Hacker News: HotHotLava

New comment by HotHotLava in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

HotHotLava — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:52:00 +0000

Well, yes, it is. That's why you're seeing them take proactive steps to address the problem, like this new policy.

New comment by HotHotLava in "Claude struggles to cope with ChatGPT exodus"

HotHotLava — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 19:05:45 +0000

It's an ironic situation; logically what should be the moat are the models, costing hundreds of millions of investment cost to train and operate so it would make sense if we see different provider focusing in different directions.

But right now we have 3-5 top contenders that are so evenly matched that the de-facto sticking point is mostly the harness, ie. the collection of proven plugins/commands/tools/agent features that are tuned to the users personal workflow.

New comment by HotHotLava in "eBay explicitly bans AI "buy for me" agents in user agreement update"

HotHotLava — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 22:47:49 +0000

Do you not know how ebay works? You put in the maximum price you're willing to pay, and if you win you're paying 2nd highest bid + 1. So you don't save any money by starting with a low bid.

New comment by HotHotLava in "Honda: 2 years of ml vs 1 month of prompting - heres what we learned"

HotHotLava — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 13:32:08 +0000

Basically every AI agent released in the last 6 months can do this pretty well out of the box? What feature exactly are you missing from these?

New comment by HotHotLava in "OpenAI may not use lyrics without license, German court rules"

HotHotLava — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 12:40:43 +0000

It'd be equally hilarious if that VC money would be used to actually better society by crushing GEMA in court.

But realistically, all that will happen is that the "Pauschalabgabe" is extended to AI subscriptions, making stuff more expensive for everyone.

New comment by HotHotLava in "Instant Checkout and the Agentic Commerce Protocol"

HotHotLava — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 11:58:50 +0000

Please don't pretend to be dumb, "predictable" in this context means that you know the final price of the trip before you start the journey, instead of having an odometer.

And randomly hoping for a taxi to drive by maybe works as long as you exclusively travel between airports, train stations, and downtowns of major cities, but if you're even slightly more remote than that you'll have to call or use some random app to get the Taxi to pick you up.

New comment by HotHotLava in "Instant Checkout and the Agentic Commerce Protocol"

HotHotLava — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 22:13:34 +0000

Taxis and B&Bs and Hotels all still exist and compete with Uber and AirBnB.

Even at the same price there are valid reasons why many people prefer an Uber over a Taxi, in particular the predictable pricing and globally consistent UI.

New comment by HotHotLava in "What if I don't want videos of my hobby time available to the world?"

HotHotLava — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 14:47:24 +0000

If the problem starts to become big enough, I'd expect airsoft venues to offer special streaming or non-streaming times, depending on which group is bigger. Similar to how Saunas offer special clothed or women-only days.

New comment by HotHotLava in "Claude’s memory architecture is the opposite of ChatGPT’s"

HotHotLava — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 10:19:24 +0000

H200 rental prices currently start at $2.35 per hour, or $1700 per month. Even if you just rent for 4h a day, the $200 subscription is still quite a bit cheaper. And I'm not even sure that the highest-quality open models run on a single H200.

New comment by HotHotLava in "Anthropic raises $13B Series F"

HotHotLava — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 00:43:08 +0000

I'm pretty sure OP wasn't talking about the management hierarchy, but "from the top" in the sense that it was big established companies inventing the cloud and innovating and pushing in the space, not small startups.

New comment by HotHotLava in "Making 2.5 Flash and 2.5 Pro GA, and introducing Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite"

HotHotLava — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 17:33:11 +0000

For me, I actually feel much more motivated to write good and accurate documentation knowing there will be at least one reader who is going to look at it very closely and will attempt to synthesize useful information from it.

Same with my old open-source projects, it's kinda cool knowing that all the old stuff that nobody would have ever looked at anymore is now part of a humanity-wide corpus of useful knowledge on how to do X with language Y.

New comment by HotHotLava in "'We Currently Have No Container Ships,' Seattle Port Says"

HotHotLava — Sat, 10 May 2025 18:26:44 +0000

That's why it's just "mostly" false, but 'empty' is a word with a specific meaning, and claim here was that the port is literally empty of ships. (or, in the case of the Twitter message they show, that there's only one single ship in the harbor)

New comment by HotHotLava in "Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads"

HotHotLava — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 09:27:15 +0000

Sure, but then it's less of a fun side business and just becomes straight up smuggling.

New comment by HotHotLava in "Apple says it will add 20k jobs, spend $500B, produce AI servers in US"

HotHotLava — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:03:42 +0000

The playbook is obvious - if Trump loses, Vance refuses to certify the election results due to "fraud", Republican states will produce alternate lists of electors that vote for Trump, and he will claim that in reality he just won reelection with the biggest margin in history.

How do we know this isn't just crazy conspiracy theory? Because they already did attempt the same thing in 2020, and this time they had the chance to vet the VP candidate for this scenario.

New comment by HotHotLava in "Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI"

HotHotLava — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 23:27:58 +0000

That comparison also shows that a recognizable brand alone can easily be worth more than 100 billion; Coca-Cola also has competition that offers similar products and zero tech advantage, but they still managed to keep their number one spot for decades.

New comment by HotHotLava in "OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor"

HotHotLava — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 21:55:11 +0000

Used to. If they're going to start a trade war, pull out of NATO and invade Greenland instead, there'll not be much soft power left to drag Europe anywhere.

New comment by HotHotLava in "Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers"

HotHotLava — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 02:57:17 +0000

The literal first sentence of the announcement is:

> The Stargate Project is a new company which intends to invest $500 billion over the next four years

New comment by HotHotLava in "Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers"

HotHotLava — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 02:29:16 +0000

If the announced spending target is true, this will be a strategic project for the US exceeding Biden's stimulus acts in scale. I think it would be pretty normal in any country to have highest-level involvement for projects like this. For example, Tesla has a much smaller revenue than this and Chancellor Olaf Scholz was still present when they opened their Gigafactory near Berlin.

New comment by HotHotLava in "UK's hardware talent is being wasted"

HotHotLava — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 11:03:27 +0000

EXIST is very narrowly tailored to technology start-ups founded by graduates based on their research.

Out of curiosity I was spot-checking the the founders of the latest YC 24 Winter batch at https://www.ycombinator.com/companies?batch=W24 , and the requirements would exclude at least 90% of them from EXIST if they lived in Germany.

New comment by HotHotLava in "TikTok goes dark in the US"

HotHotLava — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 15:23:05 +0000

Google also opted to pull out of China instead of selling their Chinese operations to a domestic company. Does it imply that Google had interests beyond financial when operating in China?

I think it's more likely that they don't want the brand name dilution that comes from having a separate TikTok US that's probably going to be a shittier version of the original since it doesn't have the original algorithm (which isn't allowed to be exported) or the original TikTok engineers working on it.