Hacker News: anonu

New comment by anonu in "A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal"

anonu — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:27:23 +0000

that's a perverse way of looking at the cost of a service offering.

New comment by anonu in "A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal"

anonu — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:26:03 +0000

it's saas with authenticated market data.. there's nothing to crack

New comment by anonu in "Claude Opus 5.5"

anonu — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 15:02:29 +0000

"pace the frontier" is the new "flatten the curve"

New comment by anonu in "iPhone Duo"

anonu — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 20:02:04 +0000

just buy this phone and don't open it up

New comment by anonu in "iPhone Duo"

anonu — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 20:00:28 +0000

As a recent Android foldable phone owner (Google Pixel), I'm excited that the Duo will get developers to actually design apps for foldables. Right now, some apps don't work at all and others are just stretched. I feel a better use of the screen space is around the corner for both Android foldable and Duo users.

New comment by anonu in "216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]"

anonu — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 20:03:32 +0000

Can this be blocked with DNS / firewalls? Anyone done any work on that?

Is there a DNS setting in LG? Could it be as simple as switching to a local DNS server on your network running nextdns.io?

New comment by anonu in "Oceans hit highest temperature on record"

anonu — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 23:15:03 +0000

Lets hope that those touting a "reversion to the mean" are right.

New comment by anonu in "A New Alzheimer's Therapy – Or Is It?"

anonu — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 01:33:54 +0000

anyone know exactly how this works?

Spaceship Service Outage Update

anonu — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 01:31:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.spaceship.com/blog/spaceship-service-outage-update/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49306716

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by anonu in "AI financial advice is surprisingly good if you ask the right questions"

anonu — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 23:40:09 +0000

You need to feed it high quality data. Try Gemini Notebook, but this time load up a spreadsheet of fundamentals information for all US stocks or ETFs. The answer will differ and be much more nuanced.

I dont think you can rely on an out of book chat agent today to have all the necessary information at its disposal - even if you can pull a stock quote in ChatGPT, it doesn't mean it's going to look at PE multiples on 5000 stocks...

New comment by anonu in "How to Spot AI Writing"

anonu — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 15:07:28 +0000

> With every update, our study shows, AI writing is becoming more similar to human prose.

Any possible vice-versa: There's a meta problem with AI writing detection. I have found my (non-AI-assisted) prose possibly enhanced or modified by my learnings and observations at how LLMs write. In some sense they have made me better at structuring my thoughts and how to communicate them.

Accept Your Fate. Don't Wear Shorts to the Office

anonu — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:09:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/opinion/office-shorts-men.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124127

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Stanford MS&E435 Economics of the AI Supercycle [video]

anonu — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:03:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRvrXL83N-c

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49026524

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by anonu in "Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s"

anonu — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:57:08 +0000

Thank you for sharing. This type of stuff gets me pumped up. It just shows that tech improvements usually 10x - or in this case 1000x - some old metric. In this case its cost. I think the same sort of rule of thumb applies to things like speed, features, user experience, etc... Getting this type of cost advantage eventually translates to a better UX, as you've alluded to. Way to go.

New comment by anonu in "Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?"

anonu — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 20:03:24 +0000

> Apple somehow reigns supreme still.

Apple reigns supreme because of China - and the two are inextricably linked. China would not have its high-tech manufacturing prowess if it were not for Apple. The book Apple In China [1] highlights how millions of cheap laborers and the country's engineers took the lessons of working with Apple to solidify its edge in this space in a way nobody can catch up to today.

China took the long-term greedy approach to invest in the relationship. We see the US today taking equity stakes in Intel and trying to play catchup by using elements of the same playbook. The US's advantage remains in the more "intangible" side of the process: creativity, design, new tech. In a global economy with free trade, this is all fine. But China never "westernized" itself as was expected from the increase in global trade. Now the US is back pedaling, trying to jump start its manufacturing. It will take a long time...

The book is a good page-turning read. I recommend it.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/1668053373

New comment by anonu in "Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work"

anonu — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 10:57:42 +0000

First off, congrats. This sounds incredibly fulfilling on many levels.

Second, I'm curious how your business changes with AI coding tools. I would wager humans will seek out your offering in greater numbers.

New comment by anonu in "Funny item co-occurrences in 3.2M Instacart orders"

anonu — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 10:53:35 +0000

Berries are most certainly not seasonal anymore. They should be but we thoroughly engineered the seasonality out of them. They're always on the shelf. Do people's purchase habits follow the natural seasonality of the product anymore? Probably something that can be found in this dataset as well.

New comment by anonu in "Codex Micro"

anonu — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:31:50 +0000

FYI: This type of keyboard has been around for a few years https://worklouder.cc/

New comment by anonu in "Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k"

anonu — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 20:29:27 +0000

This is all heading in the right direction. Much of AI coding feels magical. But when the costs begin to accrue we start asking questions. We dig into it and try to understand what's going on. I can't help but feel Anthropic is "token maxing" from its side: it controls the levers and with every version upgrade it can build in its own token growth almost unbeknownst to the user. This actually harms it on the long run because it necessitates a cheaper option.

New comment by anonu in "I think I have LLM burnout"

anonu — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 02:38:20 +0000

It's burnt me out too. I'm generating 10x more features and multitasking across 4 disparate projects. My greatest concern is I don't really have a strong connection to the underlying fundamentals anymore. I need to see how the things works to internalize it. Now I just trust that the agent wrote this piece correctly.

The productivity drive and the sheer feature set you can generate in record time makes it easy to forget proper sdlc hygiene.