Hacker News: rapsey

New comment by rapsey in "Pentagon asks for $200bn for Iran War"

rapsey — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:56:59 +0000

ConocoPhillips and Exxon just announced a 20 billion hit due to attacks. No one will leave this thing unscathed.

New comment by rapsey in "Pentagon asks for $200bn for Iran War"

rapsey — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:48:26 +0000

Whatever israel wants.

New comment by rapsey in "The next era of social media: built and run in Europe, ruled by our laws"

rapsey — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 11:14:20 +0000

There is an entire industry in europe built to take EU money and produce nothing but a stack of papers. This would just set up some OVH/Hetzner instances of open source software. It is all a very expensive joke.

New comment by rapsey in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

rapsey — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 12:25:17 +0000

> Going full open source and pushing updates & openness, user control and freedom, you will gobble up a good chunk of market share.

Of the enthusiast market. The absolutely worst customers to be dependent on.

New comment by rapsey in "Process-Based Concurrency: Why Beam and OTP Keep Being Right"

rapsey — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 07:28:07 +0000

> Backpressure is built in. If a process receives messages faster than it can handle them, the mailbox grows. This is visible and monitorable. You can inspect any process’s mailbox length, set up alerts, and make architectural decisions about it. Contrast this with thread-based systems where overload manifests as increasing latency, deadlocks, or OOM crashes — symptoms that are harder to diagnose and attribute.

Sorry but this is wrong. This is no kind of backpressure as any experienced erlang developer will tell you: properly doing backpressure is a massive pain in erlang. By default your system is almost guaranteed to break in random places under pressure that you are surprised by.

New comment by rapsey in "Why is Singapore no longer "cool"?"

rapsey — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 08:31:15 +0000

As a European absolutely yes and I wish we had the fortitude to do it. It would literally save the EU. We never will, so right wing populism and the struggle to suppress it will probably destroy Europe.

New comment by rapsey in "QuitGPT – OpenAI Execs Are Trump's Biggest Donors"

rapsey — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 16:55:30 +0000

Who said it was complicated? The biden administration also had plans for the AI industry which would kill them. They also had zero interest in any new tech (smr, vtol). The democrats turned against big tech and new tech.

New comment by rapsey in "QuitGPT – OpenAI Execs Are Trump's Biggest Donors"

rapsey — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 12:44:30 +0000

Democrats turned on Elon during covid, as he was against lockdowns. This spread into wide distrust and complete sidelining and antagonism towards tech during the Biden administration. You can hear about it from Ben and Marc on their a16z podcast, when they explained why they are endorsing Trump.

This was despite the tech community being predominantly democrats. They turned to Trump, because the democrats shut them out completely and in some cases were highly antagonistic (crypto and elon companies).

New comment by rapsey in "QuitGPT – OpenAI Execs Are Trump's Biggest Donors"

rapsey — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 10:19:49 +0000

> A completely theoretical pro-business political body would remove any and all obstacles to business: environmental regulations, labour protection, taxation, financial oversight, so on and so forth, I believe we can agree that such move would be detrimental to society at large while making businesses extremely rich, right?

This assumes that all obstacles and regulations are to the benefit of the environment and people and that the regulation results in intended consequences.

In modern western countries regulation is very often ideological and actively harms the populace and economy. Case in point Germany and their green and anti nuclear hysteria, which resulted in total reliance on coal.

New comment by rapsey in "QuitGPT – OpenAI Execs Are Trump's Biggest Donors"

rapsey — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 09:48:43 +0000

The tech titans are openly republicans because the democrats kicked them out.

New comment by rapsey in "QuitGPT – OpenAI Execs Are Trump's Biggest Donors"

rapsey — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 09:29:43 +0000

You are just playing a word game. The democrats are the left in the political arena of the US. If they are not what the left would be in some other country or what someone thinks the left should be is meaningless.

New comment by rapsey in "QuitGPT – OpenAI Execs Are Trump's Biggest Donors"

rapsey — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 09:08:15 +0000

The left also specifically turned against AI, big tech and data center build out. They would be crazy not to go all in on the republican party just like Elon did.

New comment by rapsey in "EU must become a 'genuine federation' to avoid deindustrialisation and decline"

rapsey — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:30:28 +0000

Because the source of plastics in the ocean is traced back to those places. What exactly am I wrong on? China is mostly powered by coal and they are still building new coal plants.

New comment by rapsey in "EU must become a 'genuine federation' to avoid deindustrialisation and decline"

rapsey — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 13:05:22 +0000

Everything is made out of or requires fossil fuels. From concrete, your clothes, to your food. Phasing out fossil fuels is complete insanity.

edit: I cant reply so I will edit.

The policies are clearly insanity because EU industrial self immolation does nothing for the rest of the world. Does China, Indonesia, Africa, South America, India give a crap about saving the environment? They sure as hell do not. Most of them throw their trash directly into the ocean. All we do in europe is self harm while the broad problem goes entirely unsolved. How the hell are you going to develop and sell new technology, while destroying our economies at the same time. Complete pipe dream insanity.

New comment by rapsey in "EU must become a 'genuine federation' to avoid deindustrialisation and decline"

rapsey — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 12:53:21 +0000

Yeah the EU got it wrong. Like they did for pretty much every policy of the last 20 years.

edit: Since I can no longer repy I will edit in place:

Just the kind of regulation that drives out investment and growth. Now we have no money printing tech giants and our best and brightest work for US companies. But we do have bragging rights with the desktop linux crowd, so that is something.

New comment by rapsey in "EU must become a 'genuine federation' to avoid deindustrialisation and decline"

rapsey — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 12:49:33 +0000

A riddiculous pipe dream just like most EU policies.

https://youtube.com/shorts/s0yWk4cJT_I?si=dNXftp8bk3PY6Nfg

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JZY38D3PtF4

New comment by rapsey in "EU must become a 'genuine federation' to avoid deindustrialisation and decline"

rapsey — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 12:43:18 +0000

> they are key objectives for the European security strategy to remove dependence on foreign tyrants and dictators.

Lol european security strategy? We switched from Russian dependence, to a more expensive US dependence. While also being strongly dependent on middle eastern gas and oil. What the hell kind of strategy is that?

New comment by rapsey in "EU Parliament freezes US trade deal ratification"

rapsey — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 08:40:43 +0000

The US has power. Military, Financial, Cultural. The EU does not.

New comment by rapsey in "EU Parliament freezes US trade deal ratification"

rapsey — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 08:36:01 +0000

The US is the security guarantor of the worlds shipping lanes. This is a corner stone of US led globalism. Read any geopolitical comentator or book and it will be there.

New comment by rapsey in "EU Parliament freezes US trade deal ratification"

rapsey — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 08:23:32 +0000

Russia is still an energy provider to Europe. Do we provide any security guarantees to Qatar or can protect the shipping lanes? We can not. It is controlled by the US, which is also a major supplier.

For every political squeeze EU can do, the US can squeeze 10x as hard.

ASML also has quite a lot of US suppliers. We are all tech dependent on each other, but China is working hard to fix that and the US also.