Hacker News: HDThoreaun

New comment by HDThoreaun in "Facebook ads are so hard to block that uBlock Origin stopped filtering them"

HDThoreaun — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:50:18 +0000

Well facebook just beat the ad blockers without working together with their ad customers

New comment by HDThoreaun in "uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook"

HDThoreaun — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:46:08 +0000

The ad team runs the whole business at meta. If theres an issue they dont have control over theyll just take control of that part of the code.

New comment by HDThoreaun in "The US tried to stop cartel money-laundering; devastated mom-and-pop businesses"

HDThoreaun — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:12:26 +0000

Then they wouldnt exist. Society has decided its better for them to exist off the back of undocumented labor than to not exist

New comment by HDThoreaun in "Nvidia's Risky Business"

HDThoreaun — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:02:08 +0000

I think the linked semi-analysis piece is about right. Google is more focused on protecting its 4.2 trillion dollar golden goose than pushing cutting edge which leads to a bureaucratic nightmare that researchers simply dont need to engage with when openAI/anthropic are offering even more money. Why waste time dealing with bureaucracy at google when you can be top dog at openAI or anthropic?

New comment by HDThoreaun in "Nvidia's Risky Business"

HDThoreaun — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:53:59 +0000

Every time nvidia takes its fab time and uses it to build anything other than datacenter chips it is losing money due to the massive markups the datacenter products have. Expanding their consumer offering means the datacenter backlog is going down which is very bad for their margins. Consumers will never pay 10-100x what it costs to fab something like datacenter users will.

New comment by HDThoreaun in "Waymo in Dallas"

HDThoreaun — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 19:01:52 +0000

school buses only work because their customers have no other options. Take a look at transportation methods among Dallas high schoolers old enough to drive. Suddenly big yellow buses arent so popular.

New comment by HDThoreaun in "Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models"

HDThoreaun — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:51:31 +0000

It makes strategic sense for Meta to want ai in general to be open. Their own product strategy focuses on utilizing the ai to make their customers consume more ads, not selling the raw intelligence. When you look at it from that frame it’s clear that metas goal is to make it so that have free access to the best ai, not that the market size of selling intelligence grows.

New comment by HDThoreaun in "US beef prices have soared but farmers aren't making more money"

HDThoreaun — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:08:16 +0000

Sausages are typically pork in the us. Hot dogs are often beef though

New comment by HDThoreaun in "Waymo in Dallas"

HDThoreaun — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:33:25 +0000

> If it is 15 minutes to drive to work and 25 minutes by bus that is good enough.

I really think this is completely wrong. You will convince approximately 0 people in Dallas to use a bus if this is what you are offering them.

New comment by HDThoreaun in "Waymo in Dallas"

HDThoreaun — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:29:23 +0000

I really think the issue here is just that you are blinded by your own preferences. Buses will never be faster than cars in Dallas. Literally impossible. So if they’re not faster, and they’re not more convenient, what are the upsides? Well they’re cheaper, but everyone in Dallas already owns a car so that doesn’t matter. They have lower externalities, but that’s not convincing anyone to switch, Dallas residents are republicans. I just really don’t think there’s any realistic way to convince non poor Dallas residents to use a bus no matter what you do, as long as the state is red. And if you only get poor people to use it there will never be enough riders for it to make sense to have enough bus routes/consistency.

New comment by HDThoreaun in "Waymo in Dallas"

HDThoreaun — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:25:52 +0000

Because 99% of Americans use cars. There’s no point spending money on something that only 15% of the population will even consider using, you’ll still have to spend just as much on roads.

New comment by HDThoreaun in "Waymo in Dallas"

HDThoreaun — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:17:15 +0000

People who live on Dallas clearly do not want this. Telling them their lifestyle is wrong and if they just open their eyes they will see the folly of their ways accomplishes nothing. If you work with their actual preferences instead of foisting your own into them you will see that there are still ways to make progress such as removing parking restrictions by utilizing self driving cars.

I lived in one of the most walkable neighborhoods in Chicago for 30 years before moving to suburbia with 0 walkability. It is completely untrue that walkability is secretly better than suburbia and those suburbanites don’t know what they’re missing.

New comment by HDThoreaun in "Waymo in Dallas"

HDThoreaun — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:13:34 +0000

No there really is not. The problem is that static routes in low density areas do not work. The reason the transit system has a policy about poor areas is because they know people with cars will never take the bus unless the government makes driving onerous which will never happen.

New comment by HDThoreaun in "AI's debt binge can't last, hidden borrowing reaches $1.65T"

HDThoreaun — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:19:35 +0000

You also need to remember that a huge portion of the 1.65 trillion isn’t actually debt, but leases the hyperscalers have committed too. This is important because there’s no interest to be paid on leases. A ton of the money is multi billion dollar payments that are owed a decade from now.

New comment by HDThoreaun in "Apple is getting this wrong"

HDThoreaun — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:11:58 +0000

OpenAI needs mass consumer buy in because a large part of their strategy is ad supported consumer use. Bad pr pushes those users away. A lot of people have teenage Reddit user mindset

New comment by HDThoreaun in "We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447"

HDThoreaun — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 21:32:07 +0000

Training text is filled with people taking drastic measures right after text similar in tone to the prompt. It doesnt need to be human to come to the conclusion that drastic measures are necessary, it just needs to learn that the tone of the prompt is closely linked to actions like lying and spamming.

New comment by HDThoreaun in "Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6"

HDThoreaun — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:53:24 +0000

API will never be cheaper than subs because theres a ton of value created for companies by locking people into subscriptions that tend to be sticky.

New comment by HDThoreaun in "Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6"

HDThoreaun — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:46:50 +0000

For what its worth the frontier lab models can surely be a lot faster if they wanted them to be but theyre supply constrained so theyre doing stuff like multi tenancy. Since you cant self host them no one outside the labs really knows speed as a solo tenant

New comment by HDThoreaun in "Show HN: CheapFoodMap – A map of good meals under $10"

HDThoreaun — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:56:44 +0000

if only farolito was good

New comment by HDThoreaun in "1,741 "informed" consents with one click? GDPR complaint filed"

HDThoreaun — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:47:41 +0000

Half of the people in the world use facebook/ig every month and revealed preferences show they have no interest in banning ads