Hacker News: pohl

New comment by pohl in "America Is Having MacBook Sticker Shock"

pohl — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 01:05:48 +0000

I bought one a couple months ago. It feels strange to have a computer appreciate in value.

New comment by pohl in "The US Government Is Now a Shareholder in 26 Companies"

pohl — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 18:33:08 +0000

The government would need to sell their position in order to have gains.

New comment by pohl in "Why jet engines aren't made in China"

pohl — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:39:56 +0000

Counterpoint: modern fighters need higher-performance engines not just for thrust but also to run and cool more and more electronics. Arguably both are underpowered from where they need to be.

New comment by pohl in "Ships keep moving through Hormuz despite strike"

pohl — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 13:20:59 +0000

We already know that he doesn’t read the PDB, and that they even tried sprinkling his own name throughout the text to hold his interest.

New comment by pohl in "A way to exclude sensitive files issue still open for OpenAI Codex"

pohl — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 12:53:23 +0000

This should be an open standard like AGENTS.md or skills. What do other harnesses do?

New comment by pohl in "Ships keep moving through Hormuz despite strike"

pohl — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 02:36:47 +0000

It wouldn’t matter if they had. He’s doesn’t listen to anything he doesn’t want to hear. At this point one can safely assume that he was told exactly how this strategic defeat would play out, and it went in one ear and out the other.

New comment by pohl in "The Card That Made the Apple II Serious"

pohl — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 20:16:24 +0000

I knew before clicking it was the 80 column card.

New comment by pohl in "Ships keep moving through Hormuz despite strike"

pohl — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 19:57:15 +0000

Part of that traditional naval success has come from having presidents not stepping on their own dicks.

New comment by pohl in "Beyond All Reason (Free Total Annihilation Inspired RTS)"

pohl — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 11:55:07 +0000

Been wanting to play this. Alas, macOS support is table stakes for me.

New comment by pohl in "Ukraine launches database with 'deep technical data' of Russian weapons"

pohl — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 18:58:29 +0000

What a great way to defang them long term.

New comment by pohl in "I hate compilers"

pohl — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:28:37 +0000

It’s easy to imagine an organization with a paranoid security posture ending up with that configuration because they decided to only enable a minimum necessary feature set where they determined that JS was necessary while WASM was not.

New comment by pohl in "How to earn a billion dollars"

pohl — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:26:29 +0000

I wonder why he didn't argue against the point by using an actual billionaire to illustrate. Instead he chose someone who is not a billionaire, and imagined them becoming one with nine and a half months of constant 93% growth. Couldn't his counterargument become stronger without the underpants gnome logic?

New comment by pohl in "Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType hinting interpreter"

pohl — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 01:01:18 +0000

There’s no reason to invent your own head canon, the influence was openly acknowledged when Swift was new and it continues now that the language is developed out in the open (see Swift Ownership Manifesto)

New comment by pohl in "US President says 'I love the inflation'"

pohl — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:24:27 +0000

My salary adjustment didn’t doesn’t keep up with inflation, but his ability to monetize his position in public office far outstrips it. Why would he care? He can point a firehose of public money straight into his own pocket with no consequences.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n7gphyYNsdM

New comment by pohl in "WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding"

pohl — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:07:35 +0000

Also, one of the session videos illustrated the content with an app for keeping track of one's fleet of paper airplanes.

New comment by pohl in "Aliens.gov Live"

pohl — Thu, 28 May 2026 22:29:22 +0000

So they’re taking advantage of the marketing push behind Disclosure Day hitting theaters to make a stupid “aliens” pun about immigration. What a bunch of dimwit fascist tools.

New comment by pohl in "Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"?"

pohl — Tue, 26 May 2026 20:38:18 +0000

I overshot their requirements as well. I wanted them to have a clear view.

New comment by pohl in "Eagle 3.1: Collaboration Between the EAGLE Team, vLLM Team, and TorchSpec Team"

pohl — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:32:36 +0000

When one is talking about two things gradually diverging, isn't "drift" a natural, descriptive verb to reach for? I've heard it often when discussing an implementation diverging from a specification, for example.

New comment by pohl in "Earthion: A New Mega Drive-Style Shoot-Em-Up"

pohl — Tue, 26 May 2026 13:35:38 +0000

People do delete their own comments after they've had a moment to consider what they've written. It's an honorable thing to do, IMO.

New comment by pohl in "Jimmy Carr on Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI [video]"

pohl — Sun, 24 May 2026 02:12:44 +0000

Great clip. Where was he going with the bit about physics? I didn’t quite follow.