Hacker News: verall

New comment by verall in "It's a shame what's happened to radio"

verall — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 12:08:56 +0000

kutx and koop on the same frequency are great

New comment by verall in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

verall — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 07:20:02 +0000

DC has wider margins than the 5090. by someone elses rough numbers (https://www.spheron.network/blog/gb300-nvl72-vs-gb200-nvl72-...) for GB300 rack:

> 132kW

> ~$3.7-4M

So about 300x the 5090's power but 1000x the price. Roughly 9 years for electricity to exceed price at $0.38 and datacenters will show up in areas with cheaper power than CA.

New comment by verall in "EU Exempts Apple Watch and AirPods from Battery Removal Requirements"

verall — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:40:28 +0000

Most phones quietly lose their ip68 when battery or screen is replaced

New comment by verall in "Anthropic's newest ad is creeping people out"

verall — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 06:22:47 +0000

Yes, I think that is the idea - AI is scary to most normal people, so the ad goes, "yes it's scary, but we're, uh, smart? It will be okay..."

New comment by verall in "Anthropic's newest ad is creeping people out"

verall — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 05:18:30 +0000

It was a good ad, because it was scary but hopeful, and I think that's how they want people to view their company?

Trying to make claude come off as human and friendly is never going to work in an ad, it would be huge uncanny valley.

So may as well try to scare people, might help juice the ipo a tiny bit from clueless people

New comment by verall in "DOGE is done. What happened to its records?"

verall — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:24:18 +0000

It was the post-DOGE DOI that rescinded the rule, after the "fat and waste" had been cut.

New comment by verall in "USAA closed 51% of home insurance claims without making a payment in 2025"

verall — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 19:23:48 +0000

My experience with USAA is still that it's better than all of the other insurers, but I haven't had to make any homeowners claims. They have done very well every time my family had to make an auto claim - still only a couple of times, but it was very clean and no-BS.

New comment by verall in "What Do We Know About the Microplastics Inside Us?"

verall — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:37:30 +0000

Just chiming in because you might be interested -

> That's just true. Plastic spoons for cooking suck, wood and (where it makes sense and won't damage other things) metal are way better.

If you have ever used nice commercial high-temp silicone spatula, it's an incredibly versatile and easy to clean spoon for cooking. A bit expensive at like $20 though. Pair with nice nonstick pan and polycarbonate cutting board (dishwashable) for the easiest and most out of fashion cooking and cleaning experience.

> One thing that's surprised me is the cost and/or total lack of availability of glass blender jars

My cheapest in the store oyster blender is glass, I think they mostly still are.

New comment by verall in "We're extending access to Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12"

verall — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 03:27:19 +0000

I think it's for the insane amount of data they get to collect. Most people probably don't turn off the "help improve other models" while corporations paying by the token have blanket no-train policies applied to everyone.

New comment by verall in "Camera with transparent display launches for the equivalent of $29"

verall — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 23:05:01 +0000

If it was not very affordable, it would not be interesting as a light meter, because it would make no sense to spend any more money on a very basic light meter. Light meters on amazon start at about $15-30 (and go to ~$700), so at it's current price point, it's not much more expensive then a basic light meter without the camera.

New comment by verall in "Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402"

verall — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:01:31 +0000

I can't wait for the deluge of AI generated agent-optimized webpages competing to trick your agent into giving them micropennies.

New comment by verall in "How H-E-B became Texas' most beloved brand (2024)"

verall — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 16:42:02 +0000

There's so many other bbq restaurants competitive with Franklin and better than heb.

For the price though, the heb bbq is extremely competitive. But if someone is coming to town looking for great bbq (even without any Franklin line), there are a bunch of places id recommend first.

New comment by verall in "HPV vaccine cuts risk of dying from cervical cancer before 30"

verall — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 03:49:21 +0000

Don't brits use the same way, i.e. "Take a jab at it"?

- not a brit so idk

New comment by verall in "Rent collections are down in New York"

verall — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 03:35:41 +0000

How many high income individuals want to share a house with 5 strangers?

New comment by verall in "Google workspace threatening to block Firefox access"

verall — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 20:57:41 +0000

Do people get pwned by anything besides spearphishing or ads nowadays? I think ad->phish or targeted phish emails is the only shady thing I've been exposed to in like 10 years

New comment by verall in "A new bill takes aim at government pressure to silence lawful online speech"

verall — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 20:33:36 +0000

Are you suggesting ivermectin was a safe and effective enough treatment for COVID that it would obviate the need for the vaccine?

New comment by verall in "A robot is sprinting towards you. Do you want it running on Claude or Grok?"

verall — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:29:50 +0000

It's more than the style, it seriously impacts the legibility of the prose. The article is seriously hard to understand because it introduces a lot of different ideas in a really weird order without a clear structure or key idea to different sections.

New comment by verall in "A robot is sprinting towards you. Do you want it running on Claude or Grok?"

verall — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:26:31 +0000

All of the normal AI tells plus it's very long yet nearly incoherent.

Really I use the AI every damn day at work I don't get how people can't recognize instantly if something is completely AI, AI with light proofreading, or human written.

I would call this as AI with very light proofreading.

New comment by verall in "A robot is sprinting towards you. Do you want it running on Claude or Grok?"

verall — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:22:35 +0000

The idea is really neat and there's probably an answer here related to last standing vs kills vs "scoring" (some combination of the 2?) but the article is nearly incoherent because the author did not feel like proofreading their slop

New comment by verall in "Reviews have become expensive, rewrites have become cheap"

verall — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 11:10:40 +0000

In context it's funny, and that's what counts.