Hacker News: bushbaba

New comment by bushbaba in "OpenAI mulls slashing prices as it competes with Anthropic for users"

bushbaba — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:39:05 +0000

Not necessarily, inference speed also has huge time aspect. For example anthropic takes nearly twice as long as OpenAI models for my tasks with both having similar success rates.

New comment by bushbaba in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

bushbaba — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 20:30:26 +0000

Easy to test against by going multi model audit

New comment by bushbaba in "Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say"

bushbaba — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 20:11:18 +0000

The top U.S. officials do the same when traveling to any country. Everyone does this to everyone else.

New comment by bushbaba in "Canada to order military plane fleet from Sweden in shift from US suppliers"

bushbaba — Thu, 28 May 2026 03:45:41 +0000

Saab uses the Bombardier Global 6500 here. Which is entirely manufactured in Canada. This is less politics and more about economics

New comment by bushbaba in "Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests"

bushbaba — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:18:01 +0000

Not a valid excuse without knowing what their historical growth rate has been. And how much of the instability is load related.

New comment by bushbaba in "Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs"

bushbaba — Sun, 24 May 2026 17:52:29 +0000

Makes prior assumptions that getting tens of gigs of ram is cheap thrown out the window. Would likely lead to super fast SSDs such as optain being way more valuable

New comment by bushbaba in "The IBM-ification of Google?"

bushbaba — Fri, 22 May 2026 05:10:30 +0000

Not really I’d not call Google the safest/most popular choice for AI or Cloud.

New comment by bushbaba in "Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods"

bushbaba — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:27:14 +0000

If cabins are water tight you risk carbon monoxide poisoning

New comment by bushbaba in "Waymo updates 3,800 robotaxis after they 'drive into standing water'"

bushbaba — Sat, 16 May 2026 04:17:09 +0000

If you've ever built software, you'll know that regressions are all too common. Especially when AI/ML is involved.

It's likely they patch this and cause 2 other bugs in the process.

New comment by bushbaba in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

bushbaba — Tue, 12 May 2026 02:42:33 +0000

Cool to see my hunch be backed by data. Python is a scripting language with OOP bolted on. Means there’s not really a styling consistency that other languages have, with things tending to look like PHP, a collection of various scripts that invoke one another

New comment by bushbaba in "California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws"

bushbaba — Sun, 03 May 2026 03:25:16 +0000

i'd argue Waymo is "1 Driver", and after they get a cumulative 4 points in 1 year, then Waymo would no longer be allowed to drive in the state of California

New comment by bushbaba in "Google banks on AI edge to catch up to cloud rivals Amazon and Microsoft"

bushbaba — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 04:57:55 +0000

Google banked on "Edge" for IoT as well, prior to that it was their network edge is better use them from compute. It's a failed strategy that won't work this time either.

New comment by bushbaba in "Waymo says expecting driverless taxis to stay out of bike lanes is unrealistic"

bushbaba — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:42:33 +0000

Do they get 1 point per infraction and have license suspend after so many points?(like human rivers)? If so, it'd be rather quick for the full fleet suspension.

New comment by bushbaba in "Waymo says can't avoid bike lanes because riders want to be dropped off in them"

bushbaba — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:41:20 +0000

The difference is that Uber/Lyft use external contractors who are liable for their driving. Waymo is directly liable for the driving as they directly own and operate the cars and the driver.

New comment by bushbaba in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"

bushbaba — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 05:53:05 +0000

It’s allowed a sludge of internal tools to spin up, and more bloat. The ability to sand bag and over build these tools has gotten 2-10x worse.

Only solution I can think of is to drastically cut headcount so productivity is back to prior levels, and profitability is raised. Big Tech is mostly market constrained with not much room to grow beyond the market itself growing.

As for startups, seems like AI tools have drastically reduced their time to market and accelerated their growth curves.

New comment by bushbaba in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

bushbaba — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 05:32:24 +0000

Forgot that claude is burning good will from it's own capacity constraints, leading to periods of 'dumbness'. It's a catalyst to cause me and others to switch back to cursor if they can get their act together

New comment by bushbaba in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

bushbaba — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 06:59:21 +0000

I hated liquid glass at first, but now i've come to appreciate it. It grows on you

New comment by bushbaba in "AWS engineer reports PostgreSQL perf halved by Linux 7.0, fix may not be easy"

bushbaba — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:01:48 +0000

Because such settings aren’t obvious to those not familiar with them. LLMs should make discoverability easier though

New comment by bushbaba in "Oracle files H-1B visa petitions amid mass layoffs"

bushbaba — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:59:33 +0000

I've worked at Google and Amazon. Both paid H-1B less than their american counterparts. In particular because the H-1B workers didn't jump companies as frequent.

New comment by bushbaba in "Oracle files H-1B visa petitions amid mass layoffs"

bushbaba — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:59:03 +0000

They should remove the lottery and make it a bidding war. Highest bidder gets the H-1B visas.

Realistically, the H-1B visa program should be terminated all together.