Hacker News: chrisco255

New comment by chrisco255 in "Leaked OpenAI financials show $38.5B loss and compute burn"

chrisco255 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 23:29:43 +0000

Its still dominant and a lot higher % wise if you count paying users. Gemini was integrated into Google search so its not necessarily people using Gemini as their daily assistant.

New comment by chrisco255 in "Leaked OpenAI financials show $38.5B loss and compute burn"

chrisco255 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 05:18:36 +0000

They still have the most recognized AI brand name and they are still the most popular LLM. For most users, a 10% diff between Claude and GPT isnt going to move the needle plus it seems to be a horse race anyways. I think their user base is stickier than you would think. Still, it isn't as sticky as social media and it is cheaper to switch AIs than email accounts.

New comment by chrisco255 in "WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding"

chrisco255 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 04:28:02 +0000

> I hear this VR thing is the future of computing. Why isn't Apple in this space?

Apple released the Vision Pro, which is AR

New comment by chrisco255 in "India's surprise baby bust"

chrisco255 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 07:38:02 +0000

Lead? Lead was used for millenia. The Romans made copious use of lead.

New comment by chrisco255 in "ESP32-S31"

chrisco255 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:42:13 +0000

Corrected my comment, thank you. I mean, if productizing with them, global trade dynamics are certainly a supply chain risk factor, however, security concerns would be the primary reason such chips would be restricted from import.

New comment by chrisco255 in "ESP32-S31"

chrisco255 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:45:25 +0000

For what its worth, Espressif chips are open source, but yes, I wouldn't run national security or government devices on these.

Edit: I take it back on OS comment, they are not OS but some components of the SDK are:

https://zeus.ugent.be/blog/23-24/open-source-esp32-wifi-mac/

New comment by chrisco255 in "ESP32-S31"

chrisco255 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:37:08 +0000

Typically you look for a development board with the chip embedded on it. The dev board will have a usbc port and multiple pins that can be routed to LEDs, miniscreens, audio devices, etc. To program it you can usually use Lua (a very simple embedded language, almost JS-like) or you can use C/Rust/Zig as well. Arduino IDE works for it, too. You code from desktop and upload ROMs via USBC.

You can plug the dev board into sandwich board for easier prototyping. To go to mass production, you'll need to hand off your prototype spec to a custom PCB maker that you can order from, prices vary a lot based on volume and some shops specialize in low volume for early products.

Your end product should basically be a circuit board, case, battery, and any external components like LEDs or screens, then you assemble with plugs or wiring/soldering.

It is sometimes possible to make a product from the dev boards, especially the small ones, but your product still has to get a custom FCC certification (not a deal breaker, just a hoop to jump through), whether using dev board or custom.

New comment by chrisco255 in "CT scans of BYD car parts"

chrisco255 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 05:34:41 +0000

My 2019 Ford has this as well, this is not novel.

New comment by chrisco255 in "The American Missile Crisis"

chrisco255 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 05:27:37 +0000

The U.S. would do just fine but the rest of the world would descend into chaos and we know this for a fact because it happened twice in just the first 50 years of the 20th century.

New comment by chrisco255 in "Florida sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over AI risks"

chrisco255 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:41:07 +0000

A gun doesn't kill a person without being driven to action by a human. There are numerous alternative weapons to use, like using a candlestick in the conservatory or a rope in the lead pipe in the study for example.

New comment by chrisco255 in "The Eternal Sloptember"

chrisco255 — Mon, 25 May 2026 09:16:35 +0000

The author, George Hotz, owns an AI company: https://comma.ai/

He is just making a moment-in-time assessment of how he feels about current state of LLM coding. I don't think it's a super-strongly held opinion, I'm sure he would be willing to change his opinion if the next two years of LLM development produce exponentially better results.

New comment by chrisco255 in "The Eternal Sloptember"

chrisco255 — Mon, 25 May 2026 09:11:02 +0000

Modern shoes are made by a mix of machine and hand. There is still quite a bit of manual labor to produce shoes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK8pcAYapXQ

This is effectively what's happening to software. We are getting some forms of automation but I believe there's plenty of manual work and coordination left for humans to do.

New comment by chrisco255 in "The Eternal Sloptember"

chrisco255 — Mon, 25 May 2026 09:03:03 +0000

Good news! Buggy/carriage mechanics became auto mechanics and the number of mechanics jobs increased overall.

New comment by chrisco255 in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"

chrisco255 — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:36:06 +0000

Yes, the U.S. is very concerned that the E.U. is pivoting to LibreOffice. There is an ongoing war in Ukraine right now as there has been for 4 years. Will the E.U. deploy forces there to save Ukraine from Russia? Or will it instead resort to virtue signalling against the U.S. because they were asked to pay more for their defense or lose free access to American markets?

Toothless E.U. never came to anyone's defense.

New comment by chrisco255 in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"

chrisco255 — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:29:13 +0000

Oh boy, equivocating the U.S. military to the IRGC, which murdered tens of thousands of Iranian protestors just 4 months ago, which jails and murders women for failing to wear a hijab or burka or protesting in public, the IRGC which fired missiles at 8 different countries in the middle east less than 2 months ago, is the highest form of privilege coming from people largely shielded by the US military from inevitable global war in its absence.

New comment by chrisco255 in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"

chrisco255 — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:19:07 +0000

I guess, you know nowadays it seems like if an enemy scratches one of our ships it is called a total loss for the U.S. meanwhile other nations have their entire air force taken out along with all of their targeting systems and most of their missile supplies and even their heads of state are taken out by F35s or arrested by special forces and somehow that is called "losing" by armchair internet dwellers.

New comment by chrisco255 in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

chrisco255 — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:46:31 +0000

It's a historical reference to the events that led to World War 1.

New comment by chrisco255 in "US bill proposes new national EV tax, while some push to slash gas tax to zero"

chrisco255 — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:49:02 +0000

This is how Congress works, for better or worse. Bills get proposed all the time by any one of its five hundred or so members, it doesn't mean either one will pass. That's democracy.

New comment by chrisco255 in "US bill proposes new national EV tax, while some push to slash gas tax to zero"

chrisco255 — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:46:34 +0000

Thats nice but that doesnt work for vast majority of the United States. Cars are here to stay. People live in the suburbs you aren't going to mass migrate hundreds of millions of people.

New comment by chrisco255 in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"

chrisco255 — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:02:31 +0000

Not one U.S. ship was damaged by the Houthis. Meanwhile airstrikes took out a ton of Houthi assets.