Hacker News: lithos

New comment by lithos in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

lithos — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:22:49 +0000

My personal PCs have enough screens that I haven't tried. Though I do really like Windows snapping features on my work laptop (can't change OS there).

I haven't played with other windowing systems to judge too much. And just picked right from screen shots/gifs to not need to try.

New comment by lithos in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

lithos — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:56:39 +0000

If you picked XFCE as your front end you get WinXP functionality, with the nice things from win10/11 (start menu search that's actually local only, multiple desktop workspaces, and graphical settings/updates I've only needed to go to command line twice in four years).

New comment by lithos in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

lithos — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:21:50 +0000

Cooling is a very variable 30% cost. (IE: Iron Mountain's underground Datacenter with a flooded reservoir in the mine gets to brag about 5% of its cost being cooling, as the most extreme low end).

Up north comes with it's own issues for Datacenters. Winter low humidity (kills cable/wire insulation), chiller freeze protection can get pretty complex to set up properly (with failures causing complete destruction of some components that will need multi-ton cranes to replace), and multi-year construction projects are harder with real winters. Sure it's all perfectly manageable engineering wise, but why bother.

There's probably easier green energy credits down south, given the current viability of solar.

New comment by lithos in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

lithos — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:09:56 +0000

They serve ads in notifications. Of course start still has them. (Work computer can't go to Linux, so stuck witnessing the mess)

New comment by lithos in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

lithos — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:31:09 +0000

Happening to the NBA gambling leagues now with both players and referees.

New comment by lithos in "Facebook's Fascination with My Robots.txt"

lithos — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:35:56 +0000

Forum/Wiki content probably more likely to be old enough to be from preAI days, meaning they get to avoid the AI inbreeding problem.

Git content likely to have code for the bot to train on.

New comment by lithos in "AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet"

lithos — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 12:29:45 +0000

Even someone who hates AI, is likely to hate it less than SO.

New comment by lithos in "Purdue blocks admission of many Chinese grad students in unwritten policy"

lithos — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 19:23:15 +0000

That doesn't happen if enough of a community forms that it goes insular to itself.

New comment by lithos in "A pandemic rescue became a 30-year debt trap"

lithos — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 19:15:00 +0000

Student loans are solved, join the military. It's an ok enough place to last out a recession/depression.

New comment by lithos in "Reality Is Breaking the "AI Revolution""

lithos — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 20:38:44 +0000

Yeah next we'll get the same article on the importance of owning your own content.

New comment by lithos in "CDC staff 'blindsided' as child vaccine schedule unilaterally overhauled"

lithos — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 13:15:37 +0000

You're applying technical info to a social problem.

Americans don't trust the medical system, MAGA Americans are likely to trust it less statistically due to who the opioid pandemic/over subscription issue hit (watching a potentially close family member go from productive to an addict that started on legally subscribed drugs is hard).

New comment by lithos in "College grad unemployment isn't about AI"

lithos — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 18:21:45 +0000

The last graph of stack overflow seems more like just wanting to paste in a good graph, rather than a useful one for the topic. The downfall of SO is well earned and meaningful as a topic (in a different article).

New comment by lithos in "NYC Spends $200 Million on Cell Service for School Chromebooks"

lithos — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 02:39:30 +0000

Laughing so hard at your naivety.

They sold parking rate setting, collections, and towing to a mixture of Morgan Stanley and Abu Dhabi

New comment by lithos in "US threatens EU digital services market access"

lithos — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 12:25:54 +0000

Hello Reddit

New comment by lithos in "IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off"

lithos — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 20:18:40 +0000

It's worse than that in reality, AI chips are on a two year cadence for backwards compatibility (NVIDIA can basically guarantee it, and you probably won't be able to pay real AI devs enough to stick around to make hardware work arounds). So their accounting is optimistic.

New comment by lithos in "Why millennials feel hopeless about the economy"

lithos — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 23:32:11 +0000

Technically probably true since that class of people see rich and wealth as very different. Having better food/electronics/entertainment is being rich. Having assets that pay out or maintain value forever is wealth.

New comment by lithos in "Donors for Trump's $300M White House Ballroom Include Google, Apple and Palantir"

lithos — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 15:57:22 +0000

They aren't. House reps and Senators both spend over half their time fundraising, they're gonna behave perfectly normally and ignore whatever they need to for fundraising purposes.

New comment by lithos in "China completes monumental task using declassified US documents"

lithos — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 14:55:26 +0000

Nuclear container ships reminds me a little bit of the USA's propaganda of planning to make Nuclear cargo subs.

New comment by lithos in "Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised"

lithos — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 12:21:37 +0000

Just more engineering leaning than you. Actual engineers have to analyze their supply chains, and so makes sense they would be baffled by NPM dependency trees that utterly normal projects grow into in the JavaScript ecosystem.

New comment by lithos in "Farmers in deep-red Pennsylvania struggle to find workers"

lithos — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 18:28:00 +0000

32k to 34k from entry-level to expert level. Basically businesses choosing to close over offering pay raises.

Which actually can make sense with competition still on illegal workers, and larger scale competition using prison labor.