Hacker News: 7e

New comment by 7e in "Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off"

7e — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:54:10 +0000

A 23 year old startup.

New comment by 7e in "Life During Class Wartime"

7e — Wed, 06 May 2026 23:12:30 +0000

Inequality is rising, but is absolute wealth also rising? Median incomes inflation adjusted?

New comment by 7e in "Why is southern Italy poorer than northern Italy?"

7e — Wed, 06 May 2026 03:33:24 +0000

This phenomenon isn’t confined to Italy. You see it across Europe, the US, and (reversed) in Australia. Charitably, you could chalk it up to sunnier regions being better for agriculture and not cities, but I think that heat simply causes the human brain to thermally throttle, which makes humans in hotter climates slower (and dumber). And less enterprising, and wealthy. And certainly humans need to be more resourceful to survive in areas with less food available. Is it a coincidence that the last uncontacted tribes are all in the equatorial belt? Coelacanths of the modern world!

More speculatively, Europeans in particular could have been subject to extreme selection pressure during ice ages. Glaciers made it all the way to central Italy, which would have definitely shaped the evolution of humans, both biologically and socially, in those areas.

Finally, humans are less fertile at higher ambient air temperatures, and the risk of death greater than in milder climates. A population boom spurs all kinds of cultural and evolutionary and epigenetic changes.

New comment by 7e in "Rumor: Disney to Remove Star Wars Sequel Trilogy from Timeline"

7e — Wed, 06 May 2026 02:52:23 +0000

Remove the prequels too.

New comment by 7e in "First Tesla Semi Rolls Off High-Volume Production Line"

7e — Mon, 04 May 2026 04:55:43 +0000

Tesla is trying to escape launching the semi TEN YEARS after announcing it. Instead, they are attempting to launch a mere nine years after announcing it.

The Pepsi trials with this truck were a disaster, we’ll see if they fixed the numerous problems.

New comment by 7e in "First Tesla Semi Rolls Off High-Volume Production Line"

7e — Mon, 04 May 2026 04:45:45 +0000

Tesla has a history of exaggerating the ranges of their vehicles to an extent that competitors do not.

New comment by 7e in "DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier"

7e — Sat, 02 May 2026 14:56:04 +0000

The embargo won't backfire, because any delay of China's development was worth it to the US. The situation was never, "China wasn't developing AI chips, now it is", it was always, "China IS developing their own AI chips, let's just slow them down as much as we can."

New comment by 7e in "SpaceX rocket set for unintentional moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway"

7e — Sat, 02 May 2026 00:13:26 +0000

The engines are so awesome that test flights are loaded with 10% of the promised capacity of the rocket. Someone is blowing smoke up your ass.

New comment by 7e in "SpaceX rocket set for unintentional moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway"

7e — Sat, 02 May 2026 00:11:04 +0000

If my rocket doesn’t need to deliver any results on any timeline, it can be infinitely advanced. Convenient, right?

New comment by 7e in "Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey"

7e — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 23:22:28 +0000

Always send your public posts through a local LLM to de-style you.

New comment by 7e in "Warp is now open-source"

7e — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 03:35:55 +0000

I predicted with 100% certainty that this company would fail at launch. What I failed to predict was how long it would take. I’m not bragging, everyone should see it coming.

New comment by 7e in "I accidentally made law enforcement shut down their fake honeypot"

7e — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 03:24:24 +0000

You don’t need PII to prove you are not a robot. See Privacy Pass. And I don’t know how a website is somehow going to verify your PII as not-fake, anyway.

Likely you just use a shit web browser.

New comment by 7e in "The Stanford Freshmen Who Want to Rule the World"

7e — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 03:40:26 +0000

Naïve, willing to work for nothing, likely a nepo baby with connections, arrogant, and with a sense of entitlement what will help drive a jumbo liquidity event. They’re the perfect prey for VCs.

New comment by 7e in "The dangers of California's legislation to censor 3D printing"

7e — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:15:59 +0000

The guns needed for the U.S. revolution came from the French. Most U.S. farmer guns were shit for actual warfare.

New comment by 7e in "Projected warming will exceed the long-term thermal limits of rice cultivation"

7e — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:50:23 +0000

Rice will be genetically modified for higher temperatures, almost certainly.

New comment by 7e in "jj – the CLI for Jujutsu"

7e — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:11:19 +0000

Is it better for AIs? That’s the only reason I would care.

New comment by 7e in "The Raft consensus algorithm explained through "Mean Girls" (2019)"

7e — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:09:28 +0000

Given that Raft was rederived simply because the authors couldn’t originally understand Paxos, I’m not surprised to see this.

New comment by 7e in "Peptides: where to begin?"

7e — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 03:09:48 +0000

The FDA didn’t push up clinical trial costs, thalidomide did.

New comment by 7e in "OpenAI's fall from grace as investors race to Anthropic"

7e — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:15:43 +0000

Agents increase the velocity of OpenAI and Anthropic; whomever has the best in-house agent moves the quickest.

New comment by 7e in "SpaceX Pushes Back Crucial Starship Test Launch"

7e — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:54:07 +0000

The talent that was originally driving SpaceX is gone. And I don’t mean Elon’s brain. I mean the real engineers designing the rockets.