Hacker News: kylehotchkiss

New comment by kylehotchkiss in "I used sound waves to make espresso. It could cut coffee‑brewing energy use by ¾"

kylehotchkiss — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 22:38:51 +0000

Depends on which part of the county you’re in but within a few miles of the coast you can go no AC for all but 4-6 weeks if you don’t mind a few warm afternoons

New comment by kylehotchkiss in "I used sound waves to make espresso"

kylehotchkiss — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 22:37:42 +0000

Perfect guess! They have a lot of DC fan options

New comment by kylehotchkiss in "I used sound waves to make espresso. It could cut coffee‑brewing energy use by ¾"

kylehotchkiss — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:53:36 +0000

As I glance at my (checks notes) $200 power bill in San Diego apartment used entirely to run 3 ceiling fans and a box fan, I’m getting curious about all the ways power consumption can be reduced. No AC, LED lights, all gas appliances.

I am going to switch over to a bunch of DC tower fans which claim to cut energy usage substantially. I wish more appliances would just switch to DC motors.

New comment by kylehotchkiss in "Why Do So Many Everyday Systems Feel Harder to Use Now?"

kylehotchkiss — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:31:01 +0000

These have been far superior to “if you lose your ticket we will charge you max daily price”

New comment by kylehotchkiss in "Wiki Spy"

kylehotchkiss — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 03:29:08 +0000

Holy bin packing how did you do that

New comment by kylehotchkiss in "Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless"

kylehotchkiss — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:48:03 +0000

Did Hide My Email addresses cause problems for deliverability for actual emails/users on iCloud?

New comment by kylehotchkiss in "Amazon Announces Multibillion-Dollar Data Center in Missouri"

kylehotchkiss — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 03:47:54 +0000

Or generate political slops to rile up older people

New comment by kylehotchkiss in "Fox to buy Roku"

kylehotchkiss — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:44:01 +0000

The Fox News audience has been told to passionately disagree with you.

New comment by kylehotchkiss in "No, everyone is not using AI for everything"

kylehotchkiss — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:37:20 +0000

I am using AI to take on a fun large scale analysis of churches in USA.

I also just bought a completely mechanical film camera to learn a new old skill with no tech to fall back on.

New comment by kylehotchkiss in "A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime"

kylehotchkiss — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:39:19 +0000

We were able to tack a bunch of domain and header functionality on top of the email system that helped us know if the sender was authentic which is much more than we can say for the POTS

New comment by kylehotchkiss in "A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime"

kylehotchkiss — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:26:17 +0000

Why do we even need to run on the 20th century system of numbers anyways? Why is there not a better call addressing system?

New comment by kylehotchkiss in "Ask HN: Would it be useful to have a slop button in addition to flag?"

kylehotchkiss — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:17:40 +0000

Too Many Slops and you can't post for a week. Yes.

New comment by kylehotchkiss in "Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time"

kylehotchkiss — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:28:35 +0000

What's gonna happen when the redneck militias start building these on their compounds? I'm terrified of domestic implications - police departments can't go buy old military gear to squash these yet.

New comment by kylehotchkiss in "Waymo Premier"

kylehotchkiss — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:11:05 +0000

What's worse... subscription hassle or a tip hassle?

New comment by kylehotchkiss in "Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents"

kylehotchkiss — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:07:49 +0000

Our parents aren't getting enough AI generated patriotic calls to action! roll out the bulldozers!!

New comment by kylehotchkiss in "Buy a train, bridge or tracks from the Swiss Railway"

kylehotchkiss — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:58:03 +0000

Do you think the Swiss have time for April fools?

New comment by kylehotchkiss in "Buy a train, bridge or tracks from the Swiss Railway"

kylehotchkiss — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:57:22 +0000

Mumbai has a Monorail.

How has that worked out?

New comment by kylehotchkiss in "The iPhone's Last Stand?"

kylehotchkiss — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:00:26 +0000

> copilot button in ms paint

things there don't seem to be going well

New comment by kylehotchkiss in "Claude Fable 5"

kylehotchkiss — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:53:06 +0000

wasn't claude distilled from the entire creative and research output of every English speaker alive

New comment by kylehotchkiss in "Claude Fable 5"

kylehotchkiss — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:32:42 +0000

How many barrels of oil are burned per pelican at Fable levels?