Hacker News: trkarlbhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=trkarlbHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 11 Jul 2026 20:53:59 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by trkarlb in "The internet does not want readers. It wants livestock"]]>The horror that an individual dares to have an opinion as opposed to corporations or councils.

]]>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:01:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48847091trkarlbhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48847091https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48847091<![CDATA[New comment by trkarlb in "Meta reuses old RAM in new servers with custom bridge chip"]]>There is already a data center oversupply. xAI rents out colossus and Meta also rents out capacity.

]]>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:58:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48847015trkarlbhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48847015https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48847015<![CDATA[New comment by trkarlb in "US seeks cheaper hunter-killer drones after Iran destroys $1B worth of Reapers"]]>The Defense Innovation Unit was founded in 2015 and is full of SV interest groups:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Innovation_Unit

They could obviously have foreseen the current failures in 2015. It is irrelevant, since the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Generals who routinely give theatrical performances for the cameras want the big toys for their districts.

The goal in Iran is also not to win but to keep the Gulf monarchies, the EU, Japan and China down by means of a low intensity forever war.

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