Hacker News: acd10j

New comment by acd10j in "Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage"

acd10j — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 11:19:45 +0000

It’s a cartel just like the OPEC oil cartel.

New comment by acd10j in "SpaceX's giant Starship Mars rocket nails critical 10th test flight"

acd10j — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 15:37:22 +0000

I don’t think they are letting go of these rockets; they are definitely being retrieved back. Otherwise, rival countries like China will end up retrieving them.

New comment by acd10j in "Air India flight to London crashes in Ahmedabad with more than 240 onboard"

acd10j — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 11:41:55 +0000

737 Max also had stellar records and then they started crashing one after other. Boeing has earned this reputation. Also as per information from twitter pilot did called mayday immediately after takeoff, so high chance of technical issues in aircraft.

New comment by acd10j in "Cursor 1.0"

acd10j — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 09:23:16 +0000

There is a loyalty if they keep winning, if they stop running their competitors will beat them. I don't switch between cursor or windsurf daily, i keep cursor only even if windsurf has some marginal improvement in workflow as i know cursor will have them in short time. No need to switch, But if they stop improving they will get eaten away. They have already taken lot of developer market share away from vscode and vscode copilot.

New comment by acd10j in "Apple Notes Will Gain Markdown Export at WWDC, and, I Have Thoughts"

acd10j — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 03:10:07 +0000

Biggest advantage of markdown is that it is directly understandable using llm, as it is native text format, all others cannot be copy pasted and fed to llm and you have to write some translation between them.

New comment by acd10j in "Databricks acquires Neon"

acd10j — Wed, 14 May 2025 11:26:26 +0000

Databricks is Oracle-level bad. They will definitely ruin Neon or make it expensive. In the medium to long term, I will start looking for Neon alternatives.

New comment by acd10j in "US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU"

acd10j — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 17:42:19 +0000

Number one rule of combat is that you need a very good homegrown industrial base. In order to be great country it needs to be combat-ready. If you apply that lens, what Trump is doing will start making sense. He is trying to revert globalisation and free trade in order to make the USA manufacturing superpower again. Not sure whether this will be successful or not, as China already has an order of magnitude advantage in manufacturing.

New comment by acd10j in "Microsoft is killing Skype"

acd10j — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 17:27:20 +0000

What are you talking about? Microsoft Teams took over everything else during and after the pandemic. The reason for Skype being left behind was that everyone started using Teams in enterprises.

New comment by acd10j in "To buy a Tesla Model 3, only to end up in hell"

acd10j — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 10:35:57 +0000

Even if the OP had purchased Tesla from an official dealership, but he will still have to wait three months for the part. Nothing in the blog will change if he has bought in an official country. Additionally, Tesla does not have official dealership models; they operate through direct sales.

New comment by acd10j in "To buy a Tesla Model 3, only to end up in hell"

acd10j — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 10:30:02 +0000

Wow, this is a truly terrible experience and a disgraceful display of customer service. Not picking up phones and not responding to customers is unacceptable and will undoubtedly deter many potential buyers from ever purchasing a Tesla.

New comment by acd10j in "Tesla Reported Zero Federal Income Tax on $2B of U.S. Income in 2024"

acd10j — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 08:45:44 +0000

This is a poorly written article. They can't even get basic figures right. See Unspecified “U.S. tax credits” were good for $300 billion of tax savings. It should have been $300 million. Seems to be a psyops by an incompetent writer against Elon.

New comment by acd10j in "The Origins of Wokeness"

acd10j — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 06:09:32 +0000

I have observed Hacker News commenters to be more predominantly left-leaning and "WOKE" compared to the general population. Not sure what the reason may be, but it is possible that they are taught about woke culture in their companies or universities. Generally, compared to the founder and startup culture that we all aspire for, wokeness is more prevalent in the majority of the YC audience.

New comment by acd10j in "My second year without a job"

acd10j — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 09:47:07 +0000

Not sure, If he has option OP can ask his parents to help or live with them. Having zero balance in account is not a very good situation to be in.

New comment by acd10j in "Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]"

acd10j — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 17:15:50 +0000

You are right they are already trying to slow SpaceX as much as possible. More people in their hands more people finding ways to decelerate SpaceX

New comment by acd10j in "$2 H100s: How the GPU Rental Bubble Burst"

acd10j — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 09:54:56 +0000

May be their business model is running compute at loss and stealing ip/code from people using platform?

New comment by acd10j in "Tesla Robotaxi"

acd10j — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 08:38:08 +0000

Ok, lets think of it other way, all things equal, if you are tasked with cutting costs of vehicle without cutting back things which makes your brand unique, and without reducing margin or running on loss how will you do it? You make vehicle simpler, with less expensive parts. That's how hardware design works. Cutting back on quality or software expense is not a option for Tesla as that will make Tesla equal to any other Chinese EV brand.

New comment by acd10j in "Tesla Robotaxi"

acd10j — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 05:39:34 +0000

If you go down to basic physical material costs, Surface area of car, Metal cost, Glass cost etc, are the things which will determine car price in long run, So car which is weighting let's say 25% percent less can be be built cheaper compared to car weighting more. Less doors, less glass use, less paint, less material, less battery needed for same amount of distance, which brings down to cost.

New comment by acd10j in "Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels"

acd10j — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 03:37:17 +0000

don’t add too many features, one of the usp of this is simplicity and suspense.

New comment by acd10j in "300k airplanes in five years"

acd10j — Fri, 24 May 2024 05:10:52 +0000

If you want to have strategic deterrence capability, all scenarios are kept in mind, even if they are little low probability, in warfare sometimes enemy tries to find low probability scenarios and exploits that. (Remember german blitzkrieg in ww2)

New comment by acd10j in "Ryzen 8000G review: An integrated GPU that can beat a graphics card, for a price"

acd10j — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 10:41:35 +0000

Can this integrated graphic units (APUs) work similarly to Apple M series for Generative AI inference, in combining GPU and System memory and give competitive advantage to AMD?