HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

metrix

59 karma · joined April 23, 2013

submissionscomments
metrix··on The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve
What do they do with the brine when they fill it back up with oil?

And do they use fresh water?

metrix··on The Human Cost of DOGE's War on USAID
Yes.. Add the term transgender and obviously it needs to go.

I don't know the specifics, but i'm sure it's like canceling (and calling) a hospital in a small town a trans clinic because they happen to have a trans patient

metrix··on Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card
I don't know th- AAAAHHHH
metrix··on SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017)
So authoritative!

You had me for a second :)

metrix··on Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data
Being trans, I feel this so much.

On a side note, it was interesting after Trump was elected where some of my co-workers wanted to use old pronouns after some laws changed _in meetings_ and I realized the only thing stopping them was the awkwardness it would have been for _them_ in that situation

metrix··on Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops
They're using the analogy of mining for gold. the cost of a shovel/pitchfork goes up when the price of gold goes down - which is a double whammy
metrix··on Filing the corners off my MacBooks
It's by design.
metrix··on Can I run AI locally?
use openrouter, and call it a day. auto switching between providers, connectivity to all clouds and even works with free models
metrix··on US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says
I don't see it as adding fuel to the fire. I see it as helping the market price companies correctly
metrix··on Dr. Oz pushes AI avatars as a fix for rural health care
So we get so worked up over this stuff, and for good reason. But personally I'm taking another stance...

let them..

It's not my choice to make someone understand what's best for an individual or as a group. Let them make these decisions, and learn for themselves. Will this cause issues where I am at risk of getting measles? Or that kids could get sick over non pasteurized milk? yes, but we're back in a place where people have to feel the pain.

That's not to judge, or belittle or put anyone down. There's people who have views and values that conflict and that's OK.. Even if it's not the best for us a whole.

metrix··on Vim 9.2
I'm right there with you, and to be honest Lua just works. I helped with Neovim when it started ~10 years ago, and didn't understand the big deal about implementing lua.. But now that it's here, I can't believe it wasn't forked and implemented sooner
metrix··on Vim 9.2
Totally worth it. I tied it to openrouter.ai so that I could use 'all the AI's' (TM)

Totally worth it

metrix··on Hard Rust requirements from May onward
While I get your view, I think examples would help to move the conversation along in a more constructive manner
metrix··on SQLite concurrency and why you should care about it
I'm curious what your suggest mmap pragma would be.
metrix··on ADS-B Exposed
what's going on around colorado springs with these shapes?

https://adsb.exposed/?dataset=Planes&zoom=9&lat=38.2165&lng=...

metrix··on South Korean workers detained in Hyundai plant raid to be freed and flown home
I don't quite understand what happened other than "deported by ICE".
metrix··on What makes Claude Code so damn good
I have thought the same thing. How is it created? is it an idea by an LLM to make the language, or a dev to create a language designed for an llm.

How do we get the LLM to gain knowledge on this new language that we have no example usage of?

metrix··on Margin debt surges to record high
you're right, but it brings up an even bigger question in my mind -

If farms where wiped out we a huge percentage of the population would no longer exist, yet they 100% are a commodity with low margins.

We don't value things based on long term risk/need

metrix··on Show HN: I built an LLM chat app because we shouldn't need 10 AI subscriptions
They have a chat feature allowing you to talk with multiple models
metrix··on Show HN: I built an LLM chat app because we shouldn't need 10 AI subscriptions
I've been using openrouter.ai to use "all llm's". No subscription, and can be tied to your editor of choice
metrix··on Menstrual tracking app data is gold mine for advertisers that risks women safety
Can you explain?
metrix··on TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users
> Speech is not being criminalized -- you can say the exact same things on a different forum.

s/criminalized/supressed/ and message still holds true. You can still say the exact same things on a different forum.

metrix··on Modern Wardriving (2023)
It's not to get into a network, it's just to list where they're at.. For points. Similar to internet points :). There's no hacking involved just nerds being nerds

What you find shows up here: https://wigle.net/

As you can see there's quite a few people who do it

metrix··on Cool, but obscure X11 tools (2019)
I'm sad that xsnow doesn't work on modern environments. Having Snow fall on top of windows was really cool
metrix··on EPB launches America’s first community-wide 25 gig internet service
I'm right there with you, as long as that 300 mbps connection is symmetrical, and the ISP is carrier neutral. I didn't know how big a deal neutrality was until I switched from Suddenlink to a small company called Vexus. Gigabytes of nightly backups went from hours to 5 minutes, and downloads from certain companies improved drastically.
metrix··on Vim Galore: everything you need to know about Vim
It depends on how much you use it. Being able to open multiple files, visually diff from a VCS, and find/replace in all open buffers is quite handy if you're in the CLI quite a lot
metrix··on Research suggests that when the rich bank, the rest borrow
They are not forcing you, it's that the 1% have savings and want that savings to make money so it's invested. Portions of that investment go into banks who loan out money to the middle class.

The middle class uses this money to buy cars/houses which helps the 1% to increasing their savings, which they then invest a portion of into banks...

BUT like another comment discussed, a lot of this is going over seas. Right now this cycle is pushing US asset values higher, but at some point this will come crashing down, and the money that was invested in under inflated markets will be valued correctly/over valued.

At which point that money will flow back into the US.

metrix··on Zellij – A Terminal Workspace and Multiplexer
I use it frequently too, but there's some terrible edge cases: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53648244/specifying-the-...
metrix··on World's Littlest Skyscraper
I live in Amarillo and never knew about this building. Will have to visit the next time I head that way.
metrix··on It Sure Looks Like Humans Have Found a Way to Reverse Aging
The negative effects may be the very reason why it works, as it has an hormetic response https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormesis similar to fasting.
Page 1 of 2Next →