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New comment by bdelmas in "I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack"

bdelmas — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 08:58:13 +0000

It is. With 10k MRR it represents 0.15% of the revenue. Having the whole backend costing that much for a company selling web apps is like it’s costing zero.

New comment by bdelmas in "Gold overtakes U.S. Treasuries as the largest foreign reserve asset"

bdelmas — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:44:39 +0000

I think there are less experts on HN than years ago or a decade ago. And the culture of HN is getting slightly changing to a more Reddit culture every year.

It’s too bad because it’s the only place I know where you have experts in tech but also in other industries. And where I got very interesting discussions.

New comment by bdelmas in "Drugwars for the TI-82/83/83 Calculators (2011)"

bdelmas — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:53:34 +0000

15 years ago I had a Pocket Street Fighter game (Street Fighter characters in their baby version) and it was running fast even on a TI-89! You had 6 characters or so with Riu etc… It was really impressive. For sure the most well crafted back in the days.

I found it! It was called Texas Fighters: https://youtu.be/zZIqFJHe3yU?is=sVowojfWws9uwwRl

New comment by bdelmas in "Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland"

bdelmas — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 08:11:43 +0000

After the failure against countries with no military might like Vietnam, Irak, Afghanistan, and now Iran, I wouldn’t place a lot of importance into how much tech and quantity in the military plays a critical role into winning wars today.

New comment by bdelmas in "Pentagon formally labels Anthropic supply-chain risk"

bdelmas — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 07:02:12 +0000

> I don't see how any rational investor could still see US companies as a secure investment

You are right it won’t be as secured as before but it’s only risk management. As much as investing in a oil company in Brazil is a risk because you could have their government takeover the company to make it part of the government and screw you in the process.

It’s still tradable.

New comment by bdelmas in "I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's “free” and ad-supported"

bdelmas — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 12:19:52 +0000

Yes and no. What many call "dying cash cows" are often doing just fine, it’s just our perception of it that make them want to die. An example: Facebook. Could be considered a dying cash cows while looking at its products but it’s actually a growing business. Despise what their products are, their lack of innovation, and them not being able to compete against TikTok or make the app that will replace it, their business and so their stock have been all increasing.

Is using AI for domestic defense more and more nullifying the second amendment?

bdelmas — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:15:27 +0000

We can see what is currently happening with the Pentagon and AI companies. Soon enough AI will be used by domestic government agencies. When we know how effective AI can be, IMO guns are going to be more and more useless for any type of defense against a rogue group that can use AI at a state or nation scale. For me a part of the second amendment is here to protect the people against an imbalance of power and a rogue group to the whole government going rogue.

Am I mistaking? And is AI not undermining more and more the second amendment making guns weapons of the past? How can we avoid this?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47199732

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New comment by bdelmas in "Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston"

bdelmas — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:45:21 +0000

I copied your comment to Gemini Pro and it has some interesting things to say.

The link to avoid everybody to do the same query: https://g.co/gemini/share/15fc8eb095a2

New comment by bdelmas in "Jane Street Hit with Terra $40B Insider Trading Suit"

bdelmas — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 02:58:06 +0000

You could also check Matt Levine from Money Stuff - Bloomberg. He is quite known on HN. The way he writes plus his great knowledge with no BS makes him my favorite (and only) journalist I follow.

Edit: actually someone already found his article and posted it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47160848

New comment by bdelmas in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

bdelmas — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 15:03:55 +0000

Yes I came to the same conclusion. Just to add: be careful with Opus 4.6 guys. It’s expensive…

New comment by bdelmas in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

bdelmas — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 21:11:07 +0000

You know what after digging more into the subject I can say that you are effectively right. So thank you for taking the time and commenting on that. I still think it should be a tool a US president can have. Congress is not fast enough to put pressure and removing it as much as the executive branch can do. I think that this and similar economic tools are critical just seeing how thing are unfolding and how the future is going to look like.

For DOJ ya I meant the judicial branch.

New comment by bdelmas in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

bdelmas — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 07:55:39 +0000

I am not sure what you are not understanding since you know there are 3 branches.

The judicial has no say on this. The judicial branch is more and more pushing political agenda when it’s not their role. Tariffs were always part of the executive branch, it’s by itself an executive action in the spirit of the law. Still if the US decides that it should not be part of the executive branch anymore, it is not to the judicial branch to decide! But it is up to the legislative branch.

This is what I am saying. Plus the fact that the US is stripping more and more power from a branch called the "executive branch" making it less and less what it is supposed to do.

New comment by bdelmas in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

bdelmas — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 06:30:04 +0000

People may or may not have voted for Trump but I find this extremely disturbing. Unless it’s illegal when did the DOJ become involved in politics and policies? They are more and more stepping outside of their role. Setting tarifs is one of the tools and role of the executive branch. This will limit even more what a president can and cannot do.

New comment by bdelmas in "Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out"

bdelmas — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 20:56:24 +0000

This whole thread of discussion and elsewhere, it's surreal... Are we doomed? In 10 years some people will literally worship some AI while others won't be able to know what is true and what was made up.

New comment by bdelmas in "Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal"

bdelmas — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:59:13 +0000

> Oh, no, not this false dichotomy again!

> People protest to affect political change in their own countries.

Hu? What about Palestine? Is it the US? People can protest about anything they want. Foreign policy or international intervention (in any form) are 2 of them. If people think they need their government to do something about a foreign country they can protest. And many times when people have double nationality they can also protest for their own country.

Protest is not only for political change in our own country. As much as people can protest for Palestine, people can also protest their own cause about what is happening in Iran.

New comment by bdelmas in "Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal"

bdelmas — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 11:09:34 +0000

It almost makes Israel look like they are not there to wipe out Palestine

New comment by bdelmas in "Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal"

bdelmas — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 11:03:42 +0000

I really don’t understand why in the West there is nobody in the streets to protest but there was so many people for Palestine… Where are the people?

New comment by bdelmas in "Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6%"

bdelmas — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 13:13:04 +0000

I have been on HN for a long time and unfortunately since at least the last 5 years there are some Reddit culture that have been creeping into it…

New comment by bdelmas in "It's hard to justify Tahoe icons"

bdelmas — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 13:16:11 +0000

Liquid Glass was actually a big surprise for me, and it was a shock to see Apple moving forward with this and nobody stopping it. Microsoft did that with Vista back in 2006 and they stopped doing this. So Apple is copying a 2006 design? From Microsoft? Where even Microsoft stopped doing it because of all the known issues? So many questions...

New comment by bdelmas in "Apple releases open-source model that instantly turns 2D photos into 3D views"

bdelmas — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 12:40:26 +0000

I’m so sad I had this idea at least 6 years ago but I didn’t have the connections to make it happen. But that’s nice that they released the project. Apple open sourcing their tech?