Hacker News: simpsond

New comment by simpsond in "We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from 10+ mins to under 2"

simpsond — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 02:08:32 +0000

Now you have to maintain the automation. There is nothing wrong with that. There is nothing wrong with building your own server. There is nothing wrong with colocation. There is nothing wrong with driving to the colo to investigate an outage. There is nothing wrong with licensing arm and having TSMC fab your chip. There is nothing wrong with choosing which level of abstraction you prefer!

New comment by simpsond in "A Theory of the World as run by large adult children"

simpsond — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:05:09 +0000

All fights between my children stem from resource contention.

New comment by simpsond in "Show HN: We analyzed 1,573 Claude Code sessions to see how AI agents work"

simpsond — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 17:34:38 +0000

I think they are talking about x402 payments (HTTP 402 with payment instruction headers).

New comment by simpsond in "Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon"

simpsond — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 04:17:28 +0000

Market cap doesn’t equal liquidity. If everyone wants out of an asset, and no one wants it, supply exceeds demand and the price crashes.

New comment by simpsond in "Google is dead. Where do we go now?"

simpsond — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 21:09:35 +0000

Value creation phase vs extraction phase.

New comment by simpsond in "Anthropic acquires Bun"

simpsond — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 20:04:52 +0000

Hosting is a commodity. Runtimes are too. In this case, the strategy is to make a better runtime, attract developers, and eventually give them a super easy way to run their project in the cloud. Eg: bun deploy, which is a reserved no op command. I really like Buns DX.

New comment by simpsond in "Intel could return to Apple computers in 2027"

simpsond — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 19:21:47 +0000

Getting foundry services off the ground requires starting somewhere. Apple is hedging. I don’t see it as a bad thing for Intel.

New comment by simpsond in "Gemini 3"

simpsond — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:54:40 +0000

Humans study for tests. They just tend to forget.

New comment by simpsond in "Kimi K2 Thinking, a SOTA open-source trillion-parameter reasoning model"

simpsond — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 14:30:06 +0000

Sundar is talking about fleeing earth to secure photons and cooling in space.

New comment by simpsond in "Comparing the power consumption of a 30 year old refrigerator to a new one"

simpsond — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 17:56:01 +0000

Is that true though? Better coolants, inverters / variable speed / scroll /swing compressors, insulation and mfg, etc. maybe for residential it’s less impactful, but refrigeration in general has better efficiency than 30 years ago.

New comment by simpsond in "Vertical Solar Panels Are Out Standing"

simpsond — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 15:02:42 +0000

Utility scale fields tend to have single axis trackers which can optimize output. They are expensive though. I wonder if a manual rack that could lock at 30 or 90 could work and be cost effective.

New comment by simpsond in "Living microbial cement supercapacitors with reactivatable energy storage"

simpsond — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 15:35:56 +0000

W = Watt. h = hour. One kg supply one watt of power for 178.7 hours (without considering other factors). Power is how much energy can it supply at a moment. Up to 8.3 kW instantaneous.

New comment by simpsond in "Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo"

simpsond — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 23:50:21 +0000

PYUSD is a stable coin, not a blockchain. PYUSD will likely be available on Tempo, bridgeable to and from other chains.

New comment by simpsond in "Bybit loses $1.5B in hack"

simpsond — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 16:03:53 +0000

Fiat currencies have collapsed in the past due to bad monetary policy (regulation is only good right?). Ask Argentinians how they feel about stablecoins after rapid inflation.

Alternative currencies offer competition and access. Why is that such a problem?

New comment by simpsond in "Bybit loses $1.5B in hack"

simpsond — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:41:18 +0000

My faith would shake when scams, rugs, fraud, and ponzis completely stop outside of crypto.

New comment by simpsond in "Bybit loses $1.5B in hack"

simpsond — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:28:00 +0000

Yes, each opcode has a gas cost. Some are quite expensive, like writing storage (changing network state). Each block has a target gas limit. Say 30 million. A single transaction cannot exceed that. Additionally, a transaction specifies a bid on how much they are willing to spend, in ether, per gas. That said, transferring funds does not typically require significant gas.

New comment by simpsond in "El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender after failed experiment"

simpsond — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 02:31:52 +0000

None, really. They are all floating relative to each other. But USD is stable enough to know what you can get with $10. Although the last few years have put that to the test.

New comment by simpsond in "Stimulation Clicker"

simpsond — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 19:56:50 +0000

I needed the ocean at the end. It's a very good game. The variable reward and quick repeatability captured me... It showcases what we are exposed to in a condensed manner.

New comment by simpsond in "Zero-latency SQLite storage in every Durable Object"

simpsond — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 05:58:13 +0000

You have a row key, which gets consistently hashed to a shard / node on the ring.

New comment by simpsond in "Mice live longer when inflammation-boosting protein is blocked"

simpsond — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 20:22:38 +0000

Yes, too much niacin can make your entire body flush with a burning sensation.