Hacker News: leoapagano

New comment by leoapagano in "The dead economy theory"

leoapagano — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:50:33 +0000

You can have all the GPUs in the world, and all the AI datacenters in the world, but when we are barreling towards a global energy crisis (first Russia/Ukraine, then the Strait of Hormuz shutdown, and in a few decades we will run out of fossil fuels altogether), what are all of those GPUs and AI datacenters going to do without energy? Nothing. I say this because I think this will have a far larger effect on the economy than anything else this article is talking about (AI replacing labor, a possible AI bubble crash, etc.)

New comment by leoapagano in "British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time"

leoapagano — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 23:27:46 +0000

My nightmare world would be one where we apply "everything else" logic to time.

1 kilosecond: about 17 minutes

1 megasecond: about 12 days

1 gigasecond: about 32 years

"Oh man, it's been a hot megasecond since we last spoke!" Said everyone, in my worst nightmares.

New comment by leoapagano in "Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account"

leoapagano — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 23:57:16 +0000

> Last time I saw stats Linux desktop marketshare, somebody said it was up to 6%. That's astonishing.

I wouldn't get too excited about that. That might just be because people are moving off of desktops entirely and now only own mobile devices, a market where Linux may as well not exist (excluding Android). The number goes up, because at large, the portion of people who run Linux desktops are less likely to pivot to using only a mobile phone as they tend to be hobbyists/enthusiasts.

New comment by leoapagano in "Run 14 vintage OSes (Windows 1.01→XP, ReactOS, Haiku) in the browser"

leoapagano — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 18:37:01 +0000

New comment by leoapagano in "PCIe 8.0 announced by the PCI-Sig will double throughput again"

leoapagano — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 21:25:54 +0000

One possible advantage of this approach that no one here has mentioned yet is that it would allow us to put RAM on the CPU die (allowing for us to take advantage of the greater memory bandwidth) while also allowing for upgradable RAM.

New comment by leoapagano in "Japan: Apple Must Lift Browser Engine Ban by December"

leoapagano — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 12:44:47 +0000

You underestimate the power of the default setting

New comment by leoapagano in "How to Firefox"

leoapagano — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 20:13:10 +0000

Just tried it out - definitely an improvement UX-wise, but it still essentially runs two copies of Firefox rather than only isolating profile-specific features.

New comment by leoapagano in "How to Firefox"

leoapagano — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 13:47:08 +0000

Firefox's "answer" to profiles is to run essentially two (or more) copies of the browser rather than only copying the profile-specific parts of each profile. This leads to a lot of wasted CPU cycles and RAM and is a very suboptimal solution compared to what Chromium and Safari do these days, not to mention that the ability to create and switch profiles is not included in the UI by default and requires an extension to access.

New comment by leoapagano in "Perfect Is the Enemy of Good"

leoapagano — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 18:07:47 +0000

"And good enough is the enemy of society."

Burning a Magnesium NeXT Cube (1993)

leoapagano — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 17:30:33 +0000

Article URL: https://simson.net/ref/1993/cubefire.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44523372

Points: 98

# Comments: 45

New comment by leoapagano in "Nvidia won, we all lost"

leoapagano — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 00:38:37 +0000

Same here - actually, my PC broke in early 2024 and I still haven't fixed it. I quickly found out that without gaming, I no longer have any use for my PC, so now I just do everything on my MacBook.

The alarm clock that really gets you out of bed in the morning (2021)

leoapagano — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 19:07:30 +0000

Article URL: https://projecthub.arduino.cc/galoebn/alarm-clock-that-really-gets-you-out-of-bed-in-the-morning-500499

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44415482

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by leoapagano in "Will AI systems perform poorly due to AI-generated material in training data?"

leoapagano — Sat, 17 May 2025 01:07:36 +0000

I can't lie, I miss when the only GPT I had to worry about was the GUID Partition Table.

New comment by leoapagano in "When Abandoned Mines Collapse"

leoapagano — Fri, 09 May 2025 01:56:25 +0000

Centralia, PA has a mine that has been on fire since 1962 and will be on fire for at least another 250 years [0] - the town had to be evacuated in the 80s because it caused people to fall into sinkholes that randomly and suddenly opened up. Scary.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia_mine_fire

New comment by leoapagano in "Google to back three new nuclear projects"

leoapagano — Thu, 08 May 2025 16:16:31 +0000

30 years ago, I would have said the same thing. But right now solar is seeing technological advances at an exponential rate, such that by the time we build a nuclear power plant, get it approved, and get it running, solar will be both cheaper and safer while using less space.

New comment by leoapagano in "Ask HN: Hackathons feel fake now"

leoapagano — Mon, 05 May 2025 03:45:15 +0000

From my experience, I find most of the time the best part about hackathons is not what you create, but who you get to meet/network with. It may just be my uni/age cohort, but most projects I saw at the last hackathon I went to were less "MVP" type/semi-complete projects and more just "we have a concept of a plan."

New comment by leoapagano in "A single line of code cost $8000"

leoapagano — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 15:16:03 +0000

Ignoring the obvious question of "why does a screen recorder that checks for updates every 5 minutes need to be installed if macOS already has a screen recorder built in"—writing your own (buggy) auto updater for a macOS app, in 2025, is nuts considering you also have two existing options for auto updates at your disposal, the Mac App Store and Sparkle (https://sparkle-project.org/), both of which are now nearly two decades old.

New comment by leoapagano in "A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen"

leoapagano — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 19:47:57 +0000

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely adore this truck. But I feel the same way about this truck that I do about the Framework Laptop (having owned one)—cool idea, cool product, but will Slate be around in 5 years to keep making parts and offering support for it?

New comment by leoapagano in "Dropbox announces 20% global workforce reduction"

leoapagano — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 16:57:04 +0000

Pardon—what does Wu Tang have to do with Dropbox?

New comment by leoapagano in "The Arch Linux team is now working directly with Valve"

leoapagano — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 01:11:59 +0000

And if Gentoo's binary support is good enough for even ChromeOS, I'd imagine it'll also work perfectly fine for SteamOS.