Hacker News: neilfrndes

Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time

neilfrndes — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:10:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/11/solar-energy-us-coal

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48492306

Points: 502

# Comments: 251

Valve says it's ready to launch the Steam Machine this summer

neilfrndes — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:57:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/games/943657/valve-steam-machine-frame-summer-launch-verified

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48413420

Points: 77

# Comments: 13

Google is quietly laying off staff in its cloud division

neilfrndes — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:02:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/google-clouds-quiet-layoffs-hit-cybersecurity-teams-2026-6

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48408194

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

The Divine Lever (2025)

neilfrndes — Wed, 27 May 2026 06:06:43 +0000

Article URL: https://thephysicsofstartups.substack.com/p/the-divine-lever

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48290297

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Cybertruck owner believed Elon Musk that it could cross lake – now he's in jail

neilfrndes — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:23:26 +0000

Article URL: https://electrek.co/2026/05/19/tesla-cybertruck-owner-believed-elon-musk-lake-jail/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48209285

Points: 8

# Comments: 6

Claude for Small Business

neilfrndes — Thu, 14 May 2026 03:59:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-small-business

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48130950

Points: 541

# Comments: 474

New comment by neilfrndes in "Cisco workforce reductions"

neilfrndes — Thu, 14 May 2026 03:40:13 +0000

4k, <5%

245TB Micron 6600 ION Data Center SSD Now Shipping

neilfrndes — Wed, 06 May 2026 03:37:51 +0000

Article URL: https://investors.micron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/industry-leading-245tb-micron-6600-ion-data-center-ssd-now

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031867

Points: 264

# Comments: 199

New comment by neilfrndes in "Let's Buy Spirit Air"

neilfrndes — Mon, 04 May 2026 02:48:17 +0000

Tangential. If you're interested in the history of airlines and the intense power struggles, I highly recommend the book Hard Landing: The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines Into Chaos by Thomas Petzinger Jr.

New comment by neilfrndes in "The purist's guide to phở in Hanoi"

neilfrndes — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:01:02 +0000

Could you please share a list of your favorites in San Jose/Bay Area?

In San Francisco I love having pho in Chinatown. Golden Star Vietnamese Restaurant, Sai's Vietnamese, and Golden Flower are the ones I like the most.

New comment by neilfrndes in "PopOS Linux: Creating a Bootable Backup USB With Encryption"

neilfrndes — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 06:07:16 +0000

I daily drive a PopOS (22) on my laptop, it simplifies dealing with Nvidia drivers.

I recently upgraded to the 24.x version that runs Cosmic DE. While I loved the visuals and design, the whole OS was buggy. The GitHub issues about memory leaks I faced related to cosmic have been open for a while.

New comment by neilfrndes in "Is the 'Holy Grail of batteries' ready to bless us with its presence?"

neilfrndes — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 03:33:34 +0000

> Finnish startup Donut Lab claims it’s made a solid-state battery breakthrough. Whether you believe it or not, the technology does appear to be more than just hype.

Is the 'Holy Grail of batteries' ready to bless us with its presence?

neilfrndes — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 03:32:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/transportation/909480/solid-state-battery-donut-lab-ev-china

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47735916

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

390TB video game archive being taken offline due to skyrocketing RAM, SSD

neilfrndes — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 07:09:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/390tb-video-game-archive-being-taken-offline-due-to-skyrocketing-ram-ssd-and-hard-drive-prices-ai-driven-supply-squeeze-results-in-closure-of-one-of-the-largest-online-video-game-archives

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47204401

Points: 40

# Comments: 3

New comment by neilfrndes in "eBay explicitly bans AI "buy for me" agents in user agreement update"

neilfrndes — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 08:25:26 +0000

I thought eBay doesn't allow you to cancel a bid you placed.

New comment by neilfrndes in "Tell HN: DigitalOcean's managed services broke each other after update"

neilfrndes — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 08:04:16 +0000

> Did DO at least provide the DaemonSet from an official source, or was it literally "here's a random GitHub link"?

quoting verbatim from their email:

> For long-term remediation, our team has also created a DaemonSet that runs this flush command on all nodes automatically. You can find it at the link: https://github.com/okamidash/ARP-DOKS-FIX

New comment by neilfrndes in "We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon"

neilfrndes — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 17:08:37 +0000

Claude code has a /context command.

New comment by neilfrndes in "Tell HN: DigitalOcean's managed services broke each other after update"

neilfrndes — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 04:40:24 +0000

As the sibling comment already mentioned, k8s is not much more complexity once you're past the learning curve. I used to host with ec2 + scripts earlier. K8s actually solves a lot of problems that you will have to solve yourself anyway.

New comment by neilfrndes in "Tell HN: DigitalOcean's managed services broke each other after update"

neilfrndes — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 04:34:30 +0000

I've read a few horror stories, but I always thought it wouldn't happen to me :)

> It's not my problem, I opened a ticket, now I'm going to get lunch, hope it's back up soon.

That's a good way of thinking about it.

New comment by neilfrndes in "Tell HN: DigitalOcean's managed services broke each other after update"

neilfrndes — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 04:30:49 +0000

At our scale I doubt if we can get any cloud provider to write custom contracts. But if I had negotiating power, I completely agree.