Hacker News: PLenz

New comment by PLenz in "Florida's HOAs and condo associations are making the housing crisis worse"

PLenz — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 21:45:19 +0000

The main purpose of HOAs is to privatize government and taxes into managememt company hands

New comment by PLenz in "Florida's HOAs and condo associations are making the housing crisis worse"

PLenz — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 21:41:39 +0000

So become president and disolve the HOA.

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from Norway, 2021–2025

PLenz — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 22:12:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50027234

Points: 52

# Comments: 71

Archaeology megafirm abruptly shuts down

PLenz — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:04:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/exclusive-archaeology-megafirm-abruptly-shuts-down

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50006702

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by PLenz in "Release of Polars 2.0"

PLenz — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 19:45:29 +0000

Does polars have a good equivalent of geopandas yet?

Consumer AI Fatigue Is Overwhelming, Local Businesses Should Reconsider Use

PLenz — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 17:15:02 +0000

Article URL: https://residentnewsnetwork.com/opinion-piece-consumer-ai-fatigue-is-overwhelming-and-why-local-businesses-should-re-consider-use/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49924385

Points: 36

# Comments: 11

A Cold War Spy Satellite Named After Farrah Fawcett Just Blew Apart in Orbit

PLenz — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 21:43:54 +0000

Article URL: https://gizmodo.com/a-cold-war-spy-satellite-named-after-farrah-fawcett-just-blew-apart-in-orbit-2000819282

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49914880

Points: 25

# Comments: 4

New comment by PLenz in "Oracle on the hook to pay data centre investors even if site has no electricity"

PLenz — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 11:43:57 +0000

When new money pays old that's a ponzie scheme

New comment by PLenz in "AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible"

PLenz — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 13:28:56 +0000

If taste is all that's left you can't fault people for discriminting on taste

14,000 Security Guards for Major Tech Companies Plan to Strike

PLenz — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:24:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.kqed.org/news/12099765/14000-security-guards-for-major-tech-companies-plan-to-strike

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49724989

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Least lines of code contest? okay

PLenz — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 11:30:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/MaliciousCompliance/comments/1vrf25w/least_lines_of_code_contest_okay

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49695091

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by PLenz in "How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs"

PLenz — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 23:38:20 +0000

> but the country was founded as the “United States for Anerica”.

This is simply incorrect, it has been the United States of America since the Declaration itself where it states: > We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled,

New comment by PLenz in "New York’s office market is home to the most tech workers: CBRE report"

PLenz — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 17:51:09 +0000

https://www.cbre.com/insights/books/scoring-tech-talent-2026

OpenAI's second-quarter sales show tepid growth compared with Anthropic

PLenz — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 10:55:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/openai-s-second-quarter-sales-show-tepid-growth-compared-with-anthropic/ar-AA2apRzx

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49359791

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by PLenz in "What Happens If OpenAI Dies?"

PLenz — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:53:33 +0000

Probably a cambrian explosion of new startups. New stars are made of the refuse of old ones.

Amazon spent $1.8M using Claude for menial coding task, went 860% over budget

PLenz — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:44:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/amazon-accidentally-spent-usd1-8-million-using-claude-for-menial-coding-task-went-860-percent-over-budget-catastrophically-expensive-coding-blunders-discovered-in-internal-amazon-ai-usage-metrics

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49135973

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

New comment by PLenz in "Our position on open-weights models"

PLenz — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 22:26:30 +0000

Hey, no fair stealing the value thay we already stole fair and square!

New comment by PLenz in "Tile's security is so bad it's a feature for stalkers"

PLenz — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 19:09:21 +0000

That was always the revenue stream, the devices were just a way to get you to give it to them. It's been a minute since I was current on who gets what in the HMD world but I think that data ultimately flows to Placer.ai

New comment by PLenz in "NYC may require landlords and realtors to disclose the use of AI in listings"

PLenz — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 01:30:06 +0000

It does. This isn't new laws, it's an application of existing law on this practice.

New York to enact nation's first statewide data center moratorium

PLenz — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:59:41 +0000

Article URL: https://gothamist.com/news/hochul-puts-hold-on-large-data-centers-in-new-york

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48907923

Points: 1

# Comments: 1