Hacker News: metrix

New comment by metrix in "Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops"

metrix — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:04:04 +0000

They're using the analogy of mining for gold. the cost of a shovel/pitchfork goes up when the price of gold goes down - which is a double whammy

New comment by metrix in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

metrix — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:57:45 +0000

It's by design.

New comment by metrix in "Can I run AI locally?"

metrix — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 01:56:45 +0000

use openrouter, and call it a day. auto switching between providers, connectivity to all clouds and even works with free models

New comment by metrix in "US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says"

metrix — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:22:43 +0000

I don't see it as adding fuel to the fire. I see it as helping the market price companies correctly

New comment by metrix in "Dr. Oz pushes AI avatars as a fix for rural health care"

metrix — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 19:03:09 +0000

So we get so worked up over this stuff, and for good reason. But personally I'm taking another stance...

let them..

It's not my choice to make someone understand what's best for an individual or as a group. Let them make these decisions, and learn for themselves. Will this cause issues where I am at risk of getting measles? Or that kids could get sick over non pasteurized milk? yes, but we're back in a place where people have to feel the pain.

That's not to judge, or belittle or put anyone down. There's people who have views and values that conflict and that's OK.. Even if it's not the best for us a whole.

New comment by metrix in "Vim 9.2"

metrix — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 18:57:18 +0000

I'm right there with you, and to be honest Lua just works. I helped with Neovim when it started ~10 years ago, and didn't understand the big deal about implementing lua.. But now that it's here, I can't believe it wasn't forked and implemented sooner

New comment by metrix in "Vim 9.2"

metrix — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 18:53:33 +0000

Totally worth it. I tied it to openrouter.ai so that I could use 'all the AI's' (TM)

Totally worth it

New comment by metrix in "Hard Rust requirements from May onward"

metrix — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 15:15:18 +0000

While I get your view, I think examples would help to move the conversation along in a more constructive manner

New comment by metrix in "SQLite concurrency and why you should care about it"

metrix — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 15:12:27 +0000

I'm curious what your suggest mmap pragma would be.

New comment by metrix in "ADS-B Exposed"

metrix — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 17:02:09 +0000

what's going on around colorado springs with these shapes?

https://adsb.exposed/?dataset=Planes&zoom=9&lat=38.2165&lng=...

New comment by metrix in "South Korean workers detained in Hyundai plant raid to be freed and flown home"

metrix — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 14:19:36 +0000

I don't quite understand what happened other than "deported by ICE".

New comment by metrix in "What makes Claude Code so damn good"

metrix — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 03:00:45 +0000

I have thought the same thing. How is it created? is it an idea by an LLM to make the language, or a dev to create a language designed for an llm.

How do we get the LLM to gain knowledge on this new language that we have no example usage of?

New comment by metrix in "Margin debt surges to record high"

metrix — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 12:15:42 +0000

you're right, but it brings up an even bigger question in my mind -

If farms where wiped out we a huge percentage of the population would no longer exist, yet they 100% are a commodity with low margins.

We don't value things based on long term risk/need

New comment by metrix in "Show HN: I built an LLM chat app because we shouldn't need 10 AI subscriptions"

metrix — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 12:14:47 +0000

They have a chat feature allowing you to talk with multiple models

New comment by metrix in "Show HN: I built an LLM chat app because we shouldn't need 10 AI subscriptions"

metrix — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 12:13:31 +0000

I've been using openrouter.ai to use "all llm's". No subscription, and can be tied to your editor of choice

New comment by metrix in "Menstrual tracking app data is gold mine for advertisers that risks women safety"

metrix — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 13:05:33 +0000

Can you explain?

New comment by metrix in "TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users"

metrix — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 19:08:53 +0000

> Speech is not being criminalized -- you can say the exact same things on a different forum.

s/criminalized/supressed/ and message still holds true. You can still say the exact same things on a different forum.

New comment by metrix in "Modern Wardriving (2023)"

metrix — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 14:08:19 +0000

It's not to get into a network, it's just to list where they're at.. For points. Similar to internet points :). There's no hacking involved just nerds being nerds

What you find shows up here: https://wigle.net/

As you can see there's quite a few people who do it

New comment by metrix in "Cool, but obscure X11 tools (2019)"

metrix — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 15:30:15 +0000

I'm sad that xsnow doesn't work on modern environments. Having Snow fall on top of windows was really cool

New comment by metrix in "EPB launches America’s first community-wide 25 gig internet service"

metrix — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 01:48:59 +0000

I'm right there with you, as long as that 300 mbps connection is symmetrical, and the ISP is carrier neutral. I didn't know how big a deal neutrality was until I switched from Suddenlink to a small company called Vexus. Gigabytes of nightly backups went from hours to 5 minutes, and downloads from certain companies improved drastically.