Hacker News: nsoam

New comment by nsoam in "Google has acquired Crusoe's data center site in southeast Wyoming"

nsoam — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 10:36:37 +0000

Yes, but I think they need some in North America for latency reasons.

New comment by nsoam in "Google has acquired Crusoe's data center site in southeast Wyoming"

nsoam — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 09:21:33 +0000

I was wondering if a solution to the NIMBYs is to just put the data centres in other countries like Mexico? I understand it would be hard to have talent move there, though. I mean, this sounds so obvious, but I haven’t heard much discourse around it yet so I’m not sure how feasible it is.

New comment by nsoam in "The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standard sudo"

nsoam — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 23:26:34 +0000

It’s much worse: they created Matrix.

New comment by nsoam in "Anthropic IPO buyers see valuation as low as $1.1T"

nsoam — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 23:06:46 +0000

Because, like with other subscriptions, most people don’t use even half of it.

New comment by nsoam in "'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save UK high street?"

nsoam — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 10:41:51 +0000

That is completely true and fascinates me. If you go to any city centre, train station, etc. in Europe, you will find lots of black people just... doing nothing. They are just there, sitting, perhaps alone, perhaps many of them. They aren't even talking or doing anything, they just stare into the distance. They are part of the scenery. I have no idea what this means, who brought them here, what they actually do (if anything), and who's going to take them away (and when).

New comment by nsoam in "'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save UK high street?"

nsoam — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 10:32:56 +0000

There is nothing unjust about being expelled from society when you are found to be too damaging.

What is unjust, though, is to be the victim of criminals who benefit from knowing exactly what the threshold is to not being removed from society.

New comment by nsoam in "'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save UK high street?"

nsoam — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 09:01:47 +0000

> an astonishingly large number are attributed to a tiny, tiny number of people.

That sounds like something that would be extremely easy to fix!

New comment by nsoam in "BYD doubles its Brazil market share to 9.7% a year after opening its local plant"

nsoam — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 19:17:22 +0000

That’s cool until the EU decides that they’ve had enough of poor people driving their own cars and introduce tariffs or outright ban them. Then, how are you going to have them repaired? Maybe they even make it so that you can’t pass inspection with a Chinese car.

New comment by nsoam in "BYD doubles its Brazil market share to 9.7% a year after opening its local plant"

nsoam — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 18:15:52 +0000

Which doesn't mean most people can afford them - I live in Europe and I've yet to see an ID.4 myself.

New comment by nsoam in "AMD expects to outsell Intel in Q4 for the first time in history"

nsoam — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 17:37:14 +0000

I have no idea what this has to do with the topic at hand. What does KYC from Hetzner have to do with Wirecard? Do you mean to say that you suspect that Russia is behind Hetzner?

New comment by nsoam in "US voters roundly reject data centers in ballot measures"

nsoam — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 17:29:25 +0000

We are all NIMBY when we get the results we want.

We hate NIMBYs when others get what they want.

That’s life I guess.

New comment by nsoam in "Safari introduces Adaptive Dark Mode in 27.3"

nsoam — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 22:03:38 +0000

I want the opposite. I suffer from astigmatism, which makes white on black hard to read. I wish Safari could turn dark mode websites into light mode websites.

New comment by nsoam in "Kalshi and its co-founders face felony charges for violating Utah gambling laws"

nsoam — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 19:33:39 +0000

Barcelona has a big problem with a lack of development and mass migration. Has little to do with Airbnb although it’s a good scapegoat.

New comment by nsoam in "Google will turn off search for schools that reject AI"

nsoam — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 18:01:24 +0000

Whether the AI summaries are harmful to users of Search has no bearing on whether the AI summaries are an abuse of monopoly power.

New comment by nsoam in "Gitbook Breached"

nsoam — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 17:59:45 +0000

Is this what they mean when they talk about accountability laundering?

Oh, you see, we had the best security ever, but they used AI agents, and there's no defence for that, you can't secure a system against those spooky AI agents.

New comment by nsoam in "Google will turn off search for schools that reject AI"

nsoam — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 16:24:12 +0000

Some results also have thumbnails. They could easily be turned off. That doesn’t mean thumbnails are a different product, or an abuse of monopoly power.

New comment by nsoam in "Google will turn off search for schools that reject AI"

nsoam — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 16:11:38 +0000

That would make sense if the AI summaries from Search were a different product.

New comment by nsoam in "World of Warcraft: Forever Is Overrun with AI Slop"

nsoam — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 16:05:30 +0000

I’m super happy with the explosion of development of addons. Claude and similar tools allow everyone to change the game in any way they like. This has been a tremendous positive development for the game community. I’ve seen so many cool things thus far.

So, stay mad.

New comment by nsoam in "uBlock Origin filter to block autoplay videos in TechCrunch"

nsoam — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 09:36:28 +0000

That’s interesting. I guess Firefox is taking the scrolling as user interaction, allowing the video to play. There’s a chance Firefox would fix this, if reported.

New comment by nsoam in "Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen"

nsoam — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 20:12:53 +0000

I once sent Gemini Pro a hex dump of a dmp file and it told me what the application was doing when it crashed. It seemed surprising, but not that surprising given what I've seen already.