Hacker News: cheriot

New comment by cheriot in "The Abundance Illusion"

cheriot — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:45:37 +0000

In addition to this article, I've seen well thought out assertions from knowledgeable people that Hormuz is far worse than the market thinks and the market just continues not caring.

Maybe they're both right? Horrible things can happen to oil importing economies without derailing the AI build out that's driving the US economy and stock prices.

I think there's a catch-22 where Trump will hold out as long as the market lets him and everyone in the market wants to look through him throwing in the towel.

New comment by cheriot in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

cheriot — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:43:13 +0000

Apple/Google make less money if they sell the data because their ad product would no longer have an advantage. So no, I don't think they do that.

New comment by cheriot in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

cheriot — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:00:26 +0000

The professions with the least negotiating power will have the most draconian "oversight". Imagine a cashier graded in real time on how many customers they smile at. Or tracking how many glasses in a restaurant are empty.

New comment by cheriot in "The quiet renovation at Bitwarden"

cheriot — Mon, 18 May 2026 23:17:40 +0000

Wild to me that Bitwarden raised > $100m from VC. Seems like the kind of thing that would make a nice lifestyle business.

The enterprise version never went beyond password management so I'm not sure how this could have generated a viable ROI.

New comment by cheriot in "Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs"

cheriot — Wed, 06 May 2026 03:40:07 +0000

Better commit messages, better and more up to date docs, etc. It's not all slop!

New comment by cheriot in "Trillions in Retirement Dollars Flow into Opaque Trusts"

cheriot — Mon, 04 May 2026 21:47:31 +0000

Why would an investment manager choose a CIT over an ETF? I can't help but think there's additional fees being collected somewhere.

To adapt a popular phrase to personal finance, "If you don't understand the product, you are the product."

New comment by cheriot in "I Do Not Recommend Bitwarden"

cheriot — Sat, 02 May 2026 23:57:27 +0000

This seems like the kind of thing that the right kind of engineer could turn into a lifestyle business. Two mobile apps, two or three browser extensions, a server, and a marketing website. A lot of care for the core security decisions and a bunch of CRUD UIs.

I know I'm being "that guy" so tell me where this gets more complex than I think.

New comment by cheriot in "Waymo Drives Off with South Bay Man's Luggage"

cheriot — Sat, 02 May 2026 23:53:27 +0000

tbh, I do that with Uber/Lyft, too

New comment by cheriot in "Waymo Drives Off with South Bay Man's Luggage"

cheriot — Sat, 02 May 2026 23:52:45 +0000

Thank you, Sunnyvale man, for hitting this edge case before I do.

New comment by cheriot in "Uber wants to turn its drivers into a sensor grid for self-driving companies"

cheriot — Sat, 02 May 2026 18:38:15 +0000

Interesting way to encourage competition for its competitor. A single, scaled self-driving company is a massive threat to Uber.

New comment by cheriot in "Waymo in Portland"

cheriot — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:11:16 +0000

During peak hours Waymo is more expensive than standard uber/lyft - I don't pay attention to black/premium pricing. Off-peak the price can be comparable. I mainly check because my wife prefers it.

New comment by cheriot in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

cheriot — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 05:18:14 +0000

Anyone know how much harder water resistance gets with replaceable batteries?

New comment by cheriot in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

cheriot — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:04:13 +0000

Are there good hosted options that will not respond to non-judicial data requests?

Someone is going to say self hosted is better and I don't disagree, but there's limits to how much time I can spend on self hosted stuff.

New comment by cheriot in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

cheriot — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:00:18 +0000

From the article

> In April 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sent Google an administrative subpoena requesting his data.

New comment by cheriot in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

cheriot — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:45:48 +0000

Property taxes come to mind.

New comment by cheriot in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

cheriot — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:20:50 +0000

They've blown up several ships so which ship owner will test them? Spend $1m on a transit fee or risk $90m on a new tanker.

New comment by cheriot in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

cheriot — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:53:54 +0000

I suspect more fighting in Lebanon means less oil through Hormuz. Iran kept its definition of "open" vague. Everyone is keeping the pressure up during negotiations.

New comment by cheriot in "Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence"

cheriot — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:46:34 +0000

I suspect this is the real reason behind Anthropic limiting subscriptions to their own products and keeping API prices several times higher than comparable models. Applications more sticky than API users and less technical users more sticky than programmers (ie Cowork more sticky than Code).

New comment by cheriot in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

cheriot — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 04:35:27 +0000

One supreme leader replaced by another, even more hardline, supreme leader. Trump failed.

New comment by cheriot in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

cheriot — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 04:27:04 +0000

The nuclear program is orders of magnitude more important than everything else. If you think JCPOA was bad, take a look at Iran's 10 point plan.