Hacker News: phonon

New comment by phonon in "Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock"

phonon — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 03:11:11 +0000

Pretty much any lawsuit right can be sold, except for personal injury lawsuits, due to specific state restrictions for public policy reasons.

New comment by phonon in "Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock"

phonon — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 02:48:30 +0000

Seems like you should sell your rights to the suit to a third party for a flat fee and percentage of recovery.

New comment by phonon in "The UV index is not the warm sensation of sunlight on bare skin"

phonon — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 01:00:37 +0000

"no words for it"

Actinic?

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/actinic

New comment by phonon in "Making Startups Powerful"

phonon — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 03:22:04 +0000

According the the University it was for "Ghent University is shocked by the death of Professor Arday....recent public statements made by a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University regarding this matter"[1] and as discussed on that page he was not fired (yet?) but was "imposed a disciplinary measure on a member of its research staff for a period of three months. A preliminary inquiry is also under way to determine if further disciplinary action is warranted."

So perhaps you appear to the one "too lazy to research the facts"?

[1]https://www.ugent.be/en/news-events/updates-case-postdoctora...

New comment by phonon in "Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence"

phonon — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:10:15 +0000

I don't think anything will beat

https://www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/articles/15148829

School principal fired and loses $130k pension for overfilling coffee (about 50 cents).

New comment by phonon in "Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive"

phonon — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 19:58:05 +0000

"Officer" is typically anyone who can bind the company contractually.

New comment by phonon in "A browser-based viewer for Office Open XML documents"

phonon — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 20:19:10 +0000

Previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48436863

New comment by phonon in "EPA says power for data centers can sidestep pollution laws"

phonon — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 15:01:21 +0000

The entire argument rests on a 36-year-old survey form: "DOE Form 860 (1990) defines electric utility to mean 'a corporation, person, agency, authority, or other legal entity or instrumentality that owns and/or operates facilities within the United States for the generation, transmission, distribution, or sale of electric energy primarily for use by the public.'"

So the leap is: an old survey form says "sale of electric energy primarily for use by the public," therefore anything not grid-connected isn't a sale to the public.

No assessment of prior practice, history, the plain meaning of the statute, or other statutory exemptions. And there are grid-connected plants serving a single customer so why the distinction?

Why the 1990 form? Congress froze it into the statute so a survey agency couldn't rewrite Clean Air Act coverage by editing a questionnaire. EPA is now exploiting that freeze by treating the form's obsolete boilerplate as substantive law; a taxonomy EIA itself abandoned, since modern EIA-860 covers essentially all generators above 1 MW, grid or not.

It's as if Congress defined citizenship by reference to a 1990 Census form, and the agency decided who's a citizen by parsing the instruction booklet.

100% complete BS. The silver lining is that without Chevron deference, this "interpretation" won't survive litigation, though the memo's "not final agency action" disclaimer means challengers may have to wait for an actual permitting decision to sue.

New comment by phonon in "Launch HN: Risklytics (YC S26) – Insurance brokerage for frontier tech companies"

phonon — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 04:33:15 +0000

How is this different than https://foundershield.com/ ?

New comment by phonon in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"

phonon — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 12:50:21 +0000

Uhhh, we're not doing so hot there either. https://www.propublica.org/article/general-dynamics-artiller...

New comment by phonon in "As founding CEO of GitLab, I went "founder mode" on my cancer"

phonon — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 23:15:40 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47556729

New comment by phonon in "Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months"

phonon — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:20:27 +0000

OpenAI (Stargate) kicked off the price increases a year ago by locking up 40% of the global supply of RAM output.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/openais-star...

New comment by phonon in "AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon"

phonon — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 20:18:30 +0000

A few hundred bad bits/transistors in a trillion+ parameter model would compromise its abilities not one iota...the models are inherently lossy and resistant to "brain damage"...

New comment by phonon in "AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon"

phonon — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:16:59 +0000

A full wafer like Cerebras is about 60x that, and N2P has about 3x the transistor density. So right now it's technically feasible to etch a 1.4 trillion parameter model. So roughly DeepSeek-V4-Pro class. Imagine that running a factory, for example.

New comment by phonon in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

phonon — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 11:55:59 +0000

Because Trump hates wind power for "ruining the view". That's it.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uyLiON_f5c0

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetl...

New comment by phonon in "Mario Meets Pareto"

phonon — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 17:04:14 +0000

Are they conjoined triangles?

New comment by phonon in "JetZero"

phonon — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 10:50:04 +0000

Pratt & Whitney PW2040 turbofan engine, same as the Boeing 757 and the C-17. They say that the plane itself is so efficient they don't need a cutting edge efficient engine.

New comment by phonon in "OpenAI reduces Codex Model Context Size from 372k to 272k"

phonon — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 21:41:31 +0000

Codex context limit is 400k total, including 128,000 reserved output tokens.

New comment by phonon in "Jim Keller's startup is building a factory to mass-produce small chip fabs"

phonon — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 21:45:27 +0000

Global Foundries has lots of fabs with 10 year old+ processes....

New comment by phonon in "OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom"

phonon — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:51:42 +0000

M3 Ultra has a 1024 bit memory bus (819 GB/s) and starts at $3,999 (96GB of RAM). It can be done....