Hacker News: antman

New comment by antman in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

antman — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:40:08 +0000

The costs are exorbitant and most software is not produced by companies with such a huge moat. Anthropic made a profit through their recent bait amd switch pricing. There is zero useful insights online to indicate whether this might die due to commoditisation with good enough open models or fail the race to get more people subsidising unsustainable growth with other people’s money. Who knows? In any case they dont seem to be able to drop usage costs so the business model seems based on wishes

New comment by antman in "CBP Directive 3340-049B: Border Search of Electronic Devices"

antman — Sun, 24 May 2026 22:25:08 +0000

Had the same guidance for many years for visiting the US given by the large US firm that employed me

New comment by antman in "Launch HN: Superset (YC P26) – IDE for the agents era"

antman — Sat, 23 May 2026 19:40:02 +0000

Nice if didnt have the same name with an Apache project https://superset.apache.org/

New comment by antman in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"

antman — Tue, 19 May 2026 03:43:27 +0000

Nobody credible said or believed Iran was making nuclear weapons. Iran had made it a fatwa against the Islamic law to develop such weapons and Obama had referenced that. They also dont believe bolivian fishermen could reach the US with stocks of drugs, they dont believe venezuela’s president was a hidden drug kingpin, and they also dont believe that Cuba is a credible threat that needs to be blockaded to the stone age.

These are power plays to signal that world dominance is not decaying but in case of Iran it has backfired and pushes China’s narrative as a pillar of stability.

New comment by antman in "Actually, democracy dies in H.R."

antman — Tue, 19 May 2026 02:31:04 +0000

Most of these are either things they believe wont affect them or will affect them in the future. This is not a common behavior for things that will affect them immediately amd I have yet to see someone pass on a promotion because they thought someone else was better

New comment by antman in "OpenTrafficMap"

antman — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 04:50:29 +0000

What about the traffic lights on the map do they also have transmitters?

New comment by antman in "I benchmarked Claude Code's caveman plugin against "be brief.""

antman — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 04:12:28 +0000

What not try both caveman and be brief?

New comment by antman in "Cambodia unveils statue to honour famous landmine-sniffing rat"

antman — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:22:07 +0000

I recently visited the facility near Angor Wat Cambodia. Its a facility with a lot of promotional matetial and have greatbway of presentong themselves. I had a demo presentation with a rat doing demining so some observations: The rats are big. The idea is that they smell mines and are more useful than dogs since they are less than 5kg which detonates the mines. They are also better than human since they can smell old mines that are under soil or plants after so many decades. Unfortunate that is very labor intensive since there are two people escorting each rat and handle it with tethers.

For those reasons their effectiveness is limited.

A few km up the same road is the Cambodian Landmine Museum that has a couple of demo gardens where one can spectacularly fail find Lamdimes Found like 10 amd they were like one hundred, 2 right next to me…. Unfortunately that place which is run by a person called Aki Ra although having done a lot more work gets less financing.

New comment by antman in "Ask HN: Did anyone else get logged out from HN today?"

antman — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:01:06 +0000

Yes

New comment by antman in "Guilty Displeasures"

antman — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:55:08 +0000

There are two such mechanisms proposed. Ambivalence theory that says you can both like and dislike something at the same time e.g. smoking. Cognitive dissonance is that you like as you are supposed to like according to your teachings and and upbringing which might not be fully in sync your real neural response e.g. liking famous people when they might be crap.

New comment by antman in "A DuckDB-based metabase alternative"

antman — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 12:44:24 +0000

Will it expose a visual query builder as metabase?

New comment by antman in "Chinese Peptides Are the Latest Biohacking Trend in the Tech World"

antman — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 08:45:15 +0000

https://archive.is/20260206064340/https://www.nytimes.com/20...

New comment by antman in "VisualJJ – Jujutsu in Visual Studio Code"

antman — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 08:27:06 +0000

10$ per month early access? I would prefer a one off price for an offline mode

New comment by antman in "The Responsibility of Intellectuals (1967)"

antman — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 06:49:06 +0000

They are helping society not the system. They might fight the system. There is no ignoring, thats supporting the system. There is no silence, the system can produce fake intellectuals. There is no hiding, the system must pursue the individuals because its the ideas that need dying. The intellectuals are pursued even after death.

New comment by antman in "On Being a Human Being in the Time of Collapse (2022) [pdf]"

antman — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 12:18:40 +0000

I will agree but rephrase, they were not incapable limiting supply of housing or chinese imports or international information channels is the model. Artificial barriers, ethical redefinitions, rag pulling, tollboothing have been the way to divide and conquer to channel the decaying international and domestic market share to political affiliates. Most political , maga, lgbt, policing, race etc issues are highlighted and disproportionately promoted to noise out discourse about money. If money and safety is considered as a key factor of historical actions and current events, then countries grievances are eastbti explain. When I hear for the other side the media to claim “they went crazy”, “they are barbarian subhumans” I know I am being manipulated.

China's Zhipu Unveils New AI Model Trained on Huawei's Chips

antman — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 05:42:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-14/china-s-zhipu-unveils-new-ai-model-trained-on-huawei-s-chips

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46628511

Points: 4

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New comment by antman in "Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL"

antman — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 07:21:17 +0000

Voice typing is a cool feature, have you considered whisper wasm instead of OpenAI api?

New comment by antman in "Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL"

antman — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 07:15:05 +0000

That is absolutely great! Using it now to plan a trip.

Could we also add text annotations? Also the delete button could delete just the last shape or a selected shape so as not to start over?

Chinese Chipmakers Race to IPOs

antman — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 11:01:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/international/global/chinese-chipmakers-race-ipo-after-back-back-listings-surge

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46353143

Points: 1

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New comment by antman in "Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud"

antman — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 15:39:30 +0000

Given it was revealed that CIA specifically targeted 200million deals and above, it was political naivety amounting ti gross negligence on behalf of Airbus executives that it took them 10 years. Same for many other large organisations and countries, unbelieveable.

Why did it have to be Trump to make them take action?

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-france-wikileaks-economy/...