Hacker News: pmalynin

New comment by pmalynin in "California is chasing wealth that has feet"

pmalynin — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:59:21 +0000

No but he’s also not borrowing against his 401k? You and I can also go and borrow against stocks held in regular accounts? https://us.etrade.com/bank/line-of-credit

New comment by pmalynin in "California is chasing wealth that has feet"

pmalynin — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 22:35:59 +0000

Incredibly terrible example because you are allowed to borrow money against a 401k, up to $50000 with no penalties as long as you pay yourself back at whatever schedule you have determined for yourself

New comment by pmalynin in "San Francisco Weighs PG&E Takeover Amid Soaring Utility Costs"

pmalynin — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:03:56 +0000

As others have mentioned, Silicon Valley Power charges about half of PGE, and SF actually already has a power provider for businesses via Hetch Hetchy. It’s probably true that overall they might be a generation shortage but it doesn’t have to be true on a local scale. Plus PGE also needs to pay a lot of money for all the fires they started…which of course just goes back to the rate payers.

New comment by pmalynin in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

pmalynin — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 01:10:17 +0000

I guess they’ll just have to put the weights into a book format and publish the physical copies

New comment by pmalynin in "OBS Studio Gets a New Renderer"

pmalynin — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 01:42:26 +0000

Yes and https://reviews.llvm.org/D69991

Sonoluminescence

pmalynin — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 02:37:39 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonoluminescence

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45651856

Points: 10

# Comments: 0

New comment by pmalynin in "Cow vs. Water Buffalo Mozzarella (2011)"

pmalynin — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 00:40:39 +0000

These days its pretty easy to get from Whole Foods or Eataly if you have one nearby. Definitely worth, especially if you're making Caprese.

New comment by pmalynin in "A deep dive into Rust and C memory interoperability"

pmalynin — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 15:46:08 +0000

Like, repr(C)?

https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/other-reprs.html

New comment by pmalynin in "The Ski Rental Problem"

pmalynin — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 16:09:35 +0000

I think it was 1/e but close enough (37%)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem#1.2Fe-law_of...

New comment by pmalynin in "FICO to incorporate buy-now-pay-later loans into credit scores"

pmalynin — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 16:17:19 +0000

If you put around 200-300k into IBKR (not affiliated) you can get portfolio margin which will give you just shy of $2,000,000 in buying power. Access to leverage isn’t really an issue, but forced liquidation definitely is. The bank will not liquidate your mortgage if you end up underwater.

New comment by pmalynin in "Timescale Is Now TigerData"

pmalynin — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 03:09:31 +0000

Which has nothing to do with WiredTiger I guess?

New comment by pmalynin in "Mexican Navy ship crashes into Brooklyn Bridge leaving two people dead"

pmalynin — Sun, 18 May 2025 11:18:53 +0000

My back of the envelope math says velocity of about 28 m/s — call it an even 100km/h. Yeah seems kinda tough.

New comment by pmalynin in "Lvgl: Embedded graphics library to create beautiful UIs"

pmalynin — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 23:26:21 +0000

https://docs.lvgl.io/master/details/integration/adding-lvgl-...

New comment by pmalynin in "Why Apple's Severance gets edited over remote desktop software"

pmalynin — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 23:20:50 +0000

I’ve used Moonlight before https://github.com/moonlight-stream

You can just follow that thread no write up needed tbh

New comment by pmalynin in "Video game workers in North America now have an industry-wide union"

pmalynin — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 16:44:24 +0000

Most recently I think Baldurs Gate 3. People have also been enjoying Balatro a lot

New comment by pmalynin in "DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data"

pmalynin — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:39:51 +0000

I think a lot of people on hacker news were equally if not more outraged about Snowden leaks. Not sure what you’re trying to say.

New comment by pmalynin in "Hands-on Assignment – Therac-25 (2007)"

pmalynin — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 03:30:14 +0000

RBMK Reactors Do Not Explode

New comment by pmalynin in "China completes green belt around Taklamakan Desert"

pmalynin — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 21:05:01 +0000

Have you actually looked into "bailing out banks" (which is called Troubled Asset Relief Program), because if you have you would have learned that the US Government actually made ~$15 billion in profit after selling off the toxic assets 6 years later. Not to mention the money the government made thru preferred stock repurchase by corporations and other things (interest etc) the US Treasury booked a total profit of ~$121 billion.

Sorry for calling you out but I'm just very tired of purely emotional responses to this topic because people actually just refuse to go thru the facts of how events transpired and their consequences.

EDIT: You can see this for yourself from ProPublica https://projects.propublica.org/bailout/

New comment by pmalynin in "Russia and China rigged Romanian Elections using 10M fake TikTok accounts"

pmalynin — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 00:55:09 +0000

While that statement has a grain of truth (NED having being created as a result of Reagan's NSDD-77 directive) I would rather eat democratic / neoliberal propaganda slop rather than what Russia / China (and their allies) are pushing. This comment kind of reeks of a particular kind of odour that is not quite whataboutism but is very similar to FSB demoralization propaganda. Given your account's relatively young age and other comments I somewhat feel you might have an ulterior motive?

New comment by pmalynin in "Show HN: Floating point arithmetic types in C++ for any size and any base"

pmalynin — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 21:45:45 +0000

In general this isn’t true (i guess it is in this specific context). For example I believe it’s totally expected to specialize std hash