Hacker News: shin_lao

New comment by shin_lao in "Ferrari Luce"

shin_lao — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:35:56 +0000

This looks terrible. Ferrari sells dreams, not "safe choices".

New comment by shin_lao in "Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7"

shin_lao — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:50:35 +0000

I think it's a backward compatibility problem.

New comment by shin_lao in "Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7"

shin_lao — Thu, 14 May 2026 13:40:05 +0000

Windows 2000 is based on the NT kernel which is a complete different operation system. ME is Windows 3.x with a 32-bit hack on top of MS-DOS.

New comment by shin_lao in "Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7"

shin_lao — Thu, 14 May 2026 13:37:32 +0000

Windows 2000 was such a major improvement over NT4 and of course 9x that yes, you're right, it was awesome, but it still had issues and in terms of device drivers future versions brought a lot of things that improved overall stability.

I think the best benefit of Windows 2000 was that the GUI was extremely coherent. Even in Windows 11 for some sub menu and options you sometimes have a Windows 2000 UI popping up out of nowhere.

New comment by shin_lao in "Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants"

shin_lao — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:03:56 +0000

We have evidence that Russia funded anti-fracking groups, and it's been long alleged that Greenpeace has been heavily funded by Russia. It's not clear if the Green Party is Russian funded, directly or indirectly.

https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/596304-invest...

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/P-9-2022-00127...

New comment by shin_lao in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

shin_lao — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:41:46 +0000

AI is a scapegoat. These companies are bloated. That's why they are laying off people en masse.

New comment by shin_lao in "France pulls last gold held in US"

shin_lao — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:36:39 +0000

This article is poorly written. No new wealth was created.

They monetized an existing accounting/revaluation gain by selling older, non-standard bars and replacing them with compliant bars, while keeping the overall gold quantity unchanged. That is not the same as "we moved gold home and earned $15B on the move."

In simple terms:

- You buy x of gold at $10

- You sell it much later for $100

- You made a profit of $90, and you hold $100 of cash

- You rebuy x of gold for $100, back to the same gold exposure, but on the books, you have $90 of profit

New comment by shin_lao in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"

shin_lao — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:36:40 +0000

Look at the Ukraine war. Who is being drafted against their will?

New comment by shin_lao in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

shin_lao — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:15:20 +0000

You are correct, we don't know much. Could also have been a failure.

New comment by shin_lao in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

shin_lao — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:06:25 +0000

46 airplanes were shot down during the second Iraqi war, and there has been over 150 total aviation losses (mechanical failure).

So far we have lost seven airplanes. There's no deep meaning behind one F-15e being shot down (if that's what happened): it's not a stealth aircraft and it's not heavily armored.

New comment by shin_lao in "The strait of Hormuz blockade will strangle US defense industry"

shin_lao — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:01:38 +0000

You will always find a report that goes in the way of the narrative you want to push. The goal of these reports is to poke holes and build scenarios. It doesn't mean it's going to happen. This article elevates a niche bottleneck into a headline risk.

- Sulfur matters but we have many substitutes, stockpiles, and alternative supply chains.

- 20% of global oil passes through it, but the US doesn't depend on it, will hurt China disproportionally more. While oil is globally priced, it has different benchmarks.

- The "6% traceability" stat likely reflects formal mapping, not actual operational ignorance.

New comment by shin_lao in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"

shin_lao — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:56:27 +0000

Unclear if the SC ruling is retro active. But of course, lawyers will try to make money out of this...

No 10 Am BTC Dump? Bitcoin Price Rallies as Jane Street Trading Draws Attention

shin_lao — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 01:26:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ccn.com/news/crypto/no-10-am-btc-dump-bitcoin-price-rallies-as-jane-street-trading-draws-attention/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47160617

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Jane Street Hit with Terra $40B Insider Trading Suit

shin_lao — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 01:25:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.disruptionbanking.com/2026/02/24/jane-street-hit-with-terra-40b-insider-trading-suit/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47160613

Points: 171

# Comments: 71

New comment by shin_lao in "I’m joining OpenAI"

shin_lao — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:43:52 +0000

See that as winning the "startup lottery", that doesn't mean what he did is rational or smart, he just had a great outcome.

In trading it's the same, you can make stupid bets and make a lot of money, doesn't mean you're good trader.

Nothing to conclude from this, this kind of hype-fueled outcome has always been a part of life.

New comment by shin_lao in "Where to Sleep in LAX"

shin_lao — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 01:30:24 +0000

In the US, you can just get a refund if you decide not to fly (by law) or a rebooking.

Premium airlines usually offer you compensation: a meal, and a voucher for a hotel stay, depending on the cause of the delay. Very likely miles or voucher for a future flight.

If your flight is to or from EU, you are entitled to more compensation by law IIRC.

New comment by shin_lao in "France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc."

shin_lao — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 21:17:22 +0000

EU market is by no mean easy, it's heavily fragmented requiring very often intense localization effort.

New comment by shin_lao in "DOGE improperly accessed and shared Social Security data"

shin_lao — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 16:05:15 +0000

May be overblown, the IRS accesses this data all the time. Broadly speaking, the government knows your SSN.

It was also my understanding many DOGE employees were Department of Treasury agents.

New comment by shin_lao in "A proof of concept of a semistable C++ vector container"

shin_lao — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 17:01:25 +0000

What is the core use case for this structure? Because it seems like a very heavy price to pay just to keep value stable, as opposed to make a copy of that value when you need it.

New comment by shin_lao in "String theory inspires a brilliant, baffling new math proof"

shin_lao — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 18:58:23 +0000

Because String Theory hasn't delivered falsifiable predictions, yet keeps expanding to accommodate failure.