Hacker News: pottertheotter

New comment by pottertheotter in "US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos"

pottertheotter — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:09:46 +0000

Why does the website look like a video game?

New comment by pottertheotter in "How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale"

pottertheotter — Tue, 05 May 2026 00:40:19 +0000

I’ve tried this and it says it will but just keeps cutting in. I hate this feature so much.

New comment by pottertheotter in "Vercel April 2026 security incident"

pottertheotter — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 23:34:43 +0000

It’s context.ai

https://x.com/rauchg/status/2045995362499076169

New comment by pottertheotter in "Vercel April 2026 security incident"

pottertheotter — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 23:34:18 +0000

It’s context.ai

https://x.com/rauchg/status/2045995362499076169

New comment by pottertheotter in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

pottertheotter — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 04:19:54 +0000

Did you use the web back in 1995? It was fun, but it also sucked compared to what we have now. Nothing is ever perfect, but I wouldn’t want to go back.

New comment by pottertheotter in "Apple Business"

pottertheotter — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:33:41 +0000

> I think this could work if you did this at the time your company launched, but the moment you have employees who have Apple IDs tied to their work email that aren't from the Business Essentials system you are stuck in an impossible-to-mange place.

I had the same thing happen but with Microsoft. A friend and I had started a small consulting business and were using Google Workspace, but I needed a Microsoft account to interact with a client. I made one with my business email. None of us knew any better, but I couldn’t connect with our client’s Microsoft setup because it was a personal account. So I went to set up a business account. It was a whole fiasco and the only way I could really fix it was create an alias and use that for Microsoft.

New comment by pottertheotter in "Apple Business"

pottertheotter — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:25:48 +0000

I think the idea is that it happens before they lock the domain as a business. Before that, if you have an email address you can create a personal account with it.

New comment by pottertheotter in "Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents"

pottertheotter — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 01:45:55 +0000

I just hope that people remember this is just one factor affecting quality of life and making a city work.

"Density at all costs" ignores a huge set of tradeoffs that are equally as damaging to a city. Things such as urban form, street experience, long-term adaptability, integration with existing fabric, economic resilience, etc. These are the things that make a city work in the long term.

I’m a big proponent of building more housing. But a lot of it is being doing in very short sided ways that lead to huge externalities.

New comment by pottertheotter in "Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents"

pottertheotter — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 01:33:57 +0000

South of 101

New comment by pottertheotter in "Effort to prevent government officials from engaging in prediction markets"

pottertheotter — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:45:50 +0000

I think you're thinking of the efficient-market hypothesis. The hypothesis is that prices reflect all available information, and "available information" is the key part. The "strong form" includes private information, but research has not found support for this. And even the "semi-strong form" falls apart. For instance, the market for small cap stocks is not as efficient as the market for large cap stocks.

You need a market that has enough people paying attention and doing the work, and you also need a market that has enough liquidity.

Source: I have a PhD in capital markets.

New comment by pottertheotter in "World-first gigabit laser link between aircraft and geostationary satellite"

pottertheotter — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:38:56 +0000

I’ll take 500ms ping for those speeds while temporarily on a plane.

New comment by pottertheotter in "Malm Whale"

pottertheotter — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 03:18:33 +0000

Ok, wow… “The fishermen who first discovered the poor stranded whale started the procedure by poking its eyes out, so that it would "not be able to see us." Over the next two days, the creature was methodically axed, speared and shot until it finally died in a sea of its own blood.”

I guess it was 1865.

New comment by pottertheotter in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"

pottertheotter — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 04:17:51 +0000

I’m sorry you have to make do with that setup. I’d upgrade to an M5 Pro 64GB right away. In fact, your old one has no value. I can safely dispose of it for you.

New comment by pottertheotter in "Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands,Norway,Sweden,UK"

pottertheotter — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 18:34:58 +0000

This is not true. This person is spreading disinformation.

They were closed because the Cold War ended and they were no longer needed.

New comment by pottertheotter in "I sell onions on the Internet (2019)"

pottertheotter — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 23:45:48 +0000

This crosses from quirky to unhinged:

During a phone order one season – 2018 I believe – a customer shared this story where he smuggled some Vidalias onto his vacation cruise ship, and during each meal, would instruct the server to ‘take this onion to the back, chop it up, and add it onto my salad ‘.

New comment by pottertheotter in "X-ray: a Python library for finding bad redactions in PDF documents"

pottertheotter — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 01:23:44 +0000

This made me think of something I came across recently that’s almost the opposite problem of requiring PDFs to be searchable. A local government would publish PDFs where the text is clearly readable on screen, but the selectable text layer is intentionally scrambled, so copy/paste or search returns garbage. It's a very hostile thing to do, especially with public data!

New comment by pottertheotter in "Fix HDMI-CEC weirdness with a Raspberry Pi and a $7 cable"

pottertheotter — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 23:21:02 +0000

“every console behaves like it missed the last week of CEC school. They wake the TV, switch the input, then leave the Denon asleep so I’m back to toggling audio outputs manually.”

My Roku does this! It will turn on the TV but not the soundbar, which is so frustrating. Guess it’s somewhat normal.

New comment by pottertheotter in "We gave 5 LLMs $100K to trade stocks for 8 months"

pottertheotter — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 02:25:42 +0000

Cool experiment.

I have a PhD in capital markets research. It would be even more informative to report abnormal returns (market/factor-adjusted) so we can tell whether the LLMs generated true alpha rather than just loading on tech during a strong market.

New comment by pottertheotter in "A new chapter begins for EV batteries with the expiry of key LFP patents"

pottertheotter — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 04:50:17 +0000

What? How does an SUV require less power per cf than a sedan? I would think that aero alone would always be worse for an SUV, making sedans more efficient.

New comment by pottertheotter in "Montana becomes first state to enshrine 'right to compute' into law"

pottertheotter — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 22:24:26 +0000

I think this is just to make it so that data centers and crypto mining facilities can be built and operated where owners want. Makes it so zoning and environmental regulations can’t stop you as easily.