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New comment by jqpabc123 in "Show HN: P2P Browser-to-Browser WebRTC Zoom/Meets Ultraminimal PoC"

jqpabc123 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 17:19:49 +0000

Video call is OK but I'd be more interested in p2p screen sharing.

I'm not much to look at and what I really want people to see is usually something on my computer screen.

New comment by jqpabc123 in "Why Texas Is Making Data Centers Wait"

jqpabc123 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 14:31:51 +0000

Rhetoric meets reality.

Texas rolled out the red carpet to corporate interests --- and then discovered that their electrical grid operation is totally inadequate to deal with the impact.

This is just one isolated example of a much larger issue related to the "AI race".

AI is power intensive and the "winner" of the "AI race" is likely be whoever can produce lower cost power and lots of it.

New comment by jqpabc123 in "AI borrowing slows as investors grow wary of debt binge"

jqpabc123 — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 13:19:35 +0000

Anthropic's gross margins are above 80% ... ignoring major operating expenses such as model training.

In other words, they're not really profitable.

New comment by jqpabc123 in "Tesla Rebrands Full Self-Driving as Tesla Assisted Driving in Europe"

jqpabc123 — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 18:53:40 +0000

No, they have remote drivers for their "autonomous" taxis.

In other words, they're not really "autonomous". And they don't operate at night --- probably not in bad weather either --- or when communications are unavailable.

"Tesla is the only autonomous vehicle company in the United States that permits its remote operators to directly steer, accelerate, and brake vehicles on public roads."

https://tesorb.com/tesla-robotaxi-remote-operations-teleoper...

https://www.autonocion.com/us/tesla-robotaxi-night-curfew/

New comment by jqpabc123 in "[dead]"

jqpabc123 — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 16:35:15 +0000

Satanism exits mainly as a way to parody religious indoctrination. And as expected, the religious just don't get it.

New comment by jqpabc123 in "Why people don't want to have children any more"

jqpabc123 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:22:08 +0000

They lack confidence in the future for their kids.

New comment by jqpabc123 in "Google Pauses Open-Source Bug Bounties as AI Slop Reports Drown Reviewers"

jqpabc123 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:30:57 +0000

Just use AI for review --- problem solved.

The only reason not to do so is --- AI is not reliable.

New comment by jqpabc123 in "Privacy Guard: You Don't Need to Scan My Drivers License"

jqpabc123 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:23:08 +0000

Nice idea but unfortunately this is not legal in many (if not most) US states.

Most states have laws against altering state issued IDs. This includes obstructing the info on them in any way.

New comment by jqpabc123 in "Ask HN: My Apple ID is locked for a week, Apple is a single point of failure"

jqpabc123 — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 13:33:24 +0000

Locking everything in one walled garden is a blatant and obvious security and safety concern --- but many don't think much about such things.

New comment by jqpabc123 in "QBasic in the Browser"

jqpabc123 — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 11:24:40 +0000

Demo looks interesting but where is the VM and compiler?

New comment by jqpabc123 in "The AI Buildout Has Turned into a Doom Loop"

jqpabc123 — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 05:06:46 +0000

"Cirrcular financing" is common in the AI arena.

Nvidia "invests" in companies up and down the AI Infrastructure chain because it leads to sales of more Nvidia GPUs.

In effect, Nvidia is buying a portion of it's own product.

You don't have to be a financial genius to grasp the fact that this can't continue indefinitely --- just like any ponzi scheme.

New comment by jqpabc123 in "IEA Expects EVs to Account for 29% of Global Car Sales in 2026"

jqpabc123 — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 20:52:45 +0000

Meanwhile, the USA is rolling coal and paying through the nose for it.

New comment by jqpabc123 in "Musk says he will rename SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI"

jqpabc123 — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:30:07 +0000

This reminds me of how "FSD" was renamed to "FSD Supervised".

In other words, it is another oxymoron.

New comment by jqpabc123 in "AI's 'Thought' Process Can No Longer Be Trusted"

jqpabc123 — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 14:24:07 +0000

How are they supposed to filter out the fact that people "hide, cheat and lie to make money"?

This fact is an innate part of their training data.

New comment by jqpabc123 in "Micro Center requires RTX 5090 buyers to show ID and sign no-export declaration"

jqpabc123 — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 14:13:42 +0000

resold to someone intending to take it outside the country.

Something that is technically impossible for the average end user to verify.

In other words, there is a big gaping hole in this ridiculous exercise.

New comment by jqpabc123 in "98% of US households aren't paying for AI yet"

jqpabc123 — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 13:17:59 +0000

contributing ~76% of the SP500’s total earnings growth in 2026 (as of late August).

The part that is missing --- a big chunk of these "earnings" are really driven by debt. Debt that is often not (yet) being reflected on corporate balance sheets.

https://techstartups.com/2026/07/23/five-big-tech-giants-hav...

Economists at the Bank for International Settlements recently described this financing approach as “shadow borrowing,” referring to capital raised through structures that avoid immediate recognition as debt under existing accounting rules.

New comment by jqpabc123 in "Musk explains why Tesla Robotaxi isn't running at night, and Lidar is the answer"

jqpabc123 — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 10:02:00 +0000

You don't have to be an expert to grasp that a camera's vision can be degraded by darkness, snow, rain, fog, direct sunlight or simply dirt on the lens.

And that driving blind can be hazardous --- to the driver and anyone else in the vicinity.

New comment by jqpabc123 in "Musk explains why Tesla Robotaxi isn't running at night, and Lidar is the answer"

jqpabc123 — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 08:12:43 +0000

Musk explains that he is not an engineer and his technical evaluations are as suspect as his predictions.

New comment by jqpabc123 in "MailDeskt – Manage multiple inboxes locally with native Resend and SMTP support"

jqpabc123 — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:54:59 +0000

Ok, can it import messages from a pst database --- aka Outlook?

Also, can it use a network share for storage without corruption with multiple users --- aka a primary motivation to use MS Exchange.

New comment by jqpabc123 in "Big Tech's Capex Is Half of Wall Street's Profit Growth"

jqpabc123 — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 19:28:06 +0000

in other words, the entire stock market is now being driven by "Enron" accounting where nothing is really as it appears.