Hacker News: klooney

New comment by klooney in "Norway became a global salmon behemoth. Now it's facing the consequences"

klooney — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 04:15:13 +0000

> Children and pregnant women should also limit the intake because it can disrupt development

Do farm raised fish still have elevated heavy metal levels? I figured that getting human controlled food would cut down on that.

New comment by klooney in "My personal AI benchmark: “Generate an SVG of a frog with a Habsburg jaw”"

klooney — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 04:09:50 +0000

I preferred the Gemini 3-6 ones with all the extra kingly decorations

New comment by klooney in "FCC bans foreign-produced solar inverters, grid lockout begins today"

klooney — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 05:18:02 +0000

We've finally imported European style technology regulation

New comment by klooney in "Ben Thompson is wrong: US frontier labs are right to be panicking"

klooney — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:08:42 +0000

Averages aren't super useful for data centers, since local costs vary so much, and because siting decisions are often made around power generation (ie, they're deliberately getting lower than average costs).

New comment by klooney in "Texas factory cost $469M using old equipment, makes zero artillery shells"

klooney — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 04:37:01 +0000

> A "high-risk" plan to use old machines to produce modern M795 artillery shells backfired, an Inspector General report found.

I would say that this indicates that the decision makers adequately appreciated the possibility this wouldn't work. This is generally what a high risk plan is.

New comment by klooney in "The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war"

klooney — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 22:15:27 +0000

If China/Taiwan kicks off, you're not getting new parts from Taiwan

New comment by klooney in "The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war"

klooney — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 22:14:52 +0000

Stuff like https://www.hadrian.co/ is pretty neat, but the whole "electric stack" is hopelessly Chinese from this perspective- batteries, motors, all kinds of small and crucial electrical things- and critical minerals, like Gallium for radar.

New comment by klooney in "Slate EV truck starts at $24,950"

klooney — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:12:51 +0000

It's pretty big, too

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.