Hacker News: paulnpace

SparrowMap – Cameras that watch government vehicles

paulnpace — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:10:04 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49293294

Points: 160

# Comments: 37

New comment by paulnpace in "Amazon circumvents Gilroy community vote for AI data center"

paulnpace — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 13:59:39 +0000

Indeed. It is not clear to me why a community that is in opposition to something that will likely cause it to experience net negative economic impact are engaging in a "culture war".

New comment by paulnpace in "Mario Meets Pareto"

paulnpace — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:53:51 +0000

Mario was an elite?

Boardwalk Hotel and Casino (1966–2006) · a Las Vegas Strip Memorial

paulnpace — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:35:11 +0000

Article URL: https://lvboardwalk.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149882

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by paulnpace in "Android may soon restrict on-device ADB"

paulnpace — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 23:40:53 +0000

It will be "so convenient" when we finally have digital ID so we won't have to deal with all that stuff.

Presearch Has Shut Down

paulnpace — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 12:42:23 +0000

Article URL: https://news.presearch.io/a-message-from-the-presearch-team-aaa448052b2b

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49047140

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by paulnpace in "Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (2025)"

paulnpace — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:39:46 +0000

Are people who use lots of AIs butthole surfers?

New comment by paulnpace in "How to hide from killer drones"

paulnpace — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:02:51 +0000

Anything active eliminates stealth.

New comment by paulnpace in "Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection"

paulnpace — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:56:31 +0000

A threat being masqueraded as protection is a deception. I now think this has been Google's modus operandi the entire time.

New comment by paulnpace in "Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as Protection"

paulnpace — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:19:31 +0000

Yep! One way, or another, we gotta' get people out of the system.

I Read the Palantir Manifesto

paulnpace — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 02:04:55 +0000

Article URL: https://corbettreport.com/i-read-the-palantir-manifesto/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48654232

Points: 15

# Comments: 0

The Future of Session

paulnpace — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:43:07 +0000

Article URL: https://getsession.org/the-future-of-session

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48588056

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by paulnpace in "Hacker News, Sans AI"

paulnpace — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 23:06:05 +0000

Reddit "users"

New comment by paulnpace in "Rootshell: A new E2EE email service hosted in Iceland"

paulnpace — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:17:42 +0000

Another company tried the Iceland root, and after growing steadily and without reporting issues (at least I never saw anything reported) just shut down one day.

AI Data Center Map – Visualize Water and Power Impact

paulnpace — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:18:01 +0000

Article URL: https://aidatacentermap.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48323429

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Disable AI Support and Remove Connectors Screen in WordPress

paulnpace — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:07:10 +0000

Article URL: https://gist.github.com/maddisondesigns/276af3c3781cde053c4855cd1da37cac

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48323291

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by paulnpace in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

paulnpace — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:50:34 +0000

My barber recently had some serious health issues and has been closed for probably over a month now.

His wife posts only AI images that are not real in any way. The images are not modified, they are completely fake.

I'm exhausted of all A.I. output replacing normal human interactions.

New comment by paulnpace in "I love my Bluetooth keyboard"

paulnpace — Mon, 25 May 2026 11:33:57 +0000

I've wished for a BlackBerry Bold 9900 form factor Bluetooth messaging device. Cheap and efficient messaging, though one extra thing to lug around.

Monthly News – May 2026

paulnpace — Sat, 23 May 2026 16:39:18 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=5025

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48249076

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by paulnpace in "Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video]"

paulnpace — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:32:57 +0000

I'm still not sure about the shoehorning of Mongolia into the discussion, but what these sorts of comments often fail to discuss is what the supply chain into new things looks like, because that can be equally destructive to the environment.

Generally, recyclers will pay for scrap that has minerals which can be recovered from the scrap.

Toyota Siennas use liquid Ni-MH batteries. It is likely these batteries as scrap aren't being exported, or, if they are, they are exported to foreign recyclers (in this case, many of those recyclers are actually less polluting that U.S. recyclers simply because they built their plants this century and new technology pollutes less). Also, Ni-MH can be replaced one cell at a time to produce "rebuilt" battery packs sold to economy customers, and "spent" cells, which simply fail performance tests, can often be used in other applications that are less demanding than hybrid vehicles. There is a cottage industry here in the U.S. doing these things. Ni-MH that is exported is usually completely dead cells going to a recycler (smelter), or at least that was my experience when I worked in that supply chain.

Li-ion using Cobalt is highly sought after by recyclers due to the expense of virgin Cobalt, so experiences a similar supply chain to Ni-MH. LMO chemistry batteries were the ones nobody wanted to touch, as they have no value, and they are all of the cheap replacement batteries people buy on Amazon for $15, and likely will be the chemistry people will use in their EU mandated replacement battery phones for some nightmare future mass pollution disasters.