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New comment by _fizz_buzz_ in "The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup"

_fizz_buzz_ — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:52:32 +0000

Unfortunately it feels close to zero sum to me. I am getting absolutely drowned in AI generated personal sales pitches now. That obviously scraped my name/company online and automated the email. I feel sales becomes even more relient on trade shows and conferences and person to person interaction (Only talking about B2B stuff that I am involved in).

New comment by _fizz_buzz_ in "Feds freaked over Fable 5 after 'fix this code', not jailbreak, say researchers"

_fizz_buzz_ — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:23:58 +0000

> How does anthropic know my "kernel" project isn't a personal toy and not the Linux kernel?

The Linux Kernel is in its training data. I just tested it. I copied about 20 random lines from the linux kernel and asked which codebase this was from and it could immediately tell.

New comment by _fizz_buzz_ in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

_fizz_buzz_ — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:45:58 +0000

My understanding is that a lot of AI data centers are still heavily relying on spinning HDDs, which is why seagate, western digital are selling more HDDs than ever before.

New comment by _fizz_buzz_ in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

_fizz_buzz_ — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 01:48:55 +0000

In 2004 people were predicting that the real estate bubble would burst and then nothing happened. Until it did.

New comment by _fizz_buzz_ in "Accenture to acquire Ookla"

_fizz_buzz_ — Sat, 30 May 2026 20:27:11 +0000

When you first built it, were you aware there was market for the data? Or was this something you discovered afterwards? It makes sense, but I wouldn’t have guessed it.

New comment by _fizz_buzz_ in "Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit"

_fizz_buzz_ — Sat, 30 May 2026 06:21:31 +0000

> 2. Talent & compute: due to #1, Silicon Valley can outbid Europe for the best talent and hardware. Watch an OpenAI launch video and listen to all the European accents.

There is definitely a lot of truth to that. Maybe a bit of an arbitrary measure, but these are the nationalites of the people that wrote the "Attention is all you need" paper. Pretty revealing I find:

Ashish Vaswani: India

Niki Parmar: India

Jakob Uszkoreit: Germany

Llion Jones: Wales (UK)

Aidan Gomez: Canada

Łukasz Kaiser: Poland

Illia Polosukhin: Ukraine

Noam Shazeer: USA

New comment by _fizz_buzz_ in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

_fizz_buzz_ — Sat, 23 May 2026 04:55:26 +0000

Absolutely not. My wife could apply for German permanent residency as well as now German citizenship from within Germany. She has been living in Germany for 10 years now and at no point in the process did she have to go through a German consulate (she is a US citizen).

New comment by _fizz_buzz_ in "Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks"

_fizz_buzz_ — Wed, 20 May 2026 06:19:15 +0000

So, I experimented a little bit with smaller models and the problem I faced is that it would simply not call a tool that is available, but instead just describe the tool. Is this something that Forge can help with?

New comment by _fizz_buzz_ in "Tesla Solar Roof is on life support as it pivot to panels"

_fizz_buzz_ — Sun, 17 May 2026 06:44:46 +0000

I think it had more to do with the reality of the market. Solar panels have become incredibly cheap and that's because they are mass produced and standardized. Everything in the manufacturing process has been optimized. Now it is technically of course possible to make them other form factors, but artisinal solar panels are simply so much more expensive and cannot compete in any meaningful way with regular panels.

New comment by _fizz_buzz_ in "Claude for Small Business"

_fizz_buzz_ — Thu, 14 May 2026 05:32:01 +0000

My understanding is that the US doesn’t really have an official category called “medium sized”. So I think the “small business” category is better compared to EU’s SME category (small-medium-enterprise), which is often lumped together.

New comment by _fizz_buzz_ in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"

_fizz_buzz_ — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:52:21 +0000

I have recently played around with lots of data from measurements and one can totally dump everything into context and let Claude try to analyze data that way. It burns through a lot of tokens. It is smarter to save data to disk and let Claude write scripts that handles/analyzes the data. It’s much faster and the results are much better and you save a lot of tokens. But I guess Amazon prefers the first approach.

New comment by _fizz_buzz_ in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (May 2026)"

_fizz_buzz_ — Sun, 10 May 2026 19:13:08 +0000

I have been experimenting on using AI for hardware development. I showed some experiments on HN a couple of weeks ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47801255). I am now trying to make my approach a little bit more comprehensive and structured, instead of several disjoint MCP servers, a single platform that connects lab instruments to AI assistants: https://teasel.tools/

As a demo, I repaired an old Philips PM5190 function generator (about 40 years old) and connected it to Claude Code. Lots of fun. Going to post a follow up video the next couple of days.

New comment by _fizz_buzz_ in "Scientists warn Atlantic current at risk of shutting down"

_fizz_buzz_ — Sun, 10 May 2026 17:33:47 +0000

Even ExxonMobil scientists came to the conclusion. They made an internal study in the 70s and it was actually incredibly solid: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abk0063

New comment by _fizz_buzz_ in "Scientists warn Atlantic current at risk of shutting down"

_fizz_buzz_ — Sun, 10 May 2026 17:29:36 +0000

Just look at any glaciar in the Alps (or almost anywhere in the world really). Over the last 50 years, your liftime, there have been enourmous changes.

New comment by _fizz_buzz_ in "Over 97% of the 'Linux' Foundation's Budget Goes Not to Linux"

_fizz_buzz_ — Sat, 09 May 2026 09:51:47 +0000

Lots of opensource project use the Linux Foundation to handle their funding. My understanding is that e.g. corporate sponsors for the KiCad project will actually transfer the money to the Linux Foundation but the money is then earmarked for the KiCad project. The advantage for KiCad is then that they don't have the overhead (accounting, receipts, etc.).

New comment by _fizz_buzz_ in "Agents for financial services and insurance"

_fizz_buzz_ — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:07:04 +0000

But Google did move into a lot of spaces: maps, mail, docs, etc.

New comment by _fizz_buzz_ in "1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'"

_fizz_buzz_ — Tue, 05 May 2026 06:12:42 +0000

It makes sense just like 22 people kicking a ball around a field makes sense. I repair electronics as hobby. This past week I repaired my daughters $15 toy tablet. It took me a few hours to do that. Economically completely unjustifiable. This is probably the only way to look at this project.

New comment by _fizz_buzz_ in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

_fizz_buzz_ — Sat, 02 May 2026 05:34:43 +0000

How about marraige based green cards when residing outside the US? Any indication how long this takes and how complicated the process is? My wife and daughter are both US citizens and we live in Germany. I am a German citizen and have no type of visa in the US.

New comment by _fizz_buzz_ in "Claude Opus 4.7 costs 20–30% more per session"

_fizz_buzz_ — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:40:12 +0000

What hardware do you use? I want to experiment with running models locally.

New comment by _fizz_buzz_ in "Show HN: SPICE simulation → oscilloscope → verification with Claude Code"

_fizz_buzz_ — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:16:25 +0000

Yeah, taking the spice list as the starting point works much better, imo. I also prepopulate the CLAUDE.md file with some information like the pinout/pinmux of the MCU otherwise claude might run in circles trying targeting the wrong pin (to be fair that also happens to me, lol).