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New comment by 8ytecoder in "Morningstar values SpaceX at $780B, half its IPO target"

8ytecoder — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:55:22 +0000

Skills do matter. It’s just a different type of skill. Merit doesn’t matter - but even that’s a bit arguable - if the merit is decided based on what someone is creating value for their shareholders and value is entirely defined by stock price, it seems to be working well too.

(Not that I agree this is right)

New comment by 8ytecoder in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

8ytecoder — Thu, 21 May 2026 01:45:24 +0000

What you’re describing here results in extreme consolidation. The one or two e-commerce giants that figure it out will rule. No startup can ever sell anything online easily. Why would a customer trust a new or upcoming brand or buy anything online?

New comment by 8ytecoder in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

8ytecoder — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 18:46:28 +0000

> "NEVER FUCKING GUESS!"

New comment by 8ytecoder in "Could a Claude Code routine watch my finances?"

8ytecoder — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 15:58:07 +0000

You link your accounts in simplefin which uses MX (similar to plaid) to pull the data. Except simplefin is really simple to setup.

https://actualbudget.org/docs/advanced/bank-sync/simplefin

New comment by 8ytecoder in "Could a Claude Code routine watch my finances?"

8ytecoder — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:51:47 +0000

There’s also this: https://beta-bridge.simplefin.org/. Very reasonably priced and it works great. Actual Budget uses it.

New comment by 8ytecoder in "I Cancelled Claude: Token Issues, Declining Quality, and Poor Support"

8ytecoder — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:08:28 +0000

I use Claude “on the web” or Google Jules. Essentially everything happens in a sandbox - so yolo isn’t a huge risk. You can even box its network access. You review the PR at the end or steer it if it’s veering off course.

New comment by 8ytecoder in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

8ytecoder — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:11:00 +0000

We were building a payments system in the early 2000s and got a diktat to not use Oracle. The amount of things we had to build to satisfy the availability and durability requirements were so huge it consumed the first few years of work. We didn’t get to the business side of things until much later. Funny thing is we ended up giving up on MySQL and went back to oracle after all that work. The whole thing was scraped after a couple of years.

To get to the level of scale that oracle can handle we had to build sharding and cluster replication from scratch. It still didn’t get to even 1/10th of a single oracle node. Obviously we made a lot of poor architecture decisions as well - in hindsight, of course.

New comment by 8ytecoder in "How BYD got EV chargers to work almost as fast as gas pumps"

8ytecoder — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 05:28:10 +0000

Same with the EV6. Charged at a Rivian station from 20-80% in 15 minutes.

New comment by 8ytecoder in "Honda is killing its EVs"

8ytecoder — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:57:37 +0000

China already did, in 2010, against Japan. Japan has been preparing alternatives for a decade and a half now.

https://www.economist.com/asia/2025/12/04/lessons-from-japan...

New comment by 8ytecoder in "MacBook Neo"

8ytecoder — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:31:21 +0000

Metal is technically more elastic than an elastic band. With a Young’s modulus of 69 GPa for aluminum versus just 2 GPa for ABS, metal has the "memory" to snap back from significant pressure. Plastic, true to its name, is far more likely to hit its limit and stay permanently deformed. (That’s why metal bars are used to provide “flexibility” to buildings. Concrete provides the strength)

New comment by 8ytecoder in "Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid"

8ytecoder — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 22:01:56 +0000

Texas, technically, generates more TWh than California. I think a data center boom followed by a bust would help a lot more than what California can do. Unlike in cars, CAs market size or regulations can’t help/hinder other fuel sources as much.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_renewab...

New comment by 8ytecoder in "Brain-like computers could be built out of perovskites"

8ytecoder — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 21:12:31 +0000

Article summary

Perovskites, compounds with unique electronic properties previously confined to specialist applications, could enable neuromorphic computers that process and store data simultaneously, as human brains do. Halide perovskites can form memristors, circuit components whose electrical resistance switches between high and low states, allowing them to function as both artificial neurons and synapses in brain-like computing systems. Researchers expect to assemble prototype neuromorphic networks using perovskite-based memristors and capacitors within the next year, though commercial success remains uncertain

Brain-like computers could be built out of perovskites

8ytecoder — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 21:11:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/02/18/brain-like-computers-could-be-built-out-of-perovskites

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47157910

Points: 5

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New comment by 8ytecoder in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

8ytecoder — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:36:26 +0000

3D Touch was a useless gimmick for most users because it wasn’t discoverable. The move cursor feature didn’t disappear btw. It’s now in the space bar.

New comment by 8ytecoder in "Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy"

8ytecoder — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 19:28:03 +0000

Wegovy tablets are $299 now.

New comment by 8ytecoder in "My insulin pump controller uses the Linux kernel. It also violates the GPL"

8ytecoder — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 06:58:48 +0000

Distribution agreement is generally different from a sale. Distributors act as agents of the manufacturer. It’s not yet counted as a sale. Most warranties are limited to first owner and do not transfer. How do you think this squares with that? Does it mean I don’t get warranty on the dishwasher I got from Costco? It’s also the same principle of a distributor acting as an agent that enables the manufacturer to have a contract with you.

New comment by 8ytecoder in "AI's Dial-Up Era"

8ytecoder — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 23:49:56 +0000

Funny you would pick this analogy. I feel like we’re back in the mainframe era. A lot of software can’t operate without an internet connection. Even if in practice they execute some of the code on your device, a lot of the data and the heavyweight processing is already happening on the server. Even basic services designed from the ground up to be distributed and local first - like email (“downloading”) - are used in this fashion - like gmail. Maps apps added offline support years after they launched and still cripple the search. Even git has GitHub sitting in the middle and most people don’t or can’t use git any other way. SaaS, Electron, …etc. have brought us back to the mainframe era.

New comment by 8ytecoder in "China has added forest the size of Texas since 1990"

8ytecoder — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 23:30:13 +0000

US: 335M / 5,000M ton / 15 ton

Indonesia: 275M / 650M ton / 2.3 ton

Pakistan: 240M / 225M ton / 1 ton

Nigeria: 220M / 110M ton / 0.5 ton

Brazil: 215M / 475M ton / 2.2 ton

I can go on and on about the countries that are emitting less than the US. People and animals live in areas that are liveable. So countries near the equator and fertile countries will always be more populous. So how else do you propose we compare countries? Which are themselves mostly arbitrary lines as far as the earth is concerned - so why chunk by countries? It has to be per person right?

New comment by 8ytecoder in "AI is propping up the US economy"

8ytecoder — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 19:56:35 +0000

I think it’s more like the “crash” that never happened with Uber/gig and crypto. I can’t tell if it’s just luck with one craze seamlessly enabling another in some cosmic coincidence or smart people being able to absorb the excess capital and capacity to pivot gracefully.

It’s basically similar to biking on rolling hills with each subsequent hill being a lot taller than the previous one. You come down the hill hard, but just before you crash to the ground, another hill comes up, and you let the momentum carry you through, and you also get a gush of wind in your back.

That’s what’s been happening since 2012 - it’s a great 13-year run now. I’ve stopped betting against it.

New comment by 8ytecoder in "Lossless LLM compression for efficient GPU inference via dynamic-length float"

8ytecoder — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 19:10:11 +0000

Think Morse code, where frequently used letters have shorter codes than less frequent ones. This ensures zero loss of information.