Hacker News: TSiege

New comment by TSiege in "US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos"

TSiege — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:19:46 +0000

Released a day after the ceasefire falls apart no less

New comment by TSiege in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

TSiege — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:40:52 +0000

The problem is that people can take loans without financial liability (not how home purchases work) and drive profitable businesses (which are good for the economy) into the ground (bad for the economy and society).

No one is worried about the bank making the loan in this situation. They are concerned that PE is buying up large parts of the economy using debt they aren't responsible for, which makes them irresponsible owners because they do not face consequences when the moves fail

New comment by TSiege in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

TSiege — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:36:44 +0000

A cosigner is different than what's happening in leveraged buy outs. A Cosigner is financially responsible if the debtor cannot pay back their portion of the loan. In a Leveraged buyout the purchaser does not take on financial liability for the debt, that is all placed on the company being purchased. This means that if the purchaser isn't even the cosigner in this scenario; the company being purchased is the sole entity responsible for repayment. So if GameStop goes through with this, but Ebay can't repay the debt than Ebay would suffer graver consequences than GameStop

New comment by TSiege in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

TSiege — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:25:11 +0000

The difference is that when you buy a home the debt is in your name and you are required to pay it off. In a leveraged buy out wouldn't be to person taking out the loan, the debt is owned by the target of the purchase. If it were like a home loan and this deal goes south GameStop would go bankrupt and have to sell it's own assets to cover the losses. But in reality the debt from the deal would be owned by Ebay and if GameStop can't pay the loan back it'd force Ebay into bankruptcy and sell Ebay's assets. It's essentially a riskless move by GameStop and PE in general. Heads GameStop wins tails Ebay loses

New comment by TSiege in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

TSiege — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:18:29 +0000

It is a thorny question. The best way I can square the difference is that generally buying a house with debt is on the debtor and the house itself is collateral. The debtor can't pay back the loan the house is taken by the bank to be sold. Where as a PE leveraged by out the debtor is the target company. A company is different than real estate in that they are a legal entity that is now responsible to pay back a loan equal to their own value. The collateral is the business, but the business is now illiquid and has to sell of real assets and go bankrupt.

For example, Joanne's Fabrics was a profitable business with a fair amount of real estate. After PE bought them and was saddled with unreasonable debt they were in the red and had to sell all their stores. This removed useful and profitable business from the economy and sold off the assets in a fire sale. Where as me losing a house just means a bank now owns it and someone else can buy it. But if someone were to buy Joanne's they'd have to pay off the debt Joanne's owed for being bought and run into the ground

New comment by TSiege in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

TSiege — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:56:47 +0000

The sentiment is not that this man shouldn't be prosecuted it is that the blatant double standard and growing endemic societal cancer that is corruption is being allowed to blossom while leaders target scape goats for the same behavior. What this administration is trying to signal with going after this guy is that the problem is not with them, it's someone else, that they're on the up and up. It is why scapegoating is an effective tactic

New comment by TSiege in "Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return"

TSiege — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:02:30 +0000

latency absolutely matters? this is such a weird thing to say. for training sure, but customers absolutely want low latency

New comment by TSiege in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

TSiege — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:34:02 +0000

Black macbooks are anodized aluminum which are thin coatings that would be removed when filing. It might look cool but it’d be the silvery color of raw aluminum

New comment by TSiege in "Show HN: Axe – A 12MB binary that replaces your AI framework"

TSiege — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:17:44 +0000

This looks really interesting. I'm curious to learn more about security around this project. There's a small section, but I wonder if there's more to be aware of like prompt injection

New comment by TSiege in "Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decryption failure"

TSiege — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:11:17 +0000

> Pretty much every bill that has ever been put forward for needing an ID to vote has had a provision for free IDs.

Do you have a source for this because I have seen very few laws like this and runs counter to the overt intention of these laws

New comment by TSiege in "Meta acquires Moltbook"

TSiege — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:17:41 +0000

Mark Zuckerberg is a joke of a CEO and we should not take him seriously as a leader

New comment by TSiege in "I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project"

TSiege — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 23:36:09 +0000

more like LLM garbage are rotting search engines from the inside out

New comment by TSiege in "Iran War Cost Tracker"

TSiege — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:05:01 +0000

Cost is not the first thing I care about in war, but I felt like this is a useful site for tracking the money we're lighting on fire in order to pursue this conflict

Civilian costs are real, unjustified, and incalculable.

Iran War Cost Tracker

TSiege — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:01:57 +0000

Article URL: https://iran-cost-ticker.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47237080

Points: 324

# Comments: 446

New comment by TSiege in "Layoffs at Block"

TSiege — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:25:47 +0000

This makes it make way more sense. That is a huge amount of growth really fast. I've worked in those companies, it's really hard on the work culture and organization when things grow that quickly.

I think the potential for productivity is there with AI, but this size of a cut based on speculation made no sense. This is actually reasonable in this light and is probably for the best. I'll be curious to see if any employees, former or otherwise talk about it

New comment by TSiege in "How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week"

TSiege — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:59:03 +0000

What else exactly would you expect for a competitor to do when trying to take a rival's market share?

New comment by TSiege in "Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking"

TSiege — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:50:18 +0000

I see your point, but I don't think he's being sarcastic in this paragraph. To me this paragraph isn't sarcasm rather he's presently a serious factual recounting of the logic driving AI evangelists that he then undermines by contrasting it with the callousness, messiness, and illogic of the people pushing this narrative. (I too had a good chuckle at the termite description)

But this is veering into lit crit territory, so agree to disagree

New comment by TSiege in "Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking"

TSiege — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:19:21 +0000

It is not sarcasm he is fleshing out this sentence earlier in the paragraph, "One of the pervasive new doctrines of Silicon Valley is that we’re in the early stages of a bifurcation event"

New comment by TSiege in "Techno-cynics are wounded techno-optimists"

TSiege — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:10:08 +0000

OpenAI, Meta, and Anthropic all are known to have done this. It's even been exposed in company internal communications. Anthropic already settled their court case. You're an 11 month old account and I suspect you are some sort of bot or user meant to spread misinformation on the forum.

New comment by TSiege in "Techno-cynics are wounded techno-optimists"

TSiege — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:59:02 +0000

This is a false equivalency if I just share torrented data I can go to prison. These companies downloaded and seeded copy righted material and then sold a product made from that data. If I a civilian did this I would face time in prison. If you think this is fine great, but what people are made about is the hypocrisy of the current moment.

As the title said "Techno-cynics are wounded techno-optimists"