Hacker News: Psyonic

New comment by Psyonic in "Is A.I. Above the Law?"

Psyonic — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:28:26 +0000

There's already examples of this in driving though. When Waymos do weird things they often don't give Waymo a ticket (even though they probably should). A recent example: https://www.9news.com/article/news/community/transportation/...

New comment by Psyonic in "We rewrote JSONata with AI in a day, saved $500k/year"

Psyonic — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:40:43 +0000

Also don't miss that he had to do this work on the weekend...

New comment by Psyonic in "LLMs can get "brain rot""

Psyonic — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 21:51:28 +0000

well played

New comment by Psyonic in "Aluminum batteries outlive lithium-ion with a pinch of salt"

Psyonic — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 21:04:59 +0000

While most cars are not LFP, your claim that you won't find LFP batteries in cars is incorrect:

Rivian switched to LFP: https://insideevs.com/news/720396/2025-rivian-r1s-r1t-lfp-ba...

Some Teslas use LFP: https://www.notateslaapp.com/news/2464/tesla-lfp-batteries-c...

New comment by Psyonic in "We can now fix McDonald's ice cream machines"

Psyonic — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 14:29:59 +0000

That’s interesting. I’ve gone to chipotle around once or twice a month for two decades now, and with the exception of their lemonades I’ve only had something unavailable maybe 3-4 times. Regional variation I guess.

New comment by Psyonic in "Beeper Mini is back"

Psyonic — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 19:50:20 +0000

Whatsapp, Signal, Telegram

maybe Discord, FB Messenger

New comment by Psyonic in "Things I've learned about building CLI tools in Python"

Psyonic — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 20:02:34 +0000

Using Python with Bazel is fairly common at big SV companies -- they use rules_python with it (https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_python). It does rely on pip for grabbing dependencies but handles building modules and can integrates well with rules_docker/rules_oci for building container images from your code.

New comment by Psyonic in "The NSA Invented Bitcoin?"

Psyonic — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 16:03:16 +0000

This is a bit racist. So they cite a source with a Japanese name that sounds a bit like Satoshi Nakamoto, so he must be the same guy?

New comment by Psyonic in "Ripple notches win in SEC case over XRP cryptocurrency"

Psyonic — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 18:50:04 +0000

Didn't EOS sell $4B worth? https://decrypt.co/80144/4-4-billion-eos-token-raise-fueled-...

New comment by Psyonic in "Spanish climber emerges after 500 days in cave"

Psyonic — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 19:24:02 +0000

I'm probably just feeding a troll but why would she need to look presentable if she's living isolated in a cave?

New comment by Psyonic in "ESPP Calculator"

Psyonic — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 01:02:00 +0000

Not all ESPP's can be sold instantly. At Asana we have to hold ours for a year before selling, so it's not risk free money.

New comment by Psyonic in "Coinbase’s chief product officer will leave with a $105M payday"

Psyonic — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 17:38:03 +0000

yes, but "android founder." What great product innovation did this guy pioneer at CB? Any justification at all for a $100M payday?

New comment by Psyonic in "Twitter Sued for Nonpayment of Rent on San Francisco Office"

Psyonic — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 18:10:38 +0000

I think it's both -- I do think he's against remote work (remember his remarks at Tesla "pretend to work somewhere else": https://www.forbes.com/sites/annakaplan/2022/06/01/musk-says...) but also it's a great way to cheaply get rid of a lot of employees who were told they could WFH forever.

New comment by Psyonic in "Code Design Decision – Always throw custom exceptions"

Psyonic — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 20:18:34 +0000

I don't see how an exception type defined at the throw site would be significantly different than using the text of the exception to convey the type. Callers wouldn't know to expect it either way, so how would they be able to handle it effectively?

New comment by Psyonic in "Why is every layoff 10-15%?"

Psyonic — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 04:49:01 +0000

yeah I think Twitter isn't useful here. Having a dramatic change of management + a layoff + serious product upheaval is definitely different than just a layoff.

Now Elon is ending a policy literally called "Work From Home Forever" and with no flexibility -- back to the office 5 days a week.

Why would an employee feel safe when literally everything about Twitter changed overnight?

New comment by Psyonic in "Theory of what’s going to happen next at Twitter"

Psyonic — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 17:27:17 +0000

You really think Tesla and SpaceX have accomplished as much as they have with no one good at the company? Why is Twitter different?

New comment by Psyonic in "Against Effective Altruism"

Psyonic — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 19:13:53 +0000

So Thanos was an effective altruist?

New comment by Psyonic in "I love my GPD Micro PC"

Psyonic — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 21:10:56 +0000

lol, fair enough.

New comment by Psyonic in "I love my GPD Micro PC"

Psyonic — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 20:50:25 +0000

"Better not hop on a city bike with it in my backpack, ’cause what if I fall?"

How often do people fall on bikes? I biked for years in SF with my work laptop and never had an issue.

New comment by Psyonic in "BART’s excursion fare: Agency earns millions from passengers not riding trains"

Psyonic — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 21:16:20 +0000

"Though I guess people would just tap in, tap out immediately but don't exit the turnstiles, then just get on a train and exit through the emergency exit at whatever station you want for free."

Sure, or just jump the turnstiles and exist through the emergency exit on the other end, which I already see people do frequently.