Hacker News: ck_one

New comment by ck_one in "The labor share of income in the US is at its lowest post-war level"

ck_one — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:51:08 +0000

Capital gains tax is clearly lower than income tax. So why did you change your mind?

New comment by ck_one in "The ability to regrow body parts is dormant in mammals, not lost"

ck_one — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 19:13:11 +0000

Does that mean zebra fish with their ability to regrow the retina get cancer at a higher rate?

New comment by ck_one in "Ask HN: Can a tinnitus be triggered by high frequency noises?"

ck_one — Sun, 10 May 2026 21:23:22 +0000

Most patients get tinnitus after hearing degradation. So my first advice is to do a hearing test. You mentioned you visited a doctor, was your hearing normal?

Tinnitus is still in the early stages of research. But the notion of just accept it, it can't be fixed will not be true forever. Researchers just recently started to cure some form of genetic hearing loss. That means one part of the puzzle of transporting gen editing viruses to the inner ear is solved. Next up is figuring out what gen edits are necessary. The field gets surprisingly little funding even though we have an aging population and lots of veterans with hearing issues. Many labs have tiny budgets <1 Mio per year but are making good progress every year. My guess is when one of the rich founders gets it (Elon, Sam, Larry, Brin etc) and decided to do something about it we will see real progress.

New comment by ck_one in "Show HN: Airbyte Agents – context for agents across multiple data sources"

ck_one — Wed, 06 May 2026 05:20:50 +0000

More and more SaaS companies like ServiceNow or Hubspot are creating new tollgates for agent api calls. How do you think will this impact Airbyte Agents? I guess that replicating data locally will be harder since the platforms will try to protect it or charge for it.

New comment by ck_one in "Pi – A minimal terminal coding harness"

ck_one — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 01:44:00 +0000

What self-built capabilities do you like the most that claude code doesn't offer?

New comment by ck_one in "Show HN: Emdash – Open-source agentic development environment"

ck_one — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 01:02:10 +0000

Wild how quickly developer workflows change. I went from cursor -> claude code CLI -> emdash (mix of claude code and codex now)

New comment by ck_one in "Show HN: Moltis – AI assistant with memory, tools, and self-extending skills"

ck_one — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 03:48:56 +0000

Didn't see it, thanks!

New comment by ck_one in "Show HN: Moltis – AI assistant with memory, tools, and self-extending skills"

ck_one — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 02:52:53 +0000

Do you plan on Open Sourcing it? A bit scary to just execute a random binary and put in a bunch of API keys.

New comment by ck_one in "Tell HN: I'm a PM at a big system of record SaaS. We're cooked"

ck_one — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 22:47:31 +0000

How do you think big labs will try to attack you guys? Why not just close the data to them?

New comment by ck_one in "Claude Opus 4.6"

ck_one — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 22:44:33 +0000

It didn't use web search. But for sure it has some internal knowledge already. It's not a perfect needle in the hay stack problem but gemini flash was much worse when I tested it last time.

New comment by ck_one in "Claude Opus 4.6"

ck_one — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 22:35:00 +0000

Do you remember how to get around those tricks?

New comment by ck_one in "Claude Opus 4.6"

ck_one — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 22:34:11 +0000

When I tried it without web search so only internal knowledge it missed ~15 spells.

New comment by ck_one in "Claude Opus 4.6"

ck_one — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 22:33:19 +0000

If you just ask it you don't get the same result. Around 13 spells were missing when I just prompted Opus 4.6 without the books as context.

New comment by ck_one in "Claude Opus 4.6"

ck_one — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 22:30:35 +0000

Then it's fair that id didn't find it

New comment by ck_one in "Claude Opus 4.6"

ck_one — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 21:38:32 +0000

Just tested the new Opus 4.6 (1M context) on a fun needle-in-a-haystack challenge: finding every spell in all Harry Potter books.

All 7 books come to ~1.75M tokens, so they don't quite fit yet. (At this rate of progress, mid-April should do it ) For now you can fit the first 4 books (~733K tokens).

Results: Opus 4.6 found 49 out of 50 officially documented spells across those 4 books. The only miss was "Slugulus Eructo" (a vomiting spell).

Freaking impressive!

New comment by ck_one in "ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data"

ck_one — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 18:12:23 +0000

This is the moment for Europe to show that you can do gov and business differently. If they get their s** together and actually present a viable alternative.

New comment by ck_one in "Data brokers are selling flight information to CBP and ICE"

ck_one — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 17:54:02 +0000

Is that actually possible? Can we do a live test here?

Let's say we want this dataset: Credit card line items for 35-year-old dentists living on the 400 block of Elm street in local town

How much do I have to pay you to get it?

New comment by ck_one in "What's working for YC companies since the AI boom"

ck_one — Sat, 31 May 2025 13:44:02 +0000

In many fields there is no moat. It’s an execution battle and it comes down to question: can the startup innovate faster and get to the customers or can the incumbent defend its existing distribution well enough.

Microsoft owns GitHub and VSCode yet cursor was able to out execute them. Legora is moving very quickly in the legal space. Not clear yet who will win.

New comment by ck_one in "Phind 2: AI search with visual answers and multi-step reasoning"

ck_one — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 06:04:47 +0000

It's better than perplexity on certain tasks! Pretty impressive!

Feedback: the mermaid charts are a bit annoying when they are not needed

Our of curiosity, what web index do you guys use right now and does it make sense to build your own index at some point?

New comment by ck_one in "Ingesting PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 changes everything"

ck_one — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 21:35:24 +0000

What object detection model do you use?