Hacker News: westpfelia

New comment by westpfelia in "Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root"

westpfelia — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 07:24:27 +0000

Perfect example of a usecase for nixOS. Single file and its got everything DHH wants.

New comment by westpfelia in "Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root"

westpfelia — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 07:21:34 +0000

yea... Not like most of the worlds compute runs on linux.

New comment by westpfelia in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

westpfelia — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:24:19 +0000

Sorry what part of the quote was out of context? Sure sounds like he said they arent even people.

New comment by westpfelia in "Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe"

westpfelia — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:25:06 +0000

> Not that they wouldn't bomb Taiwan if they thought they could get away with it.

There is zero evidence of this. The last time China even engaged in a direct military conflict was the 1970s. Where as even before Trump America could have invaded almost any country on the planet. and it wouldnt have been to shocking.

New comment by westpfelia in "Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe"

westpfelia — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:15:05 +0000

No, and I dont think China wants the Yuan to be the reserve currency. But this is a good step in allowing better currency trading/exchange. Which can make imports between the EU and China cheaper.

New comment by westpfelia in "Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork"

westpfelia — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 08:30:19 +0000

I'm a big ole noob when it comes to local AI. What are you using for a harness? Or platform to interact with it?

New comment by westpfelia in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

westpfelia — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 06:55:44 +0000

Because they arent selling at a loss. The business pipeline is subsidized by the state. But end to end from mining the minerals to shipping you the solar panel everything is "in house". Its all in China. Thats why why can sell so cheap. Its even cheaper to make.

This narative that the CCP is just subsidizing all business to "beat america" is just dumb. Its the build process being made cheaper by the government. Not the final product.

New comment by westpfelia in "Steam Machine launches today"

westpfelia — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 01:40:32 +0000

No case. No custom made motherboard that supports HDMI CEC. Lack of developers specifically developing around valve hardware like they did with the SteamDeck.

New comment by westpfelia in "SpaceX says unproven AI space data centers may not be commercially viable"

westpfelia — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:54:42 +0000

Yea no kidding. there is just no way we could make the math work on upkeep, let alone energy required to power them.

New comment by westpfelia in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

westpfelia — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 06:39:44 +0000

guy has spent his whole life being labeled as a monster simply for being born. I'm sure that causes a guy to develop some sort of complex.

New comment by westpfelia in "European Tech Alternatives"

westpfelia — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 08:06:23 +0000

I maintain the peak of the internet was Numa Numa. After that its been a ever gaining speed decline of the internet.

New comment by westpfelia in "Goldman Traders Launch AI-Proof Software Basket Amid Sector Rout"

westpfelia — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 13:09:51 +0000

https://archive.ph/2xqIo

New comment by westpfelia in "EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear"

westpfelia — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 08:01:40 +0000

if you have so much supply that it makes sense to destroy some of it, why would reducing that supply to meet demand drive up prices?

New comment by westpfelia in "Lessons you will learn living in a snowy place"

westpfelia — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 07:36:12 +0000

Live in Nordland on a island. Lost power for about two and a half minutes on Christmas day. I dont even think anyone but me noticed since it was still early.

Even when I was living in the snowier parts of America we didnt lose power. I would say losing power is not a universal truth in the slightest.

New comment by westpfelia in "xAI joins SpaceX"

westpfelia — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 08:16:53 +0000

hey now. Lets not forget when Elon had Grok creating CSAM and sexually explicit material of nonconsenting women. Truely an... achievement? Surely it will propel humanity forward.

New comment by westpfelia in "xAI joins SpaceX"

westpfelia — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 08:03:20 +0000

Ok but what if I shoot a car into space and buy my own social media company. Surely thats a better use of billions!

New comment by westpfelia in "50 years ago, a young Bill Gates took on the 'software pirates'"

westpfelia — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 07:56:18 +0000

Well first off, if you're bill and melinda gates you just have more money then Epstien. Flat out.

But you know also there is the whole why would you take money from a convicted pedophile. Oh and why would you ask that convicted pedo to get you drugs so that you can hide the fact you gave your wife a STD from a russian hooker.

If you hung out with Epstien after his initial conviction then the burden of proof should be on you that YOU also arent a pedo. Fuck everyone involved with him. and fuck bill gates.

New comment by westpfelia in "Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app"

westpfelia — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 12:06:28 +0000

You get it though. They ARE the top 3 most valuable company in the world. How do you think they got there? Greed all the way down.

New comment by westpfelia in "FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE"

westpfelia — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 08:00:41 +0000

The news media is not saying a lot of what is happening. So if anything you are missing some of the insanity.

New comment by westpfelia in "EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity"

westpfelia — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 11:32:30 +0000

I'm pretty sure Sweden is the most business friendly country. its why so many people move their business from Norway to Sweden.