Hacker News: mavhc

New comment by mavhc in "You gotta think outside the hypercube"

mavhc — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 11:09:11 +0000

Most of our thinking now is about how we made rocks think, gods, and fiction. None of those are created by evolution

New comment by mavhc in "Digg is gone again"

mavhc — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 10:11:16 +0000

Internet is way behind on democracy. In general everyone likes democracy until they're in charge, then they realise they're the best person to be in charge and the idiots who vote don't have a clue, and should probably be banned if not beheaded for speaking out of turn.

You'd have to weight votes by some kind of participation metric to solve the problem of very little authentication of the voters

New comment by mavhc in "Wired headphone sales are exploding"

mavhc — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 10:06:52 +0000

The metric being house fires

New comment by mavhc in "Show HN: Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube like it’s cable TV"

mavhc — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 10:03:38 +0000

1. subscribe to channels you like 2. only use the subscription tab

New comment by mavhc in "NASA announces overhaul of Artemis program amid safety concerns, delays"

mavhc — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 10:15:03 +0000

He said moon first, not no Mars. And a decade to build a moon city, not to get there.

However what people say and their real reasons aren't always the same.

I assume Issacman went around to everyone and convinced them to say they're all switching on the moon, add another test flight to delay things, and in return they'll switch to using Starship in the future as they will cancel Block 1B of Artemis

New comment by mavhc in "NASA announces overhaul of Artemis program amid safety concerns, delays"

mavhc — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 07:59:54 +0000

Space X cares way more about reusability than the moon, they're not actually in a race to the moon. Step 1: build the best general solution. Step 2: do everything

New comment by mavhc in "NASA announces overhaul of Artemis program amid safety concerns, delays"

mavhc — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:02:42 +0000

Once Starship has launched 1000 times without problems it'll be obviously safer despite having no abort system

New comment by mavhc in "NASA announces overhaul of Artemis program amid safety concerns, delays"

mavhc — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 23:57:59 +0000

Going to Mars takes about the same delta-v as the moon.

SpaceX launches 80% of the world's mass to orbit, they probably know what they're doing.

Starship is an extremely hard problem, and their aim is to reduce cost of getting mass to orbit by another 10x after Falcon 9 did the same.

Falcon 9 needs about 4% of fuel to land on a ship, 14% to return to launchpad

Why would you say they've had 100% failure rate? What did you think the reason was to launch and how did it fail?

New comment by mavhc in "Rivian R2: Electric Mid-Size SUV"

mavhc — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 09:35:57 +0000

You want to add a load of buttons? Should be easy enough, just get them to send codes to the computer via the network.

Door handles are harder, what do you want to change? Inner or outer?

What's insane about the charging port?

New comment by mavhc in "The Waymo World Model"

mavhc — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 19:07:03 +0000

They invented offices because the massive increase in productivity required more organisation than "I'll take it all to the market on Saturday"

New comment by mavhc in "The Waymo World Model"

mavhc — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 19:05:34 +0000

Surely as soon as they're safer than humans they should be deployed as fast as possible to save some of the 3000 people who are killed by human drivers every day

New comment by mavhc in "Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS"

mavhc — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 18:55:06 +0000

But probably only $10

New comment by mavhc in "A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw"

mavhc — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 18:53:23 +0000

Obviously the sane solution is to put a webcam inside your fridge

New comment by mavhc in "Spotlighting the World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell"

mavhc — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 14:03:05 +0000

Did it mention that USA bombed the entire country of North Korea completely destroying 85% of all buildings?

New comment by mavhc in "I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams"

mavhc — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 14:00:34 +0000

Every news organisation thinks they're the one you want to read, they want you to be a loyal customer to them and not read other newspapers. Google News used to have "see 349 other articles on this story" which really showed how pointless news organisations were, constantly rewriting/licencing other people's content.

Any news aggregator platform is only used by news organisations under duress.

New comment by mavhc in "I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams"

mavhc — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 13:54:44 +0000

But how will I get free stuff and also not see ads with my adblocker if ads die?

New comment by mavhc in "Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS"

mavhc — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 13:22:31 +0000

Yes, but the OS fundamentals are for Azure first, Windows last.

Azure makes money, 50% of Windows computers are basically free and need to get you to sign up for a subscription some how. The other 50% are Windows Pro/Enterprise, but MS assumes they'll get that money forever so doesn't put any resources into that. In 10 years the kids switching to Linux on desktop today will be in charge of the business deals and switch corporations to linux because they're not scared of it like the current business IT leaders

New comment by mavhc in "The Waymo World Model"

mavhc — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 13:17:15 +0000

Waymo also had safety drivers for years.

All you really need is "drive slower if you can't see (because rain, fog, or degraded cameras), or you're in an area where children might run out into the road"

New comment by mavhc in "Spotlighting the World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell"

mavhc — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 22:20:28 +0000

Facts are not a thing the government is interested in now

New comment by mavhc in "Self Driving Car Insurance"

mavhc — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:13:59 +0000

If they're not safe then why does the data show they're safer than humans?

Why will they never be safe?

Also can you define safe?