Hacker News: ngold

New comment by ngold in "Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page"

ngold — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:30:18 +0000

I'm impressed, been unistalling that monster 20 years before the founder died.

New comment by ngold in "MegaTrain: Full Precision Training of 100B+ Parameter LLMs on a Single GPU"

ngold — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:20:12 +0000

I'm most likely wrong but large language models are literally just stealing....everything

New comment by ngold in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

ngold — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 06:56:58 +0000

If I remember correctly, Facebook took 10 years raising money before going ipo.

Could be wrong though.

New comment by ngold in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

ngold — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 01:07:51 +0000

It's been wild watching Ms shoot itself in the foot every year for the past 20 years.

New comment by ngold in "Analysis indicates that the universe’s expansion is not accelerating"

ngold — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 05:01:24 +0000

Just curious, is this dark matter holding back the universal expansion?

New comment by ngold in "Scientists find ways to boost memory in aging brains"

ngold — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 04:35:47 +0000

Grampa got a little weird at 94. But that was a long to live, and at point he most of the diseases including most of the cancers. He passed just after his tiny 15 year old dog passed. Gramps I still miss you, stubborn old man. Grama was my favorite though.

New comment by ngold in "A Fond Farewell"

ngold — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 04:28:22 +0000

Tis a bit curious R.I.P.

New comment by ngold in "Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server"

ngold — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 06:47:35 +0000

Is it just easier than putting together a school server on the side?

New comment by ngold in "Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server"

ngold — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 06:28:12 +0000

I'm probably wrong, but this argument always cracks me up.

It used to be called 3 laptops a power scrubber and a backup battery. If you want to go self hosting things. If you were fancy you had two servers.

New comment by ngold in "Element: setHTML() method"

ngold — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 05:41:32 +0000

Is this basically doing the same thing as https now? But for http, and firefox just never implemented a simple fix for it's entire existence until now?

I obviously know nothing about this, but I still find it fascinating. Or am I off my block.

New comment by ngold in "HP SitePrint"

ngold — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 04:38:52 +0000

That makes a lot of sense as a system. No courts, just I'm not paying you until it meets specifications

New comment by ngold in "Google flags Immich sites as dangerous"

ngold — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 03:52:20 +0000

Not sure if it counts but I've been enjoying librewolf. I believe just a stripped down firefox.

New comment by ngold in "LLM code generation may lead to an erosion of trust"

ngold — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 07:38:51 +0000

You perfectly said nothing. Well done.

New comment by ngold in "America’s incarceration rate is in decline"

ngold — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 07:19:49 +0000

So you hate the statue of liberty and America?

New comment by ngold in "The Business of Betting on Catastrophe"

ngold — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 05:35:26 +0000

So if it is 174 mph insurance pays nothing? After a hurricane destroys a town.

New comment by ngold in "Judge rejects Meta's claim that torrenting is “irrelevant” in AI copyright case"

ngold — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 05:30:05 +0000

Sorta not really. They said the plaintiff had a non relevant argument or something.

New comment by ngold in "AI will save the world?"

ngold — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 03:56:35 +0000

Start with a two paragraph thesis, then use the rest of the article supporting it?

New comment by ngold in "Notes on Vision Pro"

ngold — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 03:45:44 +0000

It can't be as bad as the 90s sega vr, where executives walked out after testing it and then buried the entire project.

New comment by ngold in "ARM64 Linux Workstation"

ngold — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 21:20:25 +0000

#snarc beats /s anyday. On a serious note. If you want to save on the power bill. Arm anything wins against my 1000 watt xeon workstation. I can heat several rooms with that monster.

New comment by ngold in "GIMP Turns 27"

ngold — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 02:02:54 +0000

I to am wondering what features are missing?