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New comment by srmatto in "Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months"

srmatto — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:11:34 +0000

Real history here on this subject is the LCD panel price fixing scheme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TFT-LCD_(Flat_Panel)_Antitrust...

New comment by srmatto in "Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows"

srmatto — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:42:45 +0000

Then I guess we need someone to sic Claude on trying to re-write the linux driver for MacOS then and see what happens.

New comment by srmatto in "Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?"

srmatto — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:22:12 +0000

Infra is a cost center for a business unless your a PaaS and even then maybe still. Cost centers are usually ferreted out for savings, not investment.

New comment by srmatto in "What Happened to Talenti?"

srmatto — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:52:02 +0000

Wow nearly every mattress company I can think of is on the avoid list there.

New comment by srmatto in "LLM Routers Have Become a Service Category of Their Own"

srmatto — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:13:32 +0000

Any options someone can use locally, say with Claude Code?

New comment by srmatto in "The arguments against open source AI are bad"

srmatto — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:42:45 +0000

That hasn't worked for Climate Change and in my opinion it's for the same reason: money.

New comment by srmatto in "Medici family mystery may be solved after more than 400 years"

srmatto — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:29:39 +0000

FWIW you can prepend `lite.` to cnn.com to get text only articles. https://lite.cnn.com/2026/07/15/science/medici-family-myster...

New comment by srmatto in "Most Americans say "not in my backyard" to AI data centers"

srmatto — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 18:13:22 +0000

I think there's truth to what you're saying but I also think there's truth to what people are experiencing and perceiving.

A highly power and/or water consumptive data center being installed in a town or city is pretty much a perfect embodiment of people's frustrations. It consumes tons of power and/or water and therefore drives up utility costs for the locals or pollutes the air with diesel exhaust. And it doesn't create jobs so it's just frankly some rich cabal of capitalists getting richer while people's lives continue to feel materially worse. I can't think of a better embodiment of the sort of confluence of crumminess that seems to be underway.

New comment by srmatto in "Show HN: Devthropology – Better Insights for GitHub Repos"

srmatto — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:41:34 +0000

This is a little bit reinventing the wheel.

https://scorecard.dev/#the-checks

https://github.com/future-architect/uzomuzo-oss#the-problem-...

New comment by srmatto in "Nintendo announces new product revisions in Europe with replaceable batteries"

srmatto — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:36:47 +0000

This doesn't really take into account the real history around user replaceable batteries. It's been happening for years and when there are no alternatives to choose from its not a "vote with your wallet" situation. For example at some point MacBooks just stopped shipping with replaceable batteries and its disingenuous to expect someone to then switch to Dell, Lenovo, or something else. Those platforms can't run MacOS so the choice was made for the users. If you depend on MacOS and the software that runs on it, then your choice was clear--buy a new MacBook with a glued battery.

New comment by srmatto in "Instagram is incorporating users' photos in ads for Meta Glasses"

srmatto — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:12:44 +0000

Small businesses are pretty important for a number of reasons and I think if people adopted this stance it would hurt them a lot more than it would hurt Meta.

New comment by srmatto in "Instagram is incorporating users' photos in ads for Meta Glasses"

srmatto — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:18:37 +0000

Well there you go, there is no reasonable way to be a non-participant while also staying up to date on businesses that choose to use the platform.

New comment by srmatto in "Instagram is incorporating users' photos in ads for Meta Glasses"

srmatto — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:09:27 +0000

Is Meta abusing its users a problem? Yes. Does the TOS allow for it? Yes. Can people decide to just create a shell account and not actually participate? Sure.

One of the real insidious problems with Instagram and to some extent Facebook is that they provide a free, low friction way for business to communicate with current or potential customers. As a result many small businesses use Instagram as replacement for a public facing website and perhaps a blog or email newsletter. Many small business in my region depend on Instagram for this purpose, its nearly universal. It helps keep you stuck in Instagram so that you can see a business' hours, menu, or special events. I guess a shell account is the answer but you're still going to have to navigate the skinner box feed.

New comment by srmatto in "Steam Machine launches today"

srmatto — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 20:59:36 +0000

Yeah I regret throwing that in the mix because it seems to have rubbed folks the wrong way for whatever reason. I just think avoiding storing state means it's a much easier project. Doesn't have to be G sheets.

New comment by srmatto in "Steam Machine launches today"

srmatto — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 20:58:20 +0000

Fair point but I mean it eliminates state and would be familiar to just about anyone that might need something like this.

New comment by srmatto in "Steam Machine launches today"

srmatto — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:29:14 +0000

I would love to see a generalized FOSS reservation system that could be used for just about anything that would help address the issues Valve listed. It could be as simple as a short lived deployment (1,3,7,14 days) that writes out the entries to a Google Sheets. I have encountered so many people trying to come up with their own approach to this problem that I think it would be worth solving. Maybe I can find time to work on it later this year.

New comment by srmatto in "TerraPower in deal with Meta for eight Natrium 345 MW nuclear plants"

srmatto — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:03:05 +0000

Didn't the Trump admin put in the same lawyer who helped Uber to "reform" the NRC? I can't find the Bloomberg article but they made it sound like they were going to gut the NRC. To be clear I am not endorsing this, but I read that was happening or they were at least trying.

New comment by srmatto in "Claude Opus 4.8"

srmatto — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:23:39 +0000

What benchmarks are you referencing that show a comparison of the models for penetration testing?

New comment by srmatto in "An Introduction to Meshtastic"

srmatto — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:54:56 +0000

This is the first I've heard of it so I guess its not a real project then.

New comment by srmatto in "An Introduction to Meshtastic"

srmatto — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:39:37 +0000

I would try to select based on the merits of the project and its adoption instead of drama.

For me the team behind meshtastic needs some help behind their approach to APIs, the app releases frequently break that contract and they probably just need a little help in that area to improve it.

Meshcore sounds compelling to me because it has that fixed vs dynamic target approach which I suspect is more true to the real world given folks are standing up solar powered radios attached to fixed points and then trying to send messages from their phones.

Edit: I guess meshcore isn't really a real project.