Hacker News: CryptoBanker

New comment by CryptoBanker in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

CryptoBanker — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:30:15 +0000

Contabo is still notably cheaper than it was 2 years ago. I just shut down a 2 year old VPS and made a new one because it was ~20% cheaper than it was two years ago, and I also get more CPU and more RAM

New comment by CryptoBanker in "Sam Bankman-Fried loses bid to appeal against fraud conviction in FTX case"

CryptoBanker — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:43:50 +0000

Good

New comment by CryptoBanker in "Siri AI"

CryptoBanker — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:57:19 +0000

> And yet on iOS, just finding something from a text Message is still a nightmare

This has been a problem on iOS since the dawn of time and has nothing to do with AI

New comment by CryptoBanker in "ChatGPT for Google Sheets exfiltrates workbooks"

CryptoBanker — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:41:48 +0000

Their customers do

New comment by CryptoBanker in "Claude Opus 4.8"

CryptoBanker — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:56:47 +0000

Priced like a much larger model

New comment by CryptoBanker in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"

CryptoBanker — Sun, 24 May 2026 20:32:01 +0000

Opencode absolutely will show you. You just have to toggle “Expand Reasoning”

New comment by CryptoBanker in "War game exposed U.S. vulnerability to low-tech warfare"

CryptoBanker — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:49:42 +0000

> If you hit its radar systems and/or damage the surface enough that landing becomes impossible, it becomes a sitting duck.

Both of these statements are wrong. Carriers generally rely on the radar systems of their escorts and their early warning aircraft much more than their own systems.

Similarly, even if the landing deck was damaged, again the carrier's escorts are its primary defense

New comment by CryptoBanker in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

CryptoBanker — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:28:14 +0000

Please use some line breaks. I find this extremely difficult to read

New comment by CryptoBanker in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

CryptoBanker — Tue, 05 May 2026 23:37:37 +0000

> This has always been the case where I work, long before AI.

And surely the place you work hired with this in mind. Many places have not, and yet now expect PMs who haven’t coded in years, or in many cases not at all, to contribute to their products’ codebases.

New comment by CryptoBanker in "Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge"

CryptoBanker — Sun, 03 May 2026 05:55:31 +0000

You’d be surprised with some long running complex tasks. I’ve seen Kimi spend 8 minutes (total) thinking on a task that Claude got done in 30 seconds. They both ultimately got it right, but Kimi spent ~$2.25 to Claude’s ~$0.20

New comment by CryptoBanker in "GPT-5.5"

CryptoBanker — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 04:29:06 +0000

> You can't build a business on per-seat subscriptions when you advertise making workers obsolete.

On the other hand I would argue that most workers' salaries are more like subscriptions than API type pricing (which would be more like an hourly contractor)

New comment by CryptoBanker in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

CryptoBanker — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:48:45 +0000

It does unless you opt out

New comment by CryptoBanker in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

CryptoBanker — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:34:32 +0000

Cursor sells its own models as well now

New comment by CryptoBanker in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

CryptoBanker — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 09:11:29 +0000

Irrelevant when such things are clearly the dream of Altman and his ilk.

New comment by CryptoBanker in "Walmart: ChatGPT checkout converted 3x worse than website"

CryptoBanker — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:20:17 +0000

There’s a difference between being interested in getting good at something and being good at something

New comment by CryptoBanker in "Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts"

CryptoBanker — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:59:52 +0000

I disagree. A missile without guidance is a rocket which definitely has its uses on the battlefield.

A missile without propulsion is at best a bomb which doesn't do much good without an aircraft to drop it from

New comment by CryptoBanker in "Ryugu asteroid samples contain all DNA and RNA building blocks"

CryptoBanker — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:49:40 +0000

The Redditors have arrived

New comment by CryptoBanker in "$96 3D-printed rocket that recalculates its mid-air trajectory using a $5 sensor"

CryptoBanker — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:47:45 +0000

In the two test launches shown in the video, the "missile" doesn't fly straight nor does it demonstrate ability to be "guided" by the launcher towards any particular target.

It's also incredibly slow. There are children's rocket kits that fly significantly faster than this.

New comment by CryptoBanker in "DOJ to Allow Hiring of US Prosecutors Straight Out of Law School"

CryptoBanker — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:53:31 +0000

These kids won't be arguing before the Supreme Court though. They'll be taking the losses at the lower levels

New comment by CryptoBanker in "Big data on the cheapest MacBook"

CryptoBanker — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:07:35 +0000

> That c8i.4xlarge would cost you $246/mo at current spot pricing of $0.3425/hr, which is, what, 20% of the cost of that M1 Max MBP?

A 5 month ROI on a hardware investment would be excellent, so not sure what you're trying to say here?