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New comment by RemingtonDavies in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

RemingtonDavies — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:21:06 +0000

Why don't they just make their own in-house development environment? Cursor's codebase is maybe 5,000-50,000$ worth of actual code, even just $10M (compared to the $60B) could knock Cursor out of the park with a completely custom code editor, and even with a smaller budget they could fork VSCode. Maybe for the social value? I feel like a $10B advertising budget for a bespoke AI development environment is more than enough to become an actual competitor.

New comment by RemingtonDavies in "CrankGPT"

RemingtonDavies — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:51:47 +0000

"What are we powering? Why are we powering it? For what?"

New comment by RemingtonDavies in "Show HN: TC, A minimalistic systems language with 10 keywords (plus types)"

RemingtonDavies — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:33:02 +0000

10 keywords and you waste two of them on pub and defer?

p.s. your mother likes my fat pointer

New comment by RemingtonDavies in "Why Japanese companies do so many different things"

RemingtonDavies — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:20:06 +0000

Concepts like this make me think about precision in products. When you spend 40,000$ on a computer chip you get a commodity piece of nm-scale precision. When you spend 40,000$ on a pink ivory coffee table you get a pile of wood with a maximum precision of 0.1-1mm. I'm just wondering what it would be like if atom-level precision was the main focus of every single premium product.