Hacker News: nodesocket

New comment by nodesocket in "Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers"

nodesocket — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:50:27 +0000

There a few factors at play. I believe China has launched a very successful campaign of misinformation in order to slow down US progress and allow them to “win” the “AI War”. Then climate activists and let’s be frank far left leaning people have taken the bait hook line and sinker and amplified it.

Second Anthropic at the start was very vocal about datacenter doom. Their motivate besides wanting regulatory capture is again slow down their competitors and corner the market.

Lastly mainstream media loves a good doomer story of tech people getting rich displacing working class Americans while “destroying earth”.

New comment by nodesocket in "Show HN: Write.md – A free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS"

nodesocket — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:41:28 +0000

Paying Typora user here, and wondering the same.

New comment by nodesocket in "U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’"

nodesocket — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:39:27 +0000

This sort of coddling and weak policy is setting students up for a rude awaking when they get into the professional workforce.

New comment by nodesocket in "Hyperspace"

nodesocket — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 03:55:07 +0000

Seems useful for s3 buckets. I suppose a script that watches for new objects, calculates its sha256 and stores that in a DB, then checks for duplicate hashes would be a fairly trivial task. Though s3 doesn’t support symbolic links so accounting would need to be handled by server side code.

Show HN: Weather balloon to the stratosphere with a Raspberry Pi computer

nodesocket — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 02:45:24 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/stratopi-org/stratopi

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49238670

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New comment by nodesocket in "Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face"

nodesocket — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:40:01 +0000

It’s absolutely wild that agents used a write access oversight in their package manager to communicate amongst themselves. It essentially created an agent ad-hoc chat interface using their own package manager file system.

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

nodesocket — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 22:52:08 +0000

Also use Blacksmith for arm64 runners but this outage apparently affected webhooks so their runners are not picking up jobs either.

New comment by nodesocket in "Getting 25 Gbps Thunderbolt Ethernet on My Mac Studio"

nodesocket — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 18:42:33 +0000

I predict the next generation of Studio’s will have a 25 Gbps upgrade option built-in.

New comment by nodesocket in "Launch HN: Prized (YC S26) – Let non-engineer staff build secure internal tools"

nodesocket — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:49:15 +0000

Congratulations on the launch. I’m very bullish on this concept of allowing SMB’s and startups to roll their own software and internal tools. Many many moons ago I built an entire inventory tracking and CRM for a very small company in PHP (circa 2006). It ran the entire company with orders, customers, devices, and revenue. It was a monstrous app, and took forever. Today, could be build in a matter of days and much better.

Along the same lines. I got so fed up with Quickbooks self employed (god awful software and company) for my own business I wrote a replacement using Cursor. It tracks expenses (categorizing each in proper IRS categories) and estimating quarterly taxes. Uses Plaid to pull in business bank accounts and credit cards and has income and expense reports. It’s 100x better than Quickbooks.

New comment by nodesocket in "GitHub Outage"

nodesocket — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 02:07:34 +0000

I suspect all the good devops engineers left when GitHub was acquired by Microsoft. They got their pay day and living on a beach somewhere.

New comment by nodesocket in "GitHub Outage"

nodesocket — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 01:55:52 +0000

My docker container builds have been queued for nearly an hour.

New comment by nodesocket in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

nodesocket — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:41:31 +0000

Replacement for Quickbooks Self Employed (which is awful). Integrates Plaid and allows you to categorize business spending by official IRS categories and business income. Graphs of business spending, income, profit by month, quarter, and year. Export to CSV for easy entry into schedule C at tax time.

Future feature is estimating quarterly taxes and showing approximately how much should be paid each quarter if any and due dates.

New comment by nodesocket in "Mapping homes you can buy from the US government for <$100k"

nodesocket — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:46:07 +0000

Tempting if looking to build a new workshop or garage. Tear it down, and build from scratch.

New comment by nodesocket in "Mechanical Watch (2022)"

nodesocket — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:08:07 +0000

Be warned, once you get into mechanical watches it can be a debilitating addiction. :-). I started out with a Tag Heuer Aquaracer Professional and then sold that to buy an Omega Seamaster Diver which I love. I’m lusting for a Audemars Piguet Royal Oak but that’s a ways off.

New comment by nodesocket in "Open source AI must win"

nodesocket — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:38:37 +0000

It all comes down to financial incentives. Unlike the internet and software where the barrier to entry was essentially free. Open source frontier models are extremely capital intensive, infact virtually impossible without hordes of money and power. So where are the incentives for investors to back an open source model? There isn’t any. The exception is Meta because they have so much capital they can endure the loss, but they have fumbled Llama.

Another potential player could be Apple if they open sourced a frontier model, and make back some of the capex on hardware. Imagine AIserve hardware with continued expansion of MacMini’s and Mac Studios.

New comment by nodesocket in "If AI data centers are so great, why are they being built in secret?"

nodesocket — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:25:33 +0000

Microsoft CEO Nadella just recently said their Fairwater (315-acre facility in Wisconsin) only uses around the same amount of water as a single restaurant over the course of an entire year.

New comment by nodesocket in "If AI data centers are so great, why are they being built in secret?"

nodesocket — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:05:16 +0000

25 data center projects were canceled in 2025, up sharply from only 6 in 2024. 2026 numbers gonna be dramatically higher. 69 jurisdictions have enacted some form of moratorium, ban, or restriction on new data center construction. The friendly states such as Texas are just going to have all the data centers and thus reap all the financial and job benefits.

New comment by nodesocket in "The Public Should Own Half of the Big A.I. Companies"

nodesocket — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:55:31 +0000

The quickest way to lose the AI battle to China and reinstate censorship and model political bias is to hand the industry over to the government. This doesn’t just benefit democrats, whatever political party is in power will use them as tools of political means. Not to mention almost certainly pricing won’t act in accordance with free market forces but instead be regulated. See healthcare.

New comment by nodesocket in "If AI data centers are so great, why are they being built in secret?"

nodesocket — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:45:26 +0000

One reason is that politicians have vilified them for their own political means. Creating false narratives like they use huge amounts of water, when in fact the cooling is a closed loop system and use less water than a single busy restaurant. They are being used as yet another pawn piece to push inequity and climate change agendas. It’s been quite a successful strategy.

New comment by nodesocket in "SQLite is all you need for durable workflows"

nodesocket — Fri, 29 May 2026 22:42:19 +0000

Ahh that's very nice. Unfortunately the default version of sqlite3 provided by Debian Trixie is 3.46.1.