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New comment by krisroadruck in "Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology"

krisroadruck — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 14:10:06 +0000

Europe threatening the US with a good time? Imagine a world where all of our best companies didn't have to contort themselves to adhere to the random patchwork of regulations the EU throws at it to justify endless rent extraction through fines? Oh no! They might have to innovate for themselves using checks notes US AI software to reverse engineer US SaaS? What a joke of an article.

New comment by krisroadruck in "Ask HN: How would you feel if we nationalized Google?"

krisroadruck — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 01:03:33 +0000

You have some serious rose colored glasses on. 2010 google was insanely easy to manipulate. It was like golden era for grey/blackhat SEO. It didn't even start to get moderately difficult until like 2014-2015. Google of today is significantly less spam infested.

Source: I've been doing digital marketing/SEO since ~2008 and happily abused easy signals to manipulate rankings for fun and profit for many of those early years.

New comment by krisroadruck in "Hair Loss Was Just the Start. Ozempic Users Are Also Reporting Nail Trouble"

krisroadruck — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 02:23:13 +0000

it feels like you are being deliberately obtuse so I may be wasting my time, but I'll attempt to assume the best and try one more time. This is very basic correlation vs causation stuff. The side effect is related to rapid weightless of any kind. Weightloss is a "side effect" of the drug. Hairloss is a side effect of rapid weight loss. There is a chain of effects there but it's not X causes Z, it's X might cause Y, which causes Z. This distinction matters less for negatives - still good to tell people but for positives it is disingenuous. If you don't lose weight, your sleep apnea doesn't go away. Your joint pain doesn't get better. Your blood pressure doesn't go down - because the drug doesn't cause those things, the weight loss does.

New comment by krisroadruck in "Hair Loss Was Just the Start. Ozempic Users Are Also Reporting Nail Trouble"

krisroadruck — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 02:12:00 +0000

If you shoot someone in the face, generally speaking that person will die. Not everyone who takes GLP-1s actually lose weight. A decent fraction of people are non-responders. Those people also tend to not lose their hair or have their sleep apnea and knee problems go away. Your analogy isn't as clever as you might think.

New comment by krisroadruck in "Hair Loss Was Just the Start. Ozempic Users Are Also Reporting Nail Trouble"

krisroadruck — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 02:04:53 +0000

Reporting on these drugs is so bad. Most of the benefits AND downsides they keep reporting are the same for any major rapid weight loss. Be it hair shedding or sleep apnea resolving. They keep acting like these are novel drug specific side effects rather than weight-loss related side effects.

New comment by krisroadruck in "iPhone Duo"

krisroadruck — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:13:41 +0000

They bought that stuff from Samsung, and Samsung has been doing it for a while now. So no, the screen and hinge aren't really first gen.

New comment by krisroadruck in "iPhone Duo"

krisroadruck — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 11:38:46 +0000

Creases are maybe the "range anxiety" of the fold world? TBH I had been eyeing foldables for 3-4 years before I got off the sidelines and bought one. My main "wait for the tech to mature" worry was the crease. Now that I finally have one, you are right I wouldn't have cared about the crease. But man I'm glad I waited anyway because the passport aspect ratio turns out to really just make the form factor work. It's been years since I've been truly delighted by a phone upgrade but this thing fucking slaps. I suspect apple people will feel the same about the apple version. It's just the right form factor for the job.

- Opened in portrait it has replaced my kindle.

- Opened in landscape it's the perfect tablet - great for media and web browsing.

- Add a GameSir G8 plus and it replaces handheld gaming device like a steam deck

- Dex mode + a monitor on an arm, keyboard & mouse and moonlight/jellyfin to your main computer and now you have a full fat computer at your couch

- Even closed the front screen is just better. I didn't trade in my Pixel 10 Pro XL because I like to keep one backup phone around. Now when I go to keep it charged it just feels goofily tall by comparison.

I'm probably a fold convert forever at this point. I don't think I'll go back to non-folds. But also I don't think I'll ever buy a non-passport aspect ratio phone again ever if I have the option. The ratio is everything, the crease by contrast doesn't matter a bit.

New comment by krisroadruck in "iPhone Duo"

krisroadruck — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:35:08 +0000

I'd wait before believing no crease. My Z Fold 8 had basically no crease for the first week, after it has a slight crease that hasn't seemed to get any worse in the 3 weeks since. It's only noticeable in dark room with dramatic down lighting at certain angles, or when display is off, but it IS there. There has been some talk of Samsung actually having a better anti-crease solution than they opted to include in the z fold 8. Apparently their display division and mobile division are pretty separate and mobile only gets what they are willing to "pay for". It's possible apple ponied up for the better tech where Samsung mobile did not this year. But I'd still want to wait until people have had the thing for a few weeks and put it through it's paces before I believe any "no crease" claims.

New comment by krisroadruck in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

krisroadruck — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 19:57:33 +0000

I frequently find blind spots / edges where one model notices something non-trivial none of the others did. I think the one that surprises me the most often is probably grok, but I wouldn't want grok to be my daily driver. I feel I get benefits but I could also see the argument that it's just a complex token burning furnace lol.

New comment by krisroadruck in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

krisroadruck — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 11:26:26 +0000

Don't fall for this. Agents silently downgrade unless you explicitly block the behavior. I built a little harness for Chatgpt, grok and Claude to do design review feedback rounds where one holds the pen and the other 2 send feedback, then rotate if no convergence. I built a thing into it to track if model swaps happen. Happens to Claude all the time. The other two, never.

New comment by krisroadruck in "Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues"

krisroadruck — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:07:37 +0000

I wasn't making a value judgement on who should respond to the offer, just commenting on who the offer was probably aimed at. Though I do think the sudden spike in investment and the little foundation around it now means probably more than "just one guy".

New comment by krisroadruck in "Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues"

krisroadruck — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:44:22 +0000

I don't think it's aimed at them. I think it's mostly aimed at windows and mac users who are computer enthusiasts but never really made the jump to Linux as a desktop daily driver. Just supposed to be a cool on-ramp - basically mint but different and with some marketing behind it?

New comment by krisroadruck in "Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues"

krisroadruck — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:39:04 +0000

I think there is a pretty decent swath of people willing to rally behind someone who says they are trying to make a cool project specifically for people who want to be away from the "insufferable injection of identity politics". How large that swath is relative to the other is up for debate but it doesn't have to be particularly large. You'll get funding from people who are both interested in the actual product AND the posture, some from people who are just into the posture, and some who are just into the product. Ditto with interest from people to try it and or contribute time to it's development.

New comment by krisroadruck in "Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era"

krisroadruck — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 20:33:03 +0000

I'm on fi and got the fold 8 through fi for a pretty steep discount. It was cash off immediately + fi credits. I can pull up exact details if you care but it was several hundred dollars off split pretty evenly between instant discount and fi credits. Coming from nearly 10 years of pixels/nexus the transition hasn't been that bad. I miss a couple pixel exclusives, but nearly all the samsung bloatware can be disabled or removed entirely. I haven't bumped into bixby once.

One genuine nice Samsung feature is DeX. Been using it + moonlight (when needed) to make the phone basically a secondary computer when hooked up to USB-C monitor. Honestly I think this phone may end up replacing several other devices - kindle, gaming portable (eg: steamdeck, replaced by phone + GameSir G8 + controller), laptop, tablet. I think it can only replace laptop in my use case because I can remote into my desktop from it if I need extra compute - so if you are laptop only I don't expect it to be a straight replacement.

Honestly, best phone I've ever used - but I hope next year either google gets off the sidelines and adopts passport form factor + gets its shit together on the crease, cpu and dex equivalent so I can get my pixel exclusives and vanilla OS back, or alternatively Samsung makes the wide form factor the "ultra" and gives us better cameras, speaker placement, s-pen and IP68.

New comment by krisroadruck in "SpaceX wins $1.6B Space Force contract for 18 Falcon 9 launches"

krisroadruck — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:47:01 +0000

Brother the government just labels "profit" differently. Most people would call it grift, pork, or "inefficiency". Government waste dwarfs private sector waste by orders of magnitude. The utopia where governments efficiently and wisely put our tax dollars to their best use doesn't exist, never has, and likely never will.

New comment by krisroadruck in "EU fines Google €890M for competition breaches over search and apps"

krisroadruck — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 10:58:28 +0000

That's one read. For me it feels like practically (ASML, ARM, SAP not withstanding) their only "contribution" to tech is fines and exporting regulation. Sometimes this works out well (usb-c on iPhone), but most of the time it feels like if they want software, hardware, or the web to operate the way they want, perhaps they should try to actually produce some of it instead of being wholly reliant on others while also trying to dictate the terms. I also don't really feel like Trump will do anything, mainly because neither he, nor anyone else before him has any track record of attempting to block or slow EU overreach into US tech interests. Or maybe I'm just cranky and pessimistic.

New comment by krisroadruck in "The largest available Minecraft world, totalling 15 TB"

krisroadruck — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 20:56:12 +0000

Was? It's still online no?

New comment by krisroadruck in "Framework's 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C's complexity"

krisroadruck — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:14:53 +0000

I guess I have rather overestimated what a normal amount of wired devices is based on my own sample size. That or the opposite is happening with you.

My house has a POE doorbell, several POE cameras, 2 TVs that each get a connection to their attached android TV boxes, Wife's office gets a pair of connections, ditto with mine, then you've got the APs for the wireless bits + a few servers in the rack with the networking equipment.

Mind you I know I am on the high side, but I use that as the reference point. I'd figure a normal house would have 4-5 wired connections to my 20ish.

New comment by krisroadruck in "Amazon to acquire Globalstar and expand Amazon Leo satellite network"

krisroadruck — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:56:05 +0000

How much mental bandwidth do you put into not hitting a car that's in a different city? Even if all 100 layers collapsed to one, that's still only 100 satellites in 2600 square miles. NYC is ~300 sq miles. There are about 2.2 million cars there. I feel like you still aren't grasping how much space we are talking about.

New comment by krisroadruck in "Amazon to acquire Globalstar and expand Amazon Leo satellite network"

krisroadruck — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:14:33 +0000

It would be incredibly unlikely for there to be enough competition at a grand enough scale for it to become a problem. Space is just very big. Earth's surface is ~197 million sq miles. If you move up to a LEO shell at around 550 miles up, the surface area of that sphere is 34% larger than that.

If you were to distribute 100,000 satellites across that shell, each one would have 2,600 square miles to itself. That's like having a single car in the entire state of Delaware. Mind you, that's if we are only considering a 2-D sphere, but space isn't 2-D you can space your orbits between 550 and 650 miles, with each 1 mile vertical increment acting as a "floor" or passing lane. You can now multiply your 265 million sq miles by 100x.

The issue isn't space, it's traffic management. Satellites zipping around at 17,000 MPH would make one hell of a debris field if even one pair of them collide. That's the Kessler Syndrome boogie man everyone is worried about.