Hacker News: wstrange

New comment by wstrange in "Flutter 3.47"

wstrange — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 03:07:46 +0000

Try out serverpod. Not affiliated with them- it's just a super nice integrated Dart backend:

https://serverpod.dev/

Dart 3.13

wstrange — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 03:04:02 +0000

Article URL: https://dart.dev/blog/announcing-dart-3-13

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49281343

Points: 5

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New comment by wstrange in "Why Carbon Capture Can't Conceivably Solve Climate Change"

wstrange — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 22:02:02 +0000

I do wonder about the economics of CCS vs. investing more aggressively in wind and solar.

This is a big deal here in Alberta where the Oil companies are complaining about footing the bill for CCS. If instead of spending a few billion on CCS, how much CO2 reduction would we get if invested in solar and wind.

Why Carbon Capture Can't Conceivably Solve Climate Change

wstrange — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 21:39:19 +0000

Article URL: https://projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-capture-cant-solve-climate-change/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48702023

Points: 13

# Comments: 5

New comment by wstrange in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

wstrange — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:18:35 +0000

I'm not so sure. It seems those with capital will accumulate it even faster.

Without some kind of income redistribution we are sailing into dark waters.

New comment by wstrange in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"

wstrange — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:40:12 +0000

To be fair, that's a one time process. You do not need to do that for every app you want to sideload.

The malware issue that the flow is designed to mitigate is a very real problem. Perhaps there is a better way, but it's not immediately clear what that is.

New comment by wstrange in "Ransomware Is Growing Three Times Faster Than the Spending Meant to Stop It"

wstrange — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:35:37 +0000

That seems disingenuous. Crypto made ransomware much easier.

New comment by wstrange in "German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups"

wstrange — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:00:02 +0000

Insurance money doesn't grow on trees. The economy is highly connected, so increased costs impact most consumers.

Ransomware is a scourge enabled by crypto. We should do whatever we can to eliminate it.

New comment by wstrange in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

wstrange — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 23:38:01 +0000

A bunch of people here are conflating low stakes amateur sports with elite sports.

Mixed league works fine for your company softball team. Not so much for professional sports.

New comment by wstrange in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

wstrange — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 23:23:21 +0000

If we are talking about amateur sports where the stakes are low, the concept of slotting athletes into divisions makes sense.

In elite sports, no one wants to see "best in division X". They want to see the best hockey players, the best golfer, the best skier, etc. The money incentives are considerable.

This would destroy women's professional sports.

Maybe version ranges are a good idea after all?

wstrange — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:18:32 +0000

Article URL: https://neilmadden.blog/2026/03/19/maybe-version-ranges-are-a-good-idea-after-all/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47438916

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by wstrange in "UBI as a productivity dividend"

wstrange — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 17:48:48 +0000

UBI will require a more progressive tax system. The Oligarchs are having none of that.

New comment by wstrange in "Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humans"

wstrange — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:58:49 +0000

Clearly they have not reached parity, as evidenced by the crash rate of Tesla.

It's far from clear that the current HW4 + sensor suite will ever be sufficient for L4.

New comment by wstrange in "Waymo robotaxis are now giving rides on freeways in LA, SF and Phoenix"

wstrange — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 18:07:37 +0000

I have HW4, and have tried FSD with every major release.

It works brilliantly, 99.5% of the time. The issue is that the failure mode is catastrophic. Like getting confused with the lane marking and driving off the shoulder. And the complete inability to read construction zone signs (blasting through a 50 KM zone at 100 KM).

I'm deeply skeptical that the current sensor suite and hardware is going to have enough compute power to safely drive without supervision.

It will no doubt improve, but until Tesla steps up and assumes liability for any accident, it's just not "full self driving".

New comment by wstrange in "Tesla Recalls Almost 13,000 EVs over Risk of Battery Power Loss"

wstrange — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 16:12:31 +0000

For the back seats you can order webbing strips from Temu for five bucks. They are easy to spot (bright yellow).

I point them out to any passengers in the back seat.

If you have kids that are likely to pull them ... different story.

New comment by wstrange in "Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ"

wstrange — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 01:30:12 +0000

Reading the comments on that Fox site is depressing. A lot of hate for Apple, but for the wrong reasons (as in, completely missing the danger of centralized app stores..).

New comment by wstrange in "ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair"

wstrange — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:14:03 +0000

Well, you have Larry Ellison and Elon doing their best to corner social media - so I think the right wing has it's bases covered.

New comment by wstrange in "Delayed Security Patches for AOSP (Android Open Source Project)"

wstrange — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 19:21:01 +0000

Or a more likely scenario is that Apple picks up even more market share, and we go from a duopoly to a monopoly.

New comment by wstrange in "Telo MT1"

wstrange — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 19:10:05 +0000

This is what Tesla should have built instead of the Cybertruck.

With their distribution and service centers, this would sell like hot cakes.

New comment by wstrange in "Most RESTful APIs aren't really RESTful"

wstrange — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 18:40:14 +0000

It should be obvious that the thing doing the interpretation and navigation is a human, not an automated system.