Hacker News: stonogo

New comment by stonogo in "Microsoft turns to AWS as GitHub faces AI capacity crunch"

stonogo — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:28:57 +0000

and now it's not even that!

New comment by stonogo in "San Francisco Weighs PG&E Takeover Amid Soaring Utility Costs"

stonogo — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 03:26:55 +0000

EIA doesn't carry TVA data because the TVA doesn't participate in open-market sales or report data to FERC. Wholesale power is auctioned in I(or R)SOs; TVA just sets rates directly during negotiations with power companies.

New comment by stonogo in "Amazon Announces Multibillion-Dollar Data Center in Missouri"

stonogo — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 02:32:10 +0000

Fort Leonard Wood is a basic training base. It has no meaningful defenses.

New comment by stonogo in "San Francisco Weighs PG&E Takeover Amid Soaring Utility Costs"

stonogo — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:53:42 +0000

Yes, CAISO wholesale rates are much lower, but California also has the highest retail cost in the continental US, at over 28c/kWh. If any customer in the TVA paid that much for power there'd be riots.

New comment by stonogo in "Launch HN: Drafted (YC P26) – Models for residential architecture"

stonogo — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:35:06 +0000

This is a lot of fun.

https://cdn.drafted.ai/thumb/drafts/27019/generations/98723/...

- off-bathroom conference room!

- side-by-side toilets

- garage inaccessible except via bathroom

it's engrossing!

Also most (but not all!) of the designs seem to omit laundry facilities. I wonder whether there's a pattern there.

New comment by stonogo in "21 years and counting of 'eight fallacies of distributed computing' (2025)"

stonogo — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:10:01 +0000

Deutsch speculated it was "either Bill or Dick Lyon" (sic) (https://web.archive.org/web/20040203202935/http://www.aladdi...) but there has been speculation he meant Tom Lyon, who worked there at the time. Gosling had them hosted on his website for a long time (https://web.archive.org/web/20021206065457/http://java.sun.c...)

New comment by stonogo in "H.R. 6028 would fundamentally change the U.S. Copyright Office"

stonogo — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 01:15:14 +0000

In this instance, this work is explicitly assigned to Congress directly in the Constitution. It does not arbitrarily limit the methods with which Congress carries out this work. There is no reason Congress cannot hire people to carry out this work and empower those employees to do so, which is something Congress commonly does in dozens of other instances, and has from the beginning.

There is also no requirement that the executive branch involve itself in that process. This is just another expansion of executive power; the latest in a decades-old tradition of Congress abdicating its responsibilities.

New comment by stonogo in "H.R. 6028 would fundamentally change the U.S. Copyright Office"

stonogo — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:15:14 +0000

Except that's a bad summary of a bad argument. "Rulemaking" is what Congress is supposed to do.

New comment by stonogo in "Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension"

stonogo — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:24:19 +0000

Applying the 'one thing well' bumper sticker to a web browser, which does a million things in a mediocre fashion, is a bizarre take. Not only is that whole comparison inapplicable, it's orthagonal to the point. You can do 'one thing well' and open source the code too, but you're not, and this post does not explain why.

New comment by stonogo in "Show HN: I Derived a Pancake"

stonogo — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 03:01:23 +0000

I agree, this seems like a lot of really excellent work from someone with a completely different pancake baseline than I have. The word 'crispy', in my world, has no business applying to pancakes. That's what bacon is for.

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

stonogo — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:05:14 +0000

> So what's the reason for fast entry specifically?

Inclusion in as many indexes as possible is basically the definition of "too big to fail." It's the ultimate de-risk to know that if you fuck up badly enough the government will just give you everyone's money.

New comment by stonogo in "They’re made out of weights"

stonogo — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:35:32 +0000

"that is axiomatically assumed"

passive voice doing a hell of a lot of work in this phrase

New comment by stonogo in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

stonogo — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:56:39 +0000

The frustrating part is the seem to do that already, except for these obvious spam messages.

New comment by stonogo in "Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API"

stonogo — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:12:34 +0000

Congrats on your enormous org. The conversation was about families, indicating a non-enterprise environment. Try to keep up.

New comment by stonogo in "I rode Elon Musk's Vegas Loop, the worst transit system on Earth"

stonogo — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:09:52 +0000

I don't think it changed. The claims went from "this isn't an improvement and it's wildly expensive" to "this isn't an improvement, it's wildly expensive, the result sucks, and it does nothing to test the concepts behind Hyperloop," that last bit being part of the original sales pitch.

Asserting that Loop is beating any form of normal rail is a wild claim that I don't think I've ever heard a transit engineer agree with.

In short, I'm not worried about Boring Co continuing good execution, but it would be nice to see Boring Co initiate good execution.

New comment by stonogo in "Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API"

stonogo — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:34:12 +0000

Nobody in my life even notices when they change their 'primary operating system.' They buy a phone based on what looks cool at the time, sometimes it's android, sometimes it's iphone. They move freely between chromebooks, windows, and mac os, because everything is online anyway. It's only 'experts' who have trouble with this.

New comment by stonogo in "Volkswagen blocks Home Assistant by requiring client assertion"

stonogo — Fri, 29 May 2026 13:13:44 +0000

More or less dangerous than non-selective outrage?

New comment by stonogo in "Claude Opus 4.8"

stonogo — Fri, 29 May 2026 02:39:40 +0000

Every STEM field regards itself as "generic problem identification and solving" though

New comment by stonogo in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"

stonogo — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:28:48 +0000

That isn't a matter of human biology. You learned to expect a specific experience when you took pencil to paper at a young age. Other people can learn to expect different experiences. Your acquired habits are not a genetic imperative. All of this post seems like ex post facto justifications for an implicit claim that the tech you grew up with is natural and good and the tech that came later is somehow inimical to life.

New comment by stonogo in "Ferrari shares fall after launch of first EV as Jony Ive design proves divisive"

stonogo — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:50:23 +0000

Is the giant rectangle in the middle of the dashboard not a touchscreen?