Hacker News: ongytenes

New comment by ongytenes in "Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid"

ongytenes — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 03:35:05 +0000

Since the 1990s the US has removed over 1,000 dams. If those dams were still producing power, then how would that affect their claim?

New comment by ongytenes in "Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid"

ongytenes — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 03:30:13 +0000

If they hadn't blew up the hydrodams, could they still say that?

New comment by ongytenes in "Global Intelligence Crisis"

ongytenes — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:50:25 +0000

Reminds me of the story of Henry Ford, then an elderly man proudly showing off the first two robots on the assembly line to the representative of the automotive union.

To which the representative asked how many cars the robots will buy.

New comment by ongytenes in "My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated"

ongytenes — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:28:06 +0000

I've for decades have opted to use pvc conduit for underground installations. This way I can pull/replace wire. Reading this made me realize that putting fiber inside conduit in inaccessible areas would be a safe way to go.

Years ago some electronics sensors were replaced and started having problems. I came to realize it was a voltage drop with the new increased load. I was able to pull in new larger wire by using the old wire as the puller.

New comment by ongytenes in "Vietnam bans unskippable ads"

ongytenes — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 13:29:46 +0000

I often blacklist sites that cover content with unremovable ads or has unrelenting ads. They need a clear button that acknowledges I've seen it and to stop annoying me.

New comment by ongytenes in "C Is Best (2025)"

ongytenes — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 13:15:35 +0000

I've started using SQLite years ago for its use of a single file to store data. Along the way, I found more reasons to like it. Today, I discovered a new reason when I read this article.

I also noticed many software companies have been switching to SQLite for storing data. Audacity has switched from using hundreds of tiny audio files in multiple folders for a single recording to a single file using SQLite. I suspect it is the reliability that comes from sticking to C

New comment by ongytenes in "Jensen: 'We've done our country a great disservice' by offshoring"

ongytenes — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 21:39:17 +0000

Hmm Could Jensen's statement be motivated that by forcing companies to build AI infrastructure would ensure more of his Nvidia AI chips to be sold? I keep seeing him say things that makes him appear bias towards more sales. Like dismissing any possibility that an AI bubble is growing. To admit the possibility may hurt sales.

New comment by ongytenes in "Microsoft Office renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”"

ongytenes — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 21:00:14 +0000

I guess Micro$oft has so much invested into their AI that they're trying to insure a return on that investment by pushing it onto everyone.

I read this morning that their AI i to provide free heating for 6,000 nearby homes with its heat waste. So to use M$ AI is to do 'your good deed' and subsidize someone's heating.

New comment by ongytenes in "Fifty problems with standard web APIs in 2025"

ongytenes — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 15:42:50 +0000

In defense of Firefox, there is a reason for the iOS Firefox browser being so bad. Apple mandates all other browsers to use the WebKit rendering engine instead of their own. Firefox isn't able to use the Gecko engine. I guess Apple is afraid that others will show up the Safari browser.

New comment by ongytenes in "The Deviancy Signal: Having "Nothing to Hide" Is a Threat to Us All"

ongytenes — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 03:01:31 +0000

Protecting your anonymity isn't a sign that you're hiding something because you have done something wrong. It is because you're cautious. Even the most benign information can be use against you. European Jews in the early 1900s gave census takers the info yhat they were Jews. Decades later that info was collated with punch card machines by the Nazis to build family trees to hunt them down. This is an example of how "innocent" info can be weaponized in ways you would never dream of.

New comment by ongytenes in "Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC"

ongytenes — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 14:02:10 +0000

  Yea! Finally an answer to the big brother Windows 11!

  But isn't Google just as bad at spying on us? It's just trading one big brother for an another.

  Oh yeah... didn't think of that.

 Hey haven't you ever just ever considered using Linux?

New comment by ongytenes in "'No One Lives Forever' turns 25 and you still can't buy it legitimately"

ongytenes — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 15:51:07 +0000

The modern copyright is having the opposite effect of what the founding Fathers had intended. The copyright was meant to provide protection and income to an author's family in the event of his death. Then after a reasonable time, the book passes into public domain for posterity. But today the copyright has an unreasonable time. A time that was for family to live on now has become a time for corporations to squeeze. Copyright law has become weaponized filled with landmines.

Now instead, works become inaccessible, out of print, and forgotten by the time it becomes public domain. The cult following, the fans, and the curious have long died out, leaving the work to pass into the abyss to join the works in the Library of Alexandria.

New comment by ongytenes in "Funding Open Source like public infrastructure"

ongytenes — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 15:02:55 +0000

I would be concerned how a future government would want to regulate open source if they took it over.

New comment by ongytenes in "Tesla remotely deactivates rapper's vehicle for singing about the Cybertruck?"

ongytenes — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 18:10:59 +0000

Could be the vehicle stopped for some other reason and the rapper falsely accused Tesla. It would help as PR for his song as people will want to hear it.

Note most gas powered cars now can do this. General Motors has been able to remotely deactivate vehicles since 2009 using their OnStar technology. Biden administration has mandated all cars to have this technology.

New comment by ongytenes in "The Future of Flatpak"

ongytenes — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 11:10:38 +0000

I really dislike Flatpak because the humongous sizes of packages. I noticed that Telegram flatpak was 1.1GB in size and requires 3.6GB of the hard drive, whereas the regular DEB install was 28MB and needs only 82 MB.

And there was no DEB available for Signal in the LinuxMint package manager. It also was a 1.1GB download that required 3.6GB of hard drive. Reason there is no Signal app on my desktop.

New comment by ongytenes in "Show HN: Driverless print server for legacy printers, profit goes to open-source"

ongytenes — Tue, 06 May 2025 20:26:47 +0000

I was told that HP no longer allows a person scan a document into their computer without a valid HP cartridge installed. I used an old HP printer for years as a scanner without any cartridge installed. (Brothers as my actual printers) Recently it has died and I am looking to replace it. I been looking at old printers with scanners in the thrift stores as a replacement. Question is; has Brother gone over to Darkside of requiring a cartridge for non-print jobs? Is so I CAN'T and will NOT recommend Brother as my preferred printer to my clients.

New comment by ongytenes in "I thought I bought a camera, but no DJI sold me a license to use it [video]"

ongytenes — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 06:16:12 +0000

Mandatory app +camera = citizens unwittingly spying for a foreign power?

New comment by ongytenes in "What if we made advertising illegal?"

ongytenes — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 21:24:34 +0000

I believe companies would resort to paying individuals to give word of mouth or endorsements to friends and neighbors and anyone who will listen. Social media would be full of "I've just tried this and..."

New comment by ongytenes in "DeepSeek focuses on research over revenue"

ongytenes — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 15:38:19 +0000

A company can't operate without a source of income. Even a non-profit still needs a source to keep the lights on.

In the case of DeepSeek, I believe it is being used as a tool by the CCP to collect data, propaganda and as an economic weapon in hindering western AI projects. So DeepSeek can make this claim if they are being secretly subsidised by the CCP.

New comment by ongytenes in "The Einstein AI Model"

ongytenes — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 14:56:36 +0000

I think discoveries by AI would be due to pattern matching. Like finding overlooked cancer markers that can be used for an earlier prognosis. The genius of Einstein and his thought experiments may elude an AI. It may take an AI designed on some other future model other than an LLM to "compress a century"

He called it wishful thinking. I believe the hype over AI is due to attempts to justify the enormous investments going into AI development has created an echo chamber.