Hacker News: youngtaff

New comment by youngtaff in "Exercise intensity influences body composition in healthy older adults (2025)"

youngtaff — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 13:44:46 +0000

Are you hypermobile?

My son is and once subluxed his shoulder while running

New comment by youngtaff in "SpaceX's newest Starmind will make earth data centers obsolete"

youngtaff — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 15:45:03 +0000

How are you going to get rid on the heat?

And they won't all be in constant unfiltered sunlight some will be in the earth's shadow

New comment by youngtaff in "SpaceX's newest Starmind will make earth data centers obsolete"

youngtaff — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 15:44:10 +0000

20,000 launches is 11 Starship launches a day for 5 years

It's an unsustainable rate and even if we do get to that rate it'll wreck the planet

New comment by youngtaff in "SpaceX's newest Starmind will make earth data centers obsolete"

youngtaff — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:48:43 +0000

According to the authors numbers it'll take at least 20,000 launched to put a million satellite's in orbit

And that's before you consider the issues of operating a DC in space

It's just a a load of nonsense

New comment by youngtaff in "Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'"

youngtaff — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:32:18 +0000

A TAM that’s equivalent to 20% of worldwide GDP is just nonsense

New comment by youngtaff in "Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'"

youngtaff — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:30:51 +0000

They’re not long term contract though… some might only be 90days

New comment by youngtaff in "Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'"

youngtaff — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:25:18 +0000

> The valuation of SpaceX is due to AI, namely the revenue they get for renting out their GPUs to companies that actually have AI customers, as their own AI tech has not panned out.

Renting them out for 90 days!

New comment by youngtaff in "Mark Zuckerberg directed Meta to create a prediction markets app"

youngtaff — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 08:20:02 +0000

When people talk about breaking Google up… YT has always seemed an obvious candidate for separation

New comment by youngtaff in "Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLI"

youngtaff — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 08:00:30 +0000

His former manager left Google last week

New comment by youngtaff in "Vinyl Cache and Varnish Cache"

youngtaff — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:13:37 +0000

Last I heard they were migrating to WASM based edge compute that could read Varnish configs but not sure how far they got

New comment by youngtaff in "US Air Force B-52 bomber crashes after takeoff, Edwards Air Force Base says"

youngtaff — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 08:48:43 +0000

A Tu-22M3 going down makes it better day for Ukraine

New comment by youngtaff in "A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones"

youngtaff — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 08:22:58 +0000

I’ve got a Pixel 4a as a second phone just for work… it’s a perfectly fine phone

I’ve stopped using it because Google abandoned it after 18 months

There are plenty of Android phones out there that are usable but get abandoned by the makers

New comment by youngtaff in "US bans differential privacy in Census data"

youngtaff — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 16:46:33 +0000

Immigrants don’t get a vote in many countries

For example Europeans were excluded from the Brexit vote

New comment by youngtaff in "Tailwind and slop apps"

youngtaff — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:05:09 +0000

Bootstrap was originally built so internal Twitter apps had a decentish UI

New comment by youngtaff in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

youngtaff — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:59:41 +0000

Ikea relies heavily on Edge Side Includes, assembling static pages from parts at the CDN level and then having small islands of JS interactivity

New comment by youngtaff in "Three of our worst VC stories"

youngtaff — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:23:48 +0000

Which CEO?

New comment by youngtaff in "Three of our worst VC stories"

youngtaff — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 13:00:41 +0000

And yet Akamai is profitable… whereas Cloudflare is not…

New comment by youngtaff in "SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P"

youngtaff — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:05:49 +0000

Power plant - the car company is owned by BMW

New comment by youngtaff in "U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Bay Model"

youngtaff — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:35:35 +0000

Why do the Army Corps of Engineers get so involved in civil infrastructure in the US - thinking of the Mississippi in particular?

In other countries the government would be involved but it would be a civilian rather than military role

New comment by youngtaff in "Algorithmic Theming Engines"

youngtaff — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:40:32 +0000

An article on theming without any visuals :-(