Hacker News: vizzier

New comment by vizzier in "The US Government Is Now a Shareholder in 26 Companies"

vizzier — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 18:08:51 +0000

The answer is probably an automatic state in any company over a specific size given to the government. The only competition is then international.

New comment by vizzier in "Iran Shock Jolts Asia and Europe to Speed Up Energy Transition"

vizzier — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:55:16 +0000

Really the correct unit is Joules, but try convincing anyone of that.

New comment by vizzier in "Iran Shock Jolts Asia and Europe to Speed Up Energy Transition"

vizzier — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:31:19 +0000

> This isn't an energy issue.

Renewables don't have the same level of external dependence on a constant flow of instantaneously used fuel. So while I do agree with you, it is an energy issue regardless of your politics.

New comment by vizzier in "Karpathy LLM Wiki pattern integrated into Obsidian agenic workflow"

vizzier — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:18:05 +0000

Sync is good, but they also have a great git plugin. One big advantage of local text based notes is that you can just source control them and set up quick shortcuts to commit, push and pull; as well as setting up automations to do that automatically when you open the app.

> And are exposed as local files stored in documented, stable, and sane paths.

This is highly dependent on the user (Mine is a god damn mess) :D.

New comment by vizzier in "Can You Stop a Hypersonic Missile?"

vizzier — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:10:48 +0000

Or us dyslexics, I don't mind having the robot check and rephrase my work.

New comment by vizzier in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

vizzier — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:44:15 +0000

They now also own xAI

New comment by vizzier in "Canada's first sovereign wealth fund"

vizzier — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:36:33 +0000

Agreed, we should also nationalise resource extraction and put the funds in there. Canadian resources should be for Canadians.

New comment by vizzier in "Show HN: I've built a nice home server OS"

vizzier — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 01:57:51 +0000

This feels not unlike talos linux, but for single instances over k8s containers. Pretty neat.

New comment by vizzier in "GPT-5.5"

vizzier — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:39:48 +0000

You think you've got problems? What are you supposed to do if you are a manically depressed robot? No, don't try to answer that. I'm fifty thousand times more intelligent than you and even I don't know the answer. It gives me a headache just trying to think down to your level.

New comment by vizzier in "'Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor' to win Polymarket bet"

vizzier — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:34:09 +0000

For the record, I do agree with this perspective at least from an external observer of the US. Many places already regulate these types of gambling much better. What I mostly took issue with is what I read to be a resolute throwing up of the hands of any action being useless.

It is indeed unfortunate that the level of corruption in the current US administration likely precludes any action on it in the current term.

New comment by vizzier in "'Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor' to win Polymarket bet"

vizzier — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:41:18 +0000

> offshore jurisdictions and uses crypto.

This vastly increases the barrier to entry for the normal person though. Is your position that just because laws don't work 100% of the time we shouldn't bother with them?

New comment by vizzier in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

vizzier — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:42:56 +0000

I'm open to being wrong, but so far as I understand it ECC mostly lives at the controller level and shares the same DRAM chips across all forms of server memory (including non-ecc), which is why we see price increases across all sectors including consumer.

Those DRAM chips being the bottleneck that would require hard to build new silicon fabs to increase supply.

New comment by vizzier in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

vizzier — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:36:12 +0000

ah fair, I was thinking on the iphone, but in fairness this is a thread about a laptop

New comment by vizzier in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

vizzier — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:22:32 +0000

not since like 2015, they're soldered on to the mainboard

New comment by vizzier in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

vizzier — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:20:44 +0000

> or switch to another provider

Can you though? Its been a few years since I've been on apple, but being able to get anything but icloud native support in other apps was basically non-existent. Compared to android where it gives you a plethora of choice out of the box.

New comment by vizzier in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

vizzier — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:11:58 +0000

to be fair, your money isn't as good as VC money for RAM at the moment

New comment by vizzier in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

vizzier — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:11:05 +0000

14" macbook pro with those specs is ~2100. 200 dollar delta for repair-ability seems acceptable to me.

New comment by vizzier in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

vizzier — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 09:28:34 +0000

> A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State

Isn't really political. By my reading the clause also invalidates the entire amendement soon as the US aquired a standing army, but I'm not from the US so, who knows.

New comment by vizzier in "Nowhere is safe"

vizzier — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 08:50:59 +0000

https://theculture.fandom.com/wiki/Command_System

> And of course to defeat such underground networks you need vast armies of small intelligent drones that can go in there and explore every tunnel where no human wants to risk setting foot in.

In the book they're defeated by biological warfare.

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

vizzier — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 08:34:54 +0000

People think the trolley problem is easy.