight all over again but this time it’d be white collar flight.

New comment by johnebgd in "Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft"

johnebgd — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 12:53:00 +0000

I switched to Ubuntu last week for my desktop. First time in my 25+ year career I’ve felt like Microsoft was wasting my time more than administering a Linux desktop would take. The slop effect is real.

New comment by johnebgd in "[dead]"

johnebgd — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 17:33:28 +0000

Half of the country has been left behind to the extent that they are worse off financially than their parents at the same age and have no path to improvement. It just keeps getting worse for them. The other half of the country thinks they are uneducated buffoons who are morally bankrupt for and need to do more to help themselves.

They blame the other half of the country for calling them “deplorables”, immigrants, globalization, religion, gender, education, science, and anything else that is an easy scapegoat. Blame whoever you want but the symptom of this illness that the institutions failed to resolve is the current political reality.

New comment by johnebgd in "Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B"

johnebgd — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 01:25:37 +0000

I’d just drop them.

New comment by johnebgd in "UN chief's last annual speech slams world leaders for lack of cooperation"

johnebgd — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 04:37:44 +0000

Americans can’t afford healthcare or rent. They aren’t happy supporting the UN anymore. If the world needs the organization it’ll find others for funding.

New comment by johnebgd in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"

johnebgd — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 15:32:14 +0000

Trademarks and other intellectual property rights prevent cloning those.

New comment by johnebgd in "Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%"

johnebgd — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 13:58:02 +0000

I’d pay a monthly fee for a browser where I’m not the product anymore and it respects my privacy.

New comment by johnebgd in "Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%"

johnebgd — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 13:57:16 +0000

Meanwhile Firefox keeps undoing its own track record. There really is no perfect solution to browsing the web these days.

New comment by johnebgd in "Portland's gas-powered leaf blower ban goes into effect"

johnebgd — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 13:55:07 +0000

I bought a corded electric snow blower this year for my driveway. My neighbor has a gas powered one. I sold mine after two uses because it was so ineffective it mostly just clogged. It is a highly rated unit on Amazon. My neighbor has used his for years.

I hope this kind of environmentalism never comes for winter gear. At least not until we have fuel cell technology that far exceeds what batteries can offer.