Hacker News: nodesocket

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.

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

nodesocket — Fri, 29 May 2026 21:56:51 +0000

The biggest annoyance about SQLite for me is no ability to:

    ALTER TABLE users MODIFY COLUMN…

    ALTER TABLE users ALTER COLUMN…

    ALTER TABLE users ADD CONSTRAINT…

You have to create a new temporary table with correct schema, copy data into this new table, drop the old table, and then rename the temporary table.

Monty Hall Problem Simulation

nodesocket — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:45:34 +0000

Article URL: https://nodesocket.github.io/monty-hall-problem-simulation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48327568

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by nodesocket in "OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon"

nodesocket — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:13:20 +0000

Smart move IPO'ing ahead of Anthropic. Can take a lot of AI capital being first mover... That is, until Anthropic IPO's which I expect shortly.

New comment by nodesocket in "The main thing about P2P meth is that there's so much of it (2021)"

nodesocket — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:26:34 +0000

Heisenberg lives? The king of P2P with 99% purity.

New comment by nodesocket in "Intercom changes name to Fin"

nodesocket — Thu, 14 May 2026 00:53:33 +0000

What are said allegations I must have missed this news cycle.

New comment by nodesocket in "Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired"

nodesocket — Wed, 13 May 2026 19:04:24 +0000

Product manager; “That’s a great UX.”

New comment by nodesocket in "Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15"

nodesocket — Wed, 13 May 2026 17:45:29 +0000

If using containers I believe this change was pushed in image python:3.14.5-slim-trixie

New comment by nodesocket in "Atlassian HipChat (2017)"

nodesocket — Wed, 06 May 2026 17:40:35 +0000

I definitely used HipChat, but then Slack was released and took over the world.

New comment by nodesocket in "Barman – Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL"

nodesocket — Sat, 02 May 2026 17:03:13 +0000

A shout out to Databasus (https://databasus.com). It’s a remarkably simply utility and web interface to schedule PostgreSQL backups. I use it in my homelab and works great.

New comment by nodesocket in "Intel's soars 15% as results top estimates"

nodesocket — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 04:30:48 +0000

Appreciate the analysis and agree it's gone more vertical than a Saturn V rocket. I sold a large chuck today in AF. My point withstanding is the tech crowd (including HN comments) and tech YouTubers are clueless when it comes to investing. Perhaps when sentiment on HN of a publicly traded company reaches peak bear you buy, buy, buy.

Examples: Boeing during "covid". Tesla pretty much anytime. Intel....

New comment by nodesocket in "Intel's soars 15% as results top estimates"

nodesocket — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:38:26 +0000

I’ve been a holder of Intel since low $20’s and kept on accruing more and more.

Every once in a while opportunities like intel come along where a previous tech market leader loses strength and the market overreacts and drives the price down way too much.

Mainstream media latches on, calls the end of the company, tech YouTubers and the HN comment section follow suit. Price further falls to ridiculous lows and becomes a screaming value buy.

It doesn’t happen often, but when it does it’s a great opportunity. There are of course exceptions (Kodak comes to mind) but a company like Intel when we are going through perhaps the largest ever compute and processing demand surge was just silly.

Intel's soars 15% as results top estimates

nodesocket — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:28:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/23/intel-intc-q1-2026-earnings-report.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47881433

Points: 6

# Comments: 5

New comment by nodesocket in "Show HN: Honker – Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN Semantics for SQLite"

nodesocket — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:07:31 +0000

Awesome. I’m currently using AWS SQS which invokes lambda functions for asynchronous tasks like email sends, but Honker seems like a great local replacement.

Any conflicts or issues when running Litestream as well?