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New comment by bobtheborg in "Tracking down the 16-year-old WAL-reset SQLite bug"

bobtheborg — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:15:48 +0000

Great read. So glad they took the time to tell this story. (And glad they, as a for profit corporation, took out a support contract with SQLite. I hope they continue to do so even though this problem is resolved.)

New comment by bobtheborg in "Google's Gemini app surges to one billion users"

bobtheborg — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:34:08 +0000

"Milestone alert To celebrate more than 1 billion monthly active users in the @GeminiApp — making it the fastest-growing product in our history — we’re sharing some key insights into how people around the globe are using the app:

63% of users talk to Gemini out loud

One in five Gemini Live interactions go beyond voice, and use camera or screen share.

Students love that Gemini understands their uploads: 38% of their school requests include an attachment.

People use Gemini to generate more than 150 million photos every day.

Gemini can automate actions in 40+ apps, helping you book a rideshare, make a dinner reservation, and more.

More than 100 million people use Gemini on iOS, and MacOS users prompt around twice as much as people using other surfaces.

And we’re just getting started! Let us know your favorite way to use the Gemini app in the comments."

New comment by bobtheborg in "The Valley of Webhooks"

bobtheborg — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 23:43:41 +0000

"Nobody serves this today" except for every real estate listing service (https://www.reso.org/reso-web-api/)

New comment by bobtheborg in "Microsoft's $450B Jump Is Biggest in Stock Market History"

bobtheborg — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 23:44:49 +0000

"Analyst research estimated OpenAI was responsible for roughly half of Azure’s $30 billion in year-over-year growth, and investment bank Stifel’s Brad Reback flagged in his investment thesis that the relationship is becoming less competitively additive as Google follows hard on Azure’s heels. Not to mention, Azure has long chased Amazon Web Services for customers and market share. Yet BNP Paribas senior equity research analyst Stefan Slowinski estimated the $24.1 billion as less than a quarter (23%) of Azure’s revenue, and noted that Microsoft has a path to keeping Azure’s growth above 40% as it phases in consumption-based pricing across its Copilot product offerings. "

New comment by bobtheborg in "SWE-1.7 Reach Near GPT 5.5 and Opus Intelligence"

bobtheborg — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 21:29:46 +0000

I like to use SWE-1.6 for quick help with git. For instance:

review the top stash and tell me what's in it (grouped appropriately)

1.6 does this fine nearly instantly.

1.7 tried for 17s before I killed it

New comment by bobtheborg in "Micron locks in historically high memory prices for five years"

bobtheborg — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:55:34 +0000

"Total fiscal Q3 revenue was $41.5 billion, up 74% sequentially and up 346% year over year, representing our fifth consecutive quarterly revenue record. The $17.6 billion sequential increase is the largest in our history, eclipsing last quarter’s $10.2 billion record."

https://investors.micron.com/static-files/631b1a32-5537-46ae...

New comment by bobtheborg in "A forecast of the fair market value of SpaceX's businesses"

bobtheborg — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:50:06 +0000

Having never really looked at valuations, my ignorant mind can get from Starlink's 10M subscribers to a $380B valuation. If you make $100/mo/user that's 12B/yr and that with a higher 50x P/E ratio is 60B. If you go to 100x, that's $120B.

New comment by bobtheborg in "Get Shit Done: A meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven dev system"

bobtheborg — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:56:23 +0000

The author of that page seems to mostly be AI, not a human.

New comment by bobtheborg in "ATMs didn't kill bank Teller jobs, but the iPhone did"

bobtheborg — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 17:53:45 +0000

Make that two people. I much prefer to slap the rare check on the scanner than fiddle with the phone. My banks "scan the check" part of the app was buggy for a long time, so maybe that jaded me. (~"move closer", ~"move away", ~"increase lighting"...)

New comment by bobtheborg in "Ad-tech is fascist tech"

bobtheborg — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:51:02 +0000

I found many points interesting. Here's one:

Policymakers supposedly work for us/the people and they could have made surveillance ad tech expensive and thereby severely limited it, but

> "Policymakers failed us because cops and spies hate privacy laws and lobby like hell against them. Cops and spies love commercial surveillance, because the private sector's massive surveillance dossiers are an off-the-books trove of warrantless surveillance data that the government can't legally collect."

New comment by bobtheborg in "Helicone Is Joining Mintlify"

bobtheborg — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 21:49:37 +0000

> What this means for you: Helicone's services will remain live for the foreseeable future in maintenance mode. This means security updates, new models, bug & performance fixes all keep shipping.

Hmm

New comment by bobtheborg in "We rendered and embedded one million CAD files"

bobtheborg — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 20:07:11 +0000

Try searching for "glasses" and you get a page full of blocks?

New comment by bobtheborg in "xAI joins SpaceX"

bobtheborg — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:59:53 +0000

Hello fello Technology Connections watcher?

Led by Texas, New Hampshire, states race to prove can –"Bitcoin on bal sheet"

bobtheborg — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 18:14:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/17/texas-us-states-budgets-bitcoin-crypto-strategic-reserve.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46682493

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by bobtheborg in "American importers and consumers bear the cost of 2025 tariffs: analysis"

bobtheborg — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 17:25:31 +0000

> who voted Trump because they believed Harris was not tough enough

No, they voted for Trump because he was their guy then later made up a rational justification. We know that people generally do NOT make decisions by rationally evaluating things, their subconscious makes a decision and their conscious makes plausible rational arguments. (Yes, citation needed.)

New comment by bobtheborg in "Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain"

bobtheborg — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 23:29:02 +0000

It's one handed? The hand with the ring is the same hand that uses the thumb to hit the button?

New comment by bobtheborg in "A change of address led to our Wise accounts being shut down"

bobtheborg — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 22:59:36 +0000

? "Wise, formerly known as TransferWise, is an English financial technology company focused on global money transfers." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wise_%28company%29

New comment by bobtheborg in "Say it with me: Windows is the problem with Windows handhelds"

bobtheborg — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 01:32:56 +0000

"It’s been nearly two weeks since Microsoft, a multi-trillion dollar company, shipped a $600 handheld “Xbox” that can’t be relied on to sleep, wake, or hold a charge while asleep in my tests." Sean Hollister, The Verge

Say it with me: Windows is the problem with Windows handhelds

bobtheborg — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 01:32:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/games/807711/xbox-ally-sleep-fail-bazzite-fix-performance

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45755422

Points: 11

# Comments: 2

New comment by bobtheborg in "Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k"

bobtheborg — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:54:52 +0000

$30K NOT counting some expenses (cardiologist, ER docs)???

> Bills were a few thousand here for the cardiologist, another few there for the ER docs, a bit for the radiologist. I helped my sister-in-law negotiate these down but they weren’t back breakers. Then the hospital bill came: $195k. This is a story about that.