Hacker News: pureagave

New comment by pureagave in "The worst job interview I ever had"

pureagave — Tue, 26 May 2026 23:30:28 +0000

I came here expecting it was a yet another story about Canonical.

New comment by pureagave in "Dillo Browser Release 3.3.0"

pureagave — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:55:55 +0000

i totally misread the title of this post. What is wrong with me?

New comment by pureagave in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

pureagave — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:59:11 +0000

What would happen if we didn't allow a female category for power lifting? Just have human power lifting. Does the NFL have a ban on women in NFL? I don't know but the teams look as I expect they would even without a ban.

New comment by pureagave in "Restoring a Sun SPARCstation IPX part 1: PSU and NVRAM (2020)"

pureagave — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:13:57 +0000

Great keyboard, great display, great OS. It was fast enough and a great terminal to bigger Sparcs if you needed it.

New comment by pureagave in "Restoring a Sun SPARCstation IPX part 1: PSU and NVRAM (2020)"

pureagave — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:10:59 +0000

I had one on my desk and eventually a collection of Sparc 2, 10's and a V in my garage. I miss the keyboard and Sun OS 4, the Trinitron display and working on difficult engineering problems on those machines.

New comment by pureagave in "FBI raids Washington Post reporter's home"

pureagave — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 17:16:06 +0000

I agree that it is slightly better than Reddit but often it just turns into a mess that doesn't touch on tech.

They are plenty of places for political discussions. HN is a rare great place for tech so personally I'd rather keep it that way.

New comment by pureagave in "Scott Adams has died"

pureagave — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 21:52:43 +0000

I think the commentor was talking about Adams's support for Trump. While maybe not normal on Reddit, HN or San Francisco, it's normal enough that more than half the voters agreed with Scott Adams.

New comment by pureagave in "Nvidia Kicks Off the Next Generation of AI with Rubin"

pureagave — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 00:03:01 +0000

100% this. But don't forget the garden hose running full blast so you can cool it! It's not impossible to get up and running for fun for an hour, but this isn't a run 24/7 kinda setup any more than getting an old mainframe running in one's garage is practical.

New comment by pureagave in "LaTeX Coffee Stains (2021) [pdf]"

pureagave — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 15:45:06 +0000

This is wonderful to see. I was a student and then entered into the tech industry in the mid 90's and at that time the Internet had fun whimsical things like this almost weekly.

New comment by pureagave in "Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die"

pureagave — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 23:54:41 +0000

Exactly. We have the phrase "roid-rage" for a reason.

New comment by pureagave in "Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die"

pureagave — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 17:10:36 +0000

Maybe the estate should look into whomever was selling him testosterone enanthate so that he could have testosterone levels of 5,000 or more. I suspect that had more to do with his degraded mental situation than his AI chats.

New comment by pureagave in "Nike's Crisis and the Economics of Brand Decay"

pureagave — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 15:30:29 +0000

While a brand isn't a guarantee of quality, brands can work with their manufacture to hit the level of material and assembly quality they need for their products. The same manufacture will likely produce different products with very different results and costs.

New comment by pureagave in "Grok Sexual Images Draw Rebuke, France Flags Content as Illegal"

pureagave — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:25:52 +0000

I'm sorry to tell you this, but the EU has already been lost.

New comment by pureagave in "Grok Sexual Images Draw Rebuke, France Flags Content as Illegal"

pureagave — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:23:54 +0000

AI is a nation defense issue. No nation has the luxury to stop their AI companies without the risk of losing national sovereignty.

New comment by pureagave in "Tesla sales fell by 9 percent in 2025, its second yearly decline"

pureagave — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:16:36 +0000

Wasn't the model Y the best selling car in the world in 2024?

New comment by pureagave in "Tesla sales fell by 9 percent in 2025, its second yearly decline"

pureagave — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:12:36 +0000

This is how you filter for all the Reddit users who found out about HN.

New comment by pureagave in "Tesla sales fell by 9 percent in 2025, its second yearly decline"

pureagave — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:11:11 +0000

All the other car, robot, solar and energy companies have CEOs that aren't Elon. How are they doing?

New comment by pureagave in "Tesla sales fell by 9 percent in 2025, its second yearly decline"

pureagave — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:10:11 +0000

Meaningless comparison. Tesla isn't a car company.

New comment by pureagave in "Tesla sales fell by 9 percent in 2025, its second yearly decline"

pureagave — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:09:29 +0000

People who claim Ford and Mercedes have systems as good as Tesla haven't personally taken a currently shipping v14 FSD trip and then personally used Ford and Mercedes systems. I see Cybertrucks many times a day in San Francisco and on the 101. I took a Robotaxi ride in SF last week. It was cheaper than Uber and Waymo but I am hoping they bring back the 2014 price wars of Uber/Lyft. I think Musk's pay is $1/yr.

New comment by pureagave in "Tesla sales fell by 9 percent in 2025, its second yearly decline"

pureagave — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 23:58:47 +0000

It was mentioned on the Tesla earning's call in Q2 or Q3 2025 that HW3 FSD customers will likely be moved to a version of HW5 that accommodated the older camera sensors.