Hacker News: xingped

New comment by xingped in "Desire to Move Permanently to U.S. at New Low"

xingped — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:17:29 +0000

Pretty sure he's also an H1B or previously a visa worker. Indeed, insanely self-serving and out of touch.

New comment by xingped in "Desire to Move Permanently to U.S. at New Low"

xingped — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:14:50 +0000

Ah yes, just what we need, more H1Bs running around taking the jobs for which there are plenty of qualified unemployed Americans. That'll do wonders for us, I'm sure!

New comment by xingped in "The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening"

xingped — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 22:26:17 +0000

I don't think you understand the current state of capitalism very well. Absolutely nothing goes down in price once companies know people will still buy an item at a higher price. We will never see hardware at the previous affordable prices again. Sure it might go down somewhat, but going down from 500% of previous prices to 400% of previous prices is not suddenly "affordable". And that is exactly what will happen. Models will not suddenly stop improving and their consumption of hardware will not stop. The corporations won't allow it. We have too many companies in an arms race against each other. They literally cannot stop or they die.

New comment by xingped in "The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening"

xingped — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:13:49 +0000

"Temporary" is a few months. We're looking at many multiple years before parts even _begin_ to decline in price, if even. How much will we as consumers lose in the time it takes for this to correct? This is not "temporary", this is a decimation of an entire product sector for the foreseeable future. There is no historical precedent for this. Companies are not and will not slow down gobbling up literally every tech part they can. Every year, training and running AI will demand more resources over and over and we will continue to be charged increasing amounts for everything because everything costs more either directly or upstream of us. It is a literal cancer.

New comment by xingped in "Ask HN: Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed?"

xingped — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 15:37:35 +0000

Running ethernet over the whole home is an expensive job, may not even be realistic depending on the home's construction, and definitely isn't possible if you're renting. It's not perfect and not as good as ethernet for sure, but it's better than using a single router.

New comment by xingped in "Ask HN: Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed?"

xingped — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 15:06:56 +0000

What I really want and haven't seen is a proper mesh router setup that runs DD-WRT or something open-source. In bigger homes really a mesh system is your best hope since your internet access usually comes in on a corner somewhere, but I really don't trust any of the options I have (with the possible exception of one, whose name escapes me at the moment).

New comment by xingped in "Fingerprints are the new cookies"

xingped — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 15:02:35 +0000

I dunno man, from an outsider's perspective I used to think that but it seems to slowly be getting worse with trying to shove through internet surveillance and corporate protectionism under the guise of "protect the kids". I guess sadly someone saw how unreasonably effective that can be in the US.

New comment by xingped in "The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening"

xingped — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:33:30 +0000

Ah yes, like my RAM, SSDs, and GPUs are trickling down right now? You're absolutely right! I love a trickle of PC parts!

New comment by xingped in "The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening"

xingped — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 22:48:26 +0000

Ah yes, the famous "trickle down" theory, which you may know from its smash hit "trickle down economics"! Surely this time it'll be different, right?

New comment by xingped in "I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall"

xingped — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 20:47:53 +0000

You're not wrong, but that's an entirely different discussion from whether or not someone should be forced out of their house simply because gentrification and inflation causes their taxes to go up year after year likely long after they're done working. Oftentimes people buy homes in low-cost areas because that's what they can afford. It's not their fault when the area gentrifies and their taxes skyrocket past their means through no fault of their own. We can advocate both for homes to be more affordable for people that need one and for people to not lose their homes due to constantly rising taxes.

New comment by xingped in "I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall"

xingped — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 17:26:33 +0000

It's classic neoliberalism think which for some reason the tech crowd is unreasonably susceptible to. "Oh you're poor? Can't afford your bills? Must be your fault." It's utterly disgusting.

New comment by xingped in "Account bans on Reddit"

xingped — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 03:34:48 +0000

Yep. That all sounds about right. Reddit is for bot slop, astroturfing, and basement-dwelling troglodytes just itching to exercise the tiniest amount of power over other anonymous people on the internet. It's a very stupid place.

New comment by xingped in "Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s"

xingped — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 17:41:49 +0000

No? Per someone else's comment, presumably they're using vast.ai which does indeed list the 6000 for $1/hr

New comment by xingped in "AI can clone your indie game, but not its soul"

xingped — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 05:01:02 +0000

Strongly disagree, they're utterly repulsive. Unfortunately they're getting harder to distinguish from the real thing.

New comment by xingped in "Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery"

xingped — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 03:26:23 +0000

Reddit is a dumpster fire. You're better off without that site anyways.

New comment by xingped in "Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC"

xingped — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 02:17:13 +0000

Yes, but the point being "trusted". If the community decides a particular admin/group/server is unjustly handing out bans, then they could unsubscribe from that list.

New comment by xingped in "Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC"

xingped — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 21:09:55 +0000

If this is really distributed, then off the top of my head I imagine you could possibly make some sort of reputation-based filter list wherein trusted admins can subscrbe to each other's filter lists such that when one admin blocks are user, it quickly propagates to other admins' lists. Somewhat similar to how email domain spam block lists work.

New comment by xingped in "Making Tailscale Faster"

xingped — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 13:41:26 +0000

No, Tailscale specifically excludes some Android apps and crucially prevents you from removing this exclusion: https://tailscale.com/docs/features/client/android-app-split...

New comment by xingped in "Making Tailscale Faster"

xingped — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 13:40:54 +0000

Sorry, I forgot to check if anyone replied to me. Details here: https://tailscale.com/docs/features/client/android-app-split...

New comment by xingped in "Making Tailscale Faster"

xingped — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 13:40:47 +0000

Sorry, I forgot to check if anyone replied to me. Details here: https://tailscale.com/docs/features/client/android-app-split...