Hacker News: klooney

New comment by klooney in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

klooney — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:45:15 +0000

SpaceX is good at building data centers in tough regulatory environments, in a way that other players have been unable to match

New comment by klooney in "US battery manufacturing output continues to break records"

klooney — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:09:29 +0000

The thing people are worried about is "Seoul is a pile of rubble and so are all the factories". The people in Europe are probably going to stay for a little bit.

New comment by klooney in "Ponytail – make your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room"

klooney — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 02:39:44 +0000

Wizard spells more than engineering

New comment by klooney in "Building Pi with Pi"

klooney — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:29:41 +0000

I mean, have you tried Pi? It's really good out of the box.

New comment by klooney in "Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video]"

klooney — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:41:49 +0000

Ford's hybrids come from the Toyota tree, although they've diverged.

The new Honda hybrids are more like a generator + ev, which is also pretty interesting.

New comment by klooney in "OpenBSD 7.9"

klooney — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:06:10 +0000

Nah, whenever I'm involved in a cloud cost audit, I routinely find boring unfashionable Ubuntu and RHEL servers someone forgot about with 5 year uptimes.

New comment by klooney in "Anthropic acquires Stainless"

klooney — Tue, 19 May 2026 04:52:51 +0000

I honestly believe that most Silicon Valley developers could have their pre-AI output replaced by 10 dollars/day in Gemini 3 pay as you go spend.

I don't think existing companies will bite that bullet, but I think you'll see AI native companies in five years with like, a baffling small number of people.

New comment by klooney in "Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race"

klooney — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:52:01 +0000

There are two kinds of athletes that win global track events: - athletes from areas with bad doping enforcement (remote places in the mountains of Kenya, Jamaica) - athletes from countries with tons of surplus biomedical expertise (USA and other western countries)

New comment by klooney in "San Diego rents declined following surge in supply"

klooney — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:11:38 +0000

Just turn SOMA into Hong Kong

New comment by klooney in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

klooney — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 03:02:21 +0000

What's the sleep situation? I have an ancient Dell with S3, which is totally fine, and a Mac for work, which is fine, but the modern standby situation, as summarized by people who are mad about it, sounds bad.

New comment by klooney in "Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another'"

klooney — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:16:08 +0000

Sometimes the only way you can get basic engineering practices done like "have tests", "have a build system", "run the tests and the builds automatically", "insist that the above work" without management freaking out is to pay someone a lot of money.

New comment by klooney in "I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack"

klooney — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:26:03 +0000

You need regional state, or you're still back hauling to the db with all the lag.

New comment by klooney in "Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice"

klooney — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:08:53 +0000

Central Computer too

New comment by klooney in "Tesla reportedly developing new smaller, cheaper EV after killing Model 2"

klooney — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:57:40 +0000

I saw a Cybercab on the 280 today, it looked kind of cool but kind of weird, too. I wonder if it'll be the same thing physically.

New comment by klooney in "Many African families spend fortunes burying their dead"

klooney — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:50:14 +0000

> Modernity is about not doing what your family says

The flip side is that rich and modern people feel lonely and sad that they don't have strong social bonds.

New comment by klooney in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

klooney — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:49:22 +0000

Sailing. Good to focus your eyes on something not glowing, the cold and wet makes you feel really alive. There's a bottomless pit of cheap old boats and maintenance to learn about- or if you like buying toys, the sky is the limit.

I like racing dingies, adds a social aspect, but ymmv.

New comment by klooney in "Critics say EU risks ceding control of its tech laws under U.S. pressure"

klooney — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:57:02 +0000

The EU has been a huge free rider on defense and pharma spending from the US, they're going to have a rough time reorganizing their economies.

New comment by klooney in "Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008)"

klooney — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:05:00 +0000

What do you need to get serviced every year? Do the tires wear out that fast?

New comment by klooney in "The Document Foundation ejects its core developers"

klooney — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:51:07 +0000

He's a longtime OpenOffice/LibreOffice and now, I guess, CollabraOffice contributor.

New comment by klooney in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

klooney — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 04:33:54 +0000

You can bomb a pipeline too