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New comment by nytesky in "Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops"

nytesky — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:48:52 +0000

But as number of miners drop arent btc at risk of a 50% attack?

New comment by nytesky in "Ramp Up AI Skills"

nytesky — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:41:52 +0000

I often hear on podcast such as this one giving career advice that folks should become AI native, and improve their AI skills. I’m not a software developer, so I am not using Claude Code or other frameworks — my office basically authorizes us to use a Gemini chat interface. For non programming jobs does that mean just getting better at prompts? Is there another avenue I should be learning?

Ramp Up AI Skills

nytesky — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:41:52 +0000

Article URL: https://soundcloud.com/robenfarzad/deepali-vyas-the-elite

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47728092

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New comment by nytesky in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

nytesky — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:46:31 +0000

Very on brand for our darkest timeline, if you excuse the mixed media metaphor.

New comment by nytesky in "Goodbye to Sora"

nytesky — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 02:18:13 +0000

The bantering of the podcast I found distracting and the breathless enthusiasm. I guess there was a way to make it more no nonsense? I found I lost content if tuned for brevity.

New comment by nytesky in "The Reason Windows Hate Is Exploding: It's the End of Personal Computing [video]"

nytesky — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:18:43 +0000

Oh I thought it was a very dodgy process. Can you give some pointers? I will also ask an LLM?

New comment by nytesky in "The Reason Windows Hate Is Exploding: It's the End of Personal Computing [video]"

nytesky — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:10:15 +0000

I don’t think I have ever spent over $100 on a Chromebook. I can’t imagine putting serious money in one; it’s a toy/disposable computer.

New comment by nytesky in "The Reason Windows Hate Is Exploding: It's the End of Personal Computing [video]"

nytesky — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:09:07 +0000

I really dislike the “expiration” date, and at one point they were very short (5 years) and poorly documented so it was a nasty surprise if you got an older model on sale.

New comment by nytesky in "A rogue AI led to a serious security incident at Meta"

nytesky — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:07:10 +0000

I’m not in AI, but what is happening is that it is building output from the long tail of its training data? Instead of branching down the more common probability paths, something in this interaction had it travel into the data wilderness?

So I asked AI to give it a good name, and it said “statistical wandering” or “logical improv”.

New comment by nytesky in "Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued"

nytesky — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 06:34:54 +0000

That was more an issue when rates were low and borrowing capital was “free”.

New comment by nytesky in "Honda is killing its EVs"

nytesky — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:32:30 +0000

How is safety and quality for Chinese EVs? There was the 2008 melamine baby formula scandal, where a toxic substance was deliberately introduced into baby formula for domestic market. Chinese food imports were curtailed across many countries.

Capitalism over there is at another level, and cars are so complicated with tiny changes can have huge problems. Look at the immobilizer chips that Kia dropped to save $5, which resulted in thousands of car thefts and the whole Kia Boyz phenomenon.

New comment by nytesky in "Honda is killing its EVs"

nytesky — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:15:29 +0000

Honda is an engine company at its heart. It makes very reliable, long lived engines.

They refine technology not really invent it (maybe invented VTEC). The transition to EV will be very gradual, I don’t even think we have enough rare earth metals and electrical grid capacity to go even twice as fast in adoption?

Honda is waiting for the standards and technology to settle out and become commodity technology, then they implement and iterate to a refined and reliable product.

It doesn’t seem like a winner take all market for EV? What would be the most? Perhaps I am ignorant on that part of market dynamics.

*edit for typos

New comment by nytesky in "UMD Scientists Create 'Smart Underwear' to Measure Human Flatulence"

nytesky — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:09:55 +0000

I know this is worthwhile, especially with the rise in colorectal cancer in younger adults, perhaps this will help in early detection.

But I did take a double take and go “Is it April already?”

New comment by nytesky in "Explain it like I'm 5: Why is everyone on speakerphone in public?"

nytesky — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 06:45:16 +0000

I always carry Bluetooth headphones because I find using the phone in the OG style generally problematic.

If I am not at home relaxing, I’m calling a business, a doctor, a school or spouse for logistics. Which likely means I need to read some code or schedule on my calendar — which without headset means speakerphone.

Additionally, the speakerphone and handset speaker are colocated by the ear — so when my kid engages FaceTime mid-call it trills at high volume at my ear (or if spouse happened to trigger find my phone to REALLY get my attention). This hasn’t happened to often, but enough and unpleasant enough that I am gun shy about handset phone use.

Finally, it is tiring holding it up to your ear, phones or old could be crooked under the neck to free that hand for a spell, but now these huge phones must be tightly held right up to your ear to hear.

I’ve definitely had issues with proximity sensor too, and you can’t lock with side button — that ends calls in handset mode.

New comment by nytesky in "Where things stand with the Department of War"

nytesky — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 06:32:00 +0000

Reality Bites captures the zeitgeist well.

I think the money craze that came with dot.com, War on Terror spending, housing bubble, really flipped people into money at all costs.

New comment by nytesky in "MacBook Neo"

nytesky — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 23:32:51 +0000

This is a Mac Chromebook. You use it for cloud stuff and every now and then you can run a real application in a pinch.

You can also develop locally which is significant.

New comment by nytesky in "Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran"

nytesky — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:25:08 +0000

I think it’s part of the Origin Story.

Bitcoin was created by Satoshi Nakamoto almost 20 years ago. There are a number of wallets that people believe belong to Satoshi (have they proven they belong to SN?)

Yet the identification of Satoshi has eluded a global hunt to identify him. Maybe law enforcement has not been involved, but the mystery definitely suggests that BitCoin can help mask identity.

New comment by nytesky in "Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)"

nytesky — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 05:40:03 +0000

Yeah, someone saw a love struck pie maker and thought: Ronan the Accuser.

He has range!

New comment by nytesky in "Meta patents AI that takes over a dead person account to keep posting-chatting"

nytesky — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:25:51 +0000

So we have moved from The Onion to Black Mirror realities?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back

New comment by nytesky in "Using an engineering notebook"

nytesky — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 03:49:51 +0000

We have a strong culture of engineering notebooks in my org. I tried for a good 5 years — i carried one and probably filled up 5 of them.

But i went back to them maybe 5 times in all those years. And the effort of writing actually distracts me more than the effortless action of typing. Plus the search and backup functions.

Even in high school in the early 90s I typed up all my class notes because the act of transcribing my written scratch to typed notes cemented it in my memory — i remember the sensation of recalling something for a test by air typing.

I guess with this history, its just how Ive trained myself so I carry laptop every where I go and type on that, but I al jealous of some of the well crafted and illustrated notes of some peers — especially the ones with multicolor pens for differentiation.