Hacker News: snypher

New comment by snypher in "Spanish traders set the standard for GnuCash database design"

snypher — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 01:46:00 +0000

My grandpa always called horse racing in general "the guineas", but I always assumed it was "the ginnies" for some reason.

New comment by snypher in "1worldflag: A blue dot on a transparent background"

snypher — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:51:51 +0000

Which is why we still worship man-with-bird-head and make sacrifices to the Sun at solstice.

New comment by snypher in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

snypher — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:49:18 +0000

Don't you think that under excess demand, production will ramp, competition will become available etc? These posts read like we're all out of fresh silicon or something.

New comment by snypher in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

snypher — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:47:29 +0000

Yes, toilet paper and N95s were expensive and hard to buy once, which is why I stockpiled a lifetime supply of them. Suckers!

New comment by snypher in "Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute"

snypher — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 15:31:12 +0000

I think SpaceX should be valued on rockets n space n stuff, not how many magical calculator dollars they bring in.

Surely Google can "make compute go" for $1b/month. Nice way to avoid holding the bag, maybe?

New comment by snypher in "SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P"

snypher — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 03:40:05 +0000

There's overlap between strong minority and nontrivial, so not sure how it can be vastly overstated. Do you have numbers you can add to this, or any explanation of equity exposure etc?

New comment by snypher in "Stop scanning QR codes, you dolts"

snypher — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:53:00 +0000

Stop giving me cookie popups for a blog post, you dolts.

New comment by snypher in "SpaceX's IPO is a disaster waiting to happen for your pension fund"

snypher — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 02:31:02 +0000

So what is the secret sauce SpaceX brings to the table? Obviously they have top talent, but if it's not a matter of funding or talent, what makes them stand out?

New comment by snypher in "Demand Is Booming for New No Tech, Repairable Tractor"

snypher — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:01:08 +0000

>they went out and bought machinery from 1987 so that it wouldn’t have a computer on it

That's fine and all but Deere still carries parts for that 1987 tractor, so you can keep it running. Ursa will probably be gone in 10 years?; it doesn't matter how mechanical the system is if you can't get new parts anyways.

New comment by snypher in "New Texas Instruments 5532 chips are not the 5532s we’ve used for decades"

snypher — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:56:22 +0000

An iPhone 17 is very different to an iPhone 3G, but we can pretend to ignore the fact one had its first flight in 1968 and the other in 2016.

New comment by snypher in "AI grifters are creating fake Black people to sell Shein junk"

snypher — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:18:21 +0000

Maybe the more time you spend on the capcha page,the more time the page has to do 'stuff'...

New comment by snypher in "Suit Says Black Infants Were Subjected to Experimental Vaccine Without Consent"

snypher — Sun, 31 May 2026 00:17:39 +0000

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/us/rsv-vaccine-testing-la...

New comment by snypher in "Stablecoins Are Private Money. That's Why They're a Risk to the Economy"

snypher — Sat, 30 May 2026 04:19:57 +0000

Here's the post by the victim;

https://gyrovague.com/2026/02/01/archive-today-is-directing-...

They were targeted because of this unmasking attempt, there was discussion on it;

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37009598

New comment by snypher in "When (if ever) it's appropriate to make jokes before the US Supreme Court"

snypher — Sun, 24 May 2026 17:26:44 +0000

https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-money-com...

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/06/supreme-court-justices-milli...

Etc etc, and that's just one of them, and that's just what's public.

New comment by snypher in "Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]"

snypher — Wed, 20 May 2026 04:39:45 +0000

It surprises me there's not a manual review for $$$$ accounts. Speculation at this stage, but it's weird they would be put in the Recycle Bin like that.

New comment by snypher in "Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone"

snypher — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:04:03 +0000

I know I live in Oregon or whatever but a lot of people use cash.

New comment by snypher in "Hackers have breached tank readers at US gas stations"

snypher — Fri, 15 May 2026 23:32:22 +0000

So under your model, the tankers just drive around, dipping tanks, to see who needs a delivery?

New comment by snypher in "We don't know why Malawi is poor"

snypher — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:52:42 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151476

New comment by snypher in "Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude"

snypher — Fri, 15 May 2026 01:39:21 +0000

Oh, only a mere $810m today.

New comment by snypher in "Residents furious as Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan"

snypher — Thu, 14 May 2026 01:50:25 +0000

>The entire project is a scam.

OP said that already when they mentioned Kevin O'Leary.