Hacker News: pastel8739

New comment by pastel8739 in "Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs"

pastel8739 — Sun, 24 May 2026 19:26:03 +0000

Isn’t memory bandwidth super relevant for AI?

New comment by pastel8739 in "I Miss Terry Pratchett"

pastel8739 — Sat, 23 May 2026 15:46:53 +0000

However, I think it’s true that many more people were rewarded (likely even more) for things that people do not want. Facebook, etc

New comment by pastel8739 in "SpaceX S-1"

pastel8739 — Wed, 20 May 2026 23:33:40 +0000

> For instance, Mr. Musk currently serves as Technoking and Chief Executive Officer of Tesla

Sorry, what?

New comment by pastel8739 in "The last six months in LLMs in five minutes"

pastel8739 — Tue, 19 May 2026 06:29:22 +0000

How do you justify your salary given that you sit in a chair all day, likely making the world worse, and make 5x as much as someone saving lives, building houses, or teaching kids how to read?

New comment by pastel8739 in "Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format"

pastel8739 — Sat, 16 May 2026 22:05:05 +0000

I think so many acronyms have meaning that isn’t explained by the words that the stand for. The other day I was explaining what CI is and they asked what it stood for; I realized that Continuous Integration is almost completely useless for someone trying to understand what CI actually is

New comment by pastel8739 in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

pastel8739 — Fri, 15 May 2026 05:48:14 +0000

When do you believe that changed?

New comment by pastel8739 in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

pastel8739 — Fri, 15 May 2026 05:46:25 +0000

How do you do this when belief in science, which is important to academic institutions, is unpopular with one faction?

New comment by pastel8739 in "US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Iran war"

pastel8739 — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:39:21 +0000

> only 1% attributable to food and fuel

What do you mean by this? If adding food and fuel raises CPI by 1%, then the food and fuel prices have necessarily raised by _more_ than the combined 3.8%.

New comment by pastel8739 in "Postmortem: TanStack npm supply-chain compromise"

pastel8739 — Mon, 11 May 2026 23:04:30 +0000

There is a “fresh” in there

New comment by pastel8739 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

pastel8739 — Mon, 11 May 2026 06:22:40 +0000

This is super cool. At first I thought the “tank” on top was filled with water—I wonder what it would look like if it were

New comment by pastel8739 in "Draw Marc Andreessen on an Egg"

pastel8739 — Thu, 07 May 2026 23:37:51 +0000

Is contributing to the tech industry and tech culture supposed to be a good thing?

New comment by pastel8739 in "Zed 1.0"

pastel8739 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:25:42 +0000

It sounds like LSP isn’t working for you for some reason. Have you installed the extensions for those languages? These things are definitely supported via LSP

New comment by pastel8739 in "Zed 1.0"

pastel8739 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:22:26 +0000

Huh, I absolutely love Zed’s search UI. I just navigate back to my previous tab with ctrl-o when I’m done

New comment by pastel8739 in "Flipdiscs"

pastel8739 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 06:50:23 +0000

Much more likely, I think, the mechanical displays had some maintenance cost which cheap LED displays will not.

New comment by pastel8739 in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

pastel8739 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 05:13:54 +0000

nobody knows how to do this; they do know how to install an app

New comment by pastel8739 in "Parallel agents in Zed"

pastel8739 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 04:35:30 +0000

I must be missing something crucial in my obsidian setup. What is Obsidian without its frontend? For me it's just a bunch of markdown files.

New comment by pastel8739 in "Parallel agents in Zed"

pastel8739 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 04:33:36 +0000

I use zed every day, but the git view is still buggy and unreliable for me. It often chooses the wrong folder---a subfolder rather than the root of my git project---and shows that there are no changes. And sometimes, even when the right folder is selected, it will still incorrectly say there are no changes.

Another bug is that clicking on new files in the git UI doesn't bring up their diff---you need to click them twice to open the file. I'd like to have those files included in the diff view just like other files are.

I'd love for there to be an easier way to get to the "view file history" view---I didn't realize that it existed until I tried searching for it. I'd love a "line history" view like GitLens has, as well.

New comment by pastel8739 in "San Diego rents declined more than 19 of 20 top US markets after surge in supply"

pastel8739 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 02:36:47 +0000

Notably, though, a significant fraction of people seem to believe that building more housing will cause rents to increase. So it seems like it is still important to point to data suggesting the opposite.

New comment by pastel8739 in "Cal.diy: open-source community edition of cal.com"

pastel8739 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 02:24:54 +0000

Are you really claiming you would rather the project get abandoned?

New comment by pastel8739 in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

pastel8739 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:53:05 +0000

Citation needed. It seems pretty clear that a mechanism to allow a user to access a battery will increase complexity, making all the other properties harder to achieve.