Hacker News: nullocator

New comment by nullocator in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"

nullocator — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 22:25:51 +0000

I think it's fair that the price up until now has been mostly zero. On the other hand you can 10+ years of examples on HN of people saying these types of threats with IoT devices and internet connected industrial hardware are not theoretical and it's shocking they weren't being exploited more often.

New comment by nullocator in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"

nullocator — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 22:03:46 +0000

Is it more expensive to keep your systems upgraded and maintained or to have all your product get destroyed one arbitrary day and then have to pay to do the upgrade anyways so that the arbitrary property destruction doesn't keep happening?

In before "but insurance"; yes insurance can in theory mitigate some of this, but I feel like people on HN have no understanding what it's like to deal with a multi-million dollar insurance claim that the insurance company 100% does not want to pay out. The legal battles over such things take years and are on their own incredibly expensive.

New comment by nullocator in "Attack of the Vibe Coded Photoshop Clones"

nullocator — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:07:17 +0000

We have a lot of laws right now that are being incredibly unfairly applied. I don't think that's a justification for not having them.

New comment by nullocator in "The mental health of young men is declining. Experts warn it could get worse"

nullocator — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:57:44 +0000

I'm sorry but this seems like FUD. What do you mean "Life tends towards 80/20"? It doesn't even make sense. Are you trying to imply that through all of human history it was only the top 20% of men reproducing with 80% of women? That seems egregiously inaccurate.

New comment by nullocator in "Memory executives expect RAM shortage to continue through 2028"

nullocator — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 17:19:21 +0000

Or possibly more likely get the Chinese manufacturers labeled as some kind of national security threat and forbid importing their products.

New comment by nullocator in "US tells France and Germany to release diesel stocks or face US export ban"

nullocator — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 17:06:32 +0000

I can't speak to whether or not we have excess diesel, but the price would be high because U.S. diesel is sold outside of the united states, so if EU members are willing to pay higher $$$ for it, then that's what U.S. oil producers will sell it for, raising domestic prices in turn.

New comment by nullocator in "Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026"

nullocator — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 15:08:08 +0000

Maybe if they tried to build some of these on existing dilapidated commercial or industrial plots that are vacant and languishing they wouldn't have to jump through so many procedural and political hoops. I'm told these exist all over rural america.

Instead they want to build their 100 acre Data-Center/Technology Industrial Park adjacent to the burrowing owl habitats or up against Grandma Martha's backyard.

New comment by nullocator in "Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026"

nullocator — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 14:50:40 +0000

You can find public statements in the last 12 months from Samsung and Hynix about their aversion to scaling out production or increasing supply because they are concerned about profits.

Hard to know who to believe, on one side there are the absurdly high prices and statements from companies and on the other hand there are strangers posting on HN that it's actually all fine.

New comment by nullocator in "PS5 Relapse Exploit"

nullocator — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 03:44:12 +0000

I wonder if this will maybe change in the near future or possibly already has? With things like starlink and fiber internet and data centers everywhere absolutely packed full of GPUs it seems like one or two more big players will try at least and possibly succeed with this model.

New comment by nullocator in "Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space"

nullocator — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:13:49 +0000

Doesn't the data or whatever have to be received on earth? Can Joe Public do some (light) arson on that?

New comment by nullocator in "Neovim have a ~$800k Bitcoin donation sitting untouched since 2023"

nullocator — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:00:10 +0000

I'm not sure what argument you're making? Taxes are theft? Consensus on that type of thinking seems to be hard to come by.

New comment by nullocator in "Neovim have a ~$800k Bitcoin donation sitting untouched since 2023"

nullocator — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:42:52 +0000

Sounds good.

Edit: it seems perfectly acceptable and ideal even for society to say there is a cost to wealth. As others have mentioned Neovim is in the US is likely mostly tax exempt so this hypothetical doesn't even apply to them.

New comment by nullocator in "XCancel service is suspended until further notice"

nullocator — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 19:13:33 +0000

This isn't a criticism, but I do think this comment actually raises part of the problem. There are people on twitter telling people they should be on twitter, and it's apparently effective enough that at least some people are still signing up or trying to at least. The world needs more of the inverse, people telling those they care about who are on twitter to get off it.

New comment by nullocator in "How Much Has Trump Made from Crypto? ($1.4B from 2025 Federal Disclosure)"

nullocator — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:38:47 +0000

What bad things has she done? Why is she laughable? Does she show up hundreds of thousands of times in the Epstein files? Does she demonstrate daily corruption and self enrichment openly?

New comment by nullocator in "Flock worker calls police on reporter filming public camera installation"

nullocator — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 17:30:09 +0000

I've personally never come across a police department or sherrif in the U.S. that doesn't have a non emergency number. I'd assume thats what you should call for things that aren't an emergency? They've never told me to call back and call 911.

New comment by nullocator in "Diesel prices in U.S. top $6 a gallon for first time"

nullocator — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 21:13:05 +0000

I think a great many Democrats could have warned you this type of war was not only possible but likely under Trump. People made an active, conscious decision to vote for him or to not vote. No one to blame but themselves for this, they got what they voted for (yup non-voters also share the blame, no one can feign ignorance on Donald Trump or the Republican party). Not that it matters, the rest of us get to suffer the consequences right along with them.

New comment by nullocator in "Lake Ontario ("Lake America")"

nullocator — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 14:12:47 +0000

Half the members of the legislature act like Trump is a king and believe that his Executive Orders are the same as laws signed by themselves. They've said as much on national television.

New comment by nullocator in "Lake Ontario ("Lake America")"

nullocator — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 14:09:12 +0000

Polls for the last few decades haven't really been all that accurate or good ("it's 50/50" - worthless).

You also seem to be ignoring all the systematic changes that have been made during Trump 2 in your prediction for such huge wins for the democrats. Things like the final destruction of the Voting Rights Act and the extreme Gerrymandering have gone mostly towards republicans. Also 32% of voters (or more) still don't really see a distinction against Donald Trump and The Almighty. Forgive me but I'm not convinced it'll be the bloodbath you think it's going to be. Democrats might have a minor edge in the house when all is said and done and literally nothing else to show for it.

New comment by nullocator in "Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future"

nullocator — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:57:18 +0000

How exactly has he greatly improved the world? Being the first loser of the browser wars?

New comment by nullocator in "Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study"

nullocator — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:25:47 +0000

> Hospitals have an operating margin of 2-5%

Very curious where this comes from and how accurate it is. For example the $37 a provider charges for an Aspirin seems like more than 2-5% margin.