Hacker News: alexmorley

Microsoft AI Launches Copilot Health

alexmorley — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 02:19:17 +0000

Article URL: https://microsoft.ai/news/introducing-copilot-health/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47359956

Points: 1

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New comment by alexmorley in "Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter"

alexmorley — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 10:19:12 +0000

> "anyone can build a payment processor, nobody can get regulatory approval."

If you want to become a bank regulatory approval is hard. If you don't then its necessary but not the biggest barrier by far. Building trust with card networks, merchants & banks, interfacing with card networks, optimizing acceptance rates to a high level against the black box of card networks etc.

And then you still wouldn't make any money because the margins are extremely low on processing payments themselves - so either you have to have massive scale or have a bunch of value added services that you charge more for. For which you also need a serious commercial engine to be able to sell to either loads of enterprises or some very large ones (who will rarely sign exclusive deals - they will just give you a share of wallet so they can transfer traffic over at will).

Card networks are another story...

New comment by alexmorley in "UK House of Lords Votes to Extend Age Verification to VPNs"

alexmorley — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 10:16:13 +0000

Not made clear in this article - this bill will be passed back to the House of Commons to debate/amend before going back to the House of Lords. This was not the final say.

Palantir, Meta, OpenAI Execs Appointed Lieutenant Colonels in US Army (2025)

alexmorley — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 14:32:52 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/SecArmy/status/1933693585183965372

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46719704

Points: 100

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Tom Brady Is Newest Face of GLP-1s, Joining Telehealth Startup

alexmorley — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 16:15:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-12/tom-brady-is-newest-face-of-glp-1s-joining-telehealth-startup

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46590453

Points: 2

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New comment by alexmorley in "Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI"

alexmorley — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:20:14 +0000

Does anyone know where their SWE-bench Verified results are from? I can't find matching results on the leaderboards for their models or the Claude models and they don't provide any links.

New comment by alexmorley in "Show HN: Walrus – a Kafka alternative written in Rust"

alexmorley — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 19:53:58 +0000

IMO for those requirements Redpanda has been the go-to for the last 5 years or so but I agree this is still a nice take and potentially even lighter.

New comment by alexmorley in "AI World Clocks"

alexmorley — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 19:39:51 +0000

It's just html/css so no js at all let alone d3.

Pydantic AI Gateway

alexmorley — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 09:20:52 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai-gateway

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45209479

Points: 2

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New comment by alexmorley in "Garmin beats Apple to market with satellite-connected smartwatch"

alexmorley — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 17:25:48 +0000

They are built to last. I've had my Fenix 5 for at least 7 years and it shows no signs of slowing or dying. Battery still lasts 5 days or so with normal use. Think it's just stopped getting software updates.

Admittedly they were a bit cheaper back then (but this will one will be too next year)...

New comment by alexmorley in "GPT-5"

alexmorley — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 11:11:52 +0000

> For Free and Plus users, these changes take effect immediately. Pro, Team, and Enterprise users will also see the changes at launch but will have access to older models through legacy model settings.

So only for free/plus users (for now). I do wonder how long they will take to deprecate these models via API though...

Pydantic/GenAI-prices – Calculate prices for calling LLM inference APIs

alexmorley — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 16:07:57 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/pydantic/genai-prices

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44813893

Points: 1

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New comment by alexmorley in "Death by AI"

alexmorley — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 23:18:12 +0000

Even those versions could well have been interleaved with other AI summaries about Dave Barry that referred to OP without disambiguating which was about who.

Be ideal if it did disambiguate a la Wikipedia.

Ask HN: Best Agentic Coding on Mobile?

alexmorley — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 12:10:51 +0000

With an agentic workflow it should be possible to have a good experience with this. So far I have tried replit (good but locked to their platform) and GitHub via Issues.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44396150

Points: 2

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