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New comment by solarmist in "Nearly 1,400 live streams from Japan"

solarmist — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 19:56:42 +0000

As for why it matters at all. Besides national pride and prejudices.

The dispute is significant because controlling the islets dictates fishing rights and surrounding maritime borders (EEZ) in resource-rich waters.

New comment by solarmist in "GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%"

solarmist — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:16:39 +0000

Bulk discounts are definitely a thing. Even established businesses do that.

But the biggest discount people see is subscriptions. You get a few thousand dollars of work from a couple hundred dollars.

New comment by solarmist in "GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%"

solarmist — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:11:16 +0000

As one example: Different access patterns. If you're using the app and have a subscription you get cheap tokens in the hopes you need more at which point you pay API prices which are much more expenseive.

New comment by solarmist in "Four simple rules behind Japan's most liveable cities"

solarmist — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:04:23 +0000

Nowadays. The last 50 years haven't been kind to people in the US.

New comment by solarmist in "Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy"

solarmist — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 01:25:21 +0000

Bullshit. We built a world that constantly exploits human limits, then act surprised when people hit them. No one has infinite willpower.

FuckItJS uses technology to make sure your JavaScript code runs no matter what

solarmist — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 23:47:22 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/mattdiamond/fuckitjs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46238999

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by solarmist in "How Charles M Schulz created Charlie Brown and Snoopy (2024)"

solarmist — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 01:46:07 +0000

I'm an American and I've really never related to Charlie Brown myself, but I've heard Peanuts is huge in Japan and other asian countries.

New comment by solarmist in "Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles"

solarmist — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 00:27:27 +0000

There was also a discussion somewhere where they switched off the OSS subtitling software they were using onto a commercial product that doesn't implement many of the features (mostly typesetting features) of the previous software.

New comment by solarmist in "Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles"

solarmist — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 00:25:06 +0000

Relevant discussion from a previous post. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45497900

New comment by solarmist in "Don't Be a Sucker (1943) [video]"

solarmist — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 22:13:52 +0000

I get it and it does make sense. Humans always consider the unfamiliar dangerous by default, but I believe it's deeper and simpler than the arguments you present.

This is not a strictly human trait. Anthropologists are pretty sure we received this trait from our primate ancestors. It evolved out of family groups/tribalism.

Also, a large part of our brains are safety mechanisms. Many features are directed at keeping us alive which is why so many of our what if scenarios are about the worst happening.

In very tribal environments anyone not in your in-group is considered unsafe even if they look exactly like you (i.e. a tribe from 10 km away).

But the thing that has made humans the most successful species on Earth is our ability to override this behavior to cooperate at larger and larger scales.

New comment by solarmist in "Cloudflare was down"

solarmist — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 19:44:15 +0000

Do these get posted publicly?

New comment by solarmist in "The Gang Has a Mid-Life Crisis"

solarmist — Fri, 02 May 2025 23:26:58 +0000

I’m not sure you really can, at least not in the way it’s often portrayed. Founders usually need a high level of skill or a clearly transferable capability in something already valuable. That phrase gets repeated a lot, but the more I think about it, the more it feels like an oversimplification. Maybe there’s a version of it that works, but it’s probably more about reframing or uncovering hidden leverage than starting from zero.

New comment by solarmist in "The Gang Has a Mid-Life Crisis"

solarmist — Thu, 01 May 2025 20:19:07 +0000

This is such a good point. People tend to focus on money as the main form of privilege, but that internalized sense of “I belong here” might matter even more. It’s not just confidence—it’s a kind of default assumption that you’ll be taken seriously, that you’ll have options, that failure won’t wreck your life.

I’ve seen it in startups too. Some founders take bold risks because they know, consciously or not, that if it doesn’t work out, they’ll be fine. Others carry the weight of “I can’t afford to screw this up,” and that changes how they operate. Even if they’re equally capable, the emotional cost of risk is just higher when you don’t have that built-in safety net.

And from the outside, those differences are invisible. Both people might succeed, but one was playing on easy mode and didn’t know it. The other had to brute-force their way through every step. That gap is real, and we don’t talk about it enough.

New comment by solarmist in "Next-Gen GPU Programming: Hands-On with Mojo and Max Modular HQ"

solarmist — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 20:34:48 +0000

What are you skeptical of? I believe the problem this is solving is a framework that's not CUDA that allows low level access to the hardware, makes it easy to write kernels, and is not Nvidia only. If you watch the video you can write directly in asm if you need to. You have full control if you want it. But it provides primitives and higher level objects that handle common cases.

I'm a novice in the area, but Chris is well respected in this area and cares a lot of about performance.

New comment by solarmist in "Next-Gen GPU Programming: Hands-On with Mojo and Max Modular HQ"

solarmist — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 20:29:57 +0000

Yeah, the mic quality was terrible.

New comment by solarmist in "Next-Gen GPU Programming: Hands-On with Mojo and Max Modular HQ"

solarmist — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 20:29:16 +0000

Not sure I fully understand your comment, but I'm pretty sure the talk addresses exactly that.

The primitives and pre-coded kernels provided by CUDA (it solves for the most common scenarios first and foremost) is what's holding things back and in order to get those algorithms and data structures down to the hardware level you need something flexible that can talk directly to the hardware.

New comment by solarmist in "Next-Gen GPU Programming: Hands-On with Mojo and Max Modular HQ"

solarmist — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 18:55:18 +0000

I'm really hoping Modular.ai takes off. GPU programming seems like a nightmare, I'm not surprised they felt the need to build an entire new language to tackle that bog.

Next-Gen GPU Programming: Hands-On with Mojo and Max Modular HQ

solarmist — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 18:32:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/live/uul6hZ5NXC8?si=mKxZJy2xAD-rOc3g

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43797058

Points: 44

# Comments: 21

New comment by solarmist in "A College Student Accidentally Broke the Laws of Thermodynamics"

solarmist — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 18:59:19 +0000

Anyone know anything about this or can evaluate this claim?

Seems like a major thing if it’s true that would inspire an entire new area research.

A College Student Accidentally Broke the Laws of Thermodynamics

solarmist — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 18:30:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a64389890/emulsification-magnetism/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43666834

Points: 3

# Comments: 3