Hacker News: verdverm

New comment by verdverm in "We gave an AI persistent identity and free access to a quantum computer"

verdverm — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 22:05:22 +0000

not sure it ever created it, the account doesn't exist either

New comment by verdverm in "Artemis II is competency porn"

verdverm — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:00:25 +0000

As an American, I don't understand why we need to waste money to be on the moon. There are better things we could be doing, regardless of politics.

New comment by verdverm in "Nowhere is safe"

verdverm — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:21:32 +0000

> Nothing else Iran could possibly do, matters at all.

This is a naive belief and contains the same hubris as Trump held when entering this war.

They have also destroyed billing of US military planes and radars on the ground, taken US company data centers in the region offline, and damaged refineries for oil, aluminum, and water (desalination).

They can still get missiles and drones through air defenses in the region. 80% of their strikes are against not Israel.

New comment by verdverm in "A Crazy Expensive U.S. Drone Just Disappeared over Strait of Hormuz"

verdverm — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:53:47 +0000

a better phrasing would have been "peer" or "near peer" adversary

New comment by verdverm in "Nowhere is safe"

verdverm — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:46:50 +0000

Look into what Ukraine is doing, they are at the forefront of all this.

They already have the system you describe. The German one's with radars are expensive compared to the technicals aimed by soldiers. Neither has very large effective range and the drones do not fly straight paths. You'd need millions of them.

They are mass producing interceptor drones for a reason.

New comment by verdverm in "Nowhere is safe"

verdverm — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:39:27 +0000

> ensuring they have no electricity makes it impossible to continue producing drones

> political constraints prevents US from making appropriate use of air force

Are you arguing that destroying a country of 90M's entire basic infrastructure is an "appropriate" use of force?

New comment by verdverm in "Nowhere is safe"

verdverm — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:29:53 +0000

I maintain the position that people will chose to go into the matrix

New comment by verdverm in "The War Is Turning Iran into a Major World Power"

verdverm — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:22:40 +0000

Pretty much all prices go up because oil is up 50% and is involved in so many things. It's not just oil and energy, there are other resources that go through Hormuz and the Red Sea. They saw TACO tuesday play out again and have been emboldened.

Also should be considered that some of the facilities that produce these resources are down for months to over a year. Hormuz being "open" does not mean traffic goes back to normal either.

New comment by verdverm in "The War Is Turning Iran into a Major World Power"

verdverm — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 03:31:30 +0000

Yet they hold the world economy hostage via Hormuz, and likely the Red Sea if they choose to.

New comment by verdverm in "A Crazy Expensive U.S. Drone Just Disappeared over Strait of Hormuz"

verdverm — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:59:21 +0000

I don't think we know if it was shot down or crashed from malfunction

New comment by verdverm in "A Crazy Expensive U.S. Drone Just Disappeared over Strait of Hormuz"

verdverm — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:58:23 +0000

Coming in at a cool ~$190M each in a recent budget

New comment by verdverm in "A Crazy Expensive U.S. Drone Just Disappeared over Strait of Hormuz"

verdverm — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:57:13 +0000

I think they mean at least the US lost to a worthy adversary, but I also think they underestimate the relative advantages each side has in this war. Perhaps Iran is not as weakly positioned as traditional measures of military strength suggest. Their are unique circumstances from geography and a paradigm shift from drone economics.

New comment by verdverm in "Tesla reportedly developing new smaller, cheaper EV after killing Model 2"

verdverm — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:35:08 +0000

I'll confirm I meant KW not V for the charging numbers

The Ioniq 6 (Hyundai EV platform generally), charge from 20-80% in about 20m, which is on their 800v DC architecture

New comment by verdverm in "Launch HN: Twill.ai (YC S25) – Delegate to cloud agents, get back PRs"

verdverm — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:49:51 +0000

You can read old Paul Graham essays and the early YC Startup School (which is probably when peak YC happened) to get a sense of the ethos. They increased batch size to scale (as context for the "stopped doing things that don't scale" comment)

https://www.startupschool.org/

New comment by verdverm in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

verdverm — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:35:19 +0000

Worth noting the legal system did not find it to reach the requirements for terrorism.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/luigi-mangione-due-in-co...

My understanding is that it was personal

New comment by verdverm in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

verdverm — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:23:04 +0000

This is actually happening without the Ai

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2026/04/07/the-stra...

New comment by verdverm in "Bluesky April 2026 Outage Post-Mortem"

verdverm — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:15:42 +0000

case in point, an old HN post about scaling Go to 1M websocket connections

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21865715

New comment by verdverm in "Bluesky April 2026 Outage Post-Mortem"

verdverm — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:06:48 +0000

An oldie and a goodie

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21865715

New comment by verdverm in "Launch HN: Twill.ai (YC S25) – Delegate to cloud agents, get back PRs"

verdverm — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:49:16 +0000

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New comment by verdverm in "Launch HN: Twill.ai (YC S25) – Delegate to cloud agents, get back PRs"

verdverm — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:20:52 +0000

> as always there is a buy vs build tradeoff

it's a nonbinary decision now

Google has a free, open source take on what you are building, looks more mature as well

https://googlecloudplatform.github.io/scion/overview/

My comment about Cowork is more about pointing out a different feature set that will crossover with Code. In example they have the Task related things as an affordance, Code has this coming.