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New comment by retube in "US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says"

retube — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 09:40:08 +0000

What do their gold deliveries have anything to do with their financial situation? That'll just be settling GC contracts, and there will be clients on the other side.

New comment by retube in "Microgpt"

retube — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 09:12:35 +0000

Can you train this on say Wikipedia and have it generate semi-sensible responses?

New comment by retube in "14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight"

retube — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 21:52:59 +0000

it's 10k, 10,000, not 10

New comment by retube in "Anthropic AI tool sparks selloff from software to broader market"

retube — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:24:12 +0000

High frequency is the domain of market makers. They are not taking positions in anything (well, only momentarily), they are just matching buyers with sellers. Actual investors move the market, and can be split into "fast money" and "real money". Fast money is basically hedge funds, holding periods typically hours - months depending on the strategy. Real money is the traditional investor base: asset managers, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, insurers. These guys are much slower: e.g. the investment committee might meet once a quarter, and investment strategy (e.g "we're gonna get a bit longer UK real rates", or "dial US equity allocation down 5%") is often only updated annually.

New comment by retube in "Anthropic AI tool sparks selloff from software to broader market"

retube — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 22:40:37 +0000

Markets are not as efficient as the textbooks would have you believe. Investors typically rely on a fairly small set of analysts for market news and views. It might take those guys a while to think about stuff, write a note etc. The deepseek crash last year lagged by several days as well.

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

retube — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 22:21:27 +0000

It's lala land nonsense.

- Data centres need a lot of power = giant vast solar panels

- Data centres need a lot of cooling. That's some almighty heatsinks you're going need

- They will need to be radiation-hardened to avoid memory corruption = even more mass

- The hardware will be redundant in like 2 years tops and will need replacing to stay competitive

- Data centres are about 100x bigger (not including solar panels and heat sinks) than the biggest thing we've ever put in space

Tesla is losing market share (and rank increasingly poorly against alternatives), his robots are gonna fail, this datacentre ambition needs to break the laws of physics, grok/twitter is a fake news pedo-loving cesspit that's gonna be regulated into oblivion. Its only down from here on out.

New comment by retube in "Jurassic Park - Tablet device on Nedry's desk? (2012)"

retube — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 07:23:49 +0000

Such a great scene. don't know why not in the regular version

New comment by retube in "My first year in sales as technical founder"

retube — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 08:15:11 +0000

The calendly thing is interesting. I get a fair amount of prospecting outreach on LI, and if anyone asks me to book a slot myself, it's an instant no. I feel like you can't be bothered to actually engage with me, that you are not prepared to do this tiny bit of work. It almost feels disrespectful?

Am I alone in this?

Anyway, is not an approach I would take.

New comment by retube in "Ask HN: Iran's 120h internet shutdown, phones back. How to stay resilient?"

retube — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 22:45:33 +0000

unless you already have the gear and a subscription, not sure how an Iranian citizen can get starlink set up: starlink doesn't ship there, so needs to be individually imported, plus will need to be paid for by a debit/credit card from a non-sanctioned country

New comment by retube in "Ask HN: Iran's 120h internet shutdown, phones back. How to stay resilient?"

retube — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 22:41:49 +0000

yah but not sure how someone in Iran can actually get the hardware shipped to them (I just tried Tehran as delivery, and starlink website said "no"), and also would need a bank or credit card from a non-sanctioned country to be able to actually pay for it

New comment by retube in "Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban"

retube — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 13:54:39 +0000

Yeah I never understood the watertight arguments. Just about any law can be circumvented or violated, that doesn't invalid having the law.

New comment by retube in "Bruno Simon – 3D Portfolio"

retube — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 18:37:05 +0000

MY 24GB of RAM struggles with this

New comment by retube in "Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop"

retube — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 22:25:45 +0000

As I updated my thinkpad to 32 GB of RAM this morning (£150) I remembered my £2k (corporate) thinkpad in 1999, running Windows 98, had 32 MB of RAM. And it ran full Office and Lotus notes just fine :)

New comment by retube in "Jony Ive's OpenAI Device Barred From Using 'io' Name"

retube — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:57:12 +0000

I am absolutely AGOG to know why this has to be a separate device. It must involve hardware and/or instrumentation not built into smartphones. Microwave scanner? mini x-ray machine? neutrino detector??? what could it be

New comment by retube in "The RAM shortage comes for us all"

retube — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 22:55:01 +0000

yeaaahhh.. these fabs don't just have a button that says "punch out a top of the line nvidia GPU"

Tell HN: MS's integration of OneDrive into Windows is a total mess

retube — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 09:54:41 +0000

These are the issues I am experiencing:

- Multiple different paths that actually point to the same location

- Files visible in an application explorer (e.g. Excel), but NOT windows explorer

- Stuff randomly stored only in the cloud, and not local + cloud

- System folders (e.g. Documents) that point to DIFFERENT locations

In short, I have no idea where anything is.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46022141

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New comment by retube in "Europe's cookie nightmare is crumbling. EC wants preference at browser level"

retube — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 14:28:51 +0000

LOL the EC mandarins have finally had enough of the endless nagging!

New comment by retube in "Where do the children play?"

retube — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 13:56:50 +0000

for travel to school was 10, but was direct no changes and only a short walk the other end. then for social etc from around 12, by 13 travelling all over london on trains, buses, tubes, albeit always with friends, then alone probably 14

New comment by retube in "Where do the children play?"

retube — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 08:49:38 +0000

As a parent, I relate to all this. Great piece.

When the kids were babies we had the standard debate of move to the countryside for fresh air and gambolling in the fields etc. But so glad we stayed in London, the kids have so much freedom with public transport they can organise their own meet ups and activities and go running around all over town without any parental assistance or intervention at all. Whereas elsewhere we'd need to drive them everywhere, they'd be stuck at home way more, they'd have no real agency in their lives - I grew up like that and hated it.

New comment by retube in "Britain's railway privatization was an abject failure"

retube — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 18:07:28 +0000

British Airways?