Hacker News: silisili

New comment by silisili in "Solo – a .so loader for static Linux binaries"

silisili — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 06:51:43 +0000

Not anymore, but for -years- it did DNS wrong because of the author being pedantic about an RFC wording.

New comment by silisili in "Terry A. Davis Quotes"

silisili — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 01:42:29 +0000

This one is probably the most widespread, I'd guess. To this day many online call feds 'glowies' or accuse someone of glowing in the dark.

New comment by silisili in "Fairphone is now officially available in the United States"

silisili — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:27:45 +0000

Hundreds might be pushing it.

If you as a user want a modern, high end or top of the line cell phone, you're pretty much just stuck with Apple or Samsung. Maybe Google. If you remove the minor variants each has that's just 3.

We used to have many more - OnePlus obviously, Honor, Huawei, LeEco, HTC, LG, ASUS, Essential, Blackberry, etc.

New comment by silisili in "Pixel 11 Pro Fold"

silisili — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:30:21 +0000

Why is Google averse to larger batteries? The Chinese makers have been stuffing 8000ish mah batteries in rather diminutive phones for two or three years now, and Google is releasing one in 2026 with about half that.

New comment by silisili in "H3-metal – Native MiniMax-H3 inference for Apple Silicon"

silisili — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 05:55:01 +0000

It's why javascript had to add the triple equals check...

New comment by silisili in "US beef prices have soared but farmers aren't making more money"

silisili — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 23:54:54 +0000

Outside of a ribeye, I much prefer pork and eat it way more often. I'm rather selfishly afraid that everyone running from beef is going to cause the pork price to skyrocket, but I haven't seen it quite yet.

New comment by silisili in "Almost no skill required to cook a steak"

silisili — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 21:03:12 +0000

It's one of those things that you have to experiment for yourself I think. You'll get tons of advice, I already saw sous vide, reverse sear, 30 second flip, etc. My favorite? I just get a cast iron as hot as I can on the stovetop and flip it once, then at the end quickly sear the edges using tongs.

New comment by silisili in "Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo"

silisili — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:27:30 +0000

The main point I think is density - for their size datacenters typically don't hire many people.

New comment by silisili in "Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo"

silisili — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 04:59:45 +0000

Office buildings presumably are filled with bodies who get paid, who will spend some amount of money in the local economy.

I'm not sure data centers could make the same argument.

New comment by silisili in "Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo"

silisili — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 04:46:54 +0000

Agreed and disagreed. It is a terrible precedent for sure. On the other hand, government inaction, usually hiding behind arcane codes, process, and blame circles gets really frustrating. In that world, they'd still be waiting on a court date(if even) when the data center cuts its ribbon.

It's kinda nice to see them just drop the nuclear option on something the people didn't want. At this point, it's kinda nice to see a government accomplish anything nice at all.

New comment by silisili in "Oracle cut its Always Free ARM limits to 2 OCPU / 12GB, enforced Aug 18"

silisili — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:14:43 +0000

Did "always free" ever really work? When I set mine up months ago, the advice was use PAYG with free tier, because Always Free would always report it had no capacity available. Sure enough, I tested it and this was true at the time.

New comment by silisili in "A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months"

silisili — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 22:35:23 +0000

This is completely dystopian. Did he have the worst legal defense possible, or are Canadian laws such that an IP address is sufficient for any claimed charges to just stick?

New comment by silisili in "Jimothy the raccoon has a rare spinal condition. Here's what that means"

silisili — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 21:12:30 +0000

You do you, but I'd ask in earnest people please don't. Cats are invasive to the US and wreak havoc on local wildlife populations. Where I live, so many people feed the ferals that they've become an overpopulated menace.

New comment by silisili in "John C. Dvorak has died"

silisili — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 05:10:45 +0000

Same...well I'll always remember it as ZDTV. Maybe it was my youth, but I remember how exciting tech was then - cool new websites, gadgets, services, etc.

I haven't followed him much since, and seeing his recent pictures made me realize how much time has passed since those days.

Rest in peace, sir.

New comment by silisili in "Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s"

silisili — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:44:23 +0000

I'm mixed on this. They may not(or may) write elegant code, but they have clear intent about its parameters and purpose. I've seen LLMs mess up numbers by order of magnitude on multiple occasions, which could range anywhere from annoying to fatal, depending on the field.

Like all things, helpful as long as it's checked very carefully.

New comment by silisili in "The US grocery slowdown is real"

silisili — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 23:40:40 +0000

Honestly, it's always been that way for a lot of things. Ten years ago I remember trying to make the ultimate home pizza, spent over $30 in ingredients and realized it's cheaper to buy out. Same with hamburgers - unless you can use all of the ingredients to make 5 or 6.

Restaurants have always been rather low margin, and they're buying ingredients a heckofa lot cheaper than a single shopper can.

New comment by silisili in "How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going"

silisili — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:49:27 +0000

I'm not sure it would ever make sense to be. That makes the assumption tons of allocations get made that don't live long, which was(maybe is still?) more common in some languages. Go is more aggressive about not heap allocating, and has tools to help you avoid them.

New comment by silisili in "Data centers have hiked electricity prices on the public by $23B"

silisili — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 01:53:46 +0000

That's smart. Do they do it with roads also? That's a big one near me - developers buying hundred acre farms on unpainted 2 lane country roads and jamming in 2000 houses. Then inevitably the road becomes unusable until the city or county gets around to addressing it.

Always wondered why the county didn't require the road work, or money for it, up front.

New comment by silisili in "John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement"

silisili — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:01:43 +0000

Absolutely - Kubota is extremely popular as well. But there will always be that faction who doesn't consider it because of who owns it.

New comment by silisili in "John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement"

silisili — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:00:50 +0000

Brand name/heritage, and not much competition. I think there are only two US based companies left in business.