Hacker News: systemvoltage

New comment by systemvoltage in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

systemvoltage — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 08:00:00 +0000

What do you do if not AWS?

New comment by systemvoltage in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

systemvoltage — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 07:58:17 +0000

workos is down too, timing is highly correlated with AWS outage: https://status.workos.com/

That means Cursor is down, can't login.

New comment by systemvoltage in "Anthropic signs a $200M deal with the Department of Defense"

systemvoltage — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 21:05:32 +0000

What changed? 2017 HN would be very different on this take.

New comment by systemvoltage in "Hypercapitalism and the AI talent wars"

systemvoltage — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 21:03:35 +0000

No, I can’t find a single article praising wealth concentration.

New comment by systemvoltage in "Hypercapitalism and the AI talent wars"

systemvoltage — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 10:03:28 +0000

Not trolling. It has served me better than most heuristics.

If there is something subjective and if you cannot find a critique of it, it’s usually a super power to assume the opposite is true barring obvious exceptions.

New comment by systemvoltage in "Hypercapitalism and the AI talent wars"

systemvoltage — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 07:40:27 +0000

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New comment by systemvoltage in "Grok 4 Launch [video]"

systemvoltage — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 08:55:59 +0000

It encourages the 80% into group think. Flagging is a signifier that “you should not dare to think that was a good comment. Move on and don’t think for yourself”.

New comment by systemvoltage in "OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive"

systemvoltage — Wed, 21 May 2025 18:38:14 +0000

I agree somewhat, you can feel the tension on HN with respect to labor vs capital. Which is funny because the entire premise of YC is to infuse capital and get a huge leverage over bootstrappers.

New comment by systemvoltage in "Gukesh becomes the youngest chess world champion in history"

systemvoltage — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 17:24:02 +0000

Chess engines should come with another metric bar: "The twitchy-ness" of the position aka the gradient of primary eval metric as you pareto the possible moves from best to worst. The stronger this gradient, the more risky it is to play, and more changes to make a mistake.

New comment by systemvoltage in "Artemis moon suit designed by Axiom Space and Prada revealed in Milan"

systemvoltage — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 23:58:24 +0000

Great article by Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-10-17/michae...

New comment by systemvoltage in "SSL certificate lifetimes are going down. Dates proposed. 45 days by 2027"

systemvoltage — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 08:49:43 +0000

:-D Nice. The future we deserve. Now only if there was a company that was into one drop blood testing!

New comment by systemvoltage in "SSL certificate lifetimes are going down. Dates proposed. 45 days by 2027"

systemvoltage — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 08:05:30 +0000

We need more safetyism culture. We need to ban root access completely by 2030. 10-factor security for login. 256 digit OTP and you must insert a drop of blood to login.

At least, we’ll be super secure!

New comment by systemvoltage in "Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]"

systemvoltage — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 17:38:11 +0000

https://x.com/marionawfal/status/1845351598874120662

I dug into it, found this clip. Elon says that it’s those two tiny knubs! Saw a few pictures and yes, I confirm, it’s not the grid fins.

New comment by systemvoltage in "Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]"

systemvoltage — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 14:59:15 +0000

Do you know what the entire booster is hanging off of? It can't be the fins. How is the load transferred to the arms?

New comment by systemvoltage in "Starship Flight 5 [video]"

systemvoltage — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 14:23:13 +0000

Insane!

New comment by systemvoltage in "Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]"

systemvoltage — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 14:14:58 +0000

Need to remove regulations instead and fast track SpaceX.

Every fucking time we don't need to increase the size of the Government. It only gets bigger. Never smaller.

New comment by systemvoltage in "Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]"

systemvoltage — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 14:09:19 +0000

Better than both, NSF's stream: https://x.com/nasaspaceflight/status/1845442658203734384

New comment by systemvoltage in "Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]"

systemvoltage — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 14:05:09 +0000

Closeup of chopsticks as they were catching the booster, best clip from Everyday Astronaut's livestream: https://x.com/kagurazakimoto/status/1845447451592765820

New comment by systemvoltage in "Show HN: I've Built an Accounting System"

systemvoltage — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 14:00:55 +0000

It’s autist, I’ll allow it.

New comment by systemvoltage in "Why freedom of speech is a wicked problem"

systemvoltage — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 01:19:02 +0000

They still broadcast to millions of people despite of being occasionally wrong. Individuals can support them or not, they can be funded by other means (WaPo by Jeff Bezos). It doesn’t change the central point I was trying to make: they put out incorrect information to an extremely large audience. Often corrections are late and the damage is done. Viewership of correction is a few magnitude of orders less.

I am not advocating banning them. I was trying to make a point that by the extension of OP’s logic, the existence of press seems in line with their characterization.