Hacker News: overtone1000

New comment by overtone1000 in "Why SpaceX 2040 Revenue FCST $4.3T in highly unlikely"

overtone1000 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:37:10 +0000

True believers will leverage themselves all the way to the moon by selling gold calls so they can buy more SpaceX calls.

New comment by overtone1000 in "Shame them, shun them, ban them, beat them"

overtone1000 — Mon, 18 May 2026 15:13:17 +0000

In the onslaught of discouraging news that is our world, this piece is downright inspirational.

New comment by overtone1000 in "Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down"

overtone1000 — Fri, 01 May 2026 16:43:33 +0000

313 Team runs arch btw

New comment by overtone1000 in "Backblaze has stopped backing up your data"

overtone1000 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:05:00 +0000

Restic+Backblaze

New comment by overtone1000 in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

overtone1000 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 03:01:38 +0000

Co-worker 4 is the one I want to have a beer with.

New comment by overtone1000 in "I Regret the Blood Pact I Have Made with iCloud Photos"

overtone1000 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:04:40 +0000

Photo storage and display is definitely a top 5 reason to self host these days. Restic and backblaze make a great off site backup solution because, like the OP said, this is important stuff.

New comment by overtone1000 in "Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week"

overtone1000 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:04:17 +0000

I am confident a gofundme would provide enough tokens for this work.

New comment by overtone1000 in "Why I love NixOS"

overtone1000 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:34:42 +0000

For me, it's the difference between taking your medicine a bit at a time on your own schedule or taking it all at once as an unwelcome surprise. Sure, setting up file system mounts or adding udev entries is easier to do once in Ubuntu than in NixOS, but I only need to do it the one time with NixOS. Thereafter, the config serves as both documentation and backup. For a hobby self hoster like me who occasionally shoots himself in the foot and has to rebuild a system, it is ideal. I don't know if it really saves me time, but I do know it saves my sanity.

I am no nix whiz, but it's the only OS I run outside of containers. Anything I can't easily get with my nix config I shove into a container, run it as a quadlet, and call it good.

New comment by overtone1000 in "Iran-backed hackers claim wiper attack on medtech firm Stryker"

overtone1000 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:54:08 +0000

Medical equipment reps often play a pretty active role in patient care. Can't get in touch with a rep to put a device into its MRI safe mode? No MRI for you. Can't get a rep in to help the surgeon with the type in hardware they were going to install? No surgery for you.

People's AICDs aren't going to start exploding, but I'm pretty confident this will hamper care for many patients.

New comment by overtone1000 in "US banks' exposure to private credit hits $300B (2025)"

overtone1000 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:07:31 +0000

And then that 25% is 10% of US banks' entire lending portfolio, so private credit is about 2.5% of their entire portfolio.

New comment by overtone1000 in "Why the Global Elite Gave Up on Spelling and Grammar"

overtone1000 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:11:36 +0000

I thought the same.

"Dictated but not read."

New comment by overtone1000 in "Your AI Slop Bores Me"

overtone1000 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 08:19:03 +0000

This is by far the hardest anything on HN has ever made me laugh.

New comment by overtone1000 in "Zed will require age identification for its services"

overtone1000 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 23:02:37 +0000

Came to say the same. Neither Ctrl+F by this human nor ChatGPT could find anything at all about age or identity verification. I think the title should be changed.

The Physics of Squeaking Sneakers

overtone1000 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:19:28 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/the-physics-of-squeaking-sneakers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47174400

Points: 5

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New comment by overtone1000 in "Hegseth gives Anthropic until Friday to back down on AI safeguards"

overtone1000 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 01:12:41 +0000

As the founding fathers said, "If the king comes knocking, a fight just means you're the enemy."

New comment by overtone1000 in "AI makes you boring"

overtone1000 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 18:54:29 +0000

Honest conversation in the AI era is just sending your prompts straight to each other.

New comment by overtone1000 in "GPT-5 outperforms federal judges in legal reasoning experiment"

overtone1000 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:33:43 +0000

I wonder whether the original study was in GPT-5's training data. I asked it whether this was the case, and it denied it, but I have no idea whether that result is credible.

New comment by overtone1000 in "Semaglutide improves knee osteoarthritis independant of weight loss"

overtone1000 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:39:44 +0000

Why are studies on mice so popular on HN?

New comment by overtone1000 in "Coffee and Tea Intake, Dementia Risk, and Cognitive Function"

overtone1000 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:22:54 +0000

The only thing that feels better than a caffeine buzz is having my biases confirmed. Thanks, JAMA! Can I have mine with cream, sugar, and an hour of CME credit?

New comment by overtone1000 in "Gen Z first generation since 1800's with lower cognitive performance"

overtone1000 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:55:58 +0000

As a parent of a middle schooler and an elementary schooler, I don't need a formal study to answer that question. I've met my childrens' classmates. Sometimes, anecdotal evidence is sufficient.

And, I wish they were using real computers! Unfortunately, they're on tablets.