Hacker News: outside2344

New comment by outside2344 in "Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model"

outside2344 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:31:01 +0000

But the whole game is lying and stealing isn't it?

New comment by outside2344 in "Waymo Premier"

outside2344 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:17:08 +0000

Yes, and this is a policy failure.

New comment by outside2344 in "Solar Energy Saves Europeans $135M a Day"

outside2344 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:18:57 +0000

This is not true. Batteries are cheaper than peaker power plants using fossil fuel. They also allow the operator to fulfill market demands at the minute level versus the hours previously that it took to turn on a peaker plant.

This is being done at scale in California and Texas.

New comment by outside2344 in "Solar Energy Saves Europeans $135M a Day"

outside2344 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:17:18 +0000

This is the exact scenario they are being used in at scale. The company removes their gas peaker plant infrastructure and replaces them with batteries. Already have the grid interconnect and now can dispatch power on the millisecond level instead of hour level.

New comment by outside2344 in "Solar Energy Saves Europeans $135M a Day"

outside2344 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:15:20 +0000

My solar panels amaze me every day. It is just crazy that a flat panel, that doesn't have any moving parts, and requires a once a year cleaning (at most), just eliminated my power bill completely.

New comment by outside2344 in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

outside2344 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 22:01:55 +0000

SpaceX is a junk stock. It has no place in the S&P 500

New comment by outside2344 in "Home alone: Remote work, isolation, and mental health"

outside2344 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 22:00:59 +0000

He's a twat so its totally on-brand.

New comment by outside2344 in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"

outside2344 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 21:52:54 +0000

They have to say this because we know how to value a satellite and space company (aka at 1/100th of their offering price).

New comment by outside2344 in "Morningstar values SpaceX at $780B, half its IPO target"

outside2344 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:19:35 +0000

The market can stay insane longer than you can stay solvent.

In the short term the market is a popularity machine but in the long term it is a weighing machine.

New comment by outside2344 in "Morningstar values SpaceX at $780B, half its IPO target"

outside2344 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:18:48 +0000

Which is still 10x what it is worth

New comment by outside2344 in "Germany news: Childfree adults to pay more for elder care"

outside2344 — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:15:02 +0000

So the plan is to make the cost of living even more expensive for people without kids?

Do they understand the problem in the first place? Many people can't afford to have kids.

New comment by outside2344 in "Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps"

outside2344 — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:12:23 +0000

Consider in your presentations leading with this as a demo to motivate the technical infrastructure you've put in place.

It is hard to grok what Contracts, etc. etc. allow you to do in the abstract so working through how it allows us to build a decentralized GitHub might be a good anchor in a tangible use case.

New comment by outside2344 in "Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps"

outside2344 — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:06:14 +0000

Your goal, I think, is to build a movement around Freenet.

How does bringing in "the woke mind virus" or "virtue signaling" into a technical conversation help build your movement vs. cause people to tune out?

New comment by outside2344 in "Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps"

outside2344 — Thu, 21 May 2026 23:52:22 +0000

A wise boss of mine, after reading a set of threads that I wrote like this, asked me to go think for a day on the difference between "being right" and "being effective."

Some of the things you say in these threads might be "right" but I can assure you that many of them are not effective, which is counterproductive to the goal you are trying to achieve.

New comment by outside2344 in "Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps"

outside2344 — Thu, 21 May 2026 21:05:53 +0000

So he forked the project and went his own way. I am not sure I see the issue here. This is how we do open source on the internet. You don't have to join him, but he also has the right to go his own way too.

New comment by outside2344 in "Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods"

outside2344 — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:49:18 +0000

The fact that they aren't a usual event is probably exactly the challenge here.

New comment by outside2344 in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"

outside2344 — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:17:24 +0000

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New comment by outside2344 in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"

outside2344 — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:14:27 +0000

A Iran drone then bombing UAE's oil infrastructure as payback?

New comment by outside2344 in "Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI"

outside2344 — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:12:35 +0000

And the Trump thing, which cratered his car business

New comment by outside2344 in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

outside2344 — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:30:35 +0000

Did you not consider the 5 second dopamine hit I got from owning the libs?