Hacker News: reppap

New comment by reppap in "IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology"

reppap — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 22:40:39 +0000

Ericsson used a lot of power chips in their telecom hardware 10 years ago at least, haven't worked with their stuff since then so I haven't kept up.

New comment by reppap in "Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040"

reppap — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 08:23:42 +0000

I wonder how much much renewables you would get for the same 100 billion investment though. How much battery storage does even 50 billion get you.

New comment by reppap in "Claude Opus 4.8"

reppap — Thu, 28 May 2026 23:51:50 +0000

The problem with going for open source models is that you are betting on some third party to keep doing expensive model training and releasing it for free, forever. What do you do if deepseek never release another update to the model?

New comment by reppap in "Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage"

reppap — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:49:27 +0000

Inference cannot happen without training the model first, so the distinction is quite pointless.

New comment by reppap in "EFF is leaving X"

reppap — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:54:35 +0000

I'd rather turn into reddit than turn into a nazi.

New comment by reppap in "Honda is killing its EVs"

reppap — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:21:40 +0000

His first sentence is literally disclaiming that he is in an outlier market.

New comment by reppap in "The changing goalposts of AGI and timelines"

reppap — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 18:23:42 +0000

Sam Altman is just another Elon Musk. Saying whatever he thinks sounds good in the moment.

New comment by reppap in "Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pulling back from OpenAI and Anthropic"

reppap — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 07:33:59 +0000

The problem is that Nvidia cannot make infinite amounts of chips so they actually can't pick up both.

New comment by reppap in "A simple web we own"

reppap — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 10:24:53 +0000

The assertion that an uncensored internet is a better world should probably require some motivation.

If everyone was a normal (as far as anyone is normal) law abiding citizen perhaps I would agree, but sadly that is far from the case. I think history has quite clearly shown that there is a minority of people out there that will take advantage and ruin things for everyone else. It's the same reason we have militaries, police forces, government checks and balances, etc. The internet is no exception to this.

I don't think the world is simple enough where anyone could be absolutist about freedom, it's all grey areas and complicated lines drawn.

New comment by reppap in "Breaking the spell of vibe coding"

reppap — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 15:58:06 +0000

But most of their funding comes from speculative investment, not selling their services. Also, wouldn't selling their own products/services generate revenue?

New comment by reppap in "Zig – io_uring and Grand Central Dispatch std.Io implementations landed"

reppap — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:19:27 +0000

> And they keep forgetting the purpose of software is to serve users, not developers.

Developers are the users of these software stacks though? I don't really understand your point.

New comment by reppap in "Breaking the spell of vibe coding"

reppap — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 23:15:33 +0000

One thing I like to think about is: If these models were so powerful why would they ever sell access? They could just build endless products to sell, likely outcompeting anyone else who needs to employ humans. And if not building their own products they could be the highest value contractor ever.

If you had midas touch would you rent it out?

New comment by reppap in "End of an era for me: no more self-hosted git"

reppap — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:55:21 +0000

Stop just making up excuses for these companies. Other comments on this story have showed the bots are using openai user agents and making requests from openai owned ip ranges.

New comment by reppap in "Billing can be bypassed using a combo of subagents with an agent definition"

reppap — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 17:20:23 +0000

Azure keeps randomly breaking our resources without any service health notifications or heads up, it's very fun living in microsofts world.

New comment by reppap in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

reppap — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 07:35:01 +0000

I think it's actually the other way around, satellites need to be specifically designed to burn up fast in the atmosphere. See for example the warnings about space debris from Chinese satellites not designed with this in mind.

New comment by reppap in "Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support"

reppap — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 19:33:16 +0000

Are you entitled to the LFS developers time? They build the system they get to make into what they want.

New comment by reppap in "Nvidia's 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android device"

reppap — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 08:46:20 +0000

The built-in OS on my LG is honestly good enough for me. There's a jellyfin client in the LG app store that works well enough (it's just a wrapper for a browser client as I understand it). But I only use my TV to watch shows/movies, not sure about other usecases.

New comment by reppap in "Show HN: We Built the 1. EU-Sovereignty Audit for Websites"

reppap — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 14:38:13 +0000

My customer's site got a 100% while running on azure.

New comment by reppap in "Anthropic Economic Index report: economic primitives"

reppap — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 01:27:29 +0000

As long as people claim it's revolutionary it's fair to compare it to other revolutions.

New comment by reppap in "Nvidia Stock Crash Prediction"

reppap — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 23:10:32 +0000

People will want more GPUs but will they be able to fund them? At what points does the venture capital and loans run out? People will not keep pouring hundreds of billions into this if the returns don't start coming.