Hacker News: trillic

New comment by trillic in "Naphtha shortages in Japan"

trillic — Sat, 30 May 2026 04:48:02 +0000

Burning trash is recycling now?

New comment by trillic in "Chasing Chicago's movable bridges (2014)"

trillic — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:39:53 +0000

These particular sailboats are stored in the winter at either Chicago Yacht Works or the Canal Street Boat Yard.

New comment by trillic in "The rise and fall of snake oil"

trillic — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:09:13 +0000

I do lite salt, maltodextrin, magnesium glycinate, and lemonlime powder.

New comment by trillic in "Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

trillic — Fri, 08 May 2026 12:27:37 +0000

yup you just get an email saying "A new grade has been posted for EECS 420"

New comment by trillic in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

trillic — Mon, 04 May 2026 12:50:54 +0000

Liquid Assets:

May 2020: $570.3 million

Jan 2026: $9.013 billion

New comment by trillic in "US–Indian space mission maps extreme subsidence in Mexico City"

trillic — Sun, 03 May 2026 22:59:48 +0000

Mexico City was built on top of a lake that was dried to facilitate the expansion of the city.

New comment by trillic in "Networking changes coming in macOS 27"

trillic — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:24:30 +0000

I use this for networked Time Machine backups for multiple Macs in my household. Works just as well over tailscale VPN.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Netatalk

New comment by trillic in "Habitual coffee intake shapes the microbiome, modifies physiology and cognition"

trillic — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:57:33 +0000

I've found hot water has the same laxative effect as coffee in the form of herbal tea.

Same ritual each morning without the unknown dosing of a stimulant drug.

New comment by trillic in "Notes from the SF Peptide Scene"

trillic — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:28:22 +0000

What are the peptides you're using for hEDS?

New comment by trillic in "A $20/month user costs OpenAI $65 in compute. AI video is a money furnace"

trillic — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:29:49 +0000

It's a well known fact that 1 Picture == 1000 words.

New comment by trillic in "Inside Nepal's Fake Rescue Racket"

trillic — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:24:27 +0000

Priced into the premium. It's not your run of the mill health insurance.

New comment by trillic in "Recover Apple Keychain"

trillic — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:10:12 +0000

Same anecdote, keep my phone in my saddle bag now.

New comment by trillic in "Apple removes iPhone vibe coding app from app store"

trillic — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:40:28 +0000

I haven't been in the App Store ecosystem in a while, but the restriction is generally on running new Machine Code, all machine code needs to be signed on iOS. Interpreters get around this limitation, only the interpreter code that is compiled AoT and signed is actually running.

This tracks as the reasoning behind a lack of other browser engines, nobody can get comparable performance without a JIT, which would be compiling net new machine code that wasn't shipped with the binary.

The best way to handle this I would imagine within the current bounds of Apple's restrictions would be WASM.

New comment by trillic in "The bridge to wealth is being pulled up with AI"

trillic — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:38:53 +0000

I think cognitive ability is a real thing with a genuine genetic component; twin studies make that pretty hard to deny. But the SAT measures a narrow slice of ability under conditions that favor prep access, and speaking from experience, scoring well on standardized tests without having to work for it hurt me long term. I coasted on test-taking ability and didn't develop real discipline until adulthood.

Without standardized tests, my transcript probably doesn't get me into a top school, I likely don't end up in tech, and honestly maybe I would've been forced to develop a work ethic earlier, which might have been better for me.

New comment by trillic in "Flighty Airports"

trillic — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 02:27:37 +0000

FlightAware and Flighty are usually within seconds of each other and always ahead of the airlines.

New comment by trillic in "The bridge to wealth is being pulled up with AI"

trillic — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:40:03 +0000

The SAT is a measure of test-taking ability, socioeconomic status, a narrow band of academic skills, and processing information under time pressure.

I don't think it measures much else.

Why do you think the SAT is a measure of hard work or character?

New comment by trillic in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

trillic — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:17:51 +0000

To paste code into the chrome dev console you just need to type “allow pasting”

New comment by trillic in "Gitana 18: the new flying Ultim trimaran"

trillic — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:36:34 +0000

The French public pays attention to it, as do offshore sailors in general, but it’s a tiny “market” of eyeballs. My Naval architect friends who don’t sail also find it interesting from an engineering perspective and Gitana puts out good content, albeit in French, so I’m using the translator a lot. The programs and races are mostly sponsored by large French banks and dynastically wealthy families, I assume there is some overlap there… It’s like formula 1 but less eyeballs and more French prestige. A vast majority of the skippers and crew of these yachts these days are French, with the occasional Brit thrown in there.

New comment by trillic in "No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user"

trillic — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:07:29 +0000

I don't think you are an accountant.

New comment by trillic in "MacBook Neo"

trillic — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:31:27 +0000

A18 Pro Geekbench on an iPhone: Single: 3539 Multi-core: 8772 Macbook Air M1 Geekbench: Single: 2347 Multi-core: 8342