Hacker News: thorncorona

New comment by thorncorona in "Where Are All the Data Centers?"

thorncorona — Wed, 13 May 2026 01:45:53 +0000

This is funny to say because EU QOL stays afloat due to cheap imports from China.

New comment by thorncorona in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

thorncorona — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:41:01 +0000

Let's let the California HSR committee do it instead!

New comment by thorncorona in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

thorncorona — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:02:24 +0000

Did you validate anything you have posted?

New comment by thorncorona in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"

thorncorona — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 03:49:39 +0000

for an account 41 days old you participate in a lot of controversial topic threads.

New comment by thorncorona in "Death to Scroll Fade"

thorncorona — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:58:08 +0000

Next phone will be an android at this rate if Apple can’t solve this garbage

New comment by thorncorona in "Death to Scroll Fade"

thorncorona — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:12:08 +0000

My favorite part of the iPhone 17 pro / ios26 combo is that it lags on any and everything that remotely touches the GPU like this website.

New comment by thorncorona in "AirPods Max 2"

thorncorona — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:14:19 +0000

20 hours of listening is surprisingly low --

sony xm6 -- 30h

bose qc ultra -- 24h

would recommend the sony anc headphones, they're quite good.

New comment by thorncorona in "Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)"

thorncorona — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 01:42:16 +0000

The percentage of China in extreme poverty has been decreasing for the last few decades.

New comment by thorncorona in "Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourced"

thorncorona — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 08:00:07 +0000

Or more likely, the commonality is how you're applying your software skills?

In every other field it's helpful to understand the basics. I don't think software is the exception here.

New comment by thorncorona in "Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge"

thorncorona — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 07:27:16 +0000

I previously hand baked everything.

I learned how andible, terraform, and docker approach dev ops and infra.

I would not be able to hand cook anything with these tools but understanding the syntax was a non goal (nor what interests me).

New comment by thorncorona in "Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge"

thorncorona — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 21:50:22 +0000

I pay $20/m for cursor. It allowed me to revamp my home lab in a weekend.

New comment by thorncorona in "Photos capture the breathtaking scale of China's wind and solar buildout"

thorncorona — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 05:20:53 +0000

That is what they say about self driving cars, and there are services which are commercially available right now.

New comment by thorncorona in "Zo: Intelligent Personal Servers for Everyone"

thorncorona — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:29:45 +0000

I like the design of this

New comment by thorncorona in "Jeff Bezos creates A.I. startup where he will be co-chief executive"

thorncorona — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 17:00:27 +0000

> if you're a hyped up billionaire, it's easy mode because you can pay a lot, and people want to work for you

blue origin vs spacex says otherwise..

New comment by thorncorona in "Apple nears $1B Google deal for custom Gemini model to power Siri"

thorncorona — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 22:57:25 +0000

When is this not true?

It is cheaper to buy GPUs than to develop the capabilities to develop GPUs.

New comment by thorncorona in "How OpenAI uses complex and circular deals to fuel its multibillion-dollar rise"

thorncorona — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 18:59:16 +0000

It's like how every big co these days is ML. It will transition to LLMs as well.

Just give it a few years.

New comment by thorncorona in "Samsung makes ads on smart fridges official with upcoming software update"

thorncorona — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:04:58 +0000

why not fix it?

New comment by thorncorona in "New-Vehicle Avg Price Hits Record High in Sep, Surges Past $50k for First Time"

thorncorona — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 21:39:17 +0000

Is it so hard to acknowledge that China is better at manufacturing?

New comment by thorncorona in "A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size"

thorncorona — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 20:42:00 +0000

How is that possible we have not figured out how to do this ourselves?

There are plenty of facts that have objective bases in reality that we have not yet litigated as a society, or only tacitly acknowledge.

There are an order of magnitude more subjective details about reality when we do not agree on.

New comment by thorncorona in "A macOS terminal command that tells you if your USB-C cable is bad"

thorncorona — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 00:11:08 +0000

Because even though I can learn some random library, I don’t really care to. I can do the architecture, I don’t care to spend half an hour understanding deeply how arguments to some API work.

Example: I rebuilt my homelab in a weekend last week with claude.

Setup terraform / ansible / docker for everything, and this was possible because I let claude all the arguments / details. I used to not bothered because I thought it was tedious.