Hacker News: cavemandavemanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cavemandavemanHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Mon, 14 Sep 2026 09:07:14 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by cavemandaveman in "We must pace the frontier"]]>America doesn't want to pay the price of handling Iran. There's a difference. Clearly the US could conquer Iran but it requires a land war with mass casualties, not just sporadic bombing.

Obviously China is in an entirely different league.

]]>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 21:59:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49677645cavemandavemanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49677645https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49677645<![CDATA[New comment by cavemandaveman in "AI's debt binge can't last, hidden borrowing reaches $1.65T"]]>That's cynical nonsense that executives don't look past the next quarter. There would be none of this AI investment if that were true. It's all a long-term play with huge investments and minimal revenue by comparison in the short run.

NVDA had the foresight two decades ago to invest in CUDA. That's not next quarter thinking.

]]>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:59:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49162036cavemandavemanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49162036https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49162036<![CDATA[New comment by cavemandaveman in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"]]>Can you host the model for a lower cost per token than you'd pay Anthropic or OpenAI for a similar level of intelligence? I doubt you're beating their efficiencies of scale.

]]>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:23:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48938237cavemandavemanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48938237https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48938237<![CDATA[If Microsoft sold off Xbox, who would even buy it?]]>Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/games/962837/microsoft-xbox-spin-off-sell-divest-layoffs-asha-sharma

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859241

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]]>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:54:26 +0000https://www.theverge.com/games/962837/microsoft-xbox-spin-off-sell-divest-layoffs-asha-sharmacavemandavemanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859241https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859241<![CDATA[New comment by cavemandaveman in "WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding"]]>Apple's MO has never been to make junk that breaks. They're as valuable as they are largely because of their reputation for high quality products.

]]>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:25:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48462355cavemandavemanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48462355https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48462355<![CDATA[New comment by cavemandaveman in "How LLMs work"]]>My understanding is that the Inuit snow claim is a bit of a myth. Beyond English words like slush, sleet, powder, hardpack, flurry, blizzard, etc you can also say "fluffy snow", "wet snow", etc. The Inuit language is just smooshing the adjective so you get something like "wetsnow" as one word.

]]>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 02:14:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48431094cavemandavemanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48431094https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48431094<![CDATA[New comment by cavemandaveman in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"]]>Berkshire Hathaway doesn't pay a dividend yet the business has steadily grown more valuable

]]>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 20:58:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48428948cavemandavemanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48428948https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48428948