Hacker News: pm90

New comment by pm90 in "EA is shutting down BioWare"

pm90 — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 23:45:03 +0000

Anyone have any ideas on how to better structure game development? It seems like the studio-corporation model doesn’t really pan out long term in most cases. A few niches like ConcernedApe and Wube seem to be doing fine… maybe the era of “ big” studios is over?

New comment by pm90 in "CPI-U rises 7.2% annualized in September (3.7% YoY)"

pm90 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 14:38:47 +0000

POTUS has been reported as saying that hes waiting for midterms to end before taking action. I see at least two more years with no rate cuts; the possibility of fuel rationing also appears to be possible in light of all the refining/logistics facilities being wantonly destroyed. Its going to be a very rough time.

New comment by pm90 in "A Dynamic and Distributed Virtual GPU Cloud Built on Idle Apple Silicon Devices"

pm90 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:29:19 +0000

My warm take is that Apple is leaving a lot of money on the table by not investing in creating an independent supply chain for their chips and building their own cloud. They arguably had the first mover advantage when it came to general purpose arm compute; all they had to do was flood the market and make it easy for anyone to rent it. Not only would they corner a part of the market but perhaps ease demand pressure on other chip manufacturers too.

New comment by pm90 in "CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades"

pm90 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:25:23 +0000

Fair. Although he seems to mostly target Trump, rather than the conditions that gave rise to Trumpism. Unless someone addresses that we’re stuck in a vicious cycle…

New comment by pm90 in "CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades"

pm90 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 11:54:31 +0000

Depends on who actually gets elected. A centrist candidate like Buttigeg/Ossoff/Harris/Newsom would almost certainly lead to no prosecutions. Someone with actual convictions like AOC or Ro Khanna might.

New comment by pm90 in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

pm90 — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 03:58:49 +0000

None of this is how this happens though. The reason why companies spend thousands of dollars to pay lawyers is that local talent to do this work simply does not exist. They would much rather prefer hiring Citizens.

New comment by pm90 in "Mathematics of Geothermal Energy"

pm90 — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 21:46:34 +0000

okay but as part of a data center ? accessible commercially?

New comment by pm90 in "Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city"

pm90 — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 14:00:42 +0000

UBI doesn’t mean a money-less society; it just means you won’t just die or go into debt if you lose your job. I imagine most jobs would still exist and continue providing the same incentives for those who want to pursue them.

New comment by pm90 in "Venice’s failed war against Constantinople led to the first bond market"

pm90 — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 19:23:22 +0000

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New comment by pm90 in "Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city"

pm90 — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 19:15:41 +0000

I think if we had some sort of UBI/provision for necessities this is the sort of thing people would be doing, and it would be great.

New comment by pm90 in "How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent"

pm90 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:16:57 +0000

Personally a Ghalib fan myself but love that despite their rivalry they both loved dilli to the end.

New comment by pm90 in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

pm90 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:09:39 +0000

Possibly to do with research showing that no amount of alcohol is healthy/beneficial and even small quantities are bad. I think overall this is a good thing for society: its one of the leading causes of death and destruction backed by a powerful Government lobby.

New comment by pm90 in "What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals"

pm90 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 01:02:49 +0000

Texas also has open carry.

New comment by pm90 in "AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator"

pm90 — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 13:57:30 +0000

Like Kubernetes?

New comment by pm90 in "Neki – Sharded Postgres"

pm90 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 07:19:43 +0000

No it isn’t normal, its just this one person. I don’t personally find this language particularly appealing, especially for a serious discussion on technology. But hey, its a free country, they’re a startup and its one way of grabbing the scarcest of resources: attention.

New comment by pm90 in "Keep Our Servers Running"

pm90 — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 03:55:26 +0000

It was super easy to donate; Im so glad they have a landing page that supports several payment methods and makes it easy to donate. I love the wayback machine, hope everyone pitches in : ).

New comment by pm90 in "Calibrate Before You Accelerate: Bias Toward Action in a New Role"

pm90 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 21:22:04 +0000

Solid article. Its worth calling out one thing thats maybe not emphasized enough though: while your contributions may start small make sure to publicize them appropriately. No need to cross post to every channel, but do post about it somewhere or socialize it somehow. Take a lot of time to craft a thoughtful and easy to read message.

Reputations are hard to earn and easy to destroy. Trust building at any new institution takes a lot of time and effort and can seem annoying. But just doing solid work and communicating about it consistently will make sure that like minded people notice you, vouch for you and then give you more opportunities.

New comment by pm90 in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"

pm90 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 10:31:39 +0000

Why? Aren’t private markets willing to invest in AI companies? Was something wrong with their arr? What?

New comment by pm90 in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

pm90 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 02:57:23 +0000

Did you read the article? They postponed all appointments.

New comment by pm90 in "Stwipe Acquires OpenWouter"

pm90 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 14:37:15 +0000

We need more QuinnyPigs in Tech.