Hacker News: niwtsol

New comment by niwtsol in "GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability"

niwtsol — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:54:00 +0000

"most of us have been there done that" - so true. That feeling in your gut when you realize something you just did caused an outage is pretty unique.

New comment by niwtsol in "GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability"

niwtsol — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:50:26 +0000

Yeah, I think this one might be the straw that broke the camel's back and our team will look to migrate to something non-microsoft to be away from this nonsense.

New comment by niwtsol in "GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability"

niwtsol — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:12:51 +0000

Nothing like the old "everything is normal" to only be corrected 8 minutes later it is actually still down and then 2 hours later they are still working on it.

Aug 06, 2026 - 16:27 UTC - Update - Pages is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

Aug 06, 2026 - 16:19 UTC - Update - Pages is operating normally.

New comment by niwtsol in "Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac"

niwtsol — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 18:36:04 +0000

seems like a great little chrome extension or tool we could use to just quickly validate stuff like that.

New comment by niwtsol in "Our position on open-weights models"

niwtsol — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 03:39:49 +0000

I feel like so many people miss what you are saying here. The attackers are at such an advantage because of time. At t0, attackers can go and try and find so many attack angles. These traditional companies (defenders) can't just go to a model and say "fix all my things!" and ship it, way more complex in practice.

New comment by niwtsol in "Terence McKenna's Mega Bad Trip"

niwtsol — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 16:54:57 +0000

https://web.archive.org/web/20260719160409/https://psychedel...

New comment by niwtsol in "Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign"

niwtsol — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 04:42:04 +0000

That is an interesting perspective I hadn't thought about. I see relatives constantly throwing phone cameras in baby's faces "look here, look here" the kids are trained to look at the phone/camera. I think of the experience from your daughter here, just running up to her mom wearing glasses - I hear the mass surveillance concerns, I see the pervert/harassment angle, I saw a friend do the "recording a party" angle, but I am just surprised I didn't see something as wholesome as this - thanks for expanding my view.

New comment by niwtsol in "Ryanair passenger sucked toward broken window after midair engine failure"

niwtsol — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 21:30:24 +0000

I believe standard protocol is for the pilot to reduce altitude until they are at a pressure that is fine to be at (<10k feet). Then they can make an emergency landing plan (or burn off fuel as in this case)

New comment by niwtsol in "Ryanair passenger sucked toward broken window after midair engine failure"

niwtsol — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:37:30 +0000

I thought that the speed of the air moving outside of the plane had a bigger impact on the pressure imbalance that causes someone to be "sucked out" of plane. It appears that is a false belief, the inside/outside pressure difference is from the artificial pressurization of the internal cabin. I blame a high school physics teacher for the memorable "why does a soft top convertible poof out when driving fast?" question as a preamble to explaining bernoulli for my false assumption.

New comment by niwtsol in "How H-E-B became Texas' most beloved brand (2024)"

niwtsol — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 15:41:29 +0000

I haven’t lived in Texas for about 10 years now, anytime my mom comes to visit and she asks “can I bring you anything?” - I always ask her to bring me a couple packages of HEB tortillas. The multiple mentions of the tortillas in this story has me salivating.

New comment by niwtsol in "Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators"

niwtsol — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 04:20:39 +0000

I read your statement and my reaction is what you describe is less regulated than sports betting. For example, in sports betting there are laws by major leagues that players can not bet on games they are in. On prediction markets, if someone has insider knowledge, or can control whatever verification source is set for a bet, they can win (I believe there was an article posted earlier about some journalist reporting on a bomb that fell on an area and was pressured to change the wording to say it fell or was bombed). Additionally, as some of the prediction market wagers have weird grey areas, there are predictions that have additional sub text added after a market has been open/wages have been made which completely change the bet - that is just fast and loose and less regulation IMO

New comment by niwtsol in "Steam Machine launches today"

niwtsol — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:53:46 +0000

Ticketmaster does something very similar to this with their "demand weighted pricing" and it is just so sad that their solution to "scalping" is "let's bring that profit into our platform."

New comment by niwtsol in "DHL Set to Transport Goods on New Wind-Powered Cargo Ships"

niwtsol — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:41:24 +0000

I dont know what I was expecting on the roadmap page after you said it was not a roadmap, but I did not expect to see a whale jumping over a human as part of the "roadmap"

New comment by niwtsol in "Kirkland Roundabouts"

niwtsol — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 03:13:04 +0000

Just adding a pause in the game would be huge! I'd like to pause and come back to it while waiting for a prompt to finish!

New comment by niwtsol in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

niwtsol — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 01:40:02 +0000

To share something different, it is less about what I have built, and more about what I have seen my friends (non-technical and technical) build. In a one month span I have seen a lawyer make a personal red line tool, a sales guy make a custom website for a golf trip, another friend make a 3d printing grid-finity project, a friend make a stl file to print a jig for his table saw, and another friend make a full mobile game. It is just really cool to see these micro-projects be created and shared, not only for the utility, but just to see my friends' childlike excitement showing off their project.

New comment by niwtsol in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"

niwtsol — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:18:38 +0000

Got it, thanks for the response - I think my honest reaction is shocked by reading this. I was always good at math and it was such a source of pride and sense of accomplishment. In english I struggled, vowel sounds, grammar, it just didn't come naturally to me. I'm a little disheartened by this slide (for lack of a better word) of public school education, especially STEM.

New comment by niwtsol in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"

niwtsol — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:13:25 +0000

I believe there are some public schools that have stopped giving homework for k-5 completely which is just shocking to me.

New comment by niwtsol in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"

niwtsol — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:10:15 +0000

Could you elaborate on the reasoning they "strongly discourage math outside of school"? I'm genuinely curious how that would be a stance they take.

New comment by niwtsol in "The Forgotten Art of the LAN Party (2023)"

niwtsol — Wed, 27 May 2026 04:55:48 +0000

Don't you tell me the competition was in New Jersey...

New comment by niwtsol in "The Forgotten Art of the LAN Party (2023)"

niwtsol — Wed, 27 May 2026 03:02:34 +0000

Our high school computer science team did a StarCraft LAN party on a flight coming back from a coding competition. We felt like the coolest kids in the world when we did that.