Hacker News: verytrivial

New comment by verytrivial in "US announces new sanctions on top ICC figures"

verytrivial — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:39:26 +0000

I know your question is rhetorical, but for the avoidance of doubt: https://www.icc-cpi.int/defendant/netanyahu

New comment by verytrivial in "St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core"

verytrivial — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:25:09 +0000

This "dropping" activity is not defined well in the context. Was it e.g. a controlled but uncommanded insertion? Or did something or some three things slip, snap, or something else? Can the rods be retrieved using BAU procedures, or is reactor in an annoying state now?

The details divulged seems to have been driven by event reporting regulations, not any specific news gathering or investigation, right?

New comment by verytrivial in "St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core"

verytrivial — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:21:11 +0000

From the article: "This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. [...]"

New comment by verytrivial in "Grok Build is open source"

verytrivial — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 07:33:29 +0000

Well said.

New comment by verytrivial in "IT administrators are "fed up" with Microsoft's "useless" apps and Windows 11"

verytrivial — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 11:51:19 +0000

This may or may not be true, but that article is indistinguishable from a pretty low-effort Ai summary of three Reddit threads.

New comment by verytrivial in "Meta is adding rate limits and soft paywall to smart glasses"

verytrivial — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 07:46:17 +0000

I was shown a full page interstitial for Meta Starfire by Kylie the other day, and it wasn't even the good Kylie.

I have doubts they know how to market these if I'm seeing this ad.

New comment by verytrivial in "The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online"

verytrivial — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 11:39:01 +0000

I'm finding this really strange. These laws as formulated are just straight-up universal identity checks for all Internet users, not ages checks, right? The end of anonymity and pseudonymity.

Adults somehow feel that they are excluded from showing papers because the laws "target children"?

I mean it is technically possible to prove things using blind attestation etc. but very few of the world's social problems have so far been solved by first choosing two large prime numbers, so I don't expect it will help here either.

New comment by verytrivial in "OpenTTD 16.0-Beta1"

verytrivial — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 10:41:13 +0000

Drive-by questions for any OpenTTD aficionados: Can anyone recommend a how-to to get the original MIDI music files working on the Android release?

The music is uncommonly good in the original releases.

New comment by verytrivial in "The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs"

verytrivial — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:56:38 +0000

The Dutch seem to just do the sensible thing and have mobile e-bike dynos. If they suspect the bike is not properly regulated, they'll test it and keep it if it fails.

New comment by verytrivial in "The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs"

verytrivial — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:53:52 +0000

The article keeps mentioning "unintended consequences" but I'm not convinced these are. Trying to come across as scary (perhaps because you are yourself scared) seems to be the whole point. "Get out of my way, look at how little I care about your safety, look at the size of this thing." The article mentions machismo but I don't think that quite covers the (profitable) pathology here.

New comment by verytrivial in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

verytrivial — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:21:14 +0000

Ai is great. The bubble will burst. We will keep Ai just like we kept "the internet" after the dot-com bubble, but we still won't buy our pets online. I mean London has pretty good train connections and stations because a bunch of companies repeatedly tried to get rich. Most eventually failed, but we kept the rails. I just hope we get our computers back after this round of gambling.

New comment by verytrivial in "Show HN: Putt.day a daily mini golf game"

verytrivial — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:55:13 +0000

Almost complete inability to sink the ball. I though I was meant to get it to stop in the spinning circle? But it is impossible to putt a short distance, it's always a couple of feet, and when I managed to use the edges to bounce away energy and stop the ball on the circle, nothing happened.

New comment by verytrivial in "Starship V3"

verytrivial — Wed, 13 May 2026 07:03:45 +0000

He's trying to position his commercial space launch business in front of the apparently unlimited firehouse of Ai capital. "IN SPACE" is worse in every way as a compute environment.

New comment by verytrivial in "590k buyers paid $59M for Trump's gold phone, but not one has shipped"

verytrivial — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:50:35 +0000

Good.

New comment by verytrivial in "Diskless Linux boot using ZFS, iSCSI and PXE"

verytrivial — Thu, 07 May 2026 07:52:04 +0000

I know it was just a convenient pretext for a learning journey, but do not come away from this thinking llama.cpp needs to be compiled on Windows before use. The GitHib project has a cornucopia of pre-built artifacts to use.

https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases

New comment by verytrivial in "Ball Pit"

verytrivial — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:57:04 +0000

For some context, I think this is by mr.doob of three.js fame.

New comment by verytrivial in "Show HN: Tanstaafl – Pay-to-inbox email on Bitcoin Lightning"

verytrivial — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 11:16:05 +0000

Just say I'm a sender who wants to send an email to someone on this system, and who also holds zero BTC and is justifiably deeply skeptical of anyone pushing it, exactly what steps would I need to take with this system vs hitting "Send" from Outlook?

New comment by verytrivial in "US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February"

verytrivial — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:05:42 +0000

That's a fine economic statistics operation you've got there. Shame if something were to happen to it.

New comment by verytrivial in "Making Wolfram tech available as a foundation tool for LLM systems"

verytrivial — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 10:43:54 +0000

Something this "shape" has been coalescencing since the first tool calls were done. To draw another Star Trek parallel, this reformulation is what Brent Spiner is during the little stares and pauses made before answering a complicated but constrained problems on the show. Onward!

New comment by verytrivial in "FlashAttention-T: Towards Tensorized Attention"

verytrivial — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:10:53 +0000

Tldr: 5% - 17% speedup due to removing a bottleneck by juggling where on a GPU/compute core a computation is done during Flash attention.