Hacker News: nickphx

New comment by nickphx in "Microsoft Can Track Users via a Windows Device ID"

nickphx — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:46:41 +0000

from the microsoft store. the ngrok app was downloaded via microsoft store...

New comment by nickphx in "Spain's cadastre API is SOAP from 2003, so I built a JSON wrapper (+MCP)"

nickphx — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 15:39:38 +0000

those honest caveats though.. lol

New comment by nickphx in "How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s"

nickphx — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:20:06 +0000

google has a large amount of "caching servers (GGC)" located in data centers for residential providers all over the world.. They use these servers for a variety of services.. Most of the traffic I have seen from them have been for their "URL preview" service ..

New comment by nickphx in "What it feels like to work with Mythos"

nickphx — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:21:54 +0000

oh look, more overhyped drivel from a non-technical person.

New comment by nickphx in "FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs"

nickphx — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:46:00 +0000

Only if you do not require voice service.

New comment by nickphx in "New York just passed a one-year temporary ban on data centers"

nickphx — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 19:24:50 +0000

the economics do not work without the density.

New comment by nickphx in "New York just passed a one-year temporary ban on data centers"

nickphx — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:19:36 +0000

not really. datacenters require greater weight, power and cooling density per square foot than the typical commercial office space was built to accomodate..

New comment by nickphx in "FBI arrests CIA official with $40M in gold bars in his home"

nickphx — Fri, 29 May 2026 19:37:09 +0000

and what sovereign nation's regulations are you subjected to?

New comment by nickphx in "Real-time LLM Inference on Standard GPUs: 3k tokens/s per request"

nickphx — Fri, 29 May 2026 19:36:00 +0000

cool.. so now approximations of copies of copies can be approximated and copied faster?

New comment by nickphx in "FBI Arrests CIA Official with $40M in Gold Bars in His Home"

nickphx — Thu, 28 May 2026 06:43:49 +0000

flock or any number of cameras that contribute to flock would see you.

New comment by nickphx in "The X-Files has made me nostalgic for a time I never experienced"

nickphx — Fri, 01 May 2026 18:35:18 +0000

I am not sure where you experienced the 90s or at what age, but your experience is the opposite of mine.

New comment by nickphx in "One Brain to Query: Wiring a 60-Person Company into a Single Slack Bot"

nickphx — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:04:38 +0000

i have found flagging and ignoring is better than complaining... the bots dislike those that point our the uselessness of llm.

New comment by nickphx in "AI may be making us think and write more alike"

nickphx — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:15:09 +0000

Who is "us"?

New comment by nickphx in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

nickphx — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:02:46 +0000

speak for yourself, he doesnt control my future.

New comment by nickphx in "Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years"

nickphx — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:01:27 +0000

they are useful to those that enjoy wasting time.

New comment by nickphx in "The Subprime AI Crisis Is Here"

nickphx — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:02:01 +0000

Oh yeah? What value have they generated? How is it valuable to rehash existing data in a non-deterministic stream of nonsense?

New comment by nickphx in ""Cognitive surrender" leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds"

nickphx — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:54:58 +0000

so dear user, how does a non-deterministic black box of bullshit enhance cognition?

New comment by nickphx in "The FAA’s flight restriction for drones is an attempt to criminalize filming ICE"

nickphx — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:48:21 +0000

It's so great here it's like a third world shit hole.

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

nickphx — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 01:16:45 +0000

the hype machine knows no bounds. it should be illegal to publish such farcical claims when they are intended to manipulate markets...

New comment by nickphx in "Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'"

nickphx — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:38:32 +0000

if you rely on the black box of bullshit... you deserve your own fate.