Hacker News: tekla

New comment by tekla in "Claude Fable 5"

tekla — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:07:00 +0000

Maybe at this point, Fable the game will be played generated by AI as we go.

New comment by tekla in "We Think the SpaceX IPO Is Overvalued"

tekla — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:36:01 +0000

The cheapness of the building is not the problem that is being dealt with.

The construction of the building w/ zoning and the political fights and utilities arguments and years of time and whatever is what is being dealt with by putting it in orbit.

New comment by tekla in "Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds"

tekla — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:19:39 +0000

HN is literally an ad.

New comment by tekla in "Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds"

tekla — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:16:57 +0000

Hell no, the forums of the 2000s were "topic that had the last post gets pushed to the top", and pretty much nothing else.

HN has an algorithm that manipulates what you see, and we do not know at all how it works.

New comment by tekla in "Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?"

tekla — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:08:36 +0000

The qualifier is literally the sub-headline and is mentioned several times in the article.

New comment by tekla in "If AI data centers are so great, why are they being built in secret?"

tekla — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:43:10 +0000

Present your own data

New comment by tekla in "If AI data centers are so great, why are they being built in secret?"

tekla — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:43:04 +0000

Present your own data

New comment by tekla in "If AI data centers are so great, why are they being built in secret?"

tekla — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:52:58 +0000

You believe lies, 99% of data shows that data centers do not use appreciable amounts of water compared to almond farms, or gold courses, or bog standard lawns.

https://tech.yahoo.com/science/articles/data-centers-less-wa...

New comment by tekla in "Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term"

tekla — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:21:02 +0000

There is some differences between bail and bond, but basically the same thing. Is a payment that lets you out of prison until trial under conditions. If you break conditions, payment is forfeited, but returned otherwise

This is because time to trial/actual trial itself can take a long time and there is generally dislike of keeping a person in confinement on the chance they are innocent.

New comment by tekla in "Flipper One – we need your help"

tekla — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:21:05 +0000

> They have developed a jaded, egotistical world view where only their own opinions can matter, and everyone else is wrong.

That describes HN

New comment by tekla in "SpaceX punts Starship launch as investigation opens into Starbase worker's death"

tekla — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:54:54 +0000

Are you accusing the media of misleading news about SpaceX, amazing bait for HN????

Yes, they are.

New comment by tekla in "FiveThirtyEight articles on the Internet Archive"

tekla — Wed, 20 May 2026 10:02:23 +0000

It's so interesting to see how someone could so confidentially wrong and clearly show no knowledge of statistics.

New comment by tekla in "Disney erased FiveThirtyEight"

tekla — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:39:09 +0000

> Call it emotional, naive, unfair or whatever you want

Yep definitely all those.

Why is it so hard to admit 30% is not 0%?

New comment by tekla in "New York to tax luxury second homes in NYC"

tekla — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:13:49 +0000

I dunno why anyone thinks this matters. https://comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/the-pied-a-terre-tax-and...

"We find that, before adjusting for these factors, our choice of tax rates and brackets could raise almost exactly $500 million from a little over 11,200 properties. However, revenues could be reduced to between roughly $340 million and $380 million based on assumptions on exclusions for rented units and behavioral changes following the imposition of the tax."

It's all media feel goodsies but not actually do anything substantive.

New comment by tekla in "The European Union backs Italy's right to make Meta pay for news"

tekla — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:29:42 +0000

Did I hallucinate several years of discourse about volunteer work on the internet should be paid? And that lefty types were yelling about how billionaire corps should compensate volunteer work because they clearly had money?

Something starting from Reddit mods?

New comment by tekla in "USDA Projects Smallest US Wheat Harvest Since 1972 Due to Plains Drought"

tekla — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:11:17 +0000

Do you think laws go away just because they're old?

The Colorado River compact came into effect in 1922 and I'm almost surprised literal fist fights haven't erupted over it during the modern negotiations.

New comment by tekla in "The European Union backs Italy's right to make Meta pay for news"

tekla — Thu, 14 May 2026 13:53:34 +0000

Why not? We the posters are providing free content and views and exposure for a VC fund worth billions of dollars.

Why are we not getting kickbacks?

New comment by tekla in "Avoiding and reducing microplastic false positives from dry glove contact"

tekla — Thu, 14 May 2026 13:51:24 +0000

I find that picking your nose can be a unconscious thing you do, but the sensation of sticking a glove into your nose quickly makes it very not unconscious very fast

But of course, hopefully the person in question will choose to change the glove.

Otherwise yes, glove wearing dogma is overdone, however still, should probably wear them.

New comment by tekla in "Kraftwerk's radical 1976 track"

tekla — Wed, 13 May 2026 12:39:58 +0000

Its so fucking wild to see how fast the winds change. And since its inconveniently politically incorrect, history rewrites or "they were actually the opposite of us and lying"

Anti-Vax people are/were seen the leftist idiots who were anti-capitalist, anti-corpo, anti-the fascist govt, who would rather have died of preventable diseases than perpetuate the medical industry and its capitalist schemes trying to keep us sick to sell drugs and also ban weed.

It's so funny to watch the political sides swap and the doublethink take all of a few days to propogate.

New comment by tekla in "A look at Denver’s “Unlocking Housing Choices” plan"

tekla — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:53:35 +0000

I hate this thing where we can't do a thing that helps a ton of people, because it also helps people we hate.

It's so poisonous to politics, and everyone does it for their pet peeve.

Can't do permitting reform, can't fix education, can't loosen bad regulation, all of it because someone you don't like might benefit and fuck that guy.