Hacker News: newprint

New comment by newprint in "What should third world dev do in this economy?"

newprint — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 22:27:55 +0000

Hello, software dev. from the US, but I'm originally from E. Europe and went through Soviet Union collapse, societal disintegration,rampant crime, poverty and seen lot of very high caliber people (PhD scientists/engineers) who unfortunately were thrown into fringe of the society or life completely side-stepped them. What you can do ? You are 19. Get physically strong (exercise), have a skill(s) to do manual job (like welding) so in case things go bad, you can fall back on it. In the meantime, work on your programming, math skills & imagination. Good luck !

New comment by newprint in "Sources Say Intel Is an Acquisition Target"

newprint — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 23:29:22 +0000

you know how much money you have to pour into semi R&D to keep up and how much hardware Apple has to produce & sell to justify that cost ?

New comment by newprint in "Final Report on the Special Counsel's Investigations and Prosecutions [pdf]"

newprint — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 20:22:39 +0000

Is this is the report that DoJ didn't want to make public ?

New comment by newprint in "Ask HN: Where to Work After 40?"

newprint — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 21:39:10 +0000

Sorry for the long delay. Handyman business is something I would be interested in.

New comment by newprint in "Sonos CEO steps down after app update debacle"

newprint — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 20:48:12 +0000

Ah, the app to connect to your Sonos speakers, but wants all the permissions from your phone, incl. your geo-location, otherwise it will not work.

New comment by newprint in "Ask HN: Where to Work After 40?"

newprint — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 17:30:41 +0000

I would be interested to hear about your experience transitioning to this line of work, since I want to do the same. I'm in my early 40s, software engineer.

New comment by newprint in "Intel is Dead and x86 is Next (Premium)"

newprint — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 18:09:01 +0000

Author is beating the drum, but what about mission critical software running on x86 ? replacing it will take decades.

New comment by newprint in "Coder wrote a bug so bad security guards wanted a word when he arrived at work"

newprint — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 17:03:26 +0000

damn

New comment by newprint in "Anti-obesity drug has life-changing benefits for arthritis"

newprint — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 03:35:38 +0000

Thank you for posting this. This is exciting, hopefully this will help to someone who is close to me suffering from this condition !

New comment by newprint in "U.S. chip revival plan chooses sites"

newprint — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 22:01:31 +0000

Lol, yeah. They will not do that.

New comment by newprint in "New documentary reveals that 21,000 laborers have died working Saudi Vision 2030"

newprint — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 15:50:39 +0000

Construction sites deaths are gruesome by nature. I feel terrible for those people. Thanks god, we have OSHA (& hopefully, it will not be dismantled as it has been touted)

New comment by newprint in "Crises at Boeing and Intel Are a National Emergency"

newprint — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 02:15:00 +0000

With Boeing - A fish rots from the head down. Entire upper management needs to go, now and can't work for Boeing or it's subsidiaries or contractors. Nowhere near Boeing.

New comment by newprint in "TSMC told US of chip in Huawei product after TechInsights finding, source says"

newprint — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 01:44:11 +0000

thank you for posting this link, very interesting reading. If you have more of the similar materials, I would be very interested. Thank you !

New comment by newprint in "Intel seeks billions for minority stake in Altera business, sources say"

newprint — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 16:25:32 +0000

this is so pathetically sad. at this point, Intel is basically falling apart as a company, it already sold solid state disk business, server business sold, business making lidars & cameras is gone, already sold stakes in some of the fabs and probably looking to completely sell it's fab business, stake in ARM is sold, now FPGA is being sold, cellphone business is gone as well.

New comment by newprint in "Reflections on Palantir"

newprint — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 02:50:12 +0000

Can someone explain to me what is the Palantir's business model ? I haven't heard any large, meaningful project they been involved in, but I keep hearing the company name & how hot they are and their stocks are going to blow-up any day (some of my friends kept their stocks for the last 4-5 years with very little gain compared to other software companies). I know of the smaller software companies that are less than 100 people and have a very meaningful impact in DoD & Gov space.

New comment by newprint in "Report of 'armed militia' prompts relocation of NC hurricane recovery officials"

newprint — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 16:42:10 +0000

I live in the US and I have a lot of active duty & ex military members in my close circle of friends. One of the consistent trends I have noticed is the significant uptick in the number of LARPing/cosplaying military videos on Youtube, i.e. tackticool dudes. I was looking the other day at buying the sport shotgun for shooting clay, went out and did some search on youtube to find out more about the rifle.... the search result brought out pages of (unrelated videos, that youtube thinks you might be interested) videos of dudes in full combat uniforms(+ med kits) shooting weapons at ranges. Why they wearing all this gear ? My friends who spent years in active war zones wear jeans and T-shirts to the shooting ranges.

To me, those Youtube videos are symptoms that some weird shit brewing in our society and this news is just flares of this symptom.

New comment by newprint in "Internet Archive currently down from DDoS attack"

newprint — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 02:33:24 +0000

those books from 1800s are guilty AF

New comment by newprint in "Meta Movie Gen"

newprint — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 02:54:33 +0000

> But now I get to control way more myself.

You are not, the LLM makes bulk of work for you and will choose a lot of things for you for the movie you are making.

>I'm empowered to see the entire vision though.

I think you fail to grasp one important thing about art in general - it is non-verbal by it's nature. You can't go and explain in LLM input some famous painting, it not how it works.

New comment by newprint in "Show HN: Homemade automated solar concentrator"

newprint — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 15:04:21 +0000

Oh mirrors do wear out...

New comment by newprint in "Yelp files lawsuit against Google"

newprint — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 21:45:51 +0000

lol and Yelp is extortion racket that will give your business shitty review if you don't pony up a pretty penny to them.