Hacker News: Tycho

New comment by Tycho in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

Tycho — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:12:53 +0000

The idea is that eventually the power demand for AI compute will be too great to satisfy by terrestrial means.

New comment by Tycho in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

Tycho — Sat, 16 May 2026 12:40:52 +0000

Just use an LLM to make a good knowledge base for the databases. Based on schema info and production queries. An agent can use that to write queries that work.

New comment by Tycho in "ai;dr"

Tycho — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:45:50 +0000

When people put together memos or decks in the last, even if that weren’t read very carefully, at least they reassured management that someone had actually things through. But that is no longer a reliable signal.

New comment by Tycho in "Scott Adams has died"

Tycho — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 20:56:02 +0000

> “deeply off the rails”

How sheltered are you people? Scott Adams was a pretty standard non-woke boomer. Do you think that just because you don’t hear certain opinions in the workplace or the faculty or the Atlantic podcast, that they aren’t widely held by members of the public? Do you think everyone’s into DEI, BLM, trans-rights, multi-culturalism etc?

New comment by Tycho in "Scott Adams has died"

Tycho — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 17:02:15 +0000

I kept meaning to tune in again to his livestream before the end. It was always a good listen as he went over the news with his dry sense of humour and judgment on fact vs fiction.I liked how he kept going after they cancelled all the Dilbert syndication - good lesson in resilience. RIP.

New comment by Tycho in "BYD's cheapest electric cars to have Lidar self-driving tech"

Tycho — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 23:35:05 +0000

But the driver isn’t reacting to any of the LiDAR readings, only what they can see, so what is the point?

New comment by Tycho in "BYD's cheapest electric cars to have Lidar self-driving tech"

Tycho — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 21:46:54 +0000

How do you train a model to drive with LiDAR when the human drivers who generate the training data don’t use LiDAR?

New comment by Tycho in "Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades"

Tycho — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 01:36:46 +0000

According to the paper you posted (interesting analysis), it’s not just low-vol assets, but good quality ones. Also, they would no doubt do a lot more buying of undervalued (good quality) companies if they weren’t by this point “too big to care”, so to speak.

New comment by Tycho in "Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades"

Tycho — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 02:22:36 +0000

When people say undervalued in this context, they usually mean it has a low price to earnings ratio. Intel is definitely not that - although it could still be a good bet if you have reason to believe their fortunes will greatly improve in the future. But it wouldn’t be a Buffett target in its current state.

New comment by Tycho in "Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades"

Tycho — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 02:14:10 +0000

So, best investor ever? (Not counting people who built enterprises, just people whose trade was to invest.)

I plan to buy some BRK stock. I’m sure it will be a good investment. But also, somewhat sentimentally, just to own a part of a financial masterpiece.

New comment by Tycho in "Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades"

Tycho — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 02:02:24 +0000

Not quite right. The pivot was from good companies at a great price to great companies at a good price (unless you can get a great price, but that’s unlikely).

Over the long run the latter is a better and more scalable strategy.

New comment by Tycho in "Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%"

Tycho — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 22:01:35 +0000

Think of Tesla as a well-funded pharmaceutical company that has invented a cure for a widespread ailment (call it “driving”) and now is waiting on regulatory approval.

New comment by Tycho in "Ask HN: Why Did Python Win?"

Tycho — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 16:22:41 +0000

The elegant syntax that is close to plain English sets it apart.

(It’s not so pretty these days though with all these type hints and other cruft that’s been added in the last ten years.)

New comment by Tycho in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

Tycho — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:44:11 +0000

Maybe it’s only visible to me https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5_5a484c29-ec2d-47e1-977e-c300...

"Empire of AI" is wildly misleading about AI water use

Tycho — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 13:32:54 +0000

Article URL: https://andymasley.substack.com/p/empire-of-ai-is-wildly-misleading

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46217511

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by Tycho in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

Tycho — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 22:45:14 +0000

I posted something similar from Grok 9 months ago, although it was “flagged” for some reason. the link still works.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43260083

New comment by Tycho in "I wasted years of my life in crypto"

Tycho — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 12:16:53 +0000

Sold most of my BTC off at $120k, but kept a chunk not as an investment but as a sort of emergency fund that could be useful if for some reason I ever find myself needing to transact without using cash, bank accounts or credit cards.

New comment by Tycho in "OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race"

Tycho — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 18:30:21 +0000

The contract would obviously not be no strings attached.

New comment by Tycho in "OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race"

Tycho — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 13:26:24 +0000

Yes. The capital is not needed immediately, but they have agreed to provide it if/when called upon in future.

New comment by Tycho in "OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race"

Tycho — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:38:41 +0000

They integrated it into Google search immediately so I think a lot of people will bother less with ChatGPT when a google search is just as effective.